TODAY'S NEWS: Thanks to some dedicated Awesome Fans and their Shrill Peeping Noises, Eldritch & Company are devoting their efforts to saving Ping from this Mysterious Stranger! Will they succeed? What will happen? Come back Monday to find out! (But remember, you can still vote over the weekend!)

Oh, and I almost forget! There may be other Science Fiction stories that have a character that's a small pink cloud, but the one I was thinking of was "The Thurb Revolution" by Alexei Panshin. It's the second book in a series of three, and it introduces the Plonk, the small pink cloud, who claims to be a deity. He never demonstrates any supernatural powers, but it behooves us to be polite to any small pink talking clouds we meet.