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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?

@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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

@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)[reply]