Here are some of the web sites that merit slight return ... if any of the links don't
work, please let me know
HISTORY | MYTHOLOGY | LITERATURE | AUTHORS | SF | SCIENCE | SPACE | PLACES | MAPS | ART | MUSIC | PEOPLE | GAMES | DUNNO
Hyperhistory - interactive history timelines
Ancient Sites - online community
The Romantic Chronology -
searchable culturally-oriented timelines
The Ancient World Web
a collation of links inclduing sections on Buildings, Daily Life, Religion ...
A page of history links
Mr. Donn's Ancient History Pages
resources aimed at teachers and students: intelligent and entertaining!
NM's Creative Impulse -
'the artist's view of world history and Western civilisation', with lots of links to
historical resources by period
Molly Brown's novel Invitation to a Funeral
including a virtual tour of Restoration London
Festivals
in the Byzantine Calendar
Diotima: Women & Gender
in the Ancient World
Prehistoric Cave Paintings
at Lascaux, France
Ice mummies ... including Andean
'summit sacrifices'
The
Roman Gazetteer ...
Theban Mapping Project
virtual archaeological dig in Egypt's Valley of the Kings
Bulfinch's Mythology
Online version of the standard reference work, that in its old and battered dead-tree,
cloth-covered form captured me at an early age.
Brewer's Phrase and Fable
online
Legends
artwork, myths, analysis and more links, ranging from Robin Hood to Dragons to ...
The Greek Mythology Link
Over a hundred biographies of mythological characters, extensively cross-referenced and
illustrated
The Omphalos
A variety of resources & links to classical & neoclassical sites: neoclassical
paganism
Medea
The Library of Alexandria - list what you like and
it'll make recommendations!
Plus plenty of online literature from big names as well as newcomers
Penguin Classics
The Internet Classics Archive at MIT - disappeared, blast it.
Tara Harper's Classics Links
[great site, all of it!]
Buzzwords' Millennium Chain Poem
(featuring Simon Armitage)
Bloodaxe Books - poetry with an
edge
Ulysses for Dummies
The Electronic Labyrinth
- a study of hypertext technology and literature
...and some e-text sites ...
Bibliomania ... HTML versions of texts
The English Server - hundreds of online texts
Bartleby Books - yet more online texts
Electronic Texts at the Library of
Congress
Online ETexts at the University of
Virginia ...
... including Lewis Carroll's epic Hunting of the Snark
...see also my Recommendations ...
Patrick O'Brian is dead (2.1.2000).
Alas. (And this linked page is rather out-of-date!)
Lois McMaster Bujold ...
... and the very wonderful Interactive Nexus - an interactive map of Bujold's Nexus [like it
says]
Pamela Dean
Emily Dickinson - the hidden
edge ...
Jane Emerson
Neil Gaiman: The Postmodern Sandman
... The Wake
Surrealist poet David Gascoyne
Robert Graves
Laurell K Hamilton
[+ see my reviews of Guilty Pleasures and The Laughing Corpse]
The Official Diana
Wynne Jones Website -
including Charmed
Lives, a fanzine dedicated to Diana Wynne Jones which featured a piece by me (see here)
W B Yeats
Blakes' Seven Episode
Guide
The British Science Fiction Association
Infinity Plus
The Romantic Science Fiction and Fantasy
Site [changed location]
Novelised Fairytales
Lysator SF Archive
Ansible
SF Timeline
a series of timelines covering science fiction publications from Gilgamesh to the future
...
Uchronia
the alternate histories site - with a timeline of points of divergence.
William H. Calvin -
masses of original [and fascinating] thought and commentary on neurology, evolution,
climate change, biology ...
James Gleick's home page
Tara K Harper's Science Notes for
Writers
- if only more writers read it ...!
The Exploratorium
Part of San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts - a 'museum of science, art and human
perception'. An immense wealth of historical and current information
London's Science Museum ...
and the Natural History Museum, while we're in South
Kensington
frontwheeldrive.com -
'new science and new media', online nexus of information (nothing as old-fashioned as a
'zine)
Professor
Kevin Warwick - making cybernetics a way of life ...
Neuroscience for kids - the
Musical Brain
and, just to prove that everything you find on the Web is legal, decent, honest,
truthful or none of the above ...
Velcro
NASA
SETI
the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (on your very own desktop!)
Students for the Exploration & Development of Space
includes a wealth of information about the Solar System
Mars Online
a collation of Mars-oriented resources and links. Wanna go!
Antarctica ...
and a webcam at the South Pole ...
... and the British Antarctic Survey ...
Satellite Visibility
London Borough of
Lewisham
The British Ordnance Survey Site
Tube [American: subway]
maps for cities all over the world ...
You can see my house from here
...
Anne Sudworth
Ellen
Check out the interactive art, like Fingertwister...
London's National Gallery
Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto
(and see my own piece on this)
Classical MIDI Archives
Catchy Tune Central
Operabase
London's Royal Opera House
The Ultimate Band List
BBC Radio Three - including a 'listen online'
facility
Ancient Music research -
including the world's oldest song
A links page for classical music
resources
- including software, reference, composer biographies ....
ADOM -
text-based fantasy adventure game to which its creator has clearly dedicated his life. Has
a sense of humour, an amazing amount of detail and is powered by Imagination. Recommended
for people who hate computer games.
Rogue -
the first text-based game I ever played. Requires even more imagination, but still good
for a slow half-hour. (Chase the fearsome H, flee the even more fearsome M, and hope that
the ! you're about to grab isn't really an X in disguise ...)
Silicon Valley Tarot
"Cheaper than a consultant. Same results."
OK, so real tarot isn't a game (although you can play games with tarot cards.
Like tarocco. And solitaire. And ...) But this is a wonderful site: tarot for the
modern age. On asking a fairly facetious question about my career, the reading was
"Nuke the place from orbit". How do they know?
Liam | Molly | Maureen | Simon & Mary | Paul Barnett | Andrew M Butler
Robot Wisdom
Swash and Buckle Fencing Club
Rumpus Toys - cuddly mutants for the 21st century
...
The Internet Public Library - the Internet is
disorganised. Librarians organise. Ergo ...
Alertbox
Containing all sorts of interesting and heretical thoughts (from Jacob Nielsen and others)
on why simple web design is best. And less is more.
last updated [link maintenance only!] 13.11.02