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BDFI is a comprehensive French-language database indexing science fiction, fantasy, and imaginaire book collections and publishers, organized alphabetically for easy browsal. Collectors and authors are invited to contribute scans, corrections, and anecdotes, making it a collaborative reference for French SF/F publishing history.

Cyberdank.world is a personal creative hub exploring science fiction, gaming, history, art, and technology with a retro space-age aesthetic. The creator shares music on Bandcamp and SoundCloud, maintains a Hebrew-language blog, and openly tracks their sobriety journey alongside webrings and shrines.

Locus Online's weekly new books monitor tracks freshly published science fiction, fantasy, and horror titles spotted in bookstores or received as review copies during the first week of May 2005. Each entry includes publisher details, ISBNs, pricing, format, and brief excerpts, making it a valuable snapshot of the SFFH publishing landscape from that era.

TNG-Picard.com showcases an extraordinary personal collection of over 500 screen-used costumes, props, set pieces, models, matte paintings, and concept artwork from Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Picard. Each item is presented with detailed description cards, screen caps, autograph photographs, and screen-matching photos, making this a remarkable archive for any serious Trek collector or fan.

Jon Bois's landmark experimental fiction piece '17776' imagines a far-future world where immortal NASA probes watch humanity play endlessly inventive games of American football across vast stretches of time. Told through a dialogue between sentient satellites named Nine, Ten, and Juice, this multimedia narrative blends speculative fiction, sports, and avant-garde storytelling in a format that defies traditional categorization.

Ansible is the legendary SF news publication run by David Langford, offering a comprehensive links directory covering science fiction fandom, awards, fanzines, publishers, conventions, and author resources. With hundreds of curated links spanning SF organizations, news blogs, fan funds, and the SF Encyclopedia, it serves as an essential hub for the science fiction community.

Christina Schulman's 'Epiphyte Book Review' is an extensive collection of science fiction book reviews, many originally published in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and various SF newsletters and forums. The site features an alphabetically organized index of dozens of reviewed titles spanning well-known authors like Neil Gaiman, Greg Egan, and Steven Brust, making it a handy reference for SF readers seeking informed recommendations.

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.