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Culture FAQ Oh, and here's a list of Frequently Asked Questions about The Culture: http://www.i-dig.info/culture/culturefaq.html

Culture ships AIs Hi, All. Some of the best things about Banks' Culture novels are the ships, which are Artificial Intelligences, btw. Even though they're often enormously powerful fighting vessels, they're sometimes eccentric and have a great sense of humour [as do Banks' aliens, too]...

Book 1: The Golden Compass Hi, All, I've just finished the first book and enjoyed it immensely - I rarely read fantasy novels, you see, being more of a fan of Hard SF and other genres. I was surprised to find that it tugged at the heart-strings, throughout, and found Lyra's daemon...

Hi Jeanne-Marie, and Welcome. Nice to hear from someone who also reads on their ipod/pda, like I do. Just in case you've missed it, here's a great site for free ebooks [including ipod notes and lots of other formats] called ManyBooks: http://manybooks.net// Rob.

Hi, Ashlee. Welcome. I usually [try to] read the first sixty pages of a booK. If I'm not hooked by then, I'll fling it over the nearest hedge. And some books are so annoying that I'll hurl them hedgewards after a mere twenty five pages ;0) Anyway, life's too short, and there are too many...

Thanks for the welcome, mama-sama. There are about twenty books in the Cadfael series, by Ellis Peters: http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/p/ellis-peters/ There are also a number of episodes on DVD and VHS from the Cadfael TV series. Amazon UK: http://snipurl.com/10qrh Rob.

Hi, all. Patricia Cornwell's Andy Brazil novels.... I started my first Cornwell novel at the weekend - Hornet's Nest - and I'm glad to report that I 'm finding it a marvelous read [those fans who posted reviews of it on Amazon UK seemed mostly to hate, though.] Anyway, it's more of a police...

Hi, Liliy, hope you like it here. Connie Willis' Doomsday Book is one of my favourites, btw.

Welcome, Dfrang, from a fellow noob.

Hello, mama-sama. I'm a newbie here, myself. The last historical novel I read was Sharpe's Tiger. I couldn't really recommend it, unless you like military history, in which case it was quite good. Right now, I'm reading A Morbid Taste For Bones, which is the first in the series about Brother...

More.... Neal Asher: Gridlinked - 7 Neal Asher: Cowl - 7 Iain Banks: Feersum Endjinn - 9 Greg Bear: Blood Music - 8 Mike Brotherton: Star Dragon - 8 Arthur C Clarke: Rendevous with Rama - 9 Michael Crichton: Prey - 7 Michael Crichton: Timeline - 6 Peter F Hamilton: Naked God - 6...

Some of my faves. Science fiction: Iain Banks: Consider Phlebas - 8 Greg Bear: Eon - 9 CJ Cherryh: Downbelow Station - 9 Philip K Dick: A Scanner Darkly - 10 William Gibson - Neuromancer - 9 Ursula Le Guin: Wizard of Earthsea - 6 Walter M Miller: Canticle for Leibowitz - 9 Larry Niven and...

Thanks for all the welcome messages. I'm only an amateur graphic artist, although I've been doing it on the PC since 1993, when I got my first Windows machine. In the last five weeks I've started to learn how to animate. It's not that difficult when you're used to manipulating images...

Thanks for the winsome welcomes. They're much appreciated.

Hi. "And so they killed our Ferdinand", said the charwoman to Mr. Svejk, who had left military service years before, after having been finally certified by an army medical board as an imbecile, and now lived by selling dogs - ugly, mongrel monstrosities whose pedigrees he forged. The Good...