A Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Club, meeting monthly at Barnes & Noble at Patton Creek, Hoover AL
Authors
Blogs
Conventions
Film/TV
Literary
Publishers
News
Resources
Science
Space
Authors
- Jaxbooks -- The website
of author and USF biologist Chris Jackson. He thinks physicists
are mechanics.
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Archangel Press -- The website of author and nuclear physicist M. Keaton, who considers biology an art, not a science.
Conventions
- Con*stellation.org -- Annual SF/F convention in Hunstville, Alabama, held in the fall, usually October.
- ImagiCon --
Annual SF/F convention formerly in Birmingham, Alabama.usually
in the spring.
- DragonCon.org -- Annual
SF/F convention in Atlanta, Georgia. One of the largest and
most popular in the U.S and held on or near Labor Day weekend.
- Mobicon -- Annual SF/F
convention in Mobile, Alabama, held in May.
Films
& Television
Babylon
5
- The Lurker's
Guide to Babylon 5 -- One of the oldest B5 sites around.
Though not updated much since the last season, it still serves
as an excellent resource for those just discovering the show.
- Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers -- Another good fan site dedicated to the B5 universe.
- Lord Of The Rings
-- The official web site for the film trilogy. Lots of cool
downloads and behind the scenes information.
- TheOneRing.net -- Looking for inside information on The Lord of the Rings films? It's here at the best fan-site for the trilogy.
- Official Stargate SG-1
-- Site by MGM.
- Gateworld -- The one of the premiere sites for all things Stargate SG-1.
- Richard Dean Anderson's
homepage -- Has some very detailed info on Stargate, glyphs
and gate addresses for example.
Star Trek
- Star Trek -- Paramount's official site
- TrekToday -- A pretty good site for news on the current series
- TrekWeb.COM -- Another good site for Star Trek news.
- Guide to the Animated Star Trek -- An excellent resource for those interested in the animated series. Has a lot of informative background information.
- Star Trek Animated -- The other great TAS site. Has a lot of images and media created by the owner as well as new comics based on the series.
- USS Hephaestus - STARFLEET 1998 Chapter of the Year : This ship docks at the Hoover B&N on the first Monday of every month. Check them out.
Star
Wars
- Star Wars: The Official Web Site -- Jump through cyberspace to check out what George Lucas is doing. Be careful--Surfin' the web ain't like dustin' crops.
-
TheForce.net -- The premiere site for Star Wars news and notes.
Literary
- Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers' of America Site Index
- The SF Site: The Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy -- Book news and reviews plus links to SF/F magazines, author, and fan tribute sites.
- SFBookcase.com
- Locus Online -- Perhaps the premiere news magazine for the SF/F field. The site has listings for upcoming books, cons, and a great links page.
- Fantastic Fiction Bibliographies
- SPACELIGHT: Science Fiction & Fantasy Biographical Data -- Your favorite author not had a book out recently? There might be a good reason. Check out this site of SF/F obituaries.
- Publishers
- Baen Books
- Pyr
- Tor
Science
- LesJohnsonauthor.com
-- One time head of NASA's interstellar propulsion office, author
of popular science books, and good SETI panel pinch hitter.
-
DocTravis.coms -- Dr. Travis Taylor's website. Regular at cons, he knows a guy who wrote a book about that...
Other
- Ain't It Cool News -- Perhaps the most (in)famous of the Web movie sites. There's often some good information here if you can sort it from the noise.
- Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda -- The home page of the latest series from the notes of Star Trek 's creator and starring Kevin ("Hercules") Sorbo.
- BANZAI-INSTITUTE
-- "Yeah, yeah, everybody 'need' see Buckaroo Banzai." Wherever
you go, just make certain it's here at least once.
- BattlestarGalactica.com: Home -- Fleeing Cylon tyranny? Check out Richard Hatch's Galactica site. It's as good a place as any to start searching for the lost thirteenth colony, that shining planet known as "Earth".
- BSG2003 -- Here's a site for the reimagined G2003. Starbuck a woman? Boomer too? Get me an amgrosia. And leave the bottle.
- Box Office Mojo Movie Report -- How's that latest SF epic doing? This site has daily and weekly box office breakdowns. Pretty cool.
- Cinescape - Home
- Dark Horizons
- Big Finish - Doctor
Who -- Licensed by the BBC, this company produces all new audio
adventures for the Doctors.
- Outpost Gallifrey -- Another site dedicated to Doctor Who, the longest continously running science fiction series.
- Farscape -- Jim Henson Studios' great and funny show. Starburst over and see why. Cancelled by SciFi for Tremors. Will the horror ever end?
- WatchFarscape -- Good fan site for info on the revival miniseries.
- Firefly -- Fan site for the short-lived space western by Joss Whedon.
- THE UNOFFICIAL FORBIDDEN PLANET MOVIE HOME PAGE -- "Prepare your minds for a new scale of physical scientific values" -- Dr. Morbius
- IGN FilmForce - Your Daily Dose of Movie News
- Quark -- If you remember this... man, are you old! But you had a kick watching this quirky show.
- Questarian.com -- Never Give up! Never Surrender! Check out the episode guide.
- SCIFI.COM Home page of the
SciFi Channel or SyFy ro whatever they're calling themselves this
week.
Web Resources
- Flare
Sci-fi Forums -- A technically oriented site mostly
for Treknical types. A lot of logo and ship designs on display.
-
ULTIMATE SCIENCE FICTION WEB GUIDE -- A nice resource
for links and general SF/F information.
- Science Fiction.com -- Nice looking, but it seems some of the links don't quite work.