Alphabet Challenge Round 4

For those who are only casually interested in astronomy at best, you may initially find the title How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming by Mike Brown misleading. It opens with Pluto being demoted to a dwarf planet/planetoid but then goes back moves chronologically through Brown’s search through the ends of our solar system.

Going back to the beginning paints a better picture of what went into demoting Pluto than a lot of people see. It also gave me information I didn’t already have about our eight current planets. However, I think Brown could have been a little bit more detailed about why Pluto should have been demoted.

As we got closer to Pluto’s demise as a planet, Brown also focused more on his personal narrative. In the former part of the book it straddled the line between science and memoir well. In the latter it had more narrative and less science. For the amount of narrative he gave, I was disappointed that he didn’t give more background on the aftermath of killing Pluto. He talked about letters, news bits, and T shirts in the beginning but barely touched on that when the time came.

It was good and I liked it but I think the title left something to be desired

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G - The Great Fables Crossover by Bill Willingham
H - How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming by Mike Brown
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M - Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen
N - Naked City edited by Ellen Datlow
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R - Reality Bites Back by Jennifer L. Pozner
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Northern Star - Melanie Chisholm