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Now that I’m well on my way to watching the Top 250 movies on IMDb, I’m slowly turned my attention to fiction. My interest is mainly in the Fantasy & Science Fiction area. Unfortunately, I don’t know of any list like the IMDb Top 250, but there are a few awards that could take the place of the Oscars for books. That’s probably a good place to start. The most popular awards in Science Fiction are the Hugo award and Nebula award, followed by the Philip K Dick award, John W. Campbell award, Arthur C Clarke award and other awards. I collated a list of all the awards (from LocusMag) into the spreadsheet below ...

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A Review of Contemporary Science Fiction at kuro5hin. Of the authors mentioned, Orson Scott Card is the only one I’ve read. Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon looks interesting, though.

Relative sizes of spaceships. via Mala

Asimov’s Foundation was translated into Arabic. Title: Al-Qaeda. The Guardian explores the link between Asimov and bin Laden.

Incidentally, the full-text of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is available. (Note: you can’t click the links on the site. You’ll have to modify the URLs a bit.) More hitchhiking to keep you busy.

Ender’s Game is a pretty good book.

Encyclopaedia Galactica. For Asimov fans.

A review of Spielberg’s A.I. with lots of spoilers.

Free online science fiction at the Baen Library.

Deckard was a replicant! The movie BladeRunner starring Harrison Ford raised a controversy. Read the script if you like. Was he an android? The author says he was.