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Where One Can Learn More About Speculative Literature

Submitted by melvin on Sun, 07/15/2007 - 06:40
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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
  • Google
  • Slashdot
  • Wikipedia
  • Wired
  • Technovelgy.com
  • Writers's Digest Top 101 Writer's Sites / 2001-2006

Vidcasts:

  • Google Video
  • Metacafe
  • Vodcast
  • Youare.tv
  • YouTube
  • Joox
  • Stage 6

Podcasts:

  • I Should Be Writing
  • Michael Stackpole's The Secrets
  • Escape Pod
  • Podiobooks
  • Slice of SciFi
  • Dragon Page
  • Variant Frequencies
  • Tee Morris
  • Scott Sigler
  • Jonathan Sherwood's Gramophiction
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