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Science Fiction

General

• Locus Online - News, reviews, and links to science fiction web sites.
• Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America - SF news, writing tips, Nebula Awards, and suggested reading lists.
• The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
• The Otherwise Award - Formerly the James Tiptree award. An award encouraging the exploration and expansion of gender.
• Broad Universe - A group promoting the work of women writers of science fiction, fantasy and horror.
• The J. Wayne and Elsie M. Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction - at the University of Kansas. This site has information about courses, essays by James Gunn, science fiction news, and related materials.
• The Top 100 Sience Fiction and Fantasy Books - Selected by the listeners of NPR.
• Five Novels That Predict Our Unease with Chatbots - From the New York Public Library.
• Artificial Intelligence Books - On Good Read
• 20 Fascinating Artificial Intelligence Books, Fiction and Nonfiction - An article by Emily Wenstron in Book Riot, May 8, 2019
• Uchronia: The Alternate History List - An excellent source of information about alternate history novels and anthologies.

Science Fiction on TV

• Doctor Who - The official web site from BBC.
• The Expanse - Great show streaming on Amazon.
• Syfy - The Syfy channel.

Science Fiction Societies and Conventions

• The Philadelphia Science Fiction Society - sponsors Philcon which is held in the fall.
• The Baltimore Science Fiction Society - Information on the society, Balticon, and links to Science Fiction web sites.
• PulpFest
• The Robert Heinlein Society - For those who wish to help carry forward the ideas of Robert Heinlein. Their many activities include the Heinlein Award, blood drives at cons, and efforts to get Heinlein books back into public libraries.

The Science in Science Fiction

• Biology in Science Fiction - Syllabus of the course by Prof. Joan Slonczewski
• Nanotechnology Now - News, basics, and other information
• Artificial Intelligence - extensive articles on many facets of artificial intelligence from Wikipedia.
• Vernor Vinge on the Singularity - paper presented in 1993.
• Technological Singularity - Article from Wilkopedia.

History of Science Fiction

• Writing the Future - A timeline of science fiction literature from the BBC.
• The Museum of Popular Culture - Home of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in Seattle.
• 21 Pictures That Sum up the Whole History of Science Fiction - An article by Charlie Jane Anders.
• The University of Nebraska Press - Publishers of the Bison Frontiers of Imagination Series (early science fiction).
• The Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation, and Fantasy - at the University of Toronto.
• Many Books - Older and some not so old science fiction books for your e-book reader.

Magazines

• Analog Science Fiction and Fact
• Asimov's Science Fiction
• Fantasy and Science Fiction
• Locus Online - Reviews of recent books plus a database of reviews from 1984 to the present.

Publishers

• Baen Books
• Chaosium
• Tor Science Fiction and Fantasy
• The Science Fiction Book Club

My Favorite Science Fiction Authors

• Isaac Asimov - The Isaac Asimov Home Page
• Ben Bova
• The Bujold Nexus - Information on works of Lois McMaster Bujold
• Hal Clement - From the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
• The Nancy Kress Home Page
• Ann Leckie
• Jack McDevitt
• James Morrow
• Alastair Reynolds
• Robert J. Sawyer - The author's homepage
• Robert Silverberg - the quasi-official web site.
• James Tiptree, Jr. - From Wikipedia
• Martha Wells - author of the Murderbot Diaries and other science fiction and fantasy.
• Connie Willis
• Robert Charles Wilson

Horror

• The Horror Writers Association - Stoker awards, horror reading list, and links to web sites of authors, readers, and booksellers.
• The H.P. Lovecraft Archive
• Cthulhu Regio - A region on the planet Pluto.

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