Books! Books! Books!
We just can't keep
up with all the web sites containing resources on books and
libraries, on-line bookstores and mail order services, award
listings, electronic texts, original net-published fiction, and
more. So... we want your help, Mythopoeic Society members! Send
recommendations on your favorite book sites, including the URL
and a brief description of what makes the site especially
useful, fun, or downright awesome, so that we can all share the
wealth. Please e-mail
your suggestions to Matthew Winslow or Scott
McLaren. Contact information is on the Council
of Stewards page.
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General
Literature Sites
BookWire
An outstanding Web page for information about books:
conferences, publishers, libraries, booksellers, you
name it. Of particular interest to Society members is
their listing of Book Awards (including the Mythopoeic
Awards).
Internet Book
Information Center
Includes a guide to book-related sources on the
Internet, reviews of current and classic books, and
more....
Internet Public Library
Collections of reference, magazines, newspapers, online
texts, and more useful data for librarians and general
readers. A site highlight: a collection of links to over
950 critical and biographical websites (including many
on the Inklings) which can be browsed by author, title
or literary period.
Librarians' Index to the
Internet
A searchable, annotated subject directory of more than
5,800 Internet resources selected and evaluated by
librarians for their usefulness to users of public
libraries.
Internet
Speculative Fiction DataBase
A continuous, ongoing effort to catalog works of
Speculative Fiction, linking various types of
bibliographic data and searchable by author, title,
series, or year. Includes information on genre awards,
including the Mythopoeic Awards.
DealTime.com
A search site that can be used to check book prices,
availability, and shipping information for over 25
online stores. Great for comparison shopping!
About-Arts.com
Browse for literature-related sites by author, press,
genre, prizes, and courses offered.
Bookstores
Amazon.com
Books
One of the largest Internet bookstores, with a
searchable catalog of over a million titles offering
on-line ordering, plus information on best sellers,
reviews and awards. The Mythopoeic Society has recently
signed on as an Amazon.com associate: please support us
by shopping here via our link!
ABE Books
The largest database of used books on the
Internet. 10,000 dealers from 42 countries selling
more than 40 million titles online. Search by
author, title, keywords, binding type, country, and
price range.
Blackwell's
Online Bookshop
One of the world's greatest bookstores, Blackwell's
specialises in academic, research, scholarly, business
and technical books.
Borders Books
Another large on-line bookseller, Borders also sponsors
book clubs in its various actual (as opposed to virtual)
stores.
Daerons Books
Daerons Books are specialist bookdealers and enthusiasts
in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles
Williams and the other Inklings. Run by several members
of the Tolkien and Mythopoeic Societies.
Dreamhaven
Books
A Minneapolis establishment specializing in small press
and hard-to-find titles, which also carries new and used
science fiction, horror, fantasy and related weird
stuff. Free monthly mail catalogs; an 800 number for
phone orders.
Powell's Books
Powell's is the Pacific Northwest Mecca for booklovers:
the main store alone covers an entire Portland, Oregon,
city block (helpfully providing maps to prevent browsers
from getting completely lost). Here online shoppers can
peruse the store's vast stocks of new and used titles.
Thornton's of
Oxford
This venerable Oxford establishment ("Booksellers
and Publishers since 1835") gets an intriguing
selection of Tolkien- and Inkling-related material
through auction, and carries all of the publications in
print as well. Electronic mailing list for book-lovers
interested in obtaining that rare first edition....
Publishers
Houghton
Mifflin Tolkien Page
Not easy to find from the main HM page, but a thorough
presentation of Tolkien material from this publisher.
Journals and Collections
Marquette
University J.R.R. Tolkien Collection
The Marquette Online Research Environment site gives
information on the university's Special Collections
& University Archives, featuring their extensive
J.R.R. Tolkien Collection.
Marion
E. Wade Center
The Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton College, Wheaton,
Illinois hosts the premiere collection of Inklings
manuscripts, publications and materials. They also
publish Seven:
An Anglo-American Literary Review which also focuses
on the Inklings.
Books On Line
The English Server
Publishes arts and humanities texts on-line, from Beowulf
to William Hope Hodgson's The Night Land.
Alexandria Digital
Literature
A free book-recommendation service, where the reader,
after rating a selection of books and/or authors
(fantasy and science fiction featured prominently), can
get a list of suggestions for future reading. The site
also has over 200 stories available for on-line
purchase.
Magazines and Web Zines
Locus Online
The award-winning magazine's online site has fewer
reviews than the print version, but more than makes up
for it with daily updates on genre news, awards, events
and forthcoming books. Great links, too.
Science Fiction
Weekly
Splashy web version of the SF magazine, with more
emphasis on media news and reviews.
SF Site
An on-line bimonthly web zine, with an excellent
collection of book reviews, author interviews, info on
awards and conventions, and lots of links.
Fantasy/Science
Fiction Books
About.com is a collection of sites, each covering a
different topic. Guide C. Corey Fisk offers interviews
and feature essays on such topics as "Mannerist
Fantasy" or hints on where authors hang out
on-line, as well as resource lists and "best of the
net" sites (including the Mythopoeic Society: what
good taste!)
The
Heroic Age
Another quarterly web journal focusing on Northwestern
Europe between the Late Roman Empire to the advent of
the Norman Empire.
The
Green Man Review
Reviews of fiction, folklore studies, and music within
the folk tale and fantasy genre. Frequent updates;
especially good music resources.
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