I’ve tried this trick before — doesn’t Apple usually take away the premium versions of older iPhone models after announcing the new ones, in order to drive customers to the new products?

I think the really killer sentence in this whole mess is this one:

This is awesome. A bunny in an Elizabthan collar — genius. (Same goes for the collars on the birds. But the bunnies are cuter.) Absolutely brilliant.

The continuity between the Star Trek books is much tighter now, though some novels continue to be planned as stand-alone stories not linked to the ongoing serial narratives that link many of the other books.

Any chance someone could be persuaded to add my Star Trek: The Next Generation novel Cold Equations, Book I: The Persistence of Memory on October 30? It's the first volume in a trilogy, with books two and three to follow on November 27 & December 26, respectively. (And look for some io9 writing staff shout-outs in…

So do I. For now it's just a spec project, but one can dream. :-)

I'm actually doing something very similar to this right now; I'm adapting my first original novel, THE CALLING, into a feature screenplay, which has room for only about a short novella's worth of content. It's a fascinating exercise in learning what parts of a core narrative work and which don't, and how to condense…

Who's "scruffy looking"?

WHERE IS YOUR GOD PARTICLE NOW? BWA-HA-HA-HA!

Here's a curious note: I closed one eye and looked at the illustrations and the photo. When I blurred my vision just enough to soften my focus, the illusion disappeared, and I perceived the rows as parallel. Is it possible that the perception of the "mortar" is the key to this optical effect?

I would just like to add that while most of my work for Star Trek has been as an author of the licensed tie-in novels (for which I co-developed a literary-original series, Star Trek Vanguard), my professional association with Star Trek began as a TV writer. With my friend and former collaborator, John Ordover, I…