John W. Campbell Best New Writer Award Eligible Author Web Site
(http://www.sff.net/campbell-awards/)
This site tracks authors who are eligible for the John W. Campbell award for best new writer -- writers whose first publications have occurred within the past two years. The site lists potential eligible authors, lists of their works, the list of past winners, and eligibility rules.
(Wed 26 Aug 98)
Eidolon: SF Online
(http://www.eidolon.net/ezine/)
Eidolon, the Australian fiction magazine, is expanding its website to include a full-fledged webzine, with news and reviews focusing on the Australian SF scene. Coming shortly will be a short fiction columnist, book samples, and more.
(Wed 26 Aug 98)
Spicy Green Iguana
(http://members.aol.com/mhatv/index.html)
With information about and links to over 200 speculative fiction magazines and webzines that publish fiction, this site is designed for fiction writers looking for markets. Many listings include submission guidelines, pay rates, and contact addresses.
(Wed 26 Aug 98)
DNA Publications
(http://www.sfsite.com/dnaweb/home.htm)
SF Site expands its magazine empire (it already hosts Asimov's and Analog) to include several titles now published by DNA Publications: Aboriginal Science Fiction, Absolute Magnitude, Dreams of Decadence, and Weird Tales. Aboriginal's is the fullest site (and it has its own domain name), with back issues, selected features such as book reviews online, and more. The other three are currently represented only by their latest issues linked from the DNA page. Opening paragraphs of stories, nonfiction, and features are provided. Subscription rates for all four magazines are given on this page.
(Tue 21 Jul 98)
The Idea Channel
(http://www.ideachannel.com/)
A nonfiction site containing video and audio conversations with leading scholars. Categories include biology, physics, history, psychology, health/medicine -- and science fiction. The SF page has conversations with Isaac Asimov, Jack Williamson, and Frederik Pohl & Elizabeth Anne Hull. The physics page has a discussion between Gregory Benford and Michael Rose called ''Science, Culture, and the Modern World''.
(Fri 10 Jul 98)
Outside
(http://www.clocktowerfiction.com/Outside/)
C and C Clocktower Fiction's Speculative and Dark Fiction Magazine. A new online magazine that joins Clocktower Fiction's online SF magazine The Haunted Village, Outside pays writers and is free to readers. The first issue includes stories by Jonathan Bond, Jak Koke, and Al Sirois.
(Fri 10 Jul 98)
26 June 1998
Free Truman
(http://www.freetruman.com)
All hit movies have promotional websites these days, but this site created by Paramount for The Truman Show is a little different: a clever parody of a fictitious Truman Liberation Front. (''Say No to Truman on TV!'') The movie's standard promo site is http://www.trumanshow.com/.
DAW
(http://www.dawbooks.com/)
This brand new site includes DAW's monthly newsletter, a searchable catalog of authors and titles, and submissions guidelines. In the next few months look for interviews with DAW authors, sample chapters, a gallery of classic cover images from DAW's history, and the fabled DAW logo list -- the complete list of DAW books by sequence number.
Hellnotes
(http://www.hellnotes.com/)
A new site on the web for Hellnotes, a weekly newsletter about the horror field. The site includes book reviews, movie and TV news, interviews, and columns (samples of the print issues, available on the web for two or three months after publication) and, of course, subscription information.
Megalon Online
(http://www.netium.com.br/fnol/megalon.htm)
Portuguese readers will be interested in this site: ''the most important Brazilian science fiction fanzine'', now in online edition.
WYZIWYG
(WYZIWYG)
A Swedish/English fanzine by Jonas Ahlberg. The current issue, number 9 (all in English), has an interview with Lisa Mason and a review of Kathleen Ann Goonan's Mississippi Blues. Issues are also downloadable in PDF format.
Bibliobytes
(http://www.bb.com/)
This online fiction service has changed its policy: instead of charging readers for books, the books are now free, supported by online advertising. (Authors still get paid.) Available SF titles include Nancy Kress's An Alien Light, Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower, and Spider Robinson's Night of Power -- plus (not SF) Harlan Ellison's Love Ain't Nothin' But Sex Misspelled and both Glass Teat books.
The Pynchon Files
(http://www.pynchonfiles.com/)
More about reclusive author Thomas Pynchon that you probably thought existed.
Pynchon's new introduction to a 1997 UK reissue of Jim Dodge's novel Stone Junction references William Gibson's Virtual Light: details on this page. Also amusing: a Six Degrees of Separation linkage from Pynchon to NYPD Blue's Detective Andy Sipowicz. Much more.
