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Science Fiction Authors : General Sites

Author Web
A fully searchable author database, and constantly updated.

Eidolon SF Online: Australian Science Fiction Authors
Bibliographic and biographical detail on Australian genre writers.

Mark/Space Anachron Library: Cyberpunk Authors Features bibliographies for specific authors with (other reviewers') reviews of the books, and links to related sites. No search engine when last visited, however.

Greyware Authors
Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Authors, brought to you by the authors themselves. They offer free Home Pages to Science Fiction Writers Association and Horror Writers Association members.

The Internet Speculative Fiction DataBase
A phenomenal resource for science fiction on the web containing over 12,000 author bibliographies, based on roughly 10,000 novel entries and more than 36,000 short fiction entries. It features content listings of more than 3,800 magazines (including complete runs of Asimov's, Analog, Interzone, Science Fiction Age, and others). The site also features an extensive list of forthcoming books, nearly 15,000 award entries (including the Aurora, British Fantasy Awards, Campell, Clarke, Hugos, Lambda, Locus Poll, Mythopoeic, Nebulas, Phillip K. Dick, Prometheus, SFBC, SF Chronicle, Tiptree, Hall of Fame, HOMer, and WFA awards), and has a series of Top 100 lists based on award information.

Mark/Space Anachron Library: Science Fiction Authors.
Features bibliographies for specific authors with (other reviewers') reviews of the books, and links to related sites. No search engine when last visited, however.

Resources for SF and Fantasy Writers
A collection of information for budding authors.

The SF Hub
Link: www.sfhub.ac.uk
Launched April 2005, this is the first subject portal for science fiction scholars. Created by The University of Liverpool Library with the support of the Arts and Humanities Research Board, the SF Hub 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. Its 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.

SFFNet
An excellent resource for science fiction authors comprising members home pages, message boards and much more. Recommended. See also: Statistics Reference

Spaceflight: the Science Fiction and Fantasy Biography Site
This site is designed primarily for the literary researcher to quickly locate vital statistics and personal data on deceased members of the F&SF community. George Willick's Spacelight includes background information on scores of deceased SF authors, ranging from Douglas Adams to Roger Zelazny. Chronologically speaking, their death dates range from those of Jules Verne to the newly deceased Fred Hoyle.

• Book editor Lou Anders sent me this great link for a very articulate summation of the history of the speculative fiction literary field, the important movements, and a possible new direction on the asimovs.com site. "It sets a nice context for why Perdido Street Station is important," says Lou.

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Dave Langford (Ansible)
• Official: The Dave Langford Home Page (Pardon?)

• Glenda Larke
Official: www.glendalarke.com

• Ursula K. le Guin Links welcome
Official: www.ursulakleguin.com
Patron of the Science Fiction Foundation. Award-winning Ursula LeGuin has a reputation for examining contemporary problems by restating them in terms of other imagined worlds. Her work includes The Dispossessed, the tale of a perfect anarchic society and The Left Hand of Darkness, of life in an androgynous world.
She is perhaps best known for he childrens' fantasy series, the Earthsea trilogy -- A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan and The Farthest Shore.

Tim Lebbon
• Official: www.timlebbon.com
Tim Lebbon's writing credits include several horror and dark fantasy novels.

• Fritz Leiber
Official: The Fritz Leiber Home Page
Fritz Leiber, who died in 1992, was the first to use the term 'Swords and Sorcery' to describe this particular SF sub-genre, and wrote of dark horrors of the commonplace, influenced by writers such as Edgar Allen Poe, H.P Lovecraft and ghost story author M.R. James.

• Murray Leinster

CS Lewis
Clive Staple Lewis was born in Belfast in 1898. As a child, he was fascinated by the fairy tales, myths and ancient legends recounted to him by his Irish nurse. The image of a faun carrying parcels and an umbrella in a snowy wood came to him when he was 16. However, it was not until many years later as a professor at Cambridge University, that the faun was joined by an evil queen and a magnificent lion. Their story became The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, one of the best-loved books of all time. Six further Chronicles of Narnia followed and the final title, The Last Battle, published in 1956, was awarded the highest mark of excellence in children's literature - the prestigious Carnegie Award.

A film version of The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe is in development. In early 2001, the Into the Wardrobe site reported that the movie adaptation of Out of the Silent Planet seemed to have been stalled on budget. A script has been written, though it has been modernized and changed enormously (Douglas Gresham, Lewis' stepson, says it's "acceptable").

Narnia: Harper Collins Children's Books celbrated the 50th anniversary of C.S. Lewis' The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe with this new Narnia website. The site offers info on the seven-book series and their creation, illustrated guides to the magical lands and the characters, and assorted interactive games.

Charles de Lint
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Writer of some of the best modern fairy tales, including Memory and Dream

• Duncan Long
The "First Encounters" Art Page of the author/artist.

H.P Lovecraft Links welcome
• The HP Lovecraft Archive

James Lovegrove
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James Lovegrove's novels to date include the critically-acclaimed Days, The Foreigners, The Hope and, in partnership with Peter Crowther, Escardy Gap.

Brian Lumley
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• Arthur Machen

• Ken Macleod
Author of the Prometheus Award-winning The Star Fraction (Legend, UK, hb 1995, pb 1996) and The Stone Canal (Legend, UK, hb 1996, pb 1997), his most recent trilogy begins with Cosmonaut Keep.
Since graduating zoology at the University of Glasgow, Ken MacLeod has worked as a computer programmer in various places. He also found time to complete a Masters thesis in biomechanics. These days, his work is what you expect from a writer: research and writing, conventions, discussions of his works at various places ...
His political experiences started during his student days and include the membership in the International Marxist Group, the British section of the Fourth International, in the 1970's; and in the Communist Party of Great Britain in the 1980's. His knowledge of the Left enables him to effortlessly hold forth in political discussions on the Internet.
• Read an interview with Ken Macleod on SF CrowsNest (November 2002): Go

Paul Magrs
Official: www.phoenixcourt.org.uk
Paul Magrs (pron. Mars) describes himself as "an insane genius from Darlington, who lives in Norwich, teaches Literature and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, and writes critically acclaimed 'mainstream' fiction as well as his more well-known 'faggy, subversive' Doctor Who novels."

Andy Mangels
Official: www.andymangels.com
Andy Mangels always planned to be a comic book artist but while in college, he sold his first writing in the comic industry, and the emphasis for his career shifted to writing instead of art. He's a prolific author whose work includes Star Trek (such as Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Mission Gamma: Cathedral) and Roswell fiction (such as Roswell: Skeletons in the Closet), factual Star Wars books and much more. He's also a busy comics and freelance features writer.

Anne McCaffrey
Official: www.annemccaffrey.org
Best known for her award-winning Dragonriders of Pern saga.

Michael McCollum
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Vonda N. McIntyre
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China Miéville
Recommended Fan Site: Go
This site is regularly updated and was favourably reviewed in The Guardian in January 2002.

Author of the gothic fantasy Perdido Street Station. Well worth trying, a mix of science and magic in a strange urban gothic society. For more than a thousand years, the parliament and its brutal militia have ruled over a vast array of workers, spies, magicians, and junkies. Now a stranger has come with an impossible demand, and inadvertently something unthinkable is released. A reckoning is due and it is too late to escape.

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• Yvonne Navarro
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Author of Final Impact, That's Not My Name and many horror novels.

• Josef Nesvadba
The Czech Republic's greatest living sf writer and a former guest at the 1996 "Speaking Science Fiction" conference.

Larry Niven
The undisputed king of hard SF whose works include the Ringworld saga.

• Known Space
A repository for information related to Larry Niven's Known Space series of novels and short stories.

Andre Norton
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A major author over several decades, perhaps best known for her Witchworld saga and Ross Murdock tales.


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• Kate Orman Links welcome
Author of several Doctor Who novels for both Virgin and the BBC.

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• Steven Piziks
Official: www.sff.net/people/spiziks
Piziks (also known as Steven Harper) sold his first novel, In the Company of Mind to Baen Books in June, 1996. A sequel to this nanotech-themed story, Corporate Mentality, was published May, 1999. he has also written a Star Trek: Voyager novel, The Nanotech War.
His site contains useful and often funny tips for new would be writers.

• Terry Pratchett
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Creator of Discworld, one of the best-selling fantasy novel series ever. Terry's official site has been "under construction" for some time. Perhaps rats have eaten it.

• Terry Pratchett's Discworld
Maintained by his Fan Club.

• The Discworld Graphic Novels: The Colour of Magic and the Light Fantastic
by Terry Prachett
Publisher: Harper Collins

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Alistair Reynolds
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Author of the critcally-acclaimed hard SF novel Revelation Space. The (sort of) prequel Chasm City was released in March 2002. Redemption Ark, set in the same universe, was released in 2003.

Adam Roberts
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Author of the critically-acclaimed Salt and On. A science fiction author, critic and academic, Salt was nomiated for the 2001 Arthur C. Clarke award.

• Keith Roberts

Sax Rohmer
Creator of Fu Manchu

• The Sax Rohmer Research Web Site
The definitive Sax Rohmer site including news items and downloadbale PDFs of his work.

Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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• Eric Frank Russell
Compiled by Narrelle Harris.

• Gary Russell
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Writer of several Doctor Who novels, former Doctor Who Magazine editor and once script editor of the Big Finish Doctor Who audio CD dramas.

• Mary Doria Russell

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• Pamela Sargeant
Official: Pamela Sargent Biopage

• Robert J Sawyer

• Martin Scott
Author of the award-winning Thraxas, published by Orbit in the UK. The book was winner of the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel of 1999.
The award prompted author Martin Scott to reveal he is in fact the very successful cult author Martin Millar. Millar wrote the novelisation of the film Tank Girl, co-wrote a play with Doon MacKichan (from the UK cult comedy Smack The Pony), as well as six novels under this name.
Thraxas is a comic fantasy set in the magical city of Turai, where the only people more corrupt than the politicians are the Royal Family. Murder, mayhem and ruthless criminal brotherhoods reign, and the civic guards are incapable of keeping order. It's left to men like Thraxas to do what they can.
Titles include Thraxas and the Elvish Isles, Thraxas, Thraxas and the Warrior Monks and Thraxas at the Races.

• Robert Sheckley
Official: Robert Sheckley's Almost Official Homepage
Robert Sheckley passed away on the morning of December 9, 2005 in Vassar Hospital in Poughkeepsie, NY USA.

• David Sherman
Co-author of Starfist: First to Fight with Dan Cragg

• M. P. Shiel

Robert Silverberg
A major figure in American SF whose ground-breaking SF has influenced many and earned him praise from readers and fellow professionals. Works include the Majipoor series and many short stories.

• Quasi Official Robert Silverberg Page
Called the Quasi-Official Robert Silverberg Site, a term of the author's own devising, because "this is as close to an official site as I'm ever going to have, because I lack the technical skills to build a site of my own, as well as the time and, I suppose, the energy. And also my temperament is not inclined toward more self-promotion than is absolutely necessary for my professional well-being, and setting up a web site for oneself strikes me as a rather emphatic act of self-promotion. On the other hand, the site as Jon has constructed it contains everything that a proper author site should have, and nothing that it shouldn't. I was immensely pleased to discover it in my on-line wanderings and I continue to enjoy visiting it (as well as to make use of its bibliographical material for my own reference!)"

• Norman Spinrad's Home Page
Part of the American New wave SF movemnet best known for The Iron Dream, a novel purporting to be written by Adolf Hitler.

• Jerry Sohl
This site is run by his daughter, Jenny who is beginning to get his books back into print. Sohl dies in November 2002 aged 88. His TV credits include episodes of the original Star Trek such as The Corbomite Maneuver and the Twilight Zone; and novels such as The Transcendent Man and The Altered Ego.

• Olaf Stapledon

• Neal Stephenson

• Alan Steele
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Hugo award winner Allen Steele became a full-time science fiction writer in 1988, following publication of his first short story, Live From The Mars Hotel (Asimov's, mid-Dec. `88). Since then he has become a prolific author of novels, short stories, and essays, with his work appearing worldwide.
His novels include Chronospace, Orbital Decay, Clarke County, Space, Lunar Descent, Labyrinth of Night, The Jericho Iteration, The Tranquillity Alternative, and A King of Infinite Space.

• Jim Swallow: The Redwing Project
With over 50 pages of material covering his work in television, gaming, fiction and non-fiction, The Redwing Project contains new material on Jim's work for Star Trek, the Sundowners series of novels and his latest titles, Judge Dredd: Dreddline, Snowblind and Dark Eye: The Essential David Fincher.

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J.R.R. Tolkein
Official: The Tolkien Society

Harry Turtledove
• Harry Turtledove
Web site with an extensive bibliography

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Jack Vance

The Vance Archive
Link: www.jackvance.com

The Jack Vance Message Board
Link: http://p078.ezboard.com/bjackvance

The Vance Museum
Link: www.vancemuseum.com
Run by Mike Berro, he hopes it will contain everything from his old Vance site, as well as the Vance items from his "Booktour Online" site. Some fab stuff to view here including some wonderful postcards from Tschai.

John Vornholt
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Jo Walton
Official: www.zorinth.net/bluejo
Libe Journal: papersky.livejournal.com
2002 Campell Award winner Jo is author of The King's Peace, a fantasy novel from Tor books. The site contains some links on the book, a map, and some additional information. There is a sequel, The King's Name, and The Prize in the Game a "kind of prequel" to both books.
Other books include Farthing, Ha'penny and Tooth and Claw, in which all the characters are dragons with a tech level of about 1850.
Also on the site is some poetry, reviews and fanzines and some great storytelling card games. Walton's past work includes a variety of roleplaying features for UK magazines, and game module creation for Steve Jackson Games. There's a beastly fairy store by Walton on Infinity Plus which is well worth a read.

Matthew Woodring Stove
Author of Heroes Die

• H. G. Wells
• Brief Biography: Go
• Complete Listing of Works: Go

• Connie Willis
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• Gene Wolfe
"Ultan's Library" - a webzine devoted to Gene Wolfe's fiction.

John Wyndham
Wyndham's disaster stories, no doubt fuelled by the post-Second World War nuclear threat, include The Chrysalids, The Day of the Triffids and The Kraken Wakes. His work has been selected as required reading on many GCSE syllabuses. An archive of his work is held by the Science Fiction Foundation.

• John Wyndham Maintained by Spacelight
• James Dawe's John Wyndham Page
• L. J. Hurst has two articles on Wyndham, originally published in the The British Science Fiction Association 's critical journal Vector.
"We Are The Dead" THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS and NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR Remembrance of Things to Come? 1984 and Day of the Triffids Again

Maureen Kincaid Speller, Co-ordinator of the British Science Fiction Association, wonders what John Wyndham has to offer.

Scriptwriter Bernard Gordon describes his experiences "ghosting" the sub-plot of the 1963 movie The Day of the Triffids


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• Chelsea Quinn Yarbro