Links to Other Cybersites

Science Fiction related sites

• Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA)
• Nebula Awards -- from SFWA, but they have their own page now
• Numerous SF and fantasy resources at SFF-NET
• Tor.com -- a community of SF lovers
• Various connections at Yahoo's SF page
• Science Fiction Resource Guide
• SF Site is a useful SF site
• Home page for the Science Fiction Book Club.
• Tom Corbett, Space Cadet fans: check out Space Academy home page for a walk down nostalgia lane!
• Speaking of walking, take a stroll down Alpha Ralpha Boulevard. (And if you don't recognize the reference, go find yourself a good Cordwainer Smith collection.)
• Internet Speculative Fiction DataBase, an extremely useful bibliographic reference
• NESFA Press
• Ultimate Science Fiction Web Guide
• Locus, an SF newszine and valuable resource; many useful links on their site
• The New York Review of Science Fiction, a literary critical review zine
• Reality Break -- an SF-interview radio show, produced in Portland OR and syndicated in several cities.
• Hour of the Wolf -- an SF radio show in New York.
• Web site for Del Rey Books
• Media in Transition at MIT -- transcripts from their Science Fiction Readings series, including me with Hal Clement
• Cinemarquee has many rooms, including "Cosmo's Science Fiction Cafe"
• SF Lovers Convention List -- a good place to find SF fan conventions
• Science Fiction Crowsnest -- a collection of science fiction news and links
• BookFinder.com -- a way to search many bookstores in one quick step
• Listing of Nebula Awards winners through the years
• Listing of Hugo Awards winners through the years
• Cover artist Jael (my own Dragons in the Stars and many other works)
• ScifiMatter.com -- an SF search site
• Galaxiki -- a fictional galaxy with stars, planets and moons you (as a member) can craft yourself. Let your imagination run! .
• Ebooks direct from authors you know and love:
  • Bookview Café -- a very nice collaborative run by Vonda McIntyre and a growing list of other authors
  • Closed Circle -- a friendly consortium of CJ Cherryh, Lynn Abbey, and Jane Fancher
  • Backlist eBooks (also on Facebook) -- a gathering of traditionally published authors in various genres who are releasing their backlists as ebooks

Links for writers on my Advice to Aspiring Writers page

Space and Astronomy

• Astronomy Picture of the Day -- very cool, and a great link to start your day
• Astronomy Cafe -- lots of good information on, well, astronomy
• BadAstronomy.com -- the place to go for good astronomy, and debunking of a lot of nonsense and misconceptions
• Science Daily Magazine -- for a daily science fix
• StarChild: A learning center for young astronomers -- just what the name says
• Windows to the Universe -- another astronomy learning center
• Dazzling images from the Hubble Space Telescope
• The Planetary Society, in support of planetary science and exploration
• National Space Society, for the latest on human space flight and space habitation
• Students for the Exploration and Development of Space
• Astronomy Magazine
• Sky and Telescope magazine
• Transhuman space page, with a terrific collection of links to other space resources
• CHVIEW star viewer offers a versatile, downloadable program for 3D viewing of our galactic neighborhood, plus star data files and plenty of interesting information on our stellar neighbors.
• Space and Science: An Online Study Guide For Kids info on planets, stars, galaxies, moons, etc. (recommended to me by a science teacher)

Quirky, offbeat, or just plain interesting

• The Museum of Unnatural Mystery Homepage
• My brother, Charles S. Carver, is a psychology professor at the University of Miami, Florida, and coauthor of a leading undergraduate text, Perspectives on Personality. Check out the author and his book!
• The Mind Project, an exploration of artificial personalities from the Philosophy Department at Illinois State University
• The Dilbert Zone and other Dilberty resources
• The Adventures of Too Much Coffee Man
• The Jeff MacNelly Website, home page for SHOE
• Home page for Mother Goose & Grimm
• Frontier Organizations on the Web has many provocative links
• Mind Uploading Home Page, for thoughts on uploading consciousness into machines

For additional links for writers, check my Advice to Aspiring Writers page!