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Editors' Choice

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This section is designed for InterText's editors to pick their favorite
stories out of all the stories we've published over the years.

Since we realize our readers don't have unlimited time, and may not have
the chance to roam through every issue, this is our way of giving readers
of InterText on the Web a chance to hit the highlights.

Vol. 1 (1991) | Vol.
2 (1992) | Vol. 3 (1993) | Vol. 4 (1994) | Vol. 5 (1995)


Best of 1995 (Volume 5)


"Bludemagick" by Jacqueline Carey
(July-August 1995)
Faith and belief are things we learn — no matter how tightly we shut our eyes, reality always shimmers at the edge of our vision.

"Genetic Moonshine" by Jim Cowan
(May-June 1995)
Watson and Crick are separated from Thelonious Monk and Charlie
Parker by an ocean of water and a gulf of culture. Or are they?

"Ghostdancer" by Ridley McIntyre
(September-October 1995)
In a world where a killer clown is the biggest TV star,
those who walk the Earth might be less alive than
beings who exist only in the depths of cyberspace.

"Handlers" by Ceri Jordan
(November-December 1995)
"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite
you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man." — Mark Twain

"River" by G.L. Eikenberry
(January-February 1995)
"So deep, so wide — will you take me on your back for a ride?
If I should fall, would you swallow me deep inside?" --Peter Gabriel, "Washing of the Water"

"Shipping and Handling Extra" by Laurence Simon
(May-June 1995)
Maybe it's a good thing that we usually draw a firm line between
our professional and personal lives; after all, a man's home
is his castle.

"Two Solitudes" by Carl Steadman
(January-February 1995)
The Net can be a fast and direct way to communicate. But it's still
only a connection between separate points and separate realities: it
doesn't make two things the same.


Best of 1994 (Volume 4)


"Bleeding Hearts" by Sung
J. Woo
(January-February 1994)
Good friends support each other in times of need. But as you're comforting
your friends, ask yourself: how well do you really know them?

"Fallen Star, Live-In God"
by Rachel R. Walker
(September-October 1994)
People are attracted to the famous. But that attraction works both
ways--and not always for the best.

"The Gardener" by Jim
Cowan
(September-October 1994)
In the tradition of Cardinal Bellarmine and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin,
here is a tale of a priest caught between doctrine and his relentless pursuit
of truth.

"Home" by Ellen
Brenner
(January-February 1994)
Especially in a small town, people who are at all unusual draw attention
whether they like it or not. And someone who is incredibly different...

"The Loneliness of the Late-Night
Donut Shop" by G.L. Eikenberry
(July-August 1994)
As the Chinese proverb says, be careful about what you wish for —
you may get it.

"Mr. McKenna is Dying" by
Marcus Eubanks
(July-August 1994)
The slice of time that is one person's ordinary day can just as easily
contain the momentous or the tragic.

"Sometimes a Man" by Steve
Conger
(September-October 1994)
Getting close to the natural world is a goal every weekend camper
can understand. But there's a big difference between viewing nature from
the outside and seeing it from within.


Best of 1993 (Volume 3)


"Epicenter" by Jon
Seaman
(May-June 1994)
Sometimes life is a force of habit: eat this, do that, go there.
And sometimes experiences let us see our habits for what they are. But larger
experiences can do the same thing...

"Fructus in Eden" by Bob
Devereaux
(March-April 1993)
In this story, you already know the characters, the setting, and
the way things turn out in the end. But this might be a case where history
was re-written by the victors...

"It's All Things Considered" by
Rod Kessler
(July-August 1994)
Susan Stamberg was the first woman to anchor a national news broadcast,
NPR's All Things Considered. While her new book Talk details
twenty years of her work, we bet you won't find this episode in there...

"Nails of Rust" by Ridley
McIntyre
(July-August 1994)
After we fail at something, it's usually our first instinct to try
and redeem ourselves. For that redemption, we look to our loved ones first.
Perhaps, instead, we should look inside ourselves — no matter what the
dangers.

"Newtopia" by Aaron
Lyon
(November-December 1994)
The dirty, dystopian future of cyberpunk writers is quite popular
now. But if the future ends up looking more like Leave it to Beaver
than Neuromancer, should we consider ourselves lucky or cursed?

"Sanford's Calico" by Andrew
J. Solberg
(November-December 1994)
Pet lovers understand that getting a new animal can be a crapshoot
— you might end up with a great animal, but you might get a dud. Of course,
a dud may not be the worst-case scenario...


Best of 1992 (Volume 2)


"Boy" by Ridley
McIntyre
(March-April 1992)
An ace hacker is called out of retirement.

"Half-Moons and Sunfish" by
John Reoli, Jr.
(January-February 1992)
A black boy, a white boy, two fishing poles, and a river.

"The Naming Game" by Tarl
Roger Kudrick
(March-April 1992)
John Smith decides to see how the other half lives.

"One Person's Junk..." by Warren
Ernst
(July-August 1992)
Is our DNA a blueprint or a medium?

"Seven" by Ridley
McIntyre
(November-December 1992)
The unluckiest number of all.

"To Comprehend the Nectar by Louie
Crew
(January-February 1992)
At Witherspoon, some students are more equal than others.


Best of 1991 (Volume 1)


"Experience Required" by
Robert Hurvitz
(November-December 1991)
How to make a real impression during a job interview.

"The Explosion That Killed Ben Lippencott"
by Greg Knauss
(July-August 1991)
Traditionally, when you're blown to pieces, that's the end of the
story. Not so with Lipp.

"Juliet and the Appliances"
by Christopher Shea
(September-October 1991)
A tale of cooking, eating, and anthromorphic appliances.

"An Ounce of Prevention"
by Michael Ernst
(November-December 1991)
On her first day in the Non-Destructive Evaluations group, Melissa
joins her co-workers in viewing a planned non-explosion.

"Slice of Mind" by Phil
Nolte
(November-December 1991)
They saved Lenin's brain!

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Some Science Fiction Web Resources

http://www.mit.edu:8001/activities/mitsfs/sf-resources.html

link

Some random links to science fiction stuff

This page is not meant to be a general archive --- we list a couple of those
first thing, and they're really good places for general searches. Other
than those, we keep links to some categories that we feel like singling
out (whichever members of those categories we happen to have URLs for, that
is, we don't search).

Archives of SF on the Web

Publishers and Bookstores

See some of the archives for much fuller lists.

A Few Collegiate SF Groups

See some of the archives for much fuller lists.


  • MITSFS

  • (New England
    SF Association) isn't a collegiate group, but they're relatives of MITSFS so
    we'll list them anyway.

Starting Authors Who Want Your Support

  • The first chapter of

Misc

(Items will probably leave the page after a while.)

Addresses of other SF-type documents will be gladly received by mitsfs@mit.edu.

Irina Pivchik's Home Page

http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~irenap/

If You Love Babilon 5 ...

B5 is a very special SF series - much more interesting and complicated then
any other I've seen until now.It's being shown on Channel 3/Cabel TV.
If you want to know more about the show,the actors,the creator of the series -
JMS, etc. - follow this link :

If you're watching the show on a regular basis,you may like this:

and this:

SF Resources ...

If you live Dune and Star Wars in particular or SF in general,you may find some
of this links useful:











Science Fiction Resource Guide

Science Fiction Resource Guide

http://sf.www.lysator.liu.se/sf_archive/sf-texts/SF_resource_guide/


Science Fiction Resource Guide

Effective 01 January 1996, updates will be handled by Mats Öhrman at
sfrg@lysator.liu.se.
Now available on two sites: Rutgers
(ftp), and
Sundry (http).
Known mirror sites: Lampeter
University
(http, U.K.),

(http, Canada),
Emse (http, France), and
(http or
ftp,
Sweden).

Effective 01 January 1996, updates will be handled by Mats Öhrman at
sfrg@lysator.liu.se.

Literature on the Web

http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~sergei/literature.html

Literature on the Web


The Online Literature
Library has a collection of electronic texts of English and
American classics.


Project Gutenberg Home Page


Book Lovers: Fine Books and Literature page.


IPL The Internet Public Library


The On-line Books Page at Carnegie Mellon University.
An extensive link collection and search engine.


A literature collection at Sergei Naumov's

page.


Russian Literature at

provides a collection of poems by Anna Akhmatova, Sasha Chernyi and
much more.


Russian Literature collection at

Melbourne Russian Community page

Kharkov ftp site has
some books in russian. All of them are ALT coding. Slow link.
Most of the books are present in

Alex Farber's collection.


Book collection at FUNET


Daniil Kharms - a collection at Egor Alexeev's page.


Russian text corpora ftp site, by George Fowler.
contains mostly books by Strugatzkie, but there are some others too.


Library and

Russian Magazines at Agama. There you can find some articles
and literature from russian periodicals "Novyi Mir", "Znamya", "Ural",
"Oktyabr'" and several others. (KOI8)


A collection of various electronic texts


The Human Languages Page contains some more links to

text and books archives, including European literature.


"Cyrillica" Bookstore - russian books by mail from Moscow.


St. Petersburg Publishing House offers russian books and
recordings (cassettes) in US.


Amazon Bookstore is claiming it has 1,000,000 titles available
for ordering on-line.


Back to my home page


Last updated on April 29, 1996 by Sergei Izrailev
sergei@ks.uiuc.edu

The Linkжping Science Fiction Archive: External References




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External References

It is of course very hard to keep track of what other sites there are available;
The net changes all the time. One of the best ways to keep this page up-to-date
at all times is if you simply mail
me
(or use the special forms attached to some of the pages below)
if you notice that any of the references are wrong, or you find that I've
missed something.

Index

The information in these pages is collected under the following subject
headings:


General SF/Fantasy Information Pages




The Science Fiction Resource Guide


A very thorough and comprehensive guide to SF resources on the Internet.
Recommended.
It is also available at:


The Science Fiction Foundation Collection


A special research library dedicated to Science Fiction, located at
the University of Liverpool Library.


The SF Clearing House


Guide to SF resources.


IBIC


The Internet Book Information Center.


Ames Sci-Fi Connection


A digital magazine devoted to those who love science fiction of all types.


SF-RIYL


The Science Fiction Recommend-if-you-Like is a collection
of book recommendations (i.e. not reviews) collected by Chris
Sterritt.


Resources for SF Writers


Collected by Debbie Ridpath Ohi.


The Stilyagi Air Corps


has a list of some cons, mostly in the Midwest US.

Bookstores






Future Fantasy


has a searchable catalog, from which you even can order through the net.


SF-Bokhandeln


is a bookshop in Stockholm, Sweden. It has a searchable
catalog (in Swedish), and a book club and mail order
service for customers from Sweden and the neighbouring
countries. Their home page is available in
, too.

SF/F Works, Samples and Extracts






Lothlorien Fantasy Art Gallery


"Mists of legends collide with
technology as amateur fantasy artists from around the world
breathe electronic life into elves, faeries, centaurs, warriors,
and evil dragons."
Collected by Thomas Abrahamsson.


Fiction


Stories by various authors, collected by
Padraig O'hIceadha.


Fools Errant


Sample chapter from a comic fantasy novel by
Matt Hughes.


Artwork by George Livingston


George Livingston has a net exhibition of his artwork.

Awards






The Hugo Award


Indexed in HTML by .
Based on the Rutgers archive file.


The 1992 Hugo


A Picture of the 1992 Hugo Award.


French


Major French language SF awards (including French Canadian).


Lists





The Transformation List


describes books that in some way contains transformations of
people. The list is maintained by Mark Phaedrus.


National SF&F


Science Fiction and Fantasy related to a specific country.




Canadian SF&F


Paul Neumann keeps a Canadian SF&F Resource Guide.


French SF


The Quarante-Deux association keeps a list of current SF in
the French language.


Other




The Well: Cyberpunk


Linkжping SF Archive /
Mats Öhrman /
04 Nov 96



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