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Tuesday, 9th March 2010 | Science Fiction Links

Top science fiction news sites

Quality science fiction news sites are hard to come by. Here we've ranked some of best. Science fiction book, movie and TV news.

6. SF Crowsnest

7. Strange Horizons

8. Cinematical SF and Fantasy

10. Revolution SF

11. Scifi Scanner

13. Scifi Squad

14. Big Dumb Object

15. Concatenation

16. Topix SF movie section

19. Locus online

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Definitions of science fiction

What exactly is science fiction? These websites reveal all.

Wikipedia's science fiction definition

SF authors defining science fiction

Answer.com's science fiction definition

Twitter science fiction list

About SF Links

Science Fiction Links provides links to the highest quality science fiction news, information and resource websites. Excellent SF sites that are regularly updated, popular and informative. Links cover movie and book news, online magazines, director and author pages, definitions and popular SF movie and television shows. Think of it as an online directory to everything that's great in the genre.

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Excellent science fiction author sites

Popular science fiction author sites listed alphabetically. A few fantasy authors have slipped in here too.

A

Kevin J. Anderson

B

Michael Blumlein

Lois McMaster Bujold

Edgar Rice Burroughs

C

Orson Scott Card

Jonathan Carroll

Michael Crichton

D

L. Sprague de Camp

Stephen Donaldson

E

F

Philip José Farmer

Raymond E. Feist

G

Jon Courtenay Grimwood

H

Peter F. Hamilton

Robert Heinlein

Robert Holdstock

Robert E. Howard

J

K

Guy Gavriel Kay

L

Ursula K. Le Guin

James Lovegrove

M

George R.R. Martin

Michael Moorcock

Christopher Moore

N

P

Jerry Pournelle

Terry Pratchett

Christopher Priest

R

Patrick Rothfuss

S

Robert J. Sawyer

Robert Sheckley

Robert Silverberg

Michael Marshall Smith

Neal Stephenson

Theodore Sturgeon

Michael Swanwick

T

Harry Turtledove

V

W

Robert Charles Wilson

Top science fiction movies you must watch

Classic science fiction movies you shouldn't miss (if you haven't watched them already). Each link points to the relevant Wikipedia film or director page.

1. Blade Runner | Ridley Scott 1984

2. Gattaca | Andrew Niccol 1997

3. Forbidden Planet | Fred M Wilcox 1956

4. The Matrix | L & A Wachowski 1999

5. Alien | Ridley Scott 1979

6. 2001: A Space Odyssey | Stanley Kubrick 1968

7. Star Wars Trilogy IV-VI | George Lucas 1977-83

8. Dune | David Lynch 1984

9. Aliens | James Cameron1986

10. The Terminator | James Cameron 1984

11. Terminator 2 - Judgement Day |

James Cameron1991

12. The Thing | John Carpenter 1982

13. The Fifth Element | Luc Besson 1997

14. The Fountain | Darren Aronofsky 2004

15. The Day the Earth Stood Still | Robert Wise 1951

16. Twelve Monkeys | Terry Gilliam 1995

17. A Clockwork Orange | Stanley Kubrick 1971

18. Planet of the Apes | Franklin J Schaffner 1968

19. Back to the Future | Robert Zemeckis 1985

20. Close Encounters of the Third Kind |

Steven Spielberg 1977

21. Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan |

Nicholas Meyer 1982

22. Jurassic Park | Steven Spielberg 1993

23. Brazil | Terry Gilliam 1985

24. Dark City | Alex Proyas 1998

25. E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial |

Steven Spielberg 1982

26. Predator | John McTiernan 1987

27. Dr Strangelove | Stanley Kubrick 1964

28. The Time Machine | George Pal 1960

29. Independence Day | Roland Emmerich 1996

30. Total Recall | Paul Verhoeven 1990

31. Stargate | Roland Emmerich 1994

32. Contact | Robert Zemeckis1996

33. The Abyss | James Cameron 1989

34. Minority Report | Steven Spielberg 2002

35. Metropolis | Fritz Lang 1926

36. Donnie Darko | Richard Kelly 2001

37. Serenity | Joss Whedon 2005

38. The War of the Worlds | Byron Haskin 1953

39. Starship Troopers | Paul Verhoeven 1997

40. V for Vendetta | James McTeigue2005

41. Solaris | Andrei Tarkovsky1972

42. Mad Max | George Miller1979

43. Logan's Run | Michael Anderson 1976

44. Star Trek: First Contact | Jonathan Frakes 1996

45. The Andromeda Strain | Robert Wise 1970

46. Invasion of the Body Snatchers | Don Siegel 1956

47. Dark Star | John Carpenter 1974

48. X-Men | Bryan Singer 2000

49. Men in Black | Barry Sonnenfeld 1997

50. Galaxy Quest | Dean Parisot 1999

51. Mad Max 2(The Road Warrior) |

George Miller 1981

52. Star Trek IV - The Voyage Home |

Leonard Nimoy 1986

53. Pitch Black | David Twohy 2000

54. Akira | Katsuhiro Otomo 1987

55. Fahrenheit 451 | Francois Truffaut1966

56. Soylent Green | Richard Fleischer 1973

57. RoboCop | Paul Verhoeven 1987

58. Tron | Steven Lisberger 1982

59. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind |

Michel Gondry 2004

60. A.I. - Artificial Intelligence | Steven Spielberg 2001

62. Silent Running | Douglas Trumbull 1971

63. I, Robot | Alex Proyas 2004

64. THX-1138 | George Lucas 1970

65. Children of Men | Alfonso Cuaron 2006

66. Spider-Man | Sam Raimi 2002

67. The Fly | David Cronenberg 1986

68. Star Trek VI - Undiscovered Country |

Nicholas Meyer 1991

69. Superman | Richard Donner 1978

70. Escape From New York | John Carpenter 1981

71. Equilibrium | Kurt Wimmer 2002

72. Them! - Gordon Douglas 1954

73. The Omega Man | Boris Sagal 1971

74. War of the Worlds | Steven Spielberg 2005

75. Westworld | Michael Crichton 1973

76. Stalker | Andrei Tarkovsky 1979

77. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea |

Richard Fleischer 1954

78. Night Of the Living Dead |

George A Romero 1968

79. Armageddon | Michael Bay 1998

80. The Truman Show | Peter Weir 1998

81. Frankenstein | James Whale 1931

82. Starman | John Carpenter 1984

83. Zardoz | John Boorman 1974

84. The Man Who Fell to Earth | Nicolas Roeg 1976

85. The X-Files | Rob Bowman 1998

86. Invasion of the Body Snatchers |

Philip Kaufman 1978

87. Young Frankenstein | Mel Brooks 1974

88. The Incredible Shrinking Man | Jack Arnold1957

89. When Worlds Collide | Rudolph Mate 1951

90. The Rocky Horror Picture Show |

Jim Sharman 1975

91. This Island Earth | Joseph Newman 1955

92. Batman | Tim Burton 1989

93. Rollerball | Norman Jewison 1975

94. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |

Garth Jennings 2005

95. Pi | Darren Aronofsky 1998

96. Quatermass & the Pit | Roy Ward Baker 1967

97. Spaceballs | Mel Brooks 1987

98. Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai |

W D Richter 1984