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There are plenty of links dotted around the Silver Age Books website, but here are a few really good ones.


Author Homepages

Steven Gilligan – www.stevengilligan.com. What is there to be said about this amazing site? The name tells you how good it will be. There is poetry. There are stories. There are films.

Silver Age Books on MySpace - come and add us to your friends list!

There are links to loads of other writers' sites on our contributors page.


Online Stores

The Silver Age Books Lulu Store – our newest outlet; we've started to sell some of our newer material on here.

The Silver Age Books CafePress Store – be the coolest cat on the block with an SAB t-shirt or mug!

Some of our older books may still turn up in the following places. Although we haven't published a new book for a while, all the old ones, except Professor Challenger in Space, are still in print.

Amazon – www.amazon.co.uk

BOL – www.uk.bol.com

Waterstone’s – www.waterstones.co.uk

WH Smith – www.whsmith.co.uk


Online Resources

The Alien Online

Internet Speculative Fiction Database

SF Crowsnest

We are really chuffed to have had one of our books mentioned as being a part of the Wold Newton Universe. Philip Jose Farmer came to the conclusion long ago that many, many fictional characters were part of a huge family tree. You would have thought that one such brilliant idea would have been enough, but no, he had dozens of them. He was high-concept before Hollywood even thought of the term. My writing methods I take from RL Fanthorpe, my aspirations from PJF.

If you have written something brilliant that you don't think fits well with TQF, or if for some crazy reason you would prefer to be paid for all your hard work, take a look at www.ralan.com, www.duotrope.com and the AA Independent Press Guide, three superb listings of markets available to the aspiring writer. You can also report to Duotrope on how long it takes us to respond to submissions.

In Theaker's Quarterly Fiction we use a lot of superb fonts from www.blambot.com. These brilliant fonts are free for non-profit use or use in independent comics.

We do lots of writing using the brilliant yWriter. It's free! My favourite thing about it is the way it helps make planning and writing part of the same process. It's updated pretty frequently, so it could well be up to version 5 by the time you read this!


Organisations

The British Fantasy Society

The British Science Fiction Society

National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)


Small Press

PS Publishing

efanzines - marvellous online collection of sf fanzines


Literature, Arts and SF in Birmingham

Birmingham Words

Birmingham Book Festival

Birmingham Artsfest

Birmingham Science Fiction Group - founded in 1971, meeting monthly in Birmingham city centre (we're not members, though).


Cool Sites

Homegrown Goodness - if we were cartoonists instead of writers our website would probably look a lot like this. (Minus the unwonted disdain for Richard Dawkins and Sayeed from Lost!)


SF News

Ain’t It Cool News – www.aint-it-cool-news.com

Cinescape Online – www.cinescape.com

David Langford’s Ansible Link – www.ansible.co.uk


Good Sense

Learn about the Dvorak keyboard layout from The Dvorak Zine - essential reading for anyone who types and hasn't yet made the switch! Typing in Qwerty is like driving a car at night without headlights - if you're lucky you might go just as fast, but the chances are you'll end up doing a lot more damage!

The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science – http://richarddawkins.net.


Inspiration

Lionel Fanthorpe's approach to his science fiction and fantasy writing informs much of the Silver Age Books ethos (though he did it to earn money, and we do it out of laziness).