Dramatic contrasts and the geophysics they suggest lead us to a system straight out of classic sci-fi: around a nearby sun-like star, worlds that are Earth-like but are certainly not Earth *twins*.

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This post's featured image is a depiction of Snowball Earth by Oleg Kuznetsov (2020) (CC-BY-SA 4.0).

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Free Fiction Monday: Ice Breakers

Maya knows her job as mining supervisor, and she knows it well. But do the higher-ups listen to her? Of course not. But when the biggest ice storm yet hits Xeunite, Maya finds her incompetent bosses the least of her worries. As the storm rages, Maya...
https://kriswrites.com/2023/01/23/free-fiction-monday-ice-breakers/