Briefly to note
That Paul Krugman, announced today as the winner of the made-up Nobel Prize for Economics, appears to be a massive sci-fi geek who loves Charlie Stross, once wrote a paper called “The Theory of Interstellar Trade”, and corrects his own employers on the finer points of Doctor Who lore. Apparently he only decided to become an economist when it turned out that psychohistory wasn’t actually a real discipline.
I’m counting this one as a win. Also, the economics stuff, I suppose.