Index to online research resources in SF studies
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Major bibliographic databases
- FantasticFiction.co.uk
- Index to SF Anthologies & Collections, Combined Edition by William G. Contento
- ISFDB (Internet Science Fiction Database) and ISFDB wiki
- Locus Index to SF
- SFbooklist, The Science Fiction & Fantasy Bibliography.
- SFFRD: The Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database, Texas A&M University (Hal Hall) (see also http://library.tamu.edu/cushing/sffrd/ ). An online index to over 60,000 historical and critical items about science fiction, fantasy and horror. Compiled by Hal W. Hall.
Magazine etc. databases
Authors
- Science Fiction Author Pseudonyms
- A Guide to Supernatural Fiction, edited by R.B. Russell, at http://supernaturalfiction.co.uk/ . (Tartarus Press) (alternate link 1 alternate link 2) ("We hope that this Guide will be of interest to connoisseurs of supernatural fiction. It is still a "work in progress", but already contains bibliographical information on over 360 authors and editors of supernatural fiction. We are adding images of dustjackets as thumbnails with the bibliographical information, and those bordered in red/brown can be clicked on to provide a larger image. We hope to "upgrade" images over time, and welcome any scans. ... Our definition of "supernatural" is a very catholic but inevitably subjective one, betraying our own interests and prejudices. Not that this means that we would recommend every author or book contained on the database. We have tried to include as much literature of the supernatural as we can (and therefore a great number of ghost stories), but we only skirt around the boundaries of fantasy, and science fiction is poorly represented. If there is a bias towards the macabre and weird genres, though, this reflects our own personal tastes. We have not attempted to create complete author bibliographies, but include only those works which fall into our category of the "supernatural".")
- Ghost Story Writers database ("The Cyclopaedia of Ghost Story Writers is an ever-expanding database of information (bibliographic and biographic) of authors who have written at least one published short story (generally less than 30,000 words) with the theme of haunting or another related aspect of the supernatural during the Georgian, Victorian or Edwardian period. The current definition of whether an author belongs within this period is vague but as a general rule no author born before about 1920 is included.")
Fandom resources
- Fancyclopedia II (1959)
- The Fan History Project (fanac.org)
- Fandata
- eFanZines