The 12-chapter work of fiction also includes not-so-subtle nods to Coldplay itself, with each chapter title named after a different song from “Sky Full of Stars” to “Fix You” and “Viva la Vida.”

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Paltrow adds, with more than a hint of irony, that Astronomer has “gotten a lot of questions over the last few days” and that she has been enlisted to “answer the most common ones.”