~ Early Web Links ~

Hochelaga Depicta is Matthew David Surridge's blog dedicated to science fiction and fantasy literature, featuring reviews, commentary, and links to great SF&F writing across the web. The post highlighted focuses on curating notable fantasy writing that Surridge considers part of an underground tradition distinct from mainstream modernism.

corru.observer is an immersive interactive fiction and alternate reality experience built around a fictional universe involving neural implants, mindspikes, and dystopian data management systems. Visitors navigate a deeply atmospheric interface layered with fictional corporate branding, settings menus, and ominous warnings that blur the line between website and in-world terminal.

The Locus Index to Science Fiction for 1999 is a comprehensive bibliographic reference compiled by Charles N. Brown and William G. Contento, cataloging SF and fantasy books, stories, magazines, and anthologies published that year. Visitors can browse by author, title, series, cover artist, and publisher, or search across the full index, making it an invaluable research tool for genre enthusiasts and scholars alike.

Daybreak is a fanlisting and dedication to Legolas, the elven archer from J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, created by Andrea and listed at The Fanlistings Network under Characters: Book/Movie. Visitors can join as fans, grab link-back codes, and explore the site's affectionate focus on this mysterious and beloved Fellowship member.

FTL Design's Fantastic Films hub celebrates 100 years of science fiction, fantasy, and horror cinema, serving as a gateway to several related projects and resources. Visitors can explore links to the Festival of Fantastic Films held annually in Manchester, a tribute site for Harry Nadler, actress Janina Faye's page, and Widescreen Movies magazine.

dark_info is a sparse personal hub where the creator shares random thoughts, ideas, and writings with a focus on sci-fi and 'schizo posting' style content. It includes PGP keys, a GitHub link, and a webring, giving it the feel of a privacy-conscious old-web personal corner.

A specialized online calculator for the giantess fantasy genre that converts a woman's real-world measurements into scaled-up giantess proportions, outputting everything from height in miles to how small a 6-foot man would appear. Created originally by Byl and updated by AbsentStar, it even includes celestial reference points like the Moon, Earth, and Sun for truly astronomical size comparisons.

Tangent Online has been the genre's premiere review magazine for short science fiction and fantasy since 1993, offering recommended reading lists, editorials, interviews, and reviews of SF/F magazines and publications. The site covers a wide range of content including classic pulp magazines, old-time radio, and in-depth commentary on the state of the SF/F publishing world.

A collaborative worldbuilding wiki for 'analognowhere', a sprawling original science fiction universe featuring a dystopian future where MATACORP, a corporate technocracy, emerged victorious from the World-Corp-War. The wiki details fictional nations, characters, companies, and technologies in a richly imagined post-collapse setting with dark satirical undertones about corporate power.

Abyss & Apex is a Hugo-nominated quarterly magazine of speculative fiction featuring original short stories, flash fiction, poetry, and small press book reviews from a wide range of authors. Each issue showcases a diverse lineup of science fiction and fantasy works, making it a rich destination for fans of imaginative literature.