~ Early Web Links ~

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.

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.

Curtis Saxton's Star Wars Technical Commentaries is a deep-dive analytical resource dedicated to the science, physics, and technology depicted in the Star Wars universe. Fans of hard sci-fi worldbuilding will find detailed technical breakdowns of ships, weapons, and the internal logic of George Lucas's galaxy.

Darker Matter was a free online science fiction magazine that published five issues in 2007, featuring original short stories from authors like Jerry Oltion, Jason Stoddard, and Will McIntosh alongside book reviews and articles. Now archived, the site preserves all five issues for readers to enjoy, making it a charming time capsule of early web-published speculative fiction.

Emerald City, edited by Cheryl Morgan, is a science fiction and fantasy webzine featuring an extensive curated links page connecting readers to SF news, literary sites, webzines, publishers, fanzines, and fan organizations. The page serves as a carefully selected directory of the SF/F internet landscape, with links ranging from the World Science Fiction Society to indie fanzine reviews, making it a valuable hub for genre enthusiasts.

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.

The Science Fiction Timeline Site catalogs chronological events and timelines drawn from science fiction universes, offering a structured way to explore fictional histories. It serves as a reference resource for fans who want to map out the internal chronologies of their favorite SF settings.

Run by a science fiction enthusiast named Max writing from Japan, SF Reviews offers opinionated, self-described 'biased and superficial' reviews of sci-fi books organized by title, author, artist, and chronology. The site features a newsletter, curated best and worst lists, and a warm personal voice that makes browsing its extensive catalog genuinely enjoyable.

Brian Ameringen's Porcupine Books is a used and rare science fiction, fantasy, and horror book dealership operating since 1998, offering carefully graded and accurately described titles at modest prices. Visitors can browse downloadable lists of hardback novels, anthologies, magazines, young adult, and non-fiction titles, with a strong emphasis on honest condition reporting and customer satisfaction.

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.