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This is a short-story I wrote some time back: Lucky to be Alive ‘We’re sinking.’ ‘Sinking?’ ‘There’s a hole in the boat.’ I looked at the kid. Was he crazy? ‘Where?’ I said. ‘Right there. In between your feet.’ I looked. A sudden spray of water hit me in the face. A...

I prefer a short novel. At one stage I used to buy these fontana paperbacks from a second-hand bookshop. They were all from the seventies, and I liked them because I could start one in the morning and finish it the same day.

We happen to be the only sentient life that ever made it out of the sea - hence, they never pick up our broadcasts, and have no similar technology themselves. Of course, I could be entirely wrong.

My all-time top five would be: Inverted World - Christopher Priest Ender's Game - Oson Scott Card The Crysalids - John Wyndam A Wrinkle in Time - Madelaine L'Engle 1984 - George Orwell Though I could easily add another ten that I would also like in my top five.

I don't have cable. We do get some HBO shows on free-to-air TV in Australia, but I doubt I'll get to see Pandorum on free-to-air.

Definitely. I really like The Talented Mr Ripley, and I like the rest of the series also, but I think some of her other books are much better. I would suggest Deep Water, This Sweet Sickness, The Cry of the Owl or Small g: A Summer Idyll.

I remember Dennis Quaid from Enemy Mine. That has to be one of my favorite sci fi movies of all time. I haven't seen Pandorum, but I'll look out for it.

I'm new to the forum, so I don't know if anyone's had Patricia Highsmith up here as their favorite author before. I've started reading through all of her novels for the third time, and I've come to the conclusion that she's my favourite author. I find it difficult to believe that she isn't...

This book certainly has one of the weirdest "feels" to any book I have ever read. That said, however, I can't say that I really enjoyed it.

Just as Theodore had thought, something was going on at the Hidalgos'. Patricia Highsmith: A Game for the Living

My favourite author is Patricia Highsmith. It used to be Jane Austen, but just recently (as I'm reading back through all of Highsmith's) I've decided that she's my favourite. I think she's very underrated. There is something claustrophobic and bizzare about her books, and the more I read them...

My favourite is This Sweet Sickness by Patricia Highsmith.

This is one of my favourite science fiction books, though I'm surprised to see it tops the list of best science fiction books ever written. There's others I'd put ahead of it.

Hi, I'm a writer and I live on the east coast of Australia. My favourite things are reading and writing.