As long as neither is made by Team Ninja.

The still image alone was enough to make my heart flutter. Wonderful work, wonderful book.

NSFWU

A meeting of two phenomenally entertaining titans of public science outreach, both of whom have been topics of discussion for recent projects, taking a silly selfie with the president? Yeah, as a reader of a popular science website, I'm interested in that.

Of course, I'm not a super-cranky-grumpy-puss.

If someone could just "throw a Pluto sized object" then they would already be so ridiculously powerful that they would not need to do so in order to beat us.

Name: Mystery Science Theater 3000

I'm guessing you just want stories that admit they're fiction.

Dead Ringers.

Wow, you're fun.

Good article. Obviously, if someone's a PC gamer, they should buy a PC. But there are many of us who don't game on the computer often, but would like a few good Mac compatible games for a sometimes treat. Ignore the shallow comment-thread idiots who's lives are exclusively games-only.

Mac gamers should also pick up the Fallout titles from GOG that are free for just a little bit longer.

Oh, it doesn't bother me now. Knowing what I do about the backstory, I actually appreciate what a neat piece of editorial surgery was involved rather than Simmons just cutting the manuscript into two even stacks and mutterings "publish that, you fucks." It does work, but damn... it was an annoying six month wait…

I went into it knowing there was a second book (and then a third and fourth,) so it didn't bother me at all how the first one "ended." It was too fucking good.

Yes, I now know Simmons originally submitted Hyperion & The Fall of Hyperion as one manuscript and was told by his publisher to cash the reality cheque and break it up into two saleable parts (and did a very good job) but...

@RsK: Yep, he's got a nose, mouth, eyes — that looks a lot like Barack Obama.