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The Web Rings page gives you access to a load of other sites devoted to science fiction and fantasy. This page contains my select recommendations from the many sites I have found on the web. Some of them are not in rings, or are rings that Emerald City does not belong in. Note that links to author sites can be found in the book review archive. Go browse, and enjoy!

Information | News | Literary sites | Webzines | Publishers | Magazines | Media | Digital books | Buying books | Clubs and Organisations | Good Causes | Fanzines

Information

• For general SF stuff - SF Resource Guide
• For general material on fandom and a fanzine directory - FANAC
• And for a whole load of sites - the Science Fiction Fandom Webring
• The World Science Fiction Society - which is not as official as it sounds
• A directory of SF&F Award winners - AwardWeb
• A catalogue of SF paperbacks and magazines - SciFi List
• Seattle's Science Fiction Museum

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News

Now a couple of good news sites:

• For the latest news in SF publishing - Locus
• For general industry news - SciFi Wire.
• And for fannish news - Plokta Network News.

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Literary sites

Some literary stuff:

• For recommendations of good books and short fiction - Alexandria Digital Literature
• And for news of new writers - The John W. Campbell Award page
• If you are a writer yourself - Authorlink.com
• A genre writing site with good SF&F sections - SFFNet
• An execellent bibliographies site - Fantastic Fiction
• A British SF site with lots of short fiction - Infinity Plus
• A British charity devoted to SF - The Science Fiction Foundation
• And its excellent library
• A site devoted to the ever so wonderful Robert Lionel Fanthorpe - A Prose By Any Other Pseudonym
• Ellen Datlow's excellent short fiction site at Sci-Fi.com
• The web site of the Tiptree Award
• Ahmed Khan's Index of Online Fiction - a guide top the best free short stories
• The Edge - Excellent UK site with regular contributions from Michael Moorcock.
• Great Science Fiction and Fantasy Works - a guide to the better sort of fantastical fiction

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Webzines

These are professional or semi-professional magazines available on the web, or web sites of paper magazines:

• A whole host of magazine web sites plus massives of reviews - SFSite
• This one is mainly for British writers but it has excellent general columns on SF and fantasy - The Alien Online
• An online magazine featuring fiction, articles, reviews, poetry and art - Strange Horizons
• A specialist in gay & lesbian SF - Wavelengthsonline
• An online SF magazine - SFRevu
• A fiction zine with an entertaining attitude - Quantum Muse
• Steven Silver's book reviews
• Diverse Books - yet more reviews
• Fantastic Metropolis - superb online magazine devoted to promoting the very best in fantastic literature
• The Agony Column - good quality book reviews and articles

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Publishers

The following publishers produce a lot of SF and fantasy books:

• Tor
• Del Rey
• Baen
• Big Engine
• Sarob Press
• EDGE
• PS Publishing

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Magazines

The following are paper magazines and comics:

• Asimov's
• Analog
• Fantasy & Science Fiction
• Interzone
• Black Gate
• Comics International
• Mam Tor

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Media

The following are radio and TV stations:

• An Internet-based SF radio station - Dragon Page
• A fan-run SF TV stations - Fast Forward

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Digital books

Prefer to get your books on disk rather than paper? Try these sites:

• For all the latest news and views on epublishing - eBookNet
• My friend Mike Ward's eBook company - Hidden Knowledge
• A leading eBook company - Fictionwise
• Baen Books' Free Library - yes really, a lot of Baen's books are available free as e-books

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Buying books

If you want to buy books, there are all the usual places, and some specialist sites. In the US, try:

• Amazon
• Barnes and Noble
• Borders
• Abebooks
• Wrigley - Cross (specialists in importing British and Australian SF)
• The Price Search (checks online bookstores and compares prices)

And especially for all my friends in the San Francisco Bay Area:

• The Other Change of Hobbit
• Keplers
• Borderlands

In the UK there are:

• Amazon
• Porcupine (specialist second hand SF dealer)
• Abebooks UK
• Waterstones
• Forbidden Planet International

And in Australia:

Slow Glass (excellent Melbourne bookshop)

If you are looking for something very rare or unusual, this is the place to go...

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Clubs and Organisations

And here are a few groups I'd like to make special mention of:

• Bay Area Science Fiction Association
• San Francisco Science Fiction Conventions Inc.
• Melbourne Science Fiction Club
• The Mythopoeic Society
• Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society
• New England Science Fiction Association
• British Science Fiction Association

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Good Causes

Not everyone in the book business is trying to sell you something:

• Reading for the Future - an organisation that seeks to encourage kids to read, and take an interest in science, through SF. Only their Utah branch seems to have a web site.

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Fanzines

And finally some of my fellow scribblers:

• Plokta - superbly funny
• Ansible - has won more Hugos than anyone else's wildest dreams
• Bento - small, neat, precise
• File 770 - the best source of US fannish news
• Scifidimensions - a web-only fanzine
• eFanzines - a central registry of SF fanzines and their web sites
• And finally, Kittywompus - a good place to find fanzine reviews

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