Would the entire planet's electronics be affected or just the daytime side?

Amen... It's a truly bizarre genre when you step back and distill it like that, which I have, much to my girlfriend and her sisters' chagrin.

They start off angry, belligerent, red-faced guests, wanting to leave immediately... they end up broken men, trudging in circles lifelessly forever on hellish island with no escape

I'm an idiot, got you mixed up with Charlie Jane Anders. You're both great to read here, and I'll be sure to pick up the second one when it's available - loving the first one so far, have had an itch for the "pre-apocalypse" since I read The Last Policeman and Countdown City last month.

Cover of the first UFO book I ever read when I was five or six. Had a detailed description of the Hill abductions and the Kelly-Hopkinsville incident in a book written for children.

Just picked it up on Kindle today, and just about to get your story, Annalee. Looking forward to it!

The cover shows the hallmarks of technological progress much more advanced than pie tins. Whatever intelligence that engineered it appears to have effectively conquered hobby shop models, possibly even balsa wood.

If the cover is "vaguely ominous" this one is closer to "constipation relief" (if it is indeed a genuine sighting)

Here's how you tell the difference between Professional Niceness and genuine interest. Is she going out of her way to talk to you? If things are slow and you're around, does she make a point of coming over to chat, especially about non-gaming topics? Is she asking you questions about you, especially any probing…

I've seen a lot of gamers worry that this means Titanfall will hold your hand, or that Titanfall is too easy, too toned-down, too casual. That's not at all the case here. It just means that, while an expert player is tearing down new and experienced players alike, the new guys are hopping around trying to figure out…

I think you're confusing the value of a one-of-a-kind single-piece cultural artifact with that of any cultural artifact in general - In 1000 years The Godfather (or insert other important/groundbreaking film here) will be just as important, perhaps even more, to future generations as the works you mentioned - yeah, we…

My 'rig' is more than ready for it, here are my specs: Xbox 360 console, Xbox 360 controller, two AA-batteries, television, electricity.

The original Aliens sequel trilogy of comic books/novels got paved-over continuity-wise by Alien 3, (and Prometheus, don't get me started), but the books' storyline was 10 times better, with Hicks and Newt trying to survive a planet-wide Xenomorph infestation of Earth. This would make an awesome TV adaptation, and…

Stole my idea, the fuckers, having a badass warrior king Santa Claus...

Museum of Tolerance Tour Guide Lady, referring to Cartman: You must learn to be tolerant of his differences as well, if he chooses to eat fatty foods then that’s his life choice

Shut up Mr. "Well, It's Not Really That Practical", they should've made millions of these and you know it.

Are developments like this driving us to a world of 99% unemployment, where machines do virtually all work that humans once did and only their owners/creators make any money whatsoever? I mean, shit if any job can potentially be outsourced to AI and their physical output endpoints, what are we going to do with…

I read Nixon's backup plan speech (#6) in a college class... everyone was confused and thought I had somehow made it up

GTA Vice City - I once survived for over an hour on six wanted stars... sure some of that was spent in tanks and the Apache helicopter, but there's that in-between scramble if the tank gets stuck or you crash the chopper into a building, make sure you have plenty of the Sanchez dirt bikes hidden in your garages.…

Here's where embarassing corporate backpedalling is a good thing: according to The Verge, the next update for Windows 8 will see every machine boot straight to the desktop mode by default. You know, like we used to, in the good old days.