Chronogenesis (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798270924393)

"Pluto has five moons, an atmosphere, weather, and geology. How is that not a planet?"

When an eleven-year-old girl gets suspended from school for defending Pluto and accusing her science teacher of teaching "propaganda instead of science," her father picks her up in their old sedan and drives her home through the winter afternoon.

She expects a lecture about respecting authority.

Instead, he says: "For what it's worth, I think Pluto's a planet too."

And then he tells her a story.