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The Science Fiction Links

• The Sci-fi Channel This is a pretty decent channel, what with all those awesome new shows and pretty good B-movies (or whatever they're called), plus there's all those marathon runs of good shows. And did I mention movies? Whole lotta of them.... but they tilt somewhat too much to the horror stuff.
• Asciimation Rather neat. He's transferring the Star Wars: A New Hope, to ASCII characters and animating it!! Whoo hoo, but I love this guy - go see him!!! *The site is currently back up, I think*

• The Otherworld series - Tad Williams - Think near-future cyberspace. REALLY like this series.
• Can't forget William Gibson - "Neuromancer", for starters.
• Can't forget Phillip K. Dick either - "Blade Runner" (originally as "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"), "Total Recall" (Originally as "We can remember for you wholesale"), "Impostor", and so on.

- Terry Pratchett's "Discworld" series. Need I say more? Superlative stuff!

- Lewis Carroll's stuff - excellent. Penned "Alice in Wonderland", "Through the Looking Glass", and such.

- Robert Jordan's "Wheel of Time" series, while weighty and drawn-out, is also entertaining.

- "Death of the Necromancer" was also interesting. Been a long time since I last read it, though.

- Good Crahn, why do I keep putting this off? Read "Good Omens" by Terry Pratchett/Neil Gaiman.

There's one link (or two), though, that simply MUST be put here in this literature context. Yes! Project Gutenberg! And perhaps Gallica as well.

- Project Gutenberg - huge public-domain depository of literature. volunteers spend time scanning in and proofreading books to submit into this archive. Landmark accomplishment of the Internet Age, I daresay. Think of "Dante's Inferno", the Latin authors, and Shakespeare in .txt and ebook format, if the enormity of PG's importance hasn't hit you yet.