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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.

Kay's site offers carefully crafted SillyTavern presets and AI character bots, with detailed documentation on prompt engineering for frontier LLMs like Claude, Gemini, and Deepseek. The creator brings a professional background in machine learning and data science to the hobby, making these presets unusually well-reasoned and technically grounded.

Fandom.se is a Swedish-language web hub dedicated to science fiction and fantasy fandom in Sweden, providing links to SF clubs, conventions (Swecon), pub meetings, and discussion forums. It serves as a central navigation point for the Nordic SF community, tracing the roots of fandom back to the 1920s pulp magazine letter columns and connecting fans across Swedish cities.

Electric Spec is an online short fiction magazine publishing science fiction, fantasy, and macabre stories across regular quarterly issues, now in its 21st volume. Featuring works from a rotating roster of authors alongside editor columns and a submission portal, it has earned praise from Locus for consistently delivering amusing and terrifying reads.

Christopher Weuve's personal site covers his passions as a naval analyst, wargame designer, and science fiction enthusiast, with sections dedicated to an extensive book library of over 9,000 volumes, naval SF reading lists, and tabletop game design including a Vector Movement System. The site has a strong science fiction flavor throughout, from the Exordium fan page and mailing list to the space travel fiction lists and naval SF recommendations.

The Minnesota Science Fiction Society (MnStF) is a non-profit fan organization founded in 1966, dedicated to celebrating science fiction and fantasy literature through social events, conventions like Minicon and Diversicon, and community outreach. The site serves as a hub for members and newcomers alike, offering meeting schedules, publications like Rune and Einblatt, mailing lists, and information about getting involved in one of the oldest sci-fi fan clubs in the Midwest.

The Science Fiction Awards Database, maintained by Mark R. Kelly and the Locus Science Fiction Foundation, is a comprehensive reference covering every major SF award including the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, and dozens more. Visitors can browse award histories by author name, publication, or award category, making it an invaluable tool for tracking the genre's most celebrated works across decades.

Planet Magazine is an online publication dedicated to science fiction and fantasy, serving readers who want curated SF and fantasy content in a magazine format. Its focused subject matter and dedicated genre coverage make it a notable destination for fans of speculative fiction.

Dark Carnival is a beloved independent bookstore in Berkeley, California specializing in science fiction, fantasy, mystery, and horror titles. The shop is known for its knowledgeable staff, rare and out-of-print books, signed editions, and mail order service.

SFRT has been serving the science fiction, fantasy, and horror communities online since 1986, making it one of the longest-running genre communities on the internet. Writers, readers, and fans gather here to discuss, review, and connect around novels, films, and all things speculative fiction.