Well it's not scifi but it's still great. As we predicted in 1985, buckyballs have been found in outer space.
It's not a big surprise, but it's a great 25th anniversary present. Here are the data:
In 1986 Rick Smalley asked me if I thought that c60 could be the primordial nucleation site for planetary coalescence. He theorized that c60 could survive the extreme UV of the interstellar environment. No other molecule could survive to become a nucleation site.