Here are a few of my favorite places on the Interwebs:
General Links:
The Literacy
Site (click once per day; advertisers provide books to
children).............
http://www.theliteracysite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=6
Library Thing (information about authors and books)...........................................
http://www.librarything.com/
John Andrew Keith memorial (a tribute to my late brother, by
Paul Sanders)...........
http://freelancetraveller.com/jakeith/jakeith.html
My page on Wikipedia (drum roll,
please).......................................................
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Keith,_Jr.
Science Fiction Links:
PARSEC
(Pittsburgh area F&SF writers' organization)...........................................
http://www.parsec-sff.org/
Confluence (Pittsburgh's SF con, end of July each year).........................................
http://www.parsec-sff.org/confluence/
SF&Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) web site....................................
http://www.sfwa.org/
Fantastic Fiction (a SF/Fantasy site in the UK)...................................................
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/
Locus online (a SF/Fantasy magazine)..............................................................
http://locusmag.com/
SF site dot com ("the Science Fiction & Fantasy site")..........................................
http://www.sfsite.com/
Books 'n' Bytes (Mystery, SF, and Fantasy info).................................................
http://www.booksnbytes.com/
The TARDIS Library (all thing Whovian)........................................................
http://www.timelash.com/tardis/
Dark Expanse MMORPG (Have you captured a
planet today?).............................
http://www.deorc.com/DarkExpanse/main.jsp
Book Retailers:
E-Books dot com
(online e-book store)...........................................................
http://www.ebooks.com/
Fictionwise dot com
(online e-book store).......................................................
http://www.fictionwise.com/
Wayne's Books (lots of old and
out-of-print RPGs and gaming modules).....................
http://www.waynesbooks.net/
Amazon (US)............................................................................................
http://www.amazon.com/
Barnes & Noble........................................................................................
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/
Borders.....................................................................................................
http://www.borders.com/
(left here as a memorial to the many, MANY good hours I spent in
this fine store.)
Half Price Books.......................................................................................
http://www.hpb.com/
Writers' Resources:
Preditors &
Editors [sic] (publishers, agents, & editors, rated by
writers)..................
http://pred-ed.com/
ISBN Tools (book search, and info on ISBNs).....................................................
http://isbntools.com/
Writer's Digest (publishers of the annual Writers' Guide
series).................................
http://www.writersdigest.com/GeneralMenu/
SF Plot Generators:................................................................................
http://www.warpcoresf.co.uk/fantasyplot.php
Aliens:
Alien Species Wiki......................................................................................
http://aliens.wikia.com/wiki/Alien_Species_Wiki
Maar
Aliens................................................................................................
http://www.maar.us/alien_species.html
Monstrous
Aliens........................................................................................
http://aliens.monstrous.com/alien_species.htm
(link reported broken 2/2015; still leads to Monstrous dot com site,
but you're on your own from there)
Cosmic
Species..........................................................................................
http://www.ufos-aliens.co.uk/cosmicspecies.htm
Rense
Aliens...............................................................................................
http://www.rense.com/general41/extra.htm
World Building:
Sol Station.................................................................................................
http://www.solstation.com/
Project
Rho................................................................................................
http://www.projectrho.com/starmap.html
Hard SF calculations:
Project
Rho...............................................................................................
http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/
Calculation
Tool........................................................................................
http://www.calctool.org/CALC/
.....centrifugal
forces..................................................................................
http://www.calctool.org/CALC/phys/newtonian/centrifugal
.....planetary
orbits.....................................................................................
http://www.calctool.org/CALC/phys/astronomy/planet_orbit
.....circular
orbits........................................................................................
http://www.calctool.org/CALC/phys/astronomy/circ_orbit
.....depth and
pressure................................................................................
http://www.calctool.org/CALC/other/games/depth_press
.....earth
orbit.............................................................................................
http://www.calctool.org/CALC/phys/astronomy/earth_orbit
.....escape
velocity.....................................................................................
http://www.calctool.org/CALC/phys/astronomy/escape_velocity
.....gravity..................................................................................................
http://www.calctool.org/CALC/phys/astronomy/gravity
.....magnitude.............................................................................................
http://www.calctool.org/CALC/phys/astronomy/star_magnitude
.....gamma..................................................................................................
http://www.calctool.org/CALC/phys/relativity/gamma
Spin Gravity
Calculator...............................................................................
http://www.artificial-gravity.com/sw/SpinCalc/SpinCalc.htm
Planetary Surface Temperature....................................................................
http://www.astro.indiana.edu/~gsimonel/temperature1.html
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