Or does this image of Saturn’s moon, Hyperion, (click on the pic for a higher resolution version) make it look as though something exploded out of the Hyperion instead of the more normal big rock hits bigger rock and leaves dent thing?

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Sometimes reading throws up odd sychronicities – and my experience of reading Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policemen’s Union (a ‘mainstream’ writer’s take on both sf (alt-history) and the crime thriller in one book) came shortly after I’d finished reading Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and No Country for Old Men (a ‘mainstream’ writer’s take on both sf (post-apocalyptic trek) and the crime thriller in two books).

Chabon’s journey through the genres was, by some distance, the more enjoyable experience. Read more »

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