External Science Fiction Resources
This page is not meant to be a general archive (though we list a couple of those, and they're really good places for general searches.) Other than those, we keep links to some categories that we feel like singling out, mostly ones more directly related to MITSFS.
Unlike most web sites, we have no urge to be linked to, so we're probably not interested in link-trading offers. If your site is particularly relevant to MITSFS, not just random SF, we may link to it, but really we prefer to leave the generic stuff to these generic sites we're about to list:
Useful General SF Websites
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database lists of SF stories and novels by author or by awards won, lists of forthcoming and recently-out books, one of the most comprehensive science fiction databases
- FanData fandom directory
- Good Reads
- Locus Index to SF
- Galactic Central a good reference for SF magazine covers and publication histories
Other Science Fiction Libraries, Collections, and Museums
- Eaton Collection of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Utopian Literature at the University of California-Riverside
- Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation, and Fantasy at the Toronto Public Library
- Bud Foote Science Fiction Collection at Georgia Tech
- Paskow Science Fiction Collection at Temple University
- M. Horvat Collection of Science Fiction Fanzines at the University of Iowa
- Science Fiction Hall of Fame in the Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle, Washington
A Few SF Groups
Generally other college groups plus a couple others that we have particular relationships with. See some of the archives above for much fuller lists.
(Non-SF but maybe-related-to-MITSFS groups are listed here.)
- NESFA (New England SF Association)
- SFWA (SF Writers of America)
- HRSFA (Harvard-Radcliffe SF Association)
- U of Mich F & SF
- Smith Science Fiction and Fantasy Society
- Science Fiction Forum of the State University of New York at Stony Brook
- Baltimore Science Fiction Society
- Columbia University Science Fiction Society
MITSFS People Who've Turned Pro
- Geoffrey Landis (science fiction, science)
- George Phillies (science fiction, Libertarian philosophy)
- Richard Pini (Elfquest)
- Alexei and Cory Panshin (science fiction)
MITSFS-Related Publishers and Stores
- New England Mobile Book Fair (Newton Highlands, MA) used to supply most of our hardcovers.
- NESFA Press, the publishing pseudopod of NESFA, is a respected non-profit small press in SF.
- MITSFS President & Skinner '66 Mike Ward publishes e-books at Hidden Knowledge.
- MITSFS President & Skinner '84 Tim Huckelbery operates the mind-control lasers for the Games Workshop; they do tabletop wargaming (miniatures) and their Black Library arm publishes related fiction.
Addresses of other SF-type documents will be gladly received by mitsfs@mit.edu. As noted up top, we don't even attempt to link to everything of SF interest; that's what those archive links are for. But we'll link to particularly MITSFS-relevant things.