Discover Magazine has a list entitled “20 Things You Didn’t Know About Science Fiction.” I believe a more accurate title would be, “20 Things You Didn’t Know About Science Fiction if You Weren’t a Fan and Maybe Didn’t Care About Even if You Were,” but perhaps that was too long.
Not only is it the least-titillating collection of “secrets” imaginable, they apparently couldn’t even come up with 20 discrete facts so they had to double up several.
19. After [Philip K.] Dick’s death, fans built an android likeness of him that mimicked his mannerisms and quoted his writings.
20. In 2005, the Dickbot was misplaced by a baggage handler. It remains at large.
Yawn.
Update: io9 took similar exception to this list, and eviscerated it. Then Discover snapped back. Day-um, people. Calm down.