The aim of the list is to provide high-quality biographies and histories that are, well, short, given that the average busy professional of 2001 has neither the time nor the briefcase space for weighty tomes.
Not to sound like a crotchety old raver dad or anything, but when the newly conceived genre first made its way over to the North American continent, it was all about weighty basslines and negative space, a cosmic minimalism that bordered on something spiritual or meditative it was dub, made on a computer.
Yet the primary heavenly body around which Sunshine charts its orbit is Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, a weighty and portentous work which opens with 'The Dawn of Man' and climaxes with the birth of a Star Child in what appears to be an extraterrestrial rewriting of the creationist myth.
The artist's voice remains behind the curtain, giving over to visitors a space to dance, consider weighty questions, or the elusive call to do both.
Aided by the wizards at London's Framestore, Gravity invites us to gaze in awe at the cinematic spectacle of space, to marvel at the weighty mysteries of this big-screen cosmos.
A South Sudanese space-satellite programme may still be some way off, but the new country will have a place in the weighty Master International Frequency Register.Before South Sudan's new diplomats relax on the cocktail circuit, they will also need to establish ties with a long list of other outfits.
The Mercedes S400 aims to dodge common hybrid pitfalls, like huge, weighty nickel-metal-hydride batteries that hog trunk space or add several thousand dollars to the vehicle's price.
The rebooted Battlestar Galactica, likewise, was no longer the cape-swishing space opera it was in 1978, but a weighty commentary on the war on terror.
But given this (gen-1) VR experience requires wearing a weighty headset over your eyes while walking in a small space tethered to a cable that easily tangles with your feet it's hardly surprising to come away feeling more fettered than liberated.
Mr Bernanke has in the space of a few posts embroiled himself in a weighty online debate with some of the titans of economics, and blogging.
The works, fittingly for this white-walled space, are all about the play of illusion, how weighty materials can look light as air against these walls, and can be yoked together to create strange conjunctions.
