ENG 276: Science Fiction Literature (Torregrossa): Web Resources

SciFi Now provides news, interviews with sci fi movie characters or directors, competitions, reviews of movies or television, and top 10 lists.

Tor.com is a site for science fiction, fantasy, and all the things that interest SF and fantasy readers. It publishes original fiction, art, and commentary on science fiction and related subjects by a wide range of writers from all corners of the field; both professionals working in the genres and fans. Its aim is to provoke, encourage, and enable interesting and rewarding conversations with and between its readers.

ci-fi’s been a cultural touchstone since even before Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds radio broadcast stirred up widespread panic in 1938. But it’s worth examining what makes major sci-fi franchises resonate so strongly with audiences in 2017. What does sci-fi offer to a pop-culture fan?

Books, science fiction authors, resources for science fiction enthusiasts, publisher information, lists of winners for various fantasy and scifi awards.

Features award-winning authors, compelling fiction stories, intriguing science fact articles, editorials, news, reviews

A science fiction magazine with reviews, articles and other information relating to science fiction.

Science Fiction publication about new books, authors and more.

The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, founded in 1949, is the award-winning SF magazine which is the original publisher of SF classics like Stephen King's Dark Tower, Daniel Keyes's Flowers for Algernon, and Walter M. Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz. Each double-sized bimonthly issue offers:
• compelling short fiction by writers such as Kelly Link, Mary Robinette Kowal, Michael Moorcock and many others;
• the science fiction field's most respected and outspoken opinions on Books, Films and Science;
• humor from our cartoonists and writers.

Neo-opsis magazine provides entertainment, fun and interesting stories, written from the perspective of science and fantasy. Informative articles on science and nature. Book and movie reviews, along with opinion columns and letters section.

Covers a wide variety of activities, information, and services that NESFA provides to the speculative community and to participating members.

The Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association was founded as the Science Fiction Poetry Association in 1978 to bring together poets and readers interested in speculative poetry.

SFWA is an organization for published authors and industry professionals in the fields of science fiction, fantasy, and related genres. Membership is open to authors, artists and other industry professionals, including graphic novelists.

Speculative fiction is a broad genre encompassing fiction with certain elements that do not exist in the real world, often in the context of supernatural, futuristic or other imaginative themes.[1] This includes, but is not limited to, science fiction, fantasy, superhero fiction, horror, utopian and dystopian fiction, fairytale fantasy, supernatural fiction as well as combinations thereof (e.g. science fantasy).[2]
Speculative fiction differs from other types of fiction such as slice of life and from non-fiction.

Alternate history or alternative history is a genre of speculative fiction consisting of stories in which one or more historical events occur differently. These stories usually contain "what if" scenarios at crucial points in history and present outcomes other than those in the historical record. The stories are conjectural but are sometimes based on fact.

Science fiction (sometimes called Sci-Fi or simply SF) is a genre of speculative fiction that typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, time travel, parallel universes, fictional worlds, space exploration, and extraterrestrial life. It has been called the "literature of ideas", and often explores the potential consequences of scientific, social, and technological innovations.[

The Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction defines Science fiction is multi- and interdisciplinary, concerned not only with literary qualities but also exploring core values of diverse fields. To deeply grasp a work, those creating SF and scholars examining it must also possess a strong grasp of the relevant scientific or technological background, as well as the societal, historic, economic, and other implications. It embraces and serves every field of study, and provides a method for creative speculation in non-literary fields.

Weird fiction is a subgenre of speculative fiction originating in the late 19th and early 20th centuries John Clute defines weird fiction as a "Term used loosely to describe Fantasy, Supernatural Fiction and Horror tales embodying transgressive material". China Miéville defines weird fiction thus: "Weird Fiction is usually, roughly, conceived of as a rather breathless and generically slippery macabre fiction, a dark fantastic ("horror" plus "fantasy") often featuring nontraditional alien monsters (thus plus "science fiction").

A bibliography of Science Fiction Studies (cover material from the 1690s forwards).

This online publication is in collaboration with Gollancz and the SF Gateway. This work contains 35 years worth of information and sources. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction is and always will be a work in progress, a situation more clearly evident in the present era of regular online updates than when the book editions' snapshots of the sf field necessarily remained static for many years. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction is and always will be a work in progress, a situation more clearly evident in the present era of regular online updates than when the book editions' snapshots of the sf field necessarily remained static for many years. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction is and always will be a work in progress, a situation more clearly evident in the present era of regular online updates than when the book editions' snapshots of the sf field necessarily remained static for many years. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction is and always will be a work in progress, a situation more clearly evident in the present era of regular online updates than when the book editions' snapshots of the sf field necessarily remained static for many years. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction is and always will be a work in progress, but this has been updated with information from prior to the digital age.

This site provides a complex bibliography that lists and cites and describes sf & critical works from a feminist perspective. Plots may be described in whole, including details that would constitute a "spoiler" for some people. Works that are already complete are reviewed, discussed, and described, and consequently there are spoilers.

This is an index to 4,260 SF anthologies and single-author collections published before 1984, containing over 46,000 stories by 4,200 authors.

The ISFDB is a community effort to catalog works of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. It links together various types of bibliographic data: author bibliographies, publication bibliographies, award listings, magazine content listings, anthology and collection content listings, and forthcoming books.

Covers from 1984-2007 and contains indexes to other anthologies and collections.

This collection contains many thousands of individual fanzines and pieces of fanzines, amassed by Horvat over the decades. The fanzines in the collection deal mostly with science fiction and related subjects, although there are zines on other genre topics, such as mysteries. Except where indicated, this document describes but does not reproduce the actual text, images and objects which make up this collection. Materials are available only in the Special Collections Department.

Horror, Fantasy, and Science Fiction movie reviews.

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database is a freely available online resource designed to help students and researchers locate secondary sources for the study of the science fiction and fantasy and associated genres. These include: historical material; books; articles; news reports; interviews; film reviews; commentary; and fan writing. The database was originally compiled by Hal W. Hall, a librarian at Texas A & M University, and draws and expands upon the Science Fiction and Fantasy Reference Indexes of 1878-1985; 1985-1991; and 1992-1995.

This site contains awards by author, citations, anthologies, rankings, and awards by publisher.

This website provides writers seeking to improve their craft in the genres used to have only a few choices, as many university programs did not appreciate speculative fiction - or, in some cases, even consider it a valid form of literature. This website provides links and resources for professional writers and created private workshops to help writers develop.

Uchronia: The Alternate History List is a bibliography of over 3400 novels, stories, essays and other printed material involving the "what ifs" of history. The genre has a variety of names, but it is best known as alternate history.