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Donald Trump may be overseeing and intensifying a planetary bankruptcy, a kind of decline and fall that hasn’t been part of the human experience until now.

“From a planetary view,” he writes in "Carbon," “the warming atmosphere is a response, an adjustment, a teaching.”

There’s also something resonant in an Afrofuturist take on colonialist sci-fi, one that marks its narrative space with such a potent mix of planetary wonder, identity peril and alien violence.

Hefti’s curve is shallow in the extreme, given the vast length, and suggests environmental, maybe even planetary scale.

We've seen meteor showers, Northern Lights, two full Moons and more recently the incredible planetary parade.