The following list of links is intended to be exclusive rather than exhaustive. We hope you like these sites as much as we do. Please email us if you have any suggestions for interesting and quality sites.

• SFSA Social Media
• Of interest in South Africa
• Reciprocal links
• Literature
• Online book and other stores
• Publishing houses
• Book reviews & author bibliographies
• Writing
• TV & movies
• Meta-sites
• Sci-Bono

SFSA SOCIAL MEDIA

• Facebook group: Science Fiction & Fantasy South Africa.
• SFFSA on Twitter

OF INTEREST IN SOUTH AFRICA

• Johannesburg Chapter of the Astronomical Society of Southern Africa
  
  
• ICON Games Convention
  This event takes place once a year, usually the third weekend in July.

RECIPROCAL LINKS

• SFSA: the South Australian Doctor Who Fan Club, Inc.
  "Currently we produce a bi-monthly newsletter ( The Wall of Lies), three to five issues of our regular club-zine (SFSA) and a Doctor Who themed yearbook (Chameleon Factor)."

LITERATURE

• Science Fiction Weekly
  An excellent weekly magazine with SF news, book, movie and website reviews.
• SF Crowsnest
  Europe's Most Visited SF Site.
• Ansible
  Dave Langford's monthly newsletter. Covers the UK primarily, but contains news and gossip from all over the world. Comes out within the first week of the month. Dave Langford is famous for his Hugo collection.
• Locus
  THE monthly trade magazine for the USA. Monthly best seller lists, interviews, etc. Most of the meat of its paper publication is not online.

ONLINE BOOK AND OTHER STORES

• amazon.com
  One of the biggest and best online booksellers. They have over a million titles in stock and deliver all over the world.
• Exclusive Books Online
  Exclusive Books, a South African chain of book stores, also has an online store, stocking more books than at its physical branches. Books also turn up a good three weeks earlier ? and delivery to your nearest physical store is free!
• Kalahari.net
  The competition to Exclusive Books.
• Animeworx
  Local supplier of all things Anime. Check out their online store, and go and visit their Brightwater Commons shop.

PUBLISHING HOUSES

• Baen's Bar
  Baen's Bar is a bunch of forums where you can interact with Baen authors, comment on the books published by Baen, and generally interact with other SF fans who read Baen books. See WRITING.

BOOK REVIEWS & AUTHOR BIBLIOGRAPHIES

• The Internet Speculative Fiction DataBase
  The one place to look for all the books your favourite author have ever writen. Fan-run and -supported. US bias. Sometimes erratic. Indispensable.

WRITING

• Critter Workshop
  Critters is an on-line workshop/critique group for aspiring and practicing writers of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. The way it works is that you have to critique a number of stories each month in order to earn the privilege of having your own story critiqued. Your story is guaranteed a fair number of critiques due to the huge number of critters out there, some of whom are professional writers. This workshop is impressive and demonstrates what a valuable resource the internet can be.
• Baen's Bar
  Baen's Bar has three separate online slush forums for posting creative writing: for aspiring authors to post their own short stories or novels; for consideration for publication in Eric Flint's 1632 universe anthologies; and for submissions to the new Baen's Universe magazine. Each of these forums functions as an online workshop, where you can critique and be critiqued. And, if you are lucky, Baen might offer you a publishing contract.
• Writers & Illustrators of the Future
  Established by L. Ron Hubbard in 1983, this is an annual competition aimed at discovering and publishing aspiring writers and illustrators. We also have contact with the local representative of this competition, and can assist with your entry.

TV & MOVIES

• StarTrek.com
  The official Star Trek site. Daily hosted chats on Star Trek topics, cast biographies, details of every episode produced as well as upcoming episodes, the Klingon Compendium, the Starfleet Science Institute, and more.
• Star Wars
  What more is there to say?
• Charlie Jade
  A Canadian-South African TV series produced and set in Cape Town, South Africa, about a private investigator travelling between three alternative universes.

META-SITES

• SF Site
  This is THE science fiction meta-site. From the "Baseball in Science Fiction" story list to the "The Society for Creative Anachronism", this site has links to everything and anything SF!. SF Site also hosts a number of top quality science fiction sites, a couple of which are mentioned on this page.
• Wikipedia? the free encyclopaedia
  Entry on science fiction.