Science Fiction Websites
and Other Resources

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Web Links Table of Contents

SF Writer Resources
SF Teaching and Scholarly Resources
Science Fiction Awards
Science Fiction Magazines
Science Fiction Review Magazines and Related Links
SF Conferences and Conventions
Other SF Links
Kansas SF Authors' Websites
Suggest-A-Link

• Alpha, the SF/F/H Workshop for Young Writers.
• Black holes, a fantastic "Critters" page that details response times for the various book and magazine publishers.
• BrambleStory.com, a very cool Web site for writers - collaborate on, post, and critique stories, plus much more.
• Brian Dana Akers' Learn to Write Web page, with many links to writing resources.
• CSSF writing workshops for short and novel-length SF/F/H.
• Odyssey, a workshop for SF/F/H writers.
• Science Fiction Timeline, a great historical overview of everything that has happened in human civilization.
• Science Fiction Writers of America, SFWA's official Web site.

Degree Programs in Science Fiction

• University of Liverpool MA in Science Fiction Studies
• University of Glamorgan's Centre for Astronomy & Science Education

• Audio interviews with science-fiction authors. A great way to hear interviews with your favorite authors, and a great resource for researchers.
• The CSSF Basic Science Fiction Library.
• Broad Universe, an international organization with the goal of promoting SF/F/H written by women.
• The Bud Foote SF Collection includes first-edition scientific romances and utopias from the late 19th Century and most of the major SF novels of the 20th Century. Special features include first editions of David Brin’s major works (both in English and in translation) and a complete run of the Ballantine Fantasy Series.
• The Center for Ray Bradbury Studies contains research copies of Bradbury’s seven decades of correspondence as well as typescripts, galleys, and page proofs for most of Bradbury’s major works, much of which has been compiled into a database.
• Classic SF story archive - contains dozens of free stories; an online service from SciFi.com.
• CSSF Educational Program.
• Curriculum section of the SF Museum website, soon to offer SF curriculum for teachers.
• Cyrano de Bergerac, The Other World - this new translation by Donald Webb is intended to make Cyrano’s novel Internet-accessible to the general public in modern English.
• Design a Martian! NASA page for kids and teachers.
• Difference Engine, a science, science communication, and SF weblog.
• Extrapolation, an important scholarly journal, was the first to publish academic work on SF/F.
• Feminist F/SFF and Utopian Literature, a great resource for scholars of feminist speculative fiction.
• Femspec is an interdisciplinary feminist journal dedicated to critical and creative works in speculative fiction.
• Genrefluent describes its mission as, "your headquarters for information about Readers' Advisory and genre fiction for adults and teens."
• The Heinlein Society places Heinlein's books in libraries, awards scholarships and grants to worthy young people, assists in disseminating translations, promotes scholarly research and overall discussion of his works, and much more. If you're a Heinlein fan or scholar, check out their site!
• The Internet Top 100 SF/Fantasy List, a list compiled using reader voting.
• James Gunn Essay on Teaching Science Fiction.
• LabLit.com - "The culture of science in fiction & fact." Great stuff!
• List of SF-Teaching Sites.
• More SF-Teaching Resources.
• The New York Review of Science Fiction.
• Paul Brian's Course Materials for the Study of Science Fiction.
• Reading for the Future Literacy Campaign.
• Science Fiction Resource Guide, a huge compendium of valuable and useful info on SF, SF authors, and so on.
• Science Fiction Research Association, SFRA's Web site.
• Science Fiction Studies resource page with many links to scholarly works on the Web.
• Science News for Kids.
• Science Fiction Reading List for Kids.
• The Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database is an online index to more than 60,000 historical and critical articles, books, news reports, obituaries, motion picture reviews, and other material about science fiction, fantasy and horror. Compiled by Hal W. Hall.
• The SF Hub is a new research portal built and managed by the University of Liverpool, which offers an MA in Science Fiction Studies and maintains an excellent SF library. This fantastic resource "aims to facilitate research into science fiction and its related literary genres. The SF Hub is based on the wealth of research resources in the Science Fiction Collections of The University of Liverpool's Special Collections and Archives, including the renowned Science Fiction Foundation Collection. Our advanced search tools will enable you to find the resources you need amongst the extensive collections of books, journals, fiction magazines, fanzines, journal articles and archives at Liverpool University."
• Smithsonian history of science and technology: This website has great coverage about the history of science. Check it out!
• The Speculative Literature Foundation - their mission is "To promote 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."
• Tales of Future Past, a great source for SF history and images.
• Tangent Online, reviews of short and long SF.
• The Theodore Sturgeon website is the Official Site of the Theodore Sturgeon Literary Trust, and contains information about new and reprinted work by Theodore Sturgeon (the Literary Trust owns the copyright to his work).
• The Theodore Sturgeon Page contains a great deal of information about Theodore Sturgeon, including publications, reminiscences by friends and colleagues, a bio, photographs, and more.
• The University of Liverpool online science fiction library collection, a searchable database of their large SF collection.
• Virginia Tech Online Speculative Fiction Project (VTSF), an effort to digitize selected holdings from the Herron Collection of Science Fiction in the Special Collections department at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg.
• Webs of Wonder.

• Andre Norton Award for young adult fiction.
• Hugo Award.
• James Tiptree, Jr. Award.
• John W. Campbell Memorial Award.
• John W. Campbell Best New Writer Award.
• Locus Awards.
• Mary Shelley Imaginative Fiction Award.
• Nebula Awards.
• Philip K. Dick Award.
• Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award.

• The full list of the genre magazines published on the SFWA website. A fantastic place to find them all.
• Absolute Magnitude.
• Albedo One, Ireland's only SF magazine.
• Analog Science Fiction and Fact.
Astounding's heir. Hard SF, essays, and more.
• Asimov's Science Fiction.
• The Science Fact & Science Fiction Concatenation
, the e-version of the Concatenation publication distributed at the UK national SF convention and European SF convention.
• DNA Publications (Absolute Magnitude, Dreams of Decadence, Weird Tales, Fantastic Stories, Science Fiction Chronicle, and Mythic Delirium magazines).
• Ellen Datlow's online SF magazines (long list that she regularly updates).
• Fantasy & Science Fiction. One of the cornerstone genre magazines that's been around since 1949.
• The Infinite Matrix. Fiction, essays, and editorials - good stuff!
• Interzone. Long-lived British SF magazine.
• The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.
• Ray Gun Revival. Publishes Golden-Age style space opera.
• Sci Fiction. Ceased publishing new fiction; however, the archives are still available.
• Strange Horizons.
Fiction, poetry, reviews, and much more.

• Anima Solaris, a Japanese science fiction magazine.
• Best SF, a website that "aims to assist those seeking the best in short Science Fiction, in both printed form and on the web." Has a big "Best SF Gateway" that links to the best SF available online, plus lots of short-SF reviews.
• Bookview, the review site of Kansan William Tienken.
• Internet Book List, a book-listing and -reviewing project where readers can enter and respond to information about every published book. Its purpose is to provide a comprehensive and easily accessible database of books, because its creator "considers the Book to be humanity's greatest creation." Includes discussion forums, ratings, and much more.
• The Internet Review of Science Fiction, a great site full of essays and reviews.
• Locus Online, website of Locus magazine. SF news, reviews, and resources.
• The Sci-Fi Channel, website of the cable television channel dedicated to SF.
• Foundation: the international review of science fiction, published by the Science Fiction Foundation.
• Science Fiction Weekly, a helpful link for current information in the world of SF.
• Science Fiction Chronicle, website of SF Chronicle magazine. SF news, reviews, and resources.
• Scorpius Digital Publishing, a great source for electronic books, specializing in SF/F/H.
• SF Site, self-described "home page for science fiction and fantasy." SF news, reviews, and resources.
• SFRevu, a monthly fan/webzine which features reviews of books, films, and other media, interviews with top authors and notable newcomers, and columns with the latest releases in books, DVDs, comics, and upcoming films. SFRevu covers SF/F from around the world.
• Speculative Fiction Review is a publisher and bookseller hoping to promote new SF authors by offering free and low-cost downloads. Includes reviews and a discussion forum.
• SpecFicWorld.com, an online resource guide for speculative fiction fans and writers. Market lists, news, writer's resources, and lots of fee-based eBook and eMagazine downloads.
• Tangent Online, the first and only short SF review magazine.

• 1st Global Conference Artificial Intelligence: Exploring Critical Issues was in October 20-22, 2003, Vienna, Austria; this link details the project.
• Campbell Conference, put on by the University of Kansas Center for the Study of Science Fiction; yearly at KU. For 2007, we will be meeting in Kansas City with SFRA and the Heinlein Centennial.
• ConQuesT late May each year in Kansas City, MO.
• 2008 Eaton Conference: "Chronicling Mars," May 16-18, 2008 at the University of California, Riverside.
• In Godzilla's Footsteps: Japan's Pop Culture Icons on the Global Stage, conference on the king of monsters! The official conference ran from October 28-30, 2004, at Lawrence, KS, but the presentations began September 16. Visit the website for more information.
  
• Robert A. Heinlein Centennial Convention, July 6-8, 2007, in Kansas City. Celebrated the 100th anniversary of Heinlein's birth.
• International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts, March, Wyndham Fort Lauderdale (FL) Airport Hotel.
• Science Fiction Research Association's annual conference, usually in June.
• SF Site convention listing.
• Utopiales Festival International Science Fiction Festival, Nantes, France, November 4-7, 2004, marked the beginning of the Jules Verne death Centennial year’s celebrations.

• Don Davis "High Frontier" Artshow, a really detailed set of designs and drawings of an orbiting space colony.
• The Fandom Directory, a great source for all things SF-fannish.
• Jeffrey A. Carver's SF links page, which includes SF resources and information about his novels.
• GiveBooks.us offers a means for you to ship your SF books to our troops in Iraq at no cost. Check it out!
• Google's extensive list of science fiction sites.
• Ik Wil Het Startpagina: Science Fiction, a portal site in Holland with a thorough collection of SF links [Note: The site is in Dutch, but the links are self-explanatory].
• John Campbell's Solar System: This site contains Campbell's full description of the Solar System, starting in the June 1936 issue of Astounding Stories. Fascinating reading.
• The Kansas City Science Fiction and Fantasy Society, KaCSFFS, is involved in many scholarly and fan activities. The organization runs Kansas City's oldest science fiction convention, ConQuesT, which is held on Memorial Day weekend at Kansas City's Park Place hotel.
• Radebaugh: The Future We Were Promised, a funky and cool SFnal artshow, retro-1950's futurism.
• The Russian Science Fiction & Fantasy Web site, the largest and the most rapidly growing Russian SF-related Web site on the Internet.
• Science Fiction Awards Watch, a site that lists all of the SF awards with links to everything.
• Spaceflight NOW, "The leading source for online space news." We have officially the Space Age now that SpaceShipOne has won the X Prize and anyone (willing to mortgage their home) will soon be able to fly into space. Keep track of things here.
• The Speculative Literature Foundation, which "promotes 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."
• The Science Fiction Experience, in Seattle, is an interactive, media-rich experience that combines SFnal artifacts and information in an immersive museum. Recommended! Now houses the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.
• Technovelgy.com "-where science meets fiction." A searchable database of science fiction inventions. Fascinating and thought-provoking stuff!
• University of Michigan Fantasy and Science Fiction Pages.
• Yahoo's extensive list of science fiction sites.
• Wikipedia is the original open-source online encyclopedia about everything. Is it missing an entry? Add it! Did you find something wrong with an entry? Fix it!

• Robin Wayne Bailey.
• Rob Chilson.
• James Gunn.
• Kij Johnson.
• Duncan Long.
• Chris McKitterick.
• Thomas Seay.
• Glenn R. Sixbury.
• Keith Stokes.

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