It's amazing what a little plastic surgery on the backside can do. I have always disliked the design of the Panamera. This completely changes the overall impression of the car.

Genius though he may be, Ray Kurzweil seem to find the rapture of the nerds in every iota of news with even the most distant relationship to machine intelligence. The New Scientist, on the other hand, should know better.

Thank you Zoe. You beat me to the punch. However, I wonder how Wonder Woman's female parts would hold up to super-sperm.

The owner is probably a jackass who pissed off his neighbors. This is New York, right?

Just a high speed wet t-shirt contest.

Oh, Charlie Jane, you are so right. LeGuin is one of the greatest writers - period - of the last 50 years. Irrespective of genre. Always Coming Home was decades ahead of its time. She or someone should turn it into an interactive website.

Charlie Jane,

Unfortunately, they put me in it (the vault) instead of my books. Breathing has been difficult.

Well, the geezer geek now speaks: first, there is no way to please everyone in a top ten list. I read all of the above when they were published. And, there were many more, as cited below.

I continue to find use of the word controversy ridiculous. Rather like the "controversy" about evolution.

I have never had to endure The Last Airbender but, I'm 67. I've seen a lot of bad movies, scifi and not. No bad movie I've ever seen even comes close in its awfulness to Battlefield Earth. It is wretchedly written, derisive in its directing and abominably acted. I has no redeeming qualities. To this would-be critic…

Charlie Jane; How could you have left off Olaf Stapledon. His Last and First Men and Starmaker were among the first universe spanning [epics.the] first was published in 1930. His epics were the models for people like Asimov, Blish and others of the "Golden Banks, Hamilton and even Herbert.

Can you beat 67?

Oh Annalee, you young folks are missing the Greatest Sword Fight in cinematic history, from the 1952 movie Scaramouche. Here's the YouTube copy: [bit.ly]. And, the IMDB listing: [imdb.to]

Glad to see that others are finding this season disappointing. For example, the last thing they needed to do was introduce still another plot thread for Olivia. Also, will these and other writers give up the old "let's-split-up-so-we-can-cover-more-territory-faster" schtick? That was old when I was 15 and, I'm 67 now.…

Umm, I'm supposed to care what they're wearing?