Fiction

Here are links related to my preferred reading material, science fiction and fantasy: both authors' sites and other references, and organisations catering for fellow sufferers...

Reference Sites

• Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
• Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1993 edition)
• Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDb)
• Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
• Ansible - the UK's leading fan newsletter

Some Favourite Authors

General

• Iain M. Banks
• John Crowley
• Greg Egan
• Mary Gentle (Wikipedia entry)
• Guy Gavriel Kay
• Ursula K. Le Guin
• Ken Macleod
• J. R. R. Tolkien
• Walter Jon Williams

Pre-Tolkien Fantasy Authors

• James Branch Cabell
• Lord Dunsany
• E. R. Eddison
• Hope Mirrlees
• Mervyn Peake
• Austin Tappan Wright

SF Societies

• Cambridge University Science Fiction Society (CUSFS, including Jómsborg the New)
• Cambridge University Doctor Who Society (CUDWS)
• Oxford University Speculative Fiction Group (OUSFG)
• Imperial College SF Society (ICSF)

Tolkien Societies

• The Tolkien Society (UK & worldwide)
• Cambridge Tolkien Society (CTS)
• CTS Foreyule Feast notes (personal copy)
• Taruithorn (Oxford Tolkien Society)

Conventions

• Eastercon
• Recombination (Cambridge, August 2007)

Other

• The Very Secret Diaries... by Cassandra Claire (reader discretion is advised!)
• mollyringwraith's Return of the King parody

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