I had a strange dream recently, in which I learned that scientists had been mistaken about locating the Asteroid Belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Instead Solar System diagrams were updated to locate the Asteroid Belt outside the orbit of Pluto. What this means in psychological terms, I have no idea.

In related news, I finished Dan Simmons's Ilium this morning before work. Finally. It took me six months to wade through the first 188 pages. (I was reading other books as well.) I reached the tipping point then, and finished the remainder of the 570-page book in less than a week. Boy, did that thing take a while to get moving.

In unrelated news, Ilium was the worst-copyedited book I've read in a very long time. Typos were rampant, including ones where dialog was attributed to wrong characters, or where entirely wrong names were used for characters. (The character Savi was billed once as "Siri," who was actually a character in Hyperion.) If I were Dan Simmons, I'd be impaling someone on my Shrike statue.