I always found the Dirty Three quite impressive and not too much on the noise side of things, and I don't even tend to much like instrumental music. Grinderman was an odd one, though - I was expecting something pretty throwaway and was then pleasantly surprised, pretty much the opposite of my experience with the last Bad Seeds. I'm fairly sure Nick had already said there was more Grinderman coming, though.

Kavalier and Clay's golem is all within the graphic novel they're doing, isn't it? By that standard any book with a non-consensus reality dream in it would be fantasy or SF. And The Man Who Was Thursday is set in Chesterton's world, albeit with a fictional anarchist cell plotting against it (or not) - by which yardstick any contemporary conspiracy thriller is also SF. Now if they'd said The Napoleon of Notting Hill (which is any case a better book for my money), or The Flying Inn...