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No categories for Locus Awards
I just noticed there are no categories for the Locus awards unlike Hugo and Nebula. Do we think this is a miss?
- Category:Lists of Locus Award winners vs.
- Category:Hugo Award for Best Novel-winning works , etc. —¿philoserf? (talk) 17:49, 24 July 2021 (UTC)
- @Philoserf They were deleted in this CfD. The OP portrayed the Locus awards as a prediction contest for the Hugos – which isn't true.
- But still, I'm not sure if they satisfy the OCAWARD guideline mentioned in the CfD, which says the award has to be a "defining characteristic" of its recipients. The SFE says the Locus awards share the stature of the Hugos and Nebulas – is that enough? Olivaw-Daneel (talk) 06:43, 27 September 2021 (UTC)
Good sources
I've recently started collecting reference work related to sf. This is the ones I know of, with notes on availability:
- Brave new words the Oxford dictionary of science fiction by Jeff Prucher: semi-officially available offline: https://sfdictionary.com/
- Encyclopedia Of Science Fiction (Library Movements) by Don D'Ammassa: found on Z-Library
- The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction by Peter Nicholls, John Clute, David Langford: officially available online: http://sf-encyclopedia.com/
- The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy by Gary Westfahl: list of chapters; partial preview on Google Books: Volume 1 (A-K), Volume 2 (L-Z) Volume 3
- The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Science Fiction by George Mann: found on Z-Library
- Science Fact and Science Fiction: An Encyclopedia by Brian Stableford: found on Z-Library
- Visual Encyclopedia of Science Fiction - Brian Ash (index search only): found on Z-Library (not OCRed)
- Please let me know if you know of any other good works to add to this list, which perhaps we could split into a subpage of this project? Ping User:Daranios, User:TompaDompa, User:Jclemens, User:BOZ... Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 04:07, 14 September 2021 (UTC)
- I've got several volumes each on Babylon 5 and Stargate, but the one dead tree book in my collection that's a bit more general is Jan Johnson-Smith's 2005 American Science Fiction TV: Star Trek, Stargate, and Beyond ISBN 9780819567383. I don't have any of the others. Jclemens (talk) 05:23, 14 September 2021 (UTC)
- The main site that I look at is http://isfdb.org/ which is not a reference in and of itself, but if you look at any page it may list any number of reviews for a given fiction or non-fiction work. For example, this page shows 6 reviews of one of the works you mentioned: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?651153 BOZ (talk) 14:47, 14 September 2021 (UTC)
- Cool, should be enough to stub and even DYK an article on that (The Visual Encyclopedia of Science Fiction). I'll add it to my to do list. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 14:54, 14 September 2021 (UTC)
- I keep a list of sf references I own; see here. I haven't updated it in years but it hasn't changed that dramatically. I'll try to get it updated soon. Feel free to steal it and edit it as the basis of a project subpage if that would be useful. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 17:21, 14 September 2021 (UTC)
- Cool, should be enough to stub and even DYK an article on that (The Visual Encyclopedia of Science Fiction). I'll add it to my to do list. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 14:54, 14 September 2021 (UTC)
- @Piotrus: I'd add Locus's Science Fiction Awards Database (SFADB), which is like an index of references (in addition to awards). It has both general and author-specific lists of citations.
- The general list is here, and the more focused one is under the "Citations" tab for that author, e.g. Samuel Delany's page has a list of 31 references where his books have been cited. Olivaw-Daneel (talk) 20:17, 16 September 2021 (UTC)