Fiction Database Search
Perform a database search for an author, title, or series
substring. The year option displays all entries alphabetically by
category for a given year. Search matches are caseless, and
spaces are honored.
Awards Database Search
Generate an award listing for a specific award and year.
The year should be a fully-qualified 4-digit numeral, as: 1992
Details about the awards database.
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The
ISFDB is an effort to catalog works of Science Fiction,
Fantasy, and Horror. It links together various types of bibliographic data:
author bibliographies, publication bibliographies, award listings, magazine
content listings, anthology and collection content listings, yearly fiction
indexes, and forthcoming books.
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Authors
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The directory of authors who have entries in the database.
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Magazines
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Maps and lists of the magazines currently indexed in the database.
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Forthcoming
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Monthly listings of forthcoming books in the speculative
fiction field.
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Lists
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Interesting information derived from the database,
such as the Top 100 lists, most-reviewed books, oldest/youngest
living/non-living authors, and age graphs.
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Publishers |
Publishers catalogs and print series.
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The following links lead to the ISFDB discussion forum, describe how
to install the ISFDB on your own system, and detail the licenses
associated with the ISFDB data files and source code.
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ISFDB Forum
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Quicktopic discussion board for high-level ISFDB issues.
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ODP Tools |
ISFDB Open Data Project Tools.
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ODP Data |
ISFDB Open Data Project data files.
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Excel Form |
This is a blank Excel spreadsheet that you can fill in with
book information that can be directly loaded into the ISFDB.
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Source License |
This license governs the ISFDB source code.
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Data License |
This license governs the ISFDB data files.
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ISFDB News
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What's New with the ISFDB (as of 4 April).
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FAQs
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FAQs residing with the ISFDB.
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Statistics 1
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Numerical statistics, displaying the total number of novels,
shortfiction entries, etc...
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Statistics 2
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Graphed statistics, with totals graphed by category and year.
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Other
SF bibliographic
sites of interest:
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Hal W. Hall's Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database.
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Help turn the world into a library. Register a book
at BookCrossing, and
release it into the wild for someone else to read.
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The Science
Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror: 1984-1998 by William G. Contento and
Charles N. Brown.
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William G. Contento's Index
to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections.
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The Locus Index to Science Fiction
Awards compiled by Mark
R. Kelly.
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The Usenet Alternate
History List. maintained by Robert B. Schmunk.
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The BSFA Magazine Index
maintained by Michael J. Cross.
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BestSF
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The Ultimate Science Fiction Web Guide
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