Ehhh, that what asteroids are for.

Bar. Beer. Cigarette. Write.

How on earth have all of you missed John Courtney Grimwoods Arabesk trilogy??? This has to be one of the strangest, and most brilliant alt-histories I've ever read.

Oops, sorry, hahaha

A young woman who may or may not be a man who used to be a spaceship but not really a spaceship goes to a cold planet to find another person who may be a man or a woman but not a space ship to find a way to kill a guy who is a thousand different people for some reason involving having once been an almost but not…

Thank god, here I was thinking that I was the only one who thought that way about this book - I found it generally wishy-washy, and more than a little overhyped. Looking beyond the whole "gender" ploy/device/swapping whatever it really just didnt work for me. It was too narrow in scope, too distractingly "quaint" -…

Nothing from Greg Egan? Or the most obvious one - Iain M Banks??

I have read a lot of books this year, and a lot of books in general, and usually Charlies recommendations really fit in to stuff that I enjoy - however, Ancillary Justice just wasnt for me. I found it a hard moving plot, very slow and the characters were just ... I dont know, for all their "ExoticnesS" plain. The…

Is there any way you can indicate which of these actually flew and which didnt? Or does anyone know?

Im not surew how this applies here in Australia, with Melbourne set to take over Sydney as the countries biggest city in the next few decades

This most definitely does not apply to Bengal cats :)

I recently realised that a few years back I may have created a new word to describe individuals who go out and continuously take photos of street art and graffiti .. I called these people "Paintspotters" .. kindof like a trainspotter, as these people are pretty obsessed (in a good way) of constantly hunting down all…

I saw it last night and was amazed.

So my finale story ... This morning (I'm in Oz) I woke up to a Facebook feed full of people hanging out to see the finale - as I haven't seen the series past season 1, and having no real desire to watch more ... I posted up the status (mind you it hadn't aired and I hadn't seen anything), this was posted hours before…

Should have showed what I paint ... I do large robotesque animals and creatures haha

Hello! In Fletch .. Also commonly known as Facter when I'm out painting the streets. I'm a business analyst by day and paint walls ... Whenever I'm not working haha. I also run a website about Australian street art as graffiti called invurt.com and do a heap of projects including editing another art magazine called…

... you forget all the times in history when people traversed vast distances in search of exotic foods ... coffee is one example. Why wouldnt this also be the case for space faring species?

Last picture on my phone is from my sketchbook, just of a dinosaur I've been drawing. He's kind of based on my childhood teddy bear, who I still own. I draw a lot of dinosaurs haha, guess I'm a Dino nerd at heart...

Gutted. (in my mind) im one of the biggest io9 fans in Melbourne - I would have loved to have come along to this meet up ... Alas, I'm in Europe for another few weeks. Damnit damnit.

Lambic beers are also sour - and they're pretty great, I think maybe its jsut the palette of the tasters themselves ... they should try some belgium ales or other traditionally open fermented brews and compare it to those instead.