"Ever since the first proto-humans managed to attach meaning to some
of their grunts, we have been story-tellers. We at the Last Exit to
Babylon, in the spirit of the first scribes who ever set stylus to clay,
bring to you this archive of our favorite authors. It's fully searchable,
and ever changing as we add more and more links."
[As of Oct 2001, they have a graphical interface with an image map for
author initials A-Z. If you don't have graphics turned on (or don't
have a mouse), you can see if your favorite author is there by using
their search form.]
(Corwin)
[Updated Oct 2001]
"Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Authors, brought to you by the
authors themselves." They offer free Home Pages to SFWA and HWA members.
[444 listings as of Oct 2001]
(Jeffry Dwight)
"The ISFDB contains over 12000 author bibliographies, based on
roughly 10000 novel entries and more than 36000 short fiction entries. It
can display the content listings of more than 3800 magazines (with
complete runs of Asimov's, Analog, Interzone, Science Fiction Age, and
many others), has an extensive list of forthcoming books, nearly 15000
award entries (including the Aurora, British Fantasy Awards, Campell,
Clarke, Hugos, Lambda, Locus Poll, Mythopoeic, Nebulas, P. K. Dick,
Prometheus, SFBC, SF Chronicle, Tiptree, Hall of Fame, HOMer, and WFA
awards), and has a series of top 100 lists based on award information."
(Al von Ruff)
Interviews by Jon Courtenay Grimwood with Douglas Coupland, William
Gibson, Neal Stephenson, Gentry Lee, and Ed Regis. [That darned
animated rainbow line on his index page keeps getting in the way of my
download, but the interviews themselves are animation-free.] Nice
reading; they were originally published in UK newspapers.
(Jon Courtenay Grimwood)
Don't ask me why Cyberpunk is a separate category from science
fiction - you'll just have to check both lists. Most of the content for a
particular author consists of bibliographies, with (other reviewers') reviews
of the books, and links to related sites. All they need now is a search
engine to look up authors so you don't have to guess which category they
might be in...
(H.W. Targowski)
The page has a lot of author links. You can't easily tell which fan
page is which (no descriptions given), but at least the fan pages are
separated from the authors' own. (I don't know what definition they use,
though; they list
Tad Williams (tadwilliams.com) as a Tribute
Page, but
Emma Bull (player.org)
as an Author Page.)
While
I don't agree with having 27 different
little graphics just to use
as A-Z links, the page has a lot to offer. If you're impatient, turn off
graphics; the page is chockfull of content, and worth a visit.
(John O'Neill)