Raja's SF Project

In a little while, this will have links to (and an explanation of) my grand Science Fiction project. For now, I just have links to some very useful resources:

• The Internet Speculative Fiction DataBase has an amazing amount of information about SF books, authors, and stories. It is a great place for locating awards and short stories. Like the Internet Movie Database, it's built from user submissions. (So there *are* some inaccuracies.)
• My favorite SF index is William Contento's Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections, combined edition. It's a definitive and darn-near exhaustive index of all SF anthologies and collections published before 1984. There's also a link to the joint Contento-Locus project that updates it to 1997(!). If you want to locate a story or (after 1983) a book, check here first!
• The Science Fiction Resource Guide is the single best place I've found for locating author homepages and bibliographies.
• You can no longer telnet to IUCAT. Instead, you should use the new WWW-based interface for IUCAT. IMHO, it's even worse than the telnet interface was, but maybe that's just me. In any case, IUCAT is Indiana University's pretty extensive online catalog. It isn't comprehensive -- in particular, it's missing a lot of older books and rare books -- but it's very helpful.
• For other IU-Library-related information (hours, locations, renewals by e-mail), check out the IUB Libraries Home Page.
• You can also search the Monroe County Public Library's catalog, and find other MCPL info.
• I'm a (minor) member of the Yahoogroups Hard SF group, which has discussed many books.
• The Online Books Page is an excellent way to find zero-cost eBooks online. Among other things, it's a superior way to search Project Gutenberg.

From here, you can also go to the Science Fiction Discussion Group site.