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okay? Meanwhile, according to Jon's links page, our very own Grand Master has at least twenty other
sites devoted to his prodigious output.

2005: Our newest Grand Master, Anne McCaffrey, has a definitive official site: The Worlds of Anne
McCaffrey [www.anne mccaffrey.net]. It has all the features you'd expect, and some interesting twists
as well. For example, on the Poll Page, you can vote for which actors you'd like to see cast in the movie
version of various of Anne's books and stories. Her works have inspired many fans to write fan fiction,
create fan art, and build on and offline games and virtual realities. The newsgroup alt.fan. pern [
kumo.swcp.com/ ~quirk/afp-index.shtml] is devoted to discussion of works by Anne and her fans.

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Here's a quick plug for a couple of fine compendium sites mentioned in passing above. Galen Strickland,
the webmaster of The Templeton Gate [members .tripod. com/templetongate/main page.htm], is in
the process of building a useful critical site. He writes that ├втВм┼УIt is my intention to devote space to some
writers whose works might be a bit obscure to all but the most die-hard SF fans.├втВмтАв George C.
Willick's SPACELIGHT [ www..gwillick.com/Space light] advertises itself as ├втВм┼УThe library of
fantasy and science fiction vital statistics and personal data."

Last and certainly not least, there's the Wikipedia [en. wikipedia.org/wiki/MainPage], a Web-based,
free-content encyclopedia, which is written collaboratively by volunteers, i.e., you. That's right, gentle
reader; if you want to edit an entry, go for it!

To quote from Wikipedia's entry on itself: ├втВм┼УIts status as a reference work has been controversial. It
has received praise for being free, editable, and covering a wide range of topics. It has been criticized for
lack of authority when compared with a traditional encyclopedia, systemic bias, and for deficiencies in
traditional encyclopedic topics."

To which Wikipedians might reply, if you don't like it, you can fix it. That's the beauty of wiki.

Here's hoping that some Alfred Bester, Lester del Rey, Damon Knight, Fred Pohl, and Poul Anderson
fans might soon rise to the occasion.

Copyright (c) 2005 James Patrick Kelly