Speculative Literature: An Overview
Links to various canonical, non-canonical, pseudo-canonical and meta-canonical perspectives on the nature of Speculative Literature, including the websites of R-SPEC (and other) area writers such as Nancy Kress and Nick DiChario, widely-read and otherwise significant blogs by Speculative Fiction writers such as William Gibson, David Brin and John Crowley, and the usual territorial claim documentation.
- Speculative Literature On Wikipedia
- Slipstream On Wikipedia
- Magic Realism On Wikipedia
- Postmodern Literature On Wikipedia
- Surrealism On Wikipedia
- Bruce Sterling's Original Article On Slipstream: July 1989
- Bruce Sterling & Laurence Person: Slipstream Reading List
- Encyclopedia of Speculative Fiction
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Speculative Literature Citations
- Social Science Fiction
Local Web Sites:
- Steve Carper
- Nick DiChario
- Lois Gresh
- Sarah Higley (aka Sally Caves)
- Nancy Kress
- David Pascal
- Dana Paxson
- Jonathan Sherwood
- Tim Wright
- Astronomicon
- Craigslist Rochester
- Monroe County Library System
- Writers & Books
- Writing In Rochester
General Speculative Literature and Related Literature Sites:
- Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas
- Dalkey Archive Press (was Center for Book Culture) - check out Author Interviews
- SCIFI.com
- SF Site
- SF/F Book List
- Science Fiction Resource Site
- The UK SF Book News Network
- The Alternate History List
- Feminist SF, Fantasy and Utopias
- SF/F Research Database
- Science Fiction Foundation Collection
- SF, Fantasy, and Horror Bookstores
- SciFi Dimensions
- Science Fiction Hall of Fame
- The Internet Speculative Fiction Database (was Internet Science Fiction Database)
- Time Travel Links
- SF Reader
- Slice of Sci Fi
- Russian Science Fiction and Fantasy
Writing Organizations:
- SFWA
- SFF.net
- Association of SF/F Artists
- Science Fiction Research Association
- Science Fiction Foundation
- British Science Fiction Association
- International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts
- Society for Utopian Studies
- Horror Writers Association
- Authors Guild
- Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators
Magazines And Journals:
- Fantastic Metropolis
- kritikos
- Unreal City
- Locus Online
- SFWA Bulletin
- Ansible
- Asimov's Science Fiction
- Fantasy & Science Fiction
- Analog Science Fiction and Fact
- Tangent Online
- Infinite Matrix
- Strange Horizons
- Science Fiction Studies
- Yahoo SF Magazine Directory
Spec Lit Sites:
- SCIFI.com
- SF Site
- SF/F Book List
- SF-Lovers Science Fiction Reference Library
- UK SF Book News
- The Alternate History List
- Feminist SF, Fantasy and Utopias
- SF/F Research Database
- Science Fiction Foundation Collection
- SF, Fantasy, and Horror Bookstores
- SciFi Dimensions
- Science Fiction Hall of Fame
- The Internet Speculative Fiction Database (was Internet Science Fiction Database)
- Time Travel Links
- SF Reader
- Slice of Sci Fi
- Russian Science Fiction and Fantasy
Markets:
- Speculations
- StoryPilot's F&SF Market Engine
- Ralan's
- Gila Queen's Market Guide
- Paula Fleming's Market List
- Mary Soon Lee's SF Markets
- The Market List
- Spicy Green Iguana
- John Labovitz's e-Zine List
- The Write Market
- Black Hole Submissions
- Books for Writing SF
- Bill Shunn's Manuscript Format
- Pitfalls of Writing SF
- The Rejection Collection
- Writer Beware
- Stanford Copyright & Fair Use
Blogs Of Note:
- Top Fifty Personal Blogs In SF/F
- Contrary Brin (David Brin)
- John Crowley: Little and Big
- Out of Ambit (Diane Duane)
- Neil Gaiman's Journal
- William Gibson Blog
- Nalo Hopkinson
- Dragonmount (Robert Jordan)
- The Early Days of a Better Nation (Ken MacLeod)
- Not a Blog (George RR Martin)
- Cyberabad (Ian McDonald)
- Jonathan Sherwood's The Fictionist
- Bruce Sterling Blog at Wired
Tools:
- 43 Folders
- Lifehacker
- RhymeZone
- Jer's Novel Writer (Free - Mac OS X only)
- CopyWrite ($25 - Mac OS X only)
- yWriter (Free - Win only)
- NewNovelist ($55 - Win XP/2000/Vista only)
- Open Directory List of Writing Software
- Google Docs & Spreadsheets (formerly Writely)
Info Sources:
- del.icio.us
- Slashdot
- Wikipedia
- Wired
- Technovelgy.com
- Writers's Digest Top 101 Writer's Sites / 2001-2006