Halloween is nearing, and incidentally I saw a 3D model of a female skeleton and couldn't help realizing that the pelvis+coccyx give the strong illusion of a heart shape - Pareidolia at its best. Milking this for symbolism would be an obvious thing, and I really would be surprised if noone did it...

I've read most of the Father Brown stories, and I noticed a bit of time travelling takes place in them (not sci-fi time-travelling, but an ambivalence by the author to the fact that somethings couldn't have taken place while Fr. Brown was the rector of such-and-such parish or performing miracles ...

Around 2005 I remember reading a short story about an Earth probe that landed on another planet with aliens on it. The alien race determined seniority by the amount of heat they accumulated, which was visible when they spoke to each other. After the probe landed on the planet, some of the younge...