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Pleasant Wastes of Time

Acts of Gord: Gord is a hero to video-game retailers everywhere.

Ain't It Cool News: Indulge yourself. You can always feel dirty afterward.

The Onion: America's Finest News Source.

The Cynic's Corner: Everything you need to know about Trek TV.

Mr. Cranky's Movie Reviews: Mr. Cranky hates pretty much everything.

Penny Arcade: It's funny. It's scathing. It's funny because it's scathing.

Jabootu's Bad Movie Dimension: A cavalcade of bad, bad, movies and the folks who love them.

TheOneRing.net: Yes, I am now a screaming Tolkien film fanboy. Join ussss... join usss...

Despair, Inc. The cure for cutesy bullshit "motivational" slogans and office-wall posters.

Primary Error.net Jason Sartin takes the firehose to stupid games, stupid movies, and stupid people.

Science Fiction and Fantasy Resources

Fantastic Metropolis: Another lovely Land of Does Not Suck.

Sci Fi Weekly: It's got its good bits, yes it does.

SF Site: Mmmm, reviews by folks with IQs over 80.

Sci Fi Wire: Daily press releases for the bored and undiscerning.

RevolutionSF: A portal with teeth and a sense of humor

Locus Online: Love it? Hate it? It's Locus. It's There.

Ansible: The little 'zine with lots of soul.

SFWA.org: The Science Fiction/Fantasy Writers of America.

SFF.net: A science fiction/fantasy web community.

The Linköping Science Fiction & Fantasy Archive: Collected Usenet reviews of spec fic media.

The New York Review of Science Fiction:Passionate, articulate, and relevant criticism.

Ralan's Webstravaganza: Peerless tracker of fiction markets.

Spicy Green Iguana: Excellent spec fic market resource.

Speculations: Not just a market list, but a community of writers who want to be read.

Advice From Writers

Hollylisle.com: Holly Lisle's superb, overflowing, and honest web site.

Robert J. Sawyer's site has some excellent essays on writing and publishing.

Paul T. Riddell's timeless "Greasing the Pan" essays.

Articles on Writing: The SFWA's massive writing resource list.

"Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses:" Mark Twain's classic dissertation on how not to write.

On Writing: Useful bits from Maureen F. McHugh

The Tao of Writing: Patricia Anthony's thoughts and processes.*

Resources for New Writers: Provided by Vonda N. McIntyre

A Writer's Toolkit: Rudy Rucker weighs in on the subject.

The Critters Interviews: Brief chats with Lawrence Watt-Evans, Bruce Sterling, and Larry Niven.

Writerisms and Other Sins: C.J. Cherryh covers some of the basics.

Publishers and Publications

Asmiov's Science Fiction: Monthly magazine.

Analog Science Fiction and Fact: Just what it says. Monthly magazine

Absolute Magnitude: Quarterly science fiction magazine .

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction: Monthly magazine.

Interzone: British monthly SF magazine.

Fantastic Stories of the Imagination: Formerly Pirate Writings.

Scifi.com: Yep, scifi.com buys fiction.

The Third Alternative: Another sweet (quarterly) British SF magazine.

Weird Tales: An oldie and a goodie, quarterly.

Albedo One: Ireland's only regular SF/F magazine.

Artemis: Quarterly magazine of lunar science fiction.

Aurealis: Australian SF/F magazine.

Dragon Magazine: Roleplaying mag that accepts fantasy stories.

Future Orbits: "Short Science Fiction for the Digital World."

Dreams of Decadence: It's all about the vampires, quarterly.

(We)Blogs

The Bleat: James Lileks, Blog God.

Hyper Machine Interfaces: Gabe Chouinard's agitation nexus.

Sgt. Stryker's Daily Briefing: "Pick up that machine gun, we're takin' that hill!."

Electrolite: Patrick Nielsen Hayden.

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