Overseen in Pandemonium, and XKCD #386

Dan Simmons, whose Terror was one of my favorite books of 2008, has just come out with a book called Drood, all about the curious conclusion of Charles Dickens's life. Please, sir, may I have some more?

Unrelatedly: how can anyone watch Dollhouse and not notice that the Dollhouse people are, at best, swimming in morally murky waters, and, at worst, the outright Bad Guys of the series? Sheesh. I have problems with the execution of the show, but to judge by 85% of the online criticism you'd think Joss Whedon was personally endorsing semiconsensual Dushku farming. Next week is supposed to flip over the tables a bit, so perhaps this blindingly obvious subtext will rapidly become, ah, text. (I am hoping for little devil horns, mustache-twirling, and cackling maniacal laughter.)