Ladylake - Your surreal day at the beach is a new fav, you should try a few more...  ;)

Steve - Anne McCaffery, Dragon Riders Of Pern, also an excellent fantasy novel series!

DG - Cool America's! There is a female British one in an alternate universe I like, Peggy Carter...

Wendy V - I remember trying to render volumetric god rays in my Vue Studio version back in the day. A render could take about 8 hours or more, if I was lucky it didn't crash half way through, lol. Ah, wasn't that all the fun you expected eh...