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I've just started Arthur C. Clarke's "The Songs of Distant Earth," but I don't think it will last much longer. I have to say that I'm not incredibly impressed, the scientific basis to his work is very interesting and his style, though not always to my taste, has its moments, but overall it's...

[ninty fanboy]No Gamecube? Travesty! That means no Zelda...no Zelda means...you have not LIVED! You could redeem yourself by at least owning an N64 and SNES I suppose.[/ninty fanboy] As for the driving game, Driv3r or Burnout ring any bells?

*Is male* *Feels inadequate*

You should try some commercial graphic adventures as well. My favourites are indubitably the LucasArts classics (Monkey Island 1-3, Sam and Max Hit the Road, Day of the Tentacle, Full Throttle, and of course the incomparable Grim Fandango,) but the Broken Sword/other Revolution software games...

Forgot one very important item: Paracetamol.

Thanks for the games/programming tools/general fount-of-all-knowledgeness Abulafia! Looks great. Aside from IF, SNES-era is as retro as I get. Which is why I'm currently re-playing Chrono Trigger. My, but it is an excellent game. *Marches off humming Frog's theme*

They have politics, conspiracy and assassins (as the name may suggest) AND dragons and magic - surely something for everyone?

I was going to read Cryptonomicon as soon as I go back to school because my Physics teacher (an well-read, intellectual, interesting all-round great guy who scored me a research trip to London at the school's expense earlier this year) recommended it to me. Now it's got Martin's seal of approval...

I do hope that she's not a pie-ite. One can't even eat a pie very well with a spork!

My Amazon order from over a week ago still hasn't arrived :mad: . None of the books were out of stock either!

Oooh! Robin Hobb! The Farseer and Tawny Man trilogies are simply stunning, and that coming from someone who doesn't read much fantasy. Continue with them, for they are brilliant.

This sounds a very interesting book, your description actually reminds me of Day of the Triffids - is this a suitable comparison? For me it would have to be Paradise Lost (even if it's technically epic poetry). Epic is, of course, the word, the story grand beyond parallel and arresting both...

My PC (though I hate its guts, and am counting down the days until I construct the new uber-machine that shall be mine), books, Nintendo, Studio Ghibli, coffee and webcomics, in no set order.

Quis moderateret ipsos moderatores? (Apologies to Juvenal and the Latin language)

Somebody call the conspiracy police! *Runs before the conspiracy police notice suspicious avatar*

Some give lists of interaction words to use that specify which synonym should be used, but the problem still features. However the primary bane of adventures, both text and graphic, is, as it always has been, puzzles of the "Use [dead pirhana] on [hatstand]. The pirhana's corpse spasms as you...

The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy was better in its original form as a radio series anyway. You know it to be true. (Adams is still one of my favourite authors, don't get me wrong.)

Bacon sandwich with tomato ketchup. Nothing can possibly beat it. Unless, that is, you have a bacon and mozarella sandwich (minus the ketchup, naturellement).

Some text adventures can still be really quite good - Have you played Galatea , for instance, Abulafia? As they are not commercial products the writers can be as inventive as they like, and so you can find some really quite unusual and interesting games. The one I mentioned earlier consists...

As a moderator, couldn't you have just locked it to stop any replies coming through anyway?