Authors of speculative fiction:

PHILIP K DICK

His influence continues to extend…

http://WWW.philipkdick.com/ (A great site, and offers "hotmail" type mail facilIties too.

http://www.ipsdata.com/pkd/ unofficial site, good links

http://www.kki.net.pl/gregory/PKDLNKE.HTM more links (and a Polish version too!)

http://jamiro.mtx.net/pkd/pkd.html another good unofficial site

STANISLAW LEM

Ok, he doesn't do women characters well, but as a visionary of cybersociety (and critic of SF) he is essential

http://www.lem.pl/ official web site

http://world.std.com/~mmcirvin/vitrifax.html many good links

ITALO CALVINO

I particularly like "If on a Winter's Night", but the "Our Ancestors" collection makes an easy introduction.

http://www.emory.edu/EDUCATION/mfp/cal.html excellent introduction

http://www.msu.edu/~comertod/Calvino.htm another one

JONATHAN CARROLL

The most restrained fantasist, and a must for lovers of Vienna:

http://www.jonathancarroll.com/ good official site

http://www.pdi.net/~eristic/carroll/jc_main.html MA thesis on his work

http://www.pdi.net/~eristic/carroll/carroll.html site by the author of the above thesis

JOANNA RUSS

also brilliant nonfiction ~ lets find more on her!!

http://www.anotherscene.com/outthere/russlnk.htm good links

SAMUEL R DELANY

Unique - and a brilliant lit crit as well as novellist

http://www.pcc.com/~jay/delany/welcome.html excellent starting place

GENE WOLFE

Some of his novels let you down at the end, short stories are patchy, but the "New Sun", "Long Sun" and "Soldier" series are IMHO masterpieces - and the novel "Peace" is severely underrated

http://www.urth.org/~gac/Wolfe/ good start

http://world.std.com/~pduggan/wolfe.html anothjer good start, and ilustrated

http://www.multimania.com/lemonon/Teur/teur.html francais

JAMES TIPTREE JR (ROCANNA SHELDON)

Short stories are her forte, the novels have poor characterisation… Notable how her life and death are reflected in her work...

http://www.mtsu.edu/~dlavery/Tiptree/ best starting place

http://members.tripod.com/templetongate/tiptree.htm bio, picture

http://www.tiptree.org/ Tiptree award site

MORE TO COME, including Iain (M) Banks, John Crowley, cyberpunks, possibly my essays on SF...

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