I didn't know you, and I was never lucky enough to get an email reply from you, but you changed my world and made it a better place. I'll miss you, Steve.

That would be the mass media. The astronomers just came up with a definition that would make their work easier to describe and categorise.

Could it be that the lack of Banks books in a second hand bookstore has more to do with the fact that people don't often part with his books? Just a thought from an Aussie who's never had any trouble acquiring any of them (except Against a Dark Background, which always seems to be out of stock when I realise there's a friend who hasn't read it yet).