LinksA list of specfic-related links suggested by members of staff at Strange Horizons. Feel free to suggest new links—and if you send along a 25-30 word blurb with your suggested link, it's likely to get up faster. Fantascienza: "The largest collection existing on the Web by Frank R. Paul, Chesley Bonestell, Robert McCall and other space artists. Includes Italian pulp artists unknown overseas. I got the permissions from the owners of the copyright, and the copyright itself is acknowledged for every single picture (with some exceptions). The site is already working since 2 years and constantly expanded. The language is Italian only." Alibris: Find that hard-cover first edition here, or any edition of any book made. . . Booksense: A consortium of independent booksellers. Concharbooks: Secondhand /used books in 50+ categories, from antiquarian first-edition factual books to all types of fiction, especially scifi. A fun and extensive bookstore with a radical Celtic flavour, selling to all over the world from Cardiff, Wales. Hippocampus Press: an independent publisher of H.P. Lovecraft and other writers of the pulp era. Working closely with the leading scholars in the field they offer unique, high-quality, affordable editions of classic horror and science fiction. Kayleighbug Books is an online retailer specializing in used and out-of-print Science Fiction and Fantasy. The site features full book descriptions, condition information, online ordering via PayPal's integrated shopping cart, an offline search service, mailing list updates, SF news and more. Powell's Books (Used, New, and Out of Print) Price Search: Find low book prices The Reader's Robot: Search the online database for books in a variety of genres using "appeal factors" such as "page-turners" or "detailed backgrounds" or "literary and elegant style." SF-Books: At SF-Books.com, members trade their SF, fantasy & horror paperback books that they have finished reading for credits. These credits can be redeemed for other members' books. Membership is free. SF Site: A slick site with tons of novel reviews, interviews, and links to writers' pages. Also offers web hosting for genre writers. [ Back to top ] Opus: A Fantasy Arts Festival: Fantasy arts and entertainment: Gaming, combative arts demonstrations, live bands, robot battles, art show, merchandise, panels on writing, painting, magic, game design, and fantasy worlds as well as contests and competitions. Potlatch: A single track, discussion and conversation oriented, small convention with a somewhat literary bent. Potlatch also sponsors the Clarion West workshop scholarship auction. Trinoc*Con: The premiere speculative fiction convention in the Raleigh-Durham (aka Research Triangle) area of North Carolina. WisCon: The world's only feminist sf convention; the annual gathering of the feminist sf community, in Madison WisCon, Memorial Day weekend. WorldCon: The annual world science fiction convention; new location every year. World Fantasy Convention: The annual world fantasy convention; new location every year. [ Back to top ] Carl Brandon Society: Dedicated to addressing the representation of people of color in speculative fiction. Feminist Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Utopia: Speculative fiction from a feminist perspective. The Hunger Site: "Every 3.6 seconds someone dies of hunger." Click here once a day to help out. Literary Locales: If you've ever wanted to see the castle where King Arthur's father once lived, according to legend, or see any other historical/literary location with a short history of the place, this is the site to visit. Read Assist: The ReadAssist site contains pages of links to SF publishers, bookstores, e-books, fanac sites, and assistive technology for the blind and disabled. Russian SF and Fantasy: Russian science fiction and fantasy. Web site about contemporary Russian science fiction. Official pages of writers, awards, reviews, interviews, photos, pictures, biographies and bibliographies. Home of Russian sci-fi on the Web." spread: new underground guerrilla exploratory art and literature in the new medium [ Back to top ] Aphelion: Aphelion is now in its fourth year of providing the best amateur fiction by new and established writers. Each submission is provided constructive criticism to better aid the new writer in improving their craft. Asimov's Online: One of the leading print magazines has its own website, with story excerpts and complete stories by award nominees, plus columns and a discussion area. Bewildering Stories: features experimental writing, especially in science fiction, fantasy, and horror. All genres are welcome: novels, short stories, poetry, drama, articles and non-fiction. Artwork gratefully accepted, as well. Dark Planet: A strong, well-designed online magazine featuring fiction, poetry, and non-fiction. The Edge : A semi-prozine that has recently featured fiction by Michael Bishop and Greg Frost, among others. Emerald City : An online magazine of science fiction and fantasy—primarily book reviews. EOTU Ezine : a semi-pro bi-monthly web zine that publishes fiction, art & poetry of all genres, including science fiction, fantasy and horror. EOTU was a paper zine in the 80's - early 90's, now they're on line. Fables: Online semi-prozine, published quarterly. Fantasy and Science Fiction Online : A companion site to the print magazine, with story excerpts, book reviews, past editorials, and more. Gothic.net: Very popular horror magazine/site. Indian Science Fiction and Fantasy: India's first Sci Fi and Fantasy magazine - free content, great stories, eGreetings, eInsults, make pals and audio / graphic animated downloads! Interzone: The online counterpart to the British magazine. Planet Magazine: Planet is one of the oldest spec fic magazines online. Rogue Worlds: A new specfic magazine. Savage Night: A new web-zine featuring scary movie and book reviews, links, and new stories by seasoned veterans and talented newcomers alike. SciFantastic: "For all SF/F enthusiasts. Submit your short story here and we guarantee you some feedback!" Sci Fiction: New science fiction stories each week, with classic reprints. Edited by Ellen Datlow Sidereality: Quarterly speculative and experimental poetry web journal. Each issue contains around 30 poems by both new and established writers. Simulacrum: The Magazine Of Speculative Transformation: Bimonthly speculative fiction magazine in PDF format. Tatlin's Tower: New fiction monthly and archives back to August, 2000. The 3rd Alternative: The website of the award-winning, professional SF print magazine. Contains extracts from the magazines, news and information, index, back issues, secure online credit card ordering facility, and lots of interactive content including story polls and message boards for the likes of China Mieville, M John Harrison, Muriel Gray, Michael Marshall Smith, Graham Joyce and many others. Vestal Review: A flash fiction prozine, whose writers have been published in Atlantic Unbound, Zoetrope ASE and Mississippi Review. Its publisher is a Pushcart Prize nominee, and its editor is the author of a collection of stories forthcoming from Ballantine Books. Would That It Were: This magazine publishes alternative history set in 1830-1930; they were founded April 2000, publishing quarterly. [ Back to top ] Ain't It Cool News: A totally cluttered site that uses way too many exclamation marks! But it has great scoops about upcoming films along with an innovative style of movie reviewing. The Official Star Trek site: The official source of information. Scifilm: Features genre movie news, reviews, and a discussion forum. The STArchive: A large archive of information about all the Star Trek series. [ Back to top ] Atlantic Unbound: Quality mainstream fiction in a slick format, all under 3k words—perfect for a quick break at work. Authoretica: This site is for readers and writers of alternative fiction and features authors, books, reviews, articles, and a forum where users can submit short stories. FictionWise: An online story merchant, specializing in short speculative fiction that has already been published—no more hunting through back issues. Price are very reasonable, and you can buy stories in "bundle" to save even more. Infinity Plus: An online reprint site—they have no schedule but publish close to weekly; they also post reviews. McSweeney's: Goofy postmodernism with a lot of attitude and wit is always worth a click or two. NewPages Guide to Literary Periodicals: An extensive listing. Pif Magazine: Plenty of fiction and poetry to choose from, with a recent interest in hypertext and multimedia fiction. Setisia: An unusual adventure/fantasy novel by R. L. Salisbury, complete and free online. Zoetrope: Great stories by the likes of Robert Olen Butler, Dale Ray Phillips, and Denis Johnson, brought to you by Francis F. Coppola Zortic: humorous comic adventure; the title character, Zortic, wins a spaceship on a television game show and uses it to explore a universe full of parody and satire [ Back to top ] Bartleby.com: Three or four shelves of those "no of course you can't check them out" books the reference librarian kept close to the desk, including the American Heritage Dictionary 4th with spoken pronounciations. FirstGov: A sort of specialized search engine to the vast quantity of information available on government Web sites. More a "link site" than an information site, but it's useful for government information searches online, and interesting to browse. refdesk.com: Probably the closest you can come to the World Almanac and Book of Facts online. It bills itself as "the single best source of facts on the Net," and it has to be close. Technovelgy.com: cross-referenced catalog of technology imagined or described by science fiction writers. Relatively heavy advertising, although no pop-ups or exit links. [ Back to top ] Discovery Online: Everything you could expect from the Discovery Channel, but more in-depth. And yes, it does have the Crocodile Hunter HQ. You decide if that's a good thing or not. . . MadSci Network: Their description pretty much explains it: "MadSci Network is a collective cranium of scientists providing answers to your questions. For good measure we provide a variety of oddities and other ends as well." A good part of the fun is that you can ask questions of your own, but the extended archive of past questions and answers is also a joy. Marshall Brain's How Stuff Works: From computer mice, to cable modems, to Christmas tree lights, to diesel engines: a whole series of short articles to demystify the machinery around you. NASA: The official U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration site. National Geographic: The online version of the classic monthly magazine. Check out their extensive, printable map collections. New Scientist: Web site of the popular science magazine. Contains articles, letters and a huge selection of links. SETI@Home Download the SETI@home application to help in the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence from your own computer. Space.com: Recent postings covered Mars extensively, including a science fiction section with stories about the red planet. Also includes astronomy, space travel, and other pages. [ Back to top ] Rocket Book: Books obsolete? I don't think so. This is just a new way to take books with you, instead of reading on a monitor. WebMonkey: Learn HTML, XML, ASP, any other acronym you may want, all with a nice dose of "geek" attitude and humor. Wired: All the latest tech news, from cultural impacts of technology to the latest gadgets to films and even books. [ Back to top ] Gary Allen: The Lath'roug Saga: Official web site of Gary Allen, a fantasy author from Australia. Providing an introduction to his work and resources for writers. Sean Alonzo: the official site of occult fiction author Sean-Alonzo, exploring symbolism, alternative history, philosophy, secret societies and other areas of the esoteric tradition. L.A. Banks: website for a new vampire huntress novel series that will be available in June 2003, entitled, "Minion," published by St. Martin's Press, Inc., NYC Suzy McKee Charnas: The site includes a complete bibliography of Charnas's science fiction, fantasy, horror and mainstream works, biographical information, appearance information, and columns where Charnas reviews current books and movies, and discusses the writing business. Ron Collins' Typosphere: A nicely-designed online writer's journal by a hard-working writer, with some excellent articles written by Collins as well as lots of nifty features like online e-mail and an extensive archive. Philip K. Dick: Lots of material on Philip K. Dick, including links to critical articles & reviews. Thomas M. Disch: An excellent, fan-maintained site, with lots of links and much reading material. Christina Francine: Christina Francine is a published writer in a variety of genres - from Fantasy to public-awareness. Her column appears at http://www.botanical.com and she contributes speculative book reviews monthly at http://www.yetanotherbookreview.com . She strives to be the microphone for those no one listens to or sees. Glenn Lewis Gillette: Glenn writes science fiction, mainstream, along with the technical writing that put food on the table for many years. Once published in Analog, he let fiction languish till Corporate America set him aside. Now, he's back. Brian A. Hopkins: Though a bit slow to load, this site contains a wealth of info about the sf/f/h writer, recent winner of the Stoker Award. Be sure to read the story about how Hopkins broke his leg. Guy Gavriel Kay: The new official site, with a greal deal of material, including interviews with and essays by GGK. James Patrick Kelly: A simple site dedicated to the thoughts, writing, and works of the award-winning short story writer and sometimes novelist. And there's even some cool Free Stuff! Holly Lisle: The official web site of popular fantasy and science fiction author Holly Lisle. The site includes lots of treats for readers, including the web log, sneak peaks, essays, maps, and links to two free fantasy novels. Jean Lorrah: Personal site for Jean Lorrah, sf/f writer. Jim Morrow: Check out excerpts and review of Morrow's award-winning books, and participate in his newsgroup (recent postings lamented the demise of the short-lived "God the Devil and Bob ") Ken Rand: This website includes a biography, a biography, and excerpts—including several short stories, articles, and chapter one from his first novel. Robert Silverberg: The Quasi-Official Robert Silverberg Home Page, written with the author's approval. Contains lists of publications, biographical info, etc. Kenji Siratori: official author site from the author of Blood Electric Brian Stableford: A comprehensive fan site dedicated to the work of Brian Stableford. Chelsea Quinn Yarbro: The site has a complete bibliography of Yarbro's work in the horror, fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and nonfiction genres, as well as a FAQ, biographical information, and calendar of events. [ Back to top ] Clarion Writer's Workshop: Though not updated on a very regular basis, this site is a wealth of information for young speculative fiction writers in search of an intense workshop/boot camp experience. Clarion West: The Seattle-based branch of the Clarion workshop; both our editor-in-chief (Mary Anne) and one of our fiction editors (Jed), attended Clarion West, and recommend it. Seattle's much prettier than East Lansing, too. Inkspot: Featuring the latest writing news, author chats, and a biweekly e-mail newsletter worth reading. Lit.Org: A community for aspiring writers. Over six years online. Interact with other writers, get reviews, post your works, read articles, interviews and more. Read. Write. Respond. Locus Online: Get the latest news on books, writers, and conventions in this premiere magazine of the spec-fic field. Odyssey, the Fantasy Writing Workshop: Odyssey is a six week Scinece Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror workshop run by World Fantasy Award winning editor Jeanne Cavelos. The 2001 week-long Writer-in-Residence is Terry Brooks. The site offers full guest list, writing and publishing tips, transcripts of lectures, and class information. Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America: The official site of the professional writers' organization. Contains many resources, writing tips, links to members' sites, etc. Speculations: Market listings, the fabulous Rumor Mill, and more... Speculative Literature Foundation: promoting literary quality in speculative fiction, by encouraging promising new writers, assisting established writers, facilitating the work of quality magazines and small presses in the genre, and developing a greater public appreciation of speculative fiction. Viable Paradise: A one-week intensive residential workshop held annually. The instructors are all published authors or professional editors. Both novels and short stories are workshopped. [ Back to top ] Chronicles of Empire: Homesite for the epic "Chronicles of Empire" project, with lots of free stuff, including the soundtrack music, writer resources, and an active general SF/F forum. Nessie's Grotto: Everything that you could imagine wanting to know about the Loch Ness monster. Read a Good Story, Do a Good Deed: Nice premise—stories and art have been donated, and deserving beneficiaries identified. Enjoy the story or artwork, then donate directly to the person in need. Spacejetters Virtual Art Gallery and Museum: Explore new worlds! Visit the Spacejetters virtual art galleries, museum, planetarium and spaceportal. Download free Sci-fi & Fantasy screensavers, themes, browser skins and artwork. Plus view the top 100 sci-fi movies. Typhon Station: A Star Trek play-by-e-mail role-playing game The Ultimate SF Guide: A fairly comprehensive site, though dated (in movies they claim to have an exclusive preview of "The Fifth Element"), may be worth a look to find information on a favorite author or a favorite SF sub-genre, like Time Travel. [ Back to top ]
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