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Wednesday
Picked up a new SF blog - meme therapy
Meme Therapy: Underrated Science Fiction Writers
Tuesday
Another SF Book Review Site
Fantasybookspot s
SF Review Blog
The Bodhisattva
A little self-important, but some good stuff
Great Science-Fiction & Fantasy Works: Site Organization
Trailer for Nicholas Cage's Ghostrider
Apple - Trailers - Ghost Rider
Sunday
I've been sifting through market lists and the like and found a few interesting links
Science Fiction and Fantasy Workshop Newsletter
speculations.com
Hatrack River Writers Workshop
These looks very useful
Writing Speculative Fiction, by Mary Soon Lee and Speculative Fiction Markets.
Online Editing Site, kinda odd
Science Fiction Book Editor
Saturday
Lists at The Black Gate
Rich Horton's Virtual Best Short Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: 2005
Still more
The John W. Campbell Award
More Awards
The Theodore Sturgeon Award
World Fantasy Awards
World Fantasy Convention
Friday
It'd be nice if they had more recent stuff online, but an important site nonetheless.
The New York Review of Science Fiction
Thursday
Very interesting writer/fan website
The Preditors & Editors Readers Poll
An SF publishing Market site
Ralan's Webstravaganza - Ralan.com
A worthwhile discussion at Metafilter
Best Sci-Fi anthology? | Ask MetaFilter
Wednesday
Blogger Kuro5hin lists his favorite SF.
A Review of Contemporary Science Fiction || kuro5hin.org
Tuesday
A cyberpunk resource
Welcome to Voidspace
Great idea, and they seem to be pulling it off.
365 tomorrows
Ellison short stories and older space stories
I read Harlan Ellison's "Repent Harlequin!" Said the Ticktock Man (1965) and I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (1967) last week from the 1992 "Super Hugos" in which voters chose them as two of the best SF short stories of all-time. I really liked the idea behind the anti-authoritarian/anti-meaningless life 'Harlequin', but I did not think it was that interesting or outstanding. There must be a half-dozen Bradbury stories alone that I like better. 'I have no mouth' was a much better story, and ironically a singularity/artificial intelligence story that is right out of the new stories of Stross & Vinge, but I still can't think of it as one of the best I've ever read. I'll check out his other most-revered story Jeffty is Five shortly.
On the other hand, I read Bester's short novel, The Stars My Destination (1956), and Cordwainer Smith's novelette Scanners Live in Vain (1950) and both were tremendous. Both took pre-Mercury concepts of space and the nature of the future and explored them with outstandinging stories.
I've started reading Heinlein's Starship Troopers and will pick up The Moon is a Harsh Mistress as I work my way through some SF I've gotta read if I expect to have some idea what I'm talking about.
Close to my heart
Libertarian Futurist Society: Prometheus Awards
Monday
Want to read this one.
Emerald City: Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Reviews - #129 - David Marusek's Counting Heads.
Sunday
The Top Britsh SF Award
the Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlists
Another good Amazon SF list
Amazon.com: So You'd Like to... (live) mind bending Sci-Fi
An excellent list of scifi books that didn't win the rocket.
Amazon.com: So You'd Like to... know what's worth reading amongst the Hugo also-rans
Guilty as charged
CTL+ALT+DEL Comic from George R.R. Martin's Official Website
Adding authors over the next few days - obvious starting point.
Home Page - The Tolkien Society and J. R. R. Tolkien - Wikipedia.
An author whose name I've seen all over.
Dan Simmons - Author's Official Web Site
Saturday
Found this cool dictionary looking for the origin of the term "organlegger".
Dictionary citation for organlegger from Double-Tongued Word Wrester Dictionary
Thursday
Great Australian SF site
Voyager Online: For lovers of Science Fiction and Fantasy
Tuesday
Tangent's Back!
Tangent Online - Short Fiction Review
A good trailer, we'll see.
Lady in the Water
Sunday
Cyberpunk becomes reality dept. overwhelmed
Wired 14.05: The RFID Hacking Underground
The great Singularity debate
Between the Lines | ZDNet.com
These guys linked to us! Our first of many if things work out.
SCIFIPUNDIT...Blog me up Scotty
Science Fiction Slush Pile Readers blog
The Slush God Speaketh
Cory Doctorow in Salon
Themepunks - Chapter 1
Saturday
Stories not to write
Strange Horizons Fiction Submission Guidelines: Stories We've Seen Too Often
One of the top Fantasy Magazines
Realms of Fantasy
A top fansite for the best show on TV.
Galactica2003.net/bgstns.com
Friday
Cyberpunk Movie/TV/Game Reviews
Not a bad site at all - cyberpunkreview.com.
Thursday
An excellent fantasy list
VanderWorld: MY 64 FAVORITE FICTIONS
Wednesday
A classic
"Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut
Tuesday
The best video you'll see today.
YouTube - NIN to Mars
Useful Firefly Wiki
FireflyWiki.org - Firefly.HomePage
Hugo-nominated story online/download.
Burn by James Patrick Kelly.
Sci-Fi Podcasts
Escape Pod ยป Free Hugo Nominated Works
Monday
May send my little story to this one.
SPECFICWORLD'S ANNUAL SPECULATIVE FICTION CONTEST
An entertaining and opinionated discussion of how to intro someone to SF.
Pick the best science fiction book for the uninitiated... | Ask MetaFilter
Sunday
Ran across this one.
science fiction magazine - scifidimensions
Kelly Link won the Nebula for Novella and Novellette.
Kelly Link - Wikipedia and KellyLink.net. Read them - Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link and The Faery Handbag by Kelly Link.
The Nebula Awards were this weekend.
Locus Online News: Nebula Awards Winners
This is a new sci-fi wiki.
Main Page - SCIFIPEDIA
An impressive collection of links
Locus Online: Links Portal
Friday
A film of a Terry Bisson short story.
YouTube - They are made out of meat
Han shot first.
Star Wars: Episode IV | This September: Original Unaltered Trilogy on DVD
Thursday
Another Harlan Ellison Interview
Grand master of fabulism
Really entertaining list
Happy Fun Pundit: Top 10 Things I Hate About Star Trek
Wednesday
A good Top 10 scifi film list
Top 10 sci-fi films in the Guardian
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