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The Linköping Science Fiction & Fantasy Archive

The archive of Science Fiction and Fantasy that currently resides here at Lysator is a collection of texts I have saved from USENET since somewhere about summer 1985. It is mostly reviews and list of different kinds, but also some other stuff that I've found interesting for this or that reason.

The order may not be the best, and early texts may have their header stripped or weirdly transformed (I did not know better then), but I hope these texts may be of some use to you.

Please, feel free to mail me with any opinions you have on this archive, even if it is such small a matter as a typo in these index files. Remember, English is a foreign language to me, and I love any opportunity to improve my grammar and vocabulary.

Mats Öhrman

About the Archive

Only the index into the archive is in hypertext format, as reformatting the many Mbytes in the archive is simply to much work for too little gain. I hope you will overlook this.

I try to update the archive regularly. If it hasn't been updated for some time, blame my Master's Thesis for it. (I still save everything, it simply hasn't been sorted and inserted into this archive yet). The current size and other statistics varies accordingly, of course.

If you think something is missing, please contact me.

Please note: This is an archive of things people has sent to the net or directly to me. Don't blame me for factual errors. Corrections sent to me will be appended to the incorrect file in question. I do not change other people's texts.

Searching

I am currently experimenting with making the archive searchable. Hopefully this will aid you in finding the information you are looking for.

The Main Contents

Authors
The texts collected about authors are mostly bibliographies, lists over what books they have written, but there is also some biographic information, views on their writings as a whole, etc.
Books
The texts about books are almost entirely reviews of some kind. They have been sorted by the authors name. Books with multiple authors are mostly under one of the authors. I have not been that systematical when doing this. Sorry.
Movies
I've not been as diligent in collecting texts about movies as I've been with books, but there are nevertheless some texts here for you to read.

Special Series

Ansible
This is the electronic version of the British newsletter Ansible, published by Dave Langford.
Belated Reviews
Dani Zweig is currently writing a series of reviews of "classical" SF and fantasy works.
Cyberspace Vanguard
Cyberspace Vanguard is an electronic newsletter edited by T. J. Goldstein.
DargonZine
DargonZine is a "Shared World" project, where several people write stories set in a common world, and publish those in an electronic fanzine that is posted to the net.
First Impressions
A monthly reading diary by Glen E. Cox
Jwenn's Bibliographies
John Wenn posted a series of bibliographies to USENET. They are already included in the texts under "Authors" above, but if you want them separately for any reason, they may be found here.
MT Void
The MT Void is a weekly fanzine edited by Mark and Evelyn Leeper.
OtherRealms
OtherRealms is a review fanzine published by Chuq Von Rospach. 30 issues were sent out on the net from 1986, until it went "hardcopy only" in 1991.
Publishers' Newslists
Two major publishers, Del Rey and Tor are posting newslists on Internet; a much appreciated initiative.
Quanta
Quanta is an electronically produced and distributed magazine of science fiction and fantasy, published by Daniel K. Appelquist. It is published both in an ascii and a postscript version. It is the ascii version that is available here.
Raymond's Reviews
Raymond's Reviews was a series of short reviews written between January 90 and April 92 by Eric S. Raymond.
Swedish Fandom
Here you will find texts from and about Swedish SF fans, such as different fanzines in swedish, courtesy of Ahrvid Engholm.

Note: Information about LSFF (The Linköping Science Fiction Association) is kept separately by Tommy Persson, and there is a Blake7 archive kept separately by Calle Dybedahl.

Book Lists and Other Lists

I've also collected some lists that have come over the net during the years.
The A-Z list
is a big, but now more and more outdated, list of sf/fantasy books. It dates from 1985, and I've kept it mostly out of nostalgic reasons: It was the first item I saved from USENET.
The Alternate Histories list
lists books within that subgenre of science fiction.
The Transformations list
describes books that in some way contains transformations of people. The list is maintained by Mark Phaedrus.
The Science and Magic list
contains books that bridges the gap between SF and Fantasy, containing elements from both.
The SF in Music list
list musical works that have SF or Fantasy references of different kinds. It is maintained by Rich Kulawiec.

Fiction

I hope to put together a list of publicly available fiction here. Currently you will find a short story anthology by Charles Stross. Tell me if there is anything you want to add here.

Making SF and Fantasy

Text about creating SF- and Fantasy-related material. It does not matter whether it is about writing, illustrating or editing.

Fan Art

This is intended for sample artwork from SF/Fantasy fan artists/illustrators. Please contact me if you want something added here. For copyright reasons I only accept artwork directly from the artist.
Sample Art
A small exhibition of works by different artists.

What's Out There?

There are of course lots of other places to visit out there on the net. Here are some that are relevant to SF/Fantasy.

The Linköping SF&F Archive / Mats Öhrman / 26 Apr 95