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Weird Worlds Far Away

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This may not be the usual way of setting out a chapter, but this one begins with an “aside”. If the reader wonders where all this is leading, the purpose will hopefully become clear in a few pages time when we launch into the real subject of this final chapter.

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Seargent, D.A.J. (2013). Weird Worlds Far Away. In: Weird Worlds. Astronomers' Universe. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7064-9_6

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