Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy
by M.H. Zool

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which is identical to this page, except that links to private material have been removed.

[Front Cover] (naff cover, eh?)

The blurb isn't much better:-

Fascinated... intrigued... baffled... by Science Fiction and Fantasy?

This Guide will lead you from Douglas Adams to Roger Zelazny and recommend hundreds of good reads along the way...

aliens . alternate worlds . bioengineering . artificial intelligence . drugs . fantasy empires . feminism . magic . robots . spaceships . time . war . weird worlds . and many more

First published in paperback, 1989 (ISBN 0 7475 0387 7). This version started 6th May 1994.

This is a trial of the idea of putting this book on the Web. It does not yet include the actual Zool entries (since Neal hacked them about a bit, hem hem).

At the moment [2nd December 1994], we are still waiting for a reply from Kenneth McLeish, who we asked about obtaining permission to publish. We also hope that he might have a copy if the Amstrad PCW disk containing the original text. These will then be converted to PC disk (at OUCS), transfered to the VMS cluster at RAL and hacked into HTML (hopefully semi-automatically) for WWW.

Note that in the following, although most of the links have been specified, the documents to which they point often do not exist. Only references to authors listed below can be followed.

Authors:-

  • John Brunner
  • Arthur C. Clarke (Rendezvous With Rama only)
  • Edmund Cooper
  • Clifford Simak
  • John Varley
  • A.E. van Vogt
  • Menus:-
  • Big Engineering Projects
  • Skeins:-
  • Isaac Asimov, Foundation
  • Other SF material by members of the Oxford University Speculative Fiction Group is available.
    M.H. Zool, <T.J.Adye@rl.ac.uk>