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Janna Levin

Astrophysicist at Barnard College; wrote Black Hole Blues and How the Universe Got Its Spots, and directs sciences at Pioneer Works.

3 books on the record · 18 Aug 2026 – 18 Aug 2026 · @JannaLevin

The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 7d is days, 4yr is years.

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New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson

I can also attest that our NYC audience whooped at the high-paced descriptions of a partially submerged Manhattan in New York 2140.

on jannalevin.substack.com · 18 Aug 2026 · Report

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The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

I fully imagine that his Ministry for the Future—which opens with the most harrowing, unrelenting depiction of a deadly heatwave—will be the warning and plea needed for the world to actually create a Ministry for the Future.

on jannalevin.substack.com · 18 Aug 2026 · Report

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.