For Dr Strangeloves, the comet-stopping mission will provide real star-wars experience.

ECONOMIST: Stop that comet

Sensing a hunger for foreign acts before the British invasion, the Bronx-born Mr. Gottehrer claimed his own band, the Strangeloves, was from Australia a gimmick, he said, that boosted booking fees.

WSJ: Early Digital Bet Now a Sweet Song for New York-Based the Orchard

Mr Mawer has fused pure story-telling with complex genetic theory to produce a fable that is accurate and readable a mature marriage of science and fiction in which scientists are no longer Frankensteins, Strangeloves or nerds.

ECONOMIST: Science in fiction is not science fiction