~ Early Web Links ~

DrgnSlyr's Ultimate Star Trek Links Page is a comprehensive fan-curated directory covering all Star Trek series from The Original Series through Enterprise, including the often-overlooked Animated Series. Visitors can browse organized link collections for each series along with cast pages, graphics, and fonts for dedicated Trekkers.

Tuffy's personal hub showcases a mix of side projects including a custom webring script called 'unscr!pted' and an in-progress RPG Maker game called Persona Raider. The creator is a self-described Star Wars fan who participates in the Star Wars Webring and is building their own webring tools from scratch.

Barba Non DB is a personal database cataloging nearly 1,800 books, episodes, fanzines, and other media its creator has read or watched, with a strong emphasis on the Star Trek universe. Visitors can browse by series, tags, characters, and names, or follow recent posts diving into Star Trek book history and reverse engineering XP3 archives.

The Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society (LASFS) is one of the oldest science fiction fan clubs in the world, with a clubhouse in Reseda where members gather for weekly meetings, game nights, and special events. The site offers access to their newsletter 'De Profundis', meeting minutes, board rules, and details about their recently opened new clubhouse.

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.

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.

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.

Robin Hanson, an economist at George Mason University, explores the intersection of economics and hard science fiction, critiquing the often unrealistic economic assumptions found in speculative futures about space colonies, nanotechnology, AI, and singularities. The page collects essays and links arguing that professional economists have much to contribute to serious future-studies discourse, with topics ranging from machine intelligence and interstellar colonization to the Doomsday Argument.

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.

Making Light is the long-running blog of Patrick and Teresa Nielsen Hayden, editors at Tor Books, blending commentary on science fiction, politics, culture, and the craft of writing. Contributors share curated links under colorful headings like 'Particles,' 'Sidelights,' and 'Parhelia,' making it a beloved gathering place for the SF literary community.