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"It would all be happy as a group sing at the court of King Oedipus, with Jocasta keeping time, swinging by the neck from the roofbeams."
-Walter Jon Williams, Elegy for Angels and Dogs

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Deconstructing Thomas Covenant, a rant

Lord of the Flies

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Piers Anthony (just be sure to never read more than the first couple books in each series - _Bio_ excepted)

Iain M. Banks:

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Waiting For Godot

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Michael P. Kube-McDowell

Keith Laumer

H.P. Lovecraft

Ian McDonald

Terminal Café

Michael Moorcock's multiverse

Daniel Keys Moran

Larry Niven

Down in Flames - the end of Known Space

Mervyn Peake

J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter Guide

Alastair Reynolds

Rudy Rucker

Fred Saberhagen's berserker.com

William "Bill" Shakespeare

edHelper.com's Shakespeare resources

Clark Ashton Smith

Bibliography

Cordwainer Smith

L. Neil Smith

Bruce Sterling

Mirrorshades Postmodern Archive

Bruce Sterling Online Index

Bruce's gopherspace

Jack Vance

Vance Integral Edition - Jack's total collected works

Walter Jon Williams

Online Text

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textfiles.com

The worst fantasy story ever written: The Eye of Argon by Jim Thiels and a MiSTed version

NanoWars

Writing

Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America

Hypertext Webster Interface

Meta

Fantasy and Science Fiction - A Scientist's Notebook, by Gregory Benford

The Book on the Edge of Forever: An Enquiry into the Non-Appearance of Harlan Ellison's the Last Dangerous Visions by Christopher Priest

Or as I call it, "Half the Reason Harlan Ellison Annoys Me" (the other half being that he's an obnoxious luddite twit who gets by on having written good stories back before he escaped "the whorehouse of science fiction", as he calls it).

Mathematical Fiction - reviews and commentary on books by mathematicians.

NESFA Press:

NESFA primarily produces three types of books:

• Books honoring the guest(s) of honor at their annual convention, Boskone, and at some Worldcons and other conventions.
• Books in the NESFA's Choice series, which bring back into print the works of deserving classic SF writers such as James Schmitz, Cordwainer Smith, C.M. Kornbluth, and Zenna Henderson.
• Reference books of science fiction and science fiction fandom.

isfdb - Internet Speculative Fiction DataBase

Cybling - SF/F chat area

Book-A-Minute SF/F - hilarious super-condensed versions of SF classics

Science Fiction Lists - Overused Science Fiction Cliches, Things I Will Do If I Am Ever..., etc.

Outside: Speculative and Dark Fiction Magazine

SF-Lovers FTP archive

Nova Express

MindRape Magazine

Science Fiction Crowsnest, SF & fantasy search engine

Hitchhiker's Guide to Science Fiction Travelogue and Phrasebook

Alsirat horror magazine

Cyberspace and Critical Theory Overview, by George P. Landow

The Etext Archives

Etext on the Web

Harrison's Cyberpunk reading list

Mark Grant's book list

infinity plus - the sf & fantasy archive

The One Book List

Science Fiction and Fantasy

Science Fiction Weekly

SF Link Page

Wiretap Electronic Text Archive

Schoolbytes

Classics made stupid, but they're decent summaries, unlike Cliff's Notes

James Joyce's Ulysses for Dummies - now you don't have to read it.

Last modified: 2002Nov18
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