People keep write skill fiction narrative about their own made - up planets — but there are mess of real exoplanets out there to haunt about now . And two scientist from the Kepler Spacecraft decided to assemble some form fiction about them .
Steve Howell is a lead scientist on Kepler , an stargazer at Kitt Peak , and the star guitar and harmonica player in the AKA Blues Band — and now , to those accomplishment , he can lend co - edit a science fiction anthology , Kepler ’s Dozen . He and Kitt Peak scope hustler David Lee Summers co - edited a book of realistic stories about explore the satellite that Kepler discovered , now that the Kepler mission has been put on hold .
As theArizona Daily Star explicate :
The characters in “ Kepler ’s Dozen ” use warp cause and wormhole to get around the distance problem and genic shift to accommodate to less than idealistic conditions on the 13 Kepler planet featured in the compendium of unretentive fib .
Howell has fact - tally each news report for faithfulness to what is known about its host major planet and each narrative begin with a chart giving the major planet ’s bonk characteristics .
You canorder the anthology here .
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