From The Magic Furnace by Marcus Chown
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The accidental discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation which led to the big bang. The astronomers involved had to clean out pigeon droppings from the instruments to make sure that what they were seeing was not just interference.
There was a similar thread on iO9 some time ago, so this is from that thread
How is this retrofuturistic, it's just futuristic
ow Borderlands the Pre Sequel was at least better than Destiny
Punk is not just rebellious, it is also a do it yourself, take things apart and put them back together in a unique way ethic, which makes it pretty timeless
Tolkein elves are not homogenous. The elves are a splintered group, it happened at the sundering, and they were divided many times.
Will there be a sequel? (I want the answer to be no)
Oh and James Mathers in Aria
Hey you missed one. This Dr. Manhattan's radioactive blue dong from Watchmen
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Was watching Scary Movie 3 with a bunch of cousins and went to sleep. Woke up to this scene and started laughing, thinking Scary Movie 3 was still going on. Everyone else were a little involved in the scene.
Wow everyone here has really high standards. The scale was massive. There was too much repeated explanation, or world-building. Not great as a sci fi novel, but good enough for YA fiction. I enjoyed along with all the other Sci Fi books from that month and posted on io9
Oh cool, already read this one
Rani Laxmi Bai from India
It is a polycephalic pegacorn
Gold by Isaac Asimov is an essential for this list