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Yeah, but Win 7 isn't and I don't have occasion to use 'doze in daily life :) so am stuck with XP for now. It seems Microsoft's famously opaque relationship with the English language has come into play. "Compatibility" used to refer to sites relying on IE6 (ie non-standards compliant) code. Now...

Are you sure the toggle is the right way round (it is confusing in IE8, but haven't seen IE9 for ages so not sure how it works)? On the other hand it would be very MS to reverse the purpose of the toggle! I know IE9 HTML5 support has a few issues, but nothing that should break a site this...

Hello chaps and chappettes. I'm seeing a small number of reports of layout issues but can only replicate in IE8's compatibility mode (which no-one should use anyway). Codingwise, there is nothing special about the site - HTML5 complaint etc etc and the default font is Helvetica and it renders...

This needs updating with A Fairytale of New Dorchester (2010) (all the festive tales being available from the website). Just sayin'.

I have my own mini-forum! Perhaps this could be used as evidence to get those empty-head vacuum brains (yes, I know, it's tautological) at Wikipedia to stop deleting SCS articles.

Interesting discussion, but I think it starts from a slightly false premise: "Story-telling" doesn't belong on that list, story telling is what the list aims to achieve. The OP describes a particular approach to world building: the (often colourful to the point of lurid) description of...

Multivac was probably more akin to an AI system, though networked (it was a development of Univac, as in Sperry Univac). It was most brilliantly realised in his The Last Question (which if memory serves is collected in the Nightfall 2 anthology), which is on a par with Nightfall itself as his...

Don't know if you ever found a group, but you will know fairly quickly whether one is for you (Full disclosure: I belong to the same one as Toby - This one, if you are interested). We have feedback from newbies that they often feel intimidated. I got told off at a nearby group for being too...

OK Terry. You can stop now.

And containing some of the worst dialogue ever put on paper. Rendezvous is ace though.

the only penalty for not serving is not having a vote. But apart from that....

We should form a party....

Foundation - closely followed by the other two, interspersed with assorted Asimov short story collections. My brother's fault. We had family staying and I was on the camp bed next to his book shelves.

Recently did similar and, for all its many, many faults and flaws (not least that JMS can't write dialogue to save his life) I still have an utterly irrational fondness for it. I think in the end what sells it (apart from the core cast routinely knocking it out of the park in the face of the...

I read them longer ago and when I was rather a lot older than eight - and still found them funny, charming and a lot more engaging than any of the Discworld books...

Nope. Nightfall (more fully Nightfall and other stories) and Nightfall Two were short story collections. I came across them under the old Panther imprint, for those who remember Granada Publishings epic contribution to 60s and 70s SF publishing.

Seems the BBC wiped the tapes years ago Along with over 100 episodes of Dr Who. One of the great BBC scandals.

Oh it isn't the technophilia (as a fully paid up wishy-washy-pinko-liberal I bow to nobody in my regard for all things modern), but the manner in which a certain school of blocked-headed American libertarianism think it is the only sodding one who 'gets' technology and insists on lecturing the...

Pretty much agree with the OP - I think the problem is that Niven found it impossible to keep his own political interjections in any way subtle and by the end they were downright intrusive. "We control the lightning", eh? Yup and one well place bunker-buster from Denver will soon tip that balance.

Inversions I can take or leave, well written, but I'm more hard SF. Not finished Algebraist yet - and am finding it a little self-absorbed and lacking the charm of earlier Culture novels. But just wanted to say that I would argue that Inversions is hard SF - it just hides the fact really...