Skyline's secret ending... spoiler alert.

@Josh Young: Amen, brother.

Can't we just resurrect David Lynch?

Bar galaxies are closing?

@corpore-metal: I suspect that Clarke spent much of his life as an agnostic theist, which is where I pitch my own hat, not that any of this matters... Clarke's often broached the subject of religion and mysticism, but his objectivity never faltered.

@Ian Galbraith: Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. I have an idea—let's try this as a math problem:

Am I missing something? I can't find how the researchers are extrapolating applicable non-linguistic data through reading experiments. I'm always interested in communication, and how Broca's area changes the world we perceive, but reading the full text of this article requires some sort of registration.

Ichabod Crane does NOT approve of this headline.

@Malcontent79: No, it wasn't Masked, though I just put that book on my list of must-reads. Thanks for the recommendation.

Not really pertinent to the discussion, but the first thing I thought of was Seu Jorge's cover of Life on Mars.

Hi Ho, Silver!

Strange Horizons is a top shelf publication for speculative fiction. And it's free!

@Vulcan Has No Moon: I don't think you can 'define' a cat. But if you try, good luck with that. You have better odds nailing Jello™ to a tree.

@RandomThought: LMAO! Stars come and go for the oddest reasons, a fact I've discovered first-hand. I'm nigh oblivious to them (so much interesting discussion occurs in grey) and social approval isn't my reason for visiting.

@Christopher Duffy Austin: Yeah, the split story suffered as Fatale was a weaker persona. Grossman would have been wiser to separate the two. Hindsight, and all that.

@Bry Reid: Aren't you excluding the possibility that Abe Lincon himself is a quasi-vamprie, a la Blade?

@Akitsu: Reading through this, I am reminded of the old adage that there are only two types of stories: someone goes on a journey, or a stranger comes to town.

@BrianCsection: Gravity bends both space and time. Now we just need to solve for X.

@John Reck: Interesting line of thought—and applicable to many other examples, including The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant and The Matrix.

@sibelian: I don't believe that credulity is gender-specific, but I can buy in on the umbrella argument, that of using an innocuous avatar to tell a narrative. That's common enough in all of fiction, with and without portals. Whether a writer intends to or not, they inevitably put a small piece of their heart into…