Sean, Dave, Phil - I haven't read any sci-fi for a while... ok, I haven't read anything for a while. I'm taking the entire list you guys came up with to the library this weekend and will pick one of them from my impression of the pretty picture on the cover or maybe something intriguing from the back synopsis.

Chris Hu. - First off, to prevent further confusion, I will now refer to Chris Hill as Hank and continue calling you Chris. Secondly, I think it is entirely cruel to make it impossible to back up from your site. Oh yeah, and I love the design, although it makes me doubt my worth or even my existence as a designer. Luckily, I live in England where the standards for a decent site are much lower.

Sonya - Sorry about the confusing CBD (Central Business District) reference. Jim S. says that it is a N'awlins thing, but I could have sworn I've heard that term in other cities. Anyway, I felt that if I went down to the CBD of any large city and wandered around for a while, my mind would have a picture engrained into my visual cortex very much resembling your painting which would then be stored away in the depths of my cerebellum to be brought out when anyone said a word that even slightly hinted at a CBD. Now that you have shown me this painting, I've brought my own version back into conscious thought, put it and your painting into my frontal lobe for comparison and analysis, and after a week or so both will be put back into memory as a new thing. Of course there are emotions attached to these visuallizations and everybody probably feels a little different about this kind of image, but that's the beauty of a picture like that. Being a suburban boy who eventually moved to the big city, several in fact, it represents the cold, harsh reality of a netless adventure.