Note that this page is only sporadically maintained: some links may be out of date.

Books and Fun Stuff:

• a P.C.Hodgell page, and another
• the Liaden Universe (Korval) page
• The new site of Diane Duane
• To search for new or used books:   BookFinder.com   AbeBooks.com   AddAll   Alibris   Powells
• Amazon books (amazon.com), the giant online bookstore (with used book search service); see also its British division (amazon.co.uk) which used to be Bookpages (new books only), and its Canadian division (amazon.ca)
• Barnes and Noble bookstore page
• bookstores: ChaptersGLOBE, and Canadian stores Chapters and Indigo
• HSF/Flights of Fantasy bookstore in Santa Monica; Future Fantasy Bookstore in Palo Alto; CLOSED: House of Speculative Fiction (Ottawa); Tor Books (SF and Fantasy), with pointers to other SF stuff; Del Rey Books (SF and Fantasy), with pointers to other SF stuff; InterZone and their Books page; some authors
• Tachyon Publications, a small press with some SF titles
• The Write Page listings of several authors (various genres) and their book releases; see also the SFF.NET page
• in the U.S. is FolkWeb (folk music) and the California Traditional Music Society (also referred to here); see also the Random Factors Catalog
• the Toronto Ad Astra Literary Society (for the Ad Astra conventions)
• the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society; note also the S.F. Conventions Webring site
• the Melbourne SF Club; also, SF and Aussiecon Three
• the Victorian Arts Centre in Melbourne
• Urban Legends reference pages
• jokes and quotes at Stanford
• CyberSight (previously CyberNet) has various peculiarities
• The WraithSpace Comix Page; Tool User Comics, with samples; NetComics Weekly (Finland); Alternative Comics on the WWW, with pointers; Snaps page; Cafe Angst and Where the Buffalo Roam; and P.S.Mueller's Cartoon of the Day with one-week archive
• United Media has lots of comic strips
• Doctor Fun: The iBIBLIO Dr. Fun page used to be at UNC, previously at SunSITE
• The netoid 'zine HotWired; see also Wired Magazine
• The (Art)^n Digital Picture Gallery home page; the Peoria Art Guild Exhibit home page
• NASA-JSC Digital Image Collection
• Art Gallery home page (slow) and text gallery listing at the U. of Bordeaux, no longer seems to exist
• the U. North Carolina mirror, the California mirror, and the Australian mirror of the Paris WebMuseum

Reference Material

• The Principia Cybernetica Web, whose aim is the computer-supported collaborative development of an evolutionary-systemic philosophy
• world-wide web: at CERN
• Cryptography, PGP, and Your Privacy (in the U.S.)

News facilities:

• Academe This Week has summaries of articles in the Chronicle of Higher Education; also job lists, events, and deadlines
• Global Network Navigator (GNN) home page (see also above), with the GNN News page
• CNN home page, and text-only version; see also Yahoo (Headlines button)
• Gophers: Voice of America; the Community News Service