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Fascinating Places on the Web
Science Fiction & Fantasy
News, Opinions & Links
- The Cultural Gutter => articles about science fiction, comics, romance & screen
- Locus Online => the magazine of the science fiction & fantasy field -- also a monthly print magazine
- Science Fiction Crowsnest => reviews, interviews, articles, science fiction & fantasy search engine
- SFScope => news about authors' sales, obituaries, publishing personnel, science fiction becoming science fact (no longer updated)
- SF Site => reviews, people, resources, sites, media...
Canadian SF & Fantasy
General
- Canadian SF Works Database => yearly list of novels, short stories, illustrations, and other SF
- Made in Canada => authors, actors, filmmakers, media (no longer updated)
- SF Canada => Canada's national association for speculative fiction professionals
Publishers
Magazines
- AE => science fiction & nonfiction, new content every Monday
- Challenging Destiny => short stories, reviews & interviews (magazine is on hiatus)
- Neo-opsis => stories, articles, opinion & art -- a quarterly print magazine
- On Spec => more than just science fiction -- a quarterly print magazine
Databases & Lists of Books
- Broad Universe => promoting science fiction, fantasy & horror written by women
- The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction => from John Clute, David Langford, Peter Nicholls et al
- Fantastic Fiction Bibliographies => over 20 000 bibliographies of SF, F & H authors
- Feminist Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Utopia => lots of resources for feminist SF
- Free Speculative Fiction Online => links to stories online, including ones nominated for awards
- Great Science Fiction & Fantasy Works => a critical list with discussions
- Homeville: Bibliographic Resources by William G. Contento => index to stories, collections & anthologies
- The Internet Speculative Fiction Database => authors, books, stories, magazines, awards, publishers
- Science Fiction Awards Database => nominees and winners, search by name or award
- Sci-Fi Lists => a statistically compiled list of the best SF & fantasy books, movies, TV shows & short stories
- Speculative Fiction and Future Politics => radical democratic movements & alternative futures
- SF & Fantasy Books Online => links to books, stories, chapters & samples
- Uchronia: The Alternate History List => all about books and stories in the genre of alternate history
Studying SF & Fantasy
Buying SF & Fantasy
- Bakka-Phoenix => Canada's oldest SF bookstore -- check out the store blog
- Book View Cafe => electronic books & stories, some for free & some for sale
Authors
- Douglas Adams => author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
- Richard Adams => author of Watership Down and Maia
- Isaac Asimov => author of Foundation, The Gods Themselves and The End Of Eternity
- Iain M. Banks => author of Consider Phlebas and Player of Games
- Stephen Baxter => author of Evolution and The Time Ships
- Peter S. Beagle => author of The Last Unicorn and The Innkeeper's Song
- Joanne Bertin => author of The Last Dragonlord and Dragon and Phoenix
- Alfred Bester => author of The Demolished Man and The Stars My Destination
- Margaret Wander Bonanno => author of Strangers From the Sky and Burning Dreams
- Ray Bradbury => author of The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451
- David Brin => author of The Postman and Kiln People
- Orson Scott Card => author of Ender's Game, Seventh Son and Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
- Jeanne Cavelos => author of The Passing of the Techno-Mages: Invoking Darkness and The Passing of the Techno-Mages: Summoning Light
- Jack L. Chalker => author of Midnight at the Well of Souls and Lords of the Middle Dark
- Ted Chiang => author of Stories of Your Life and Others and The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate
- Arthur C. Clarke => author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, The City and the Stars and Childhood's End
- A. C. Crispin => author of Sarek and Starbridge
- Julie E. Czerneda => author of A Thousand Words for Stranger and Beholder's Eye
- Peter David => author of Knight Life and Imzadi
- L. Sprague de Camp => author of Lest Darkness Fall and co-author of The Incompleat Enchanter
- Charles de Lint => author of Someplace to Be Flying and Memory and Dream
- Philip K. Dick => author of The Man in the High Castle, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and UBIK
- J.M. Dillard => author of The Lost Years and Resistance
- Stephen R. Donaldson => author of Lord Foul's Bane and The Mirror of Her Dreams
- Candas Jane Dorsey => author of Black Wine and A Paradigm of Earth
- Diane Duane => author of Spock's World and The Door Into Fire
- Greg Egan => author of Quarantine and Axiomatic
- Suzette Haden Elgin => author of Native Tongue and The Judas Rose
- Harlan Ellison => author of I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream and Deathbird Stories
- John M. Ford => author of How Much For Just the Planet? and The Dragon Waiting
- Michael Jan Friedman => author of Double, Double and A Call to Darkness
- Neil Gaiman => author of Neverwhere and co-author of Good Omens
- James Alan Gardner => author of Expendable and Radiant
- David R. George III => author of Crucible: McCoy -- Provenance of Shadows and Crucible: Spock -- The Fire and the Rose
- David Gerrold => author of The Man Who Folded Himself and A Matter For Men
- William Gibson => author of Neuromancer and Pattern Recognition
- Ken Grimwood => author of Replay
- Joe Haldeman => author of The Accidental Time Machine and Old Twentieth
- Barbara Hambly => author of Dragonsbane, The Ladies of Mandrigyn and The Silent Tower
- Frank Herbert => author of Dune and co-author of The Jesus Incident
- Robin Hobb => author of Assassin's Apprentice and Ship of Magic
- Aldous Huxley => author of Brave New World
- Guy Gavriel Kay => author of Tigana, A Song For Arbonne, and Sailing to Sarantium
- J. Gregory Keyes => author of Deadly Relations: Bester Ascendant and Final Reckoning: The Fate of Bester
- Ursula K. Le Guin => author of The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed and A Wizard of Earthsea
- Karin Lowachee => author of Warchild and Burndive
- David Mack => author of Destiny: Gods of Night and Destiny: Mere Mortals
- Scott Mackay => author of The Meek and Orbis
- Gregory Maguire => author of Wicked and Confessions of a Wicked Stepsister
- George R.R. Martin => author of A Game of Thrones and Fevre Dream
- Jack McDevitt => author of Ancient Shores and Time Travelers Never Die
- Will McIntosh => author of Soft Apocalypse and Hitchers
- Vonda N. McIntyre => author of Dreamsnake and Starfarers
- Yves Meynard => author of The Book of Knights
- Walter M. Miller, Jr. => author of A Canticle for Leibowitz and Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman
- Jim Munroe => author of Flyboy Action Figure Comes With Gasmask and Angry Young Spaceman
- Audrey Niffenegger => author of The Time Traveler's Wife
- George Orwell => author of 1984 and Animal Farm
- Tim Powers => author of The Anubis Gates and Last Call
- Terry Pratchett => author of The Color of Magic and co-author of Good Omens
- Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens => authors of Prime Directive and Memory Prime
- Alastair Reynolds => author of Revelation Space and House of Suns
- Anne Rice => author of Interview With the Vampire and The Witching Hour
- Kim Stanley Robinson => author of The Wild Shore and 2312
- Eric Frank Russell => author of Next of Kin and The Great Explosion
- Sean Russell => author of The Initiate Brother and Gatherer of Clouds
- Robert J. Sawyer => author of Golden Fleece, Starplex and Hominids
- John Scalzi => author of Old Man's War and The Android's Dream
- Karl Schroeder => author of Ventus and Permanence
- Josepha Sherman => co-author of Vulcan's Forge and Vulcan's Heart
- Susan Shwartz => co-author of Vulcan's Soul: Exodus and Vulcan's Soul: Exiles
- Clifford D. Simak => author of City and Way Station
- Dan Simmons => author of Hyperion and Endymion
- Joan Slonczewski => author of A Door Into Ocean and Brain Plague
- Neal Stephenson => author of Snow Crash, The Diamond Age and Cryptonomicon
- Sean Stewart => author of Nobody's Son and Clouds End
- J.R.R. Tolkien => author of The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring
- Vernor Vinge => author of A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky
- Kurt Vonnegut => author of Slaughterhouse-Five and Cat's Cradle
- Jo Walton => author of Tooth and Claw and Among Others
- Peter Watts => author of Starfish and Blindsight
- Edward Willett => author of Lost in Translation and Marseguro
- Connie Willis => author of Passage and To Say Nothing of the Dog
- Robert Charles Wilson => author of The Harvest, Darwinia and Spin
- Sarah Zettel => author of Reclamation and A Sorceror's Treason
TV & Movies
Star Trek
Small Screen
- The Abyss: Jeremiah => Jeremiah is J. Michael Straczynski's show about a post-apocalyptic world
- Battlestar Galactica Wiki => Ronald D. Moore's re-imagined version of Battlestar Galactica was brilliant right from the beginning
- Buffyverse Wiki => Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel contain strong characters and witty dialogue
- Fringe Wiki => J. J. Abrams' show about a team investigating "fringe science" cases and dealing with a parallel universe
- Can't get enough Futurama => Futurama is Matt Groening's animated show about a delivery boy who wakes up 1000 years in the future
- The Firefly and Serenity Database => Firefly is Joss Whedon's show about the adventures of a starship crew on their jobs, legal or otherwise
- Lostpedia => Lost is an amazing 6-season show about a group of people whose plane crashed on an island
- The Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5 => J. Michael Straczynski planned the entire 5-year story arc of Babylon 5 ahead of time
- X-Files Wiki => Chris Carter's The X-Files is about 2 FBI agents who investigate paranormal cases
Big Screen
- The 10 Most Prophetic Sci-Fi Movies Ever => the most eerily predictive, prescient films of the future
- 2001: A Space Odyssey Internet Resource Archive => what does it all mean?
- Bucephalus' Comprehensive Guide to 12 Monkeys => between sanity and madness, fantasy and reality
- The Forbidden Zone => all about the Planet of the Apes movies, TV shows, books & more
- Fritz Lang's Metropolis => even though this silent movie was made in 1927, it's still amazing today
- Off-World: The Blade Runner Wiki => all about Blade Runner, one of the best SF films ever made
- Temporal Anomalies in Time Travel Movies => Back to the Future, Star Trek, Planet of the Apes...
- Terry Gilliam's Brazil => screenplay, images, and FAQ about this stupendous movie
Reading & Writing
Literature
General
Books Online
Authors
Language
Writing
General
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Markets
Reviews
- Best SF => reviews of stories from the big magazines, summaries of stories, links to stories
- The Internet Review of Science Fiction => articles, essays, interviews, reviews & criticism (no longer updated)
- SFReader => reviews, fiction, interviews, articles
- SFRevu => reviews of books & movies, interviews, info about the latest releases & what's upcoming
- Tangent => reviews of SF & F short fiction -- magazines, webzines, anthologies & collections
Arts
Music
Movies
- John Barry => composer of Goldfinger and Dances With Wolves
- Elmer Bernstein => composer of The Great Escape and The Magnificent Seven
- Danny Elfman => composer of Batman and The Nightmare Before Christmas
- Michael Giacchino => composer of Star Trek and Up
- Jerry Goldsmith => composer of Planet of the Apes and Star Trek: First Contact
- James Horner => composer of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Apollo 13
- James Newton Howard => composer of Unbreakable and The Village
- Trevor Jones => composer of Labyrinth and Dark City
- Michael Kamen => composer of Brazil and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
- Ennio Morricone => composer of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and The Mission
- Thomas Newman => composer of Wall-E and The Shawshank Redemption
- John Powell => composer of How to Train Your Dragon and The Italian Job
- Howard Shore => composer of Ed Wood and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
- Alan Silvestri => composer of Back to the Future and The Delta Force
- John Williams => composer of Star Wars and Jurassic Park
- Hans Zimmer => composer of Gladiator and Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man's Chest
Popular
- Lily Allen => singer of "Knock 'Em Out" and "Smile"
- The Arrogant Worms => singers of "The Last Saskatchewan Pirate" and "Let There Be Guns"
- Garfunkel & Oates => singers of "Pregnant Women Are Smug" and "This Party Took a Turn for the Douche"
- Billy Joel => singer of "Piano Man" and "The River of Dreams"
- Huey Lewis & the News => singers of "I Want a New Drug" and "Hip To Be Square"
- Moxy Früvous => singers of "King of Spain" and "You Will Go To the Moon"
- The Nylons => singers of "Hey Girl" and "Kiss Him Goodbye"
Movies
Museums & Galleries
Museums
Photos
- ARKive => images of life on Earth
- Earth As Art => view the Earth through the eyes of the Landsat-7 satellite
- FindNature.com => astronomy, birds, flowers, landscapes, wild animals...
Artwork
Great Apes (Chimpanzees, Gorillas, Humans & Orangutans)
General
Communication with Apes and Other Animals
Lists of Primate Sites
Science
General
Space
Skeptical Inquiry
Around the World
Making the World a Better Place
General
Lists of Nonprofit Organizations
- Change.org => raises awareness about important causes & empowers people to take action with leading nonprofits
- Charity Intelligence Canada => profiles of charities including impact, salary levels, and cost efficiency
- Charity Navigator => evaluates the financial health of over 5000 charities
- idealist.org => searchable list of nonprofit and community organizations
- Volunteer Canada => leads the advancement of volunteerism in strengthening society & improving quality of life
- World Community Grid => contribute your unused computer time to tackle projects that benefit humanity
Environmental Issues
- Alternatives => news & analysis on environmental thought, policy & action -- a quarterly print magazine
- Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society => protecting large, connected areas of Canada's wilderness
- Cape Farewell => an artistic response to climate change
- Climate Crisis => information on the film An Inconvenient Truth, the science behind it & taking action
- Commuter Challenge => walk, cycle, take transit, carpool or tele-work
- The David Suzuki Foundation => environmental science and education -- finding solutions
- Earth911 => more ideas, less waste
- Earth Hour => turn off your lights for one hour, and deliver a powerful message
- Earth Island => conservation, preservation, and restoration of the environment
- Earthwatch International => involve people from all walks of life directly in global field research
- EnviroLink => access to thousands of online environmental resources
- The Environment Directory => links to thousands of sites from over 100 countries
- Environmental News Network => news, features, marketplace...
- First Earth => building healthy houses out of the earth
- Freecycle => give away stuff you don't want, and get stuff for free
- Garbage => how can your community reduce waste?
- Global Ecovillage Network => communities living lightly on the earth
- GreenBlue => equips business with the science and resources to make products more sustainable
- the green pages.ca => empowering environmental students on the web
- Hyla => recycle your old mobile phone, pager or PDA
- Natural Life => inspiration and information for reinventing how we live -- also a bimonthly print magazine
- The Nature Conservancy of Canada => working for the direct protection of Canada's biodiversity
- People and Planet => calendar, job listings, volunteer listings, gateways on environmental themes
- Power Up Canada => what's wrong with Canada's response to climate change & what we can do about it
- Rainforest Action Network => protect the rainforests & their inhabitants
- Ridesharing.com => Canada's free car pooling service
- TreeHugger => everything that has a modern aesthetic yet is environmentally responsible
- Wilderness Committee => protecting Canada's biodiversity through strategic research & grassroots public education
- World Wildlife Fund Canada => conserve wildlife & wild places
Spam & Scams
Telemarketing Calls & Email Spam
Scams & Urban Legends
Peace & Justice Issues
Good Places to Buy Things (When You Have to Buy Things)
- Ben & Jerry's => Vermont's finest ice cream & frozen yogurt
- Black Rose Books => non-profit publisher of political, historical, philosophical & environmental books
- The Body Shop => skin & hair care products
- Bridgehead => fairly traded, organic & shade-grown coffees from small-scale farmers
- Bullfrog Power => if you're in Ontario, get your electricity from wind and water
- Earth Friendly Products => quality cleaning products that are safe for your family and the environment
- Etsy => buy and sell all things handmade
- Great Boardgames => there's been a renaissance in board games in the last 20 years
- Mountain Equipment Co-op => quality equipment for mountaineering, rock climbing, hiking...
- Patagonia => clothing for just about every intense outdoor pursuit
- Planet Natural => earth-friendly products for home, lawn & garden
- Real Goods => information & products for sustainable living
- Ten Thousand Villages => fairly traded handicrafts from around the world
Bad Places to Buy Things (Companies to Boycott)
Society
News
- IndependentMedia.ca => a directory of non-corporate journalism
- Project Censored => news stories that have been downplayed, reshaped & obscured by the media
- Regret the Error => media corrections, retractions, apologies, clarifications, and trends regarding accuracy & honesty in the press
- Truthdig => drilling beneath the headlines
Ideas
- Adbusters => counteracting those who would pollute our mental environment -- also a bimonthly print magazine
- disinformation => you are being lied to -- become truly informed by getting the full story
- Global Voices => the world is talking -- are you listening?
- MichaelMoore.com => the writer, producer & director of Bowling For Columbine tells it like it is
- Nader.org => Ralph Nader's books, articles & letters
- The Noam Chomsky Website => books, articles, interviews, talks & debates
- TED => ideas worth spreading -- riveting talks by remarkable people
- Utne Reader => the best of the alternative media -- also a bimonthly print magazine
- World Public Opinion => giving voice to public opinion around the world
Helping Yourself
Education
General
- Alfie Kohn Homepage => author of Beyond Discipline and Punished by Rewards
- Freedom Writers Foundation => promotes acceptance & innovative teaching methods -- see Erin Gruwell's story in the movie Freedom Writers
- MindShift => explores the future of learning in all its dimensions
- MIT OpenCourseWare => free online course materials -- lecture notes, exams & videos
- OneSchoolSystem.org => public and Catholic school systems should be amalgamated in Ontario
- Ron Clark Academy => teaches in innovative, creative & inspiring ways
- Shift Happens => the Did You Know? presentation -- how do we prepare children for the 21st century?
- Sir Ken Robinson => arguing for an education system that nurtures creativity & innovation
- Teaching for Peace => web sources for peace & social justice education
- Trade School => an alternative, self-organized school that runs on barter
Bullying
Native Peoples
Health Issues
Food
Politics
- Evidence for Democracy => strives to ensure that the best available scientific knowledge and evidence is used to inform political decisions
- Fair Vote Canada => would a different voting system be more fair?
- Mo Ibrahim Foundation => nothing is more important for Africa than good governance
- MoveOn.org => American democracy in action -- a network of over 4 million online activists
- PolitiFact => separating fact from fiction in American politics
World Wide Web
Lists of Web Sites
Creating Web Sites
- LinkPopularity.com => find out how many web sites link to your site
- SurveyMonkey.com => enables anyone to create professional online surveys quickly & easily
- UITest.com => validators, checkers, generators & tools for web design & development
Humour
Miscellaneous
- Creative Commons => making things available for free & legal sharing, use, repurposing & remixing
- FiveThirtyEight => accurate statistics about politics, economics, science & life
- The Great Idea Finder => all about inventions & innovations
- The History of Zork => journey into the Great Underground Empire of the text adventure game Zork
- HowStuffWorks => learn how everything works: business, computers, geography, health, history, science...
- International Listening Association => learning more about the impact that listening has on all human activity
- Meetup => find a group or create a group in your area
- Synergetics on the Web => geodesic domes, a geometry of thinking & much more
- The Vestibules => a hilarious comedy trio from Montreal, formerly known as Radio Free Vestibule
- World-Mysteries.com => explore lost civilizations, ancient ruins, sacred writings, unexplained artifacts, & science mysteries
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