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Writers and Writing Resources
Neal Asher
Neal cut his teeth with fiction in small presses and the internet. Now he's had his first pro novel, Gridlinked, published.
James Barclay
The home of the Raven.
Molly Brown
You can participate in a murder mystery set in a wonderfully realised alternate world version of the Restoration.
Ramsey Campbell
A British master of the macabre.
Mike Chinn
Writer, anthologist, small press hero.
Simon Clark
One of our leading dark fantasy writers. The man chosen to extend John Wyndham's vision with Night of the Triffids.
Storm Constantine
A queen of the phantastique.
Peter Crowther
Author of numerous fantastical short stories and novels; anthology editor; small press baron.
Diane Duane & Peter Morwood
The Owl Springs Partnership
These two are a veritable word factory.
Anne Gay
If you've been paying attention you'll know she's my wife. But she'd be here even if she wasn't. Really.
Anne wears another hat here:http://emotionalmagic.net
David Gemmell
The UK's leading exponent of heroic fantasy doesn't have an official website as such, but
Tony Evans' Gemmell Mania is one of the best fan tributes. It links to other good Gemmell sites.
Jon Courtenay Grimwood
A very cool site.
M.R. James
There are several sites dedicated to one of the greatest writers of supernatural fiction.
Ghosts & Scholars is the best.
Stephen Jones
Britain's one-man horror industry just keeps truckin' on.
D.F. Lewis
Very prolific, very good writer of spooky fiction.
Juliet E. McKenna
A British fantasy author establishing a solid reputation in the field.
Michael Moorcock
Numerous sites pay homage to Moorcock's unique talents. Nomads of the Time Streams , his Official Appreciation Society, is a great place to start.
Justina Robson
Her debut novel, Silver Screen, was a smash. The new one, Mappa Mundi, further establishes her richly deserved rep.
David Sutton
Doyen of dark fantasy. Writer, editor, small press supremo and dedicated Fortean.
Freda Warrington
Top drawer fantasy and horror novelist.
Tad Williams
Check out Shadowmarch , an innovative site that offers, among other things, a new, ongoing novel not available anywhere else.
Author.Co.Uk
Public Lending Right
The outfit all writers love. They collect our tuppence-apennies from library borrowings.
Society of Authors
All professional writers should support it.
Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Resources
The Alien Online
News, reviews and comment, co-edited by the inestimable Mark Chadbourn and Ariel.
Ansible
David Langford's informative, gossipy, frequently hilarious sf news mag.
Birmingham Science Fiction Group
2001 saw their 30th anniversary.
Birmingham University Science Fiction & Fantasy Society
Young whipper-snappers packing water pistols. They like the same stuff we do, so we'll let them off.
British Fantasy Society
If you're interested in all this you should be a member.
British Fanzine Bibliography
Self-explanatory.
British Science Fiction Association
The UK's longest-established group representing the interests of sad weirdoes like us.
ConNotation
The place to find everything you want to know about conventions.
Fandom Directory
No explanation necessary.
fantasy.fr
l'imaginaire online - a French site devoted to fantasy and sf in literature and films, updated daily.
Fantasy & SF Book Club
This is the UK club.
Interzone
Britain's premier speculative fiction magazine.
The Ghost Story Society
Keeping the tradition alive.
Locus Online
"The Newspaper of the Science Fiction Field."
Nebula
Nebula Science Fiction, the only professional Scottish sf magazine, ran for 41 issues, from 1952-1959. This is an excellent, info-packed tribute site.
Science Fiction Foundation
Devoted to the study and preservation of sf.
SciFan
Slacker's Sci-Fi Source
Starlog
Number one in a field of one as far as America's concerned.
Tiscali Science Fiction & Fantasy Zone
I'll come clean. My wife, Anne Gay, edits this. I help a little bit around the edges. We believe it has one of the biggest readerships of any science fiction mag, internet or print.
TTA Press
Publishers of nifty mags The Third Alternative and The Fix.
UK in 2005
The team bidding to have the 2005 World Science Fiction convention held in Glasgow. Support them.
Publishers and Publishing Resources
The Alchemy Press
Relatively new but already very successful UK small press.
Bragelonne
Parisian publisher specialising in sf and fantasy, combining a love of the genre with keen commercial sense. I confess they're my French publishers, and I'm so glad.
Constable Robinson
Earthlight
/Simon & Schuster UK's sf/fantasy imprint.
Hodder Headline
Orbit
The science fiction imprint of Little, Brown UK.
Pan Macmillan
Paper Tiger
The only major house publishing sf and fantasy art books. Their free email newsletter, Paper Snarl, edited by Paul Barnett, is something you really should sign-up for.
Pocket Essentials
A cute idea at the impulse-buy end of the market.
Scholastic UK
Tor SF & Fantasy
One of the more informative American publisher sites.
Voyager
HarperCollins' sf/fantasy imprint and now my UK publisher. I couldn't have a better home.
The Bookseller
The Bible of the retail trade.
Publishing News
A young contender.
Booksellers and Merchandisers
Andromeda Bookshop
The UK's oldest - established 1971. Impressive shop (in central Birmingham) and mail order. If they haven't heard of it, it doesn't exist.
Arkham
One of France's leading fantasy, sf and comics bookstores; Paris-based.
Cold Tonnage Books
Mail order. Book sleuth Andy Richards specialises in OP and rare items.
Fantasy Centre
Mail order and shop (in north London); one of the best sources for book and magazine collectibles.
Murder One
Central London shop (Charing Cross Road) and mail order, offering incomparable stock of crime books.
Sci-Fi Warehouse
Just about everything but books - merchandising, models, collecting cards, the works. Mail order.
Strand Books
The legendary New York book behemoth with eight miles of shelving. Doesn't specialise in sf but inevitably has a lot of it.
ARTISTS
John Bolton
One of the UK's best.
Fangorn
Chris Baker, aka Fangorn, is one of the UK's most respected fantasy book cover artists. His film work includes acting as Conceptual Artist on Kubrick/Spielberg's AI.
Fantasia Online
Galleries devoted to a number of British brushstroke fabulists.
Frank Kelly Freas
The veteran American illustrator of sf and fantasy.
David A. Hardy
Mind-boggling astro-art from one of our leading science/science fiction illustrators.
Anne Sudworth
Amazing fantasy artwork.
Film and TV
Ain't It Cool News
The place for all the news, sneak previews and reviews of forthcoming films.
Forbidden Planet
The classic '50's MGM sf movie has a number of sites devoted to it. For my money,
The Unofficial Forbidden Planet Movie Page beats the lot. No matter that it hasn't been updated in quite a while.
Quatermass Home Page
Exhaustive homage to Nigel Kneale's imaginative TV outings of the 1950s.
Music
The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
Comic geniuses.
Diamond Syd's House of Pink
A fetching, comprehensive Pink Floyd fan site.
Enigma
Purveyors of atmospheric music par excellence. There are many sites. The best I've found are
Enigma Music and The Voice of Enigma . Why doesn't somebody use this band to compose soundtracks for sf and fantasy films?
Neil Innes
The Bonzos, Rutland Weekend Television, The Rutles, Monty Python ... the man's a national treasure.
Miscellaneous
Stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else
Arryn
An amusing, teen angst-ridden site from a young Antipodean chum.
The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
"Where www means Wretched Writers Welcome."
Darwin Awards
How the gene pool cleanses itself.
Guardian Unlimited
Net version of the UK national newspaper. Particularly good books section.
Helen Knibb
The Hell Hole, where my deeply disturbing webmistress hangs out.
Mark Time Award
The American Society For Science Fiction Audio
The Pewterscribe
A master craftsman working in steel, pewter and leather. Just the place to get a broadsword knocked up. Or a belt pouch for your mobile.
Salon
One of the classiest net magazines, dealing with social commentary, politics, cultural issues. Attracts many name writers.
Time Out
The London listings magazine. They carry my science fiction/fantasy book review column every six weeks. So there.
Wolfenstein
Like most people earning a living from writing, I try to avoid games - they suck time away like a black hole. But I always loved ID's original first person shoot-'em-up Wolfenstein, forerunner of Doom and Quake. Consequently, I was both intrigued and appalled to learn that an updated version, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, is due out Christmas 2001.
Return to Castle Wolfenstein is the official site.
Achtung Wolfenstein! http://www.3dactionplanet.com/wolfenstein is maintained by enthusiasts, and even better. Lord help us.
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