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This will be a repository for various sci-fi links to give members of LA some convenience in their web browsing.

TV SHOWS AND MAJOR SCI-FI FRANCHISES:

• The upcoming movie, Serenity and the show that inspired it, Firefly.
• SCI-FI.COM's website on Stargate: SG-1.
• SCI-FI.COM's website on Stargate: Atlantis.
• MGM also has websites for SG-1 and Atlantis.
• SCI-FI.COM's website on Battlestar Galactica, AKA NeoBSG. Of particular interest is Ron Moore's Blog.
• Interestingly, SCI-FI.COM has a website on Farscape. I say interesting, because SCI-FI canceled this show for reasons that defy logic or taste.
• Here are some more sites, Farscape World, Farscape.Com and BBC Cult page on Farscape.
• Warner's website on Babylon 5. Also, Babtech-on-the-net is a good reference site for technically minded readers, while B5Tech.com is more graphically enjoyable but not as strong in technical information. An oldie but goodie, The Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5 is an awesome repository of online information relating to the show's production as well as a listing of important JMS (Joe Michael Stracynski) comments relating to individual episodes.
• Star Trek's official website. This is a reference site, but I don't think it's that good. Nice place for pictures though.
• Star War's official website. We all know [url=http://www.stardestroyer.net[/url]SDnet's url[/url], here is TheForce.net and the inimitable, the incomparable, the incredible Star Wars Technical Commentaries, maintained by Dr Curtis Saxton.
• Doctor Who, and more Doctor Who, and even more Doctor Who!
• The BBC's spy show, SPOOKS. Some might object to this being in the sci-fi forum, but when I went to buy the DVDs they're stacked in the sci-fi section. Anyway, it is a sophisticated show and you should watch it anyway. It's called MI5 in the USA.

PRINT MEDIA

• I like Isacc Asimov. If you don't, you're automatically a jerk.
• The Libertarian nutcase and sexist Robert A. Heinlein, who writes some awesome sci-fi. One of my favourites.
• Though I'm not a big fan, I must respect that he is one of the grandmasters: The unauthorised Arthur C. Clarke homepage, and a quotations page that can be used to find other authors and so on.
• Baen.com publishes some shlock standard sci-fi, but they distribute it freely on the internet, which is a pretty interesting and as far as I know, unique business move.

COMPUTER OR ROLEPLAYING GAMES:

• The game, Traveller has an official website.
• Galactic Civilisations and its upcoming sequel, GalCiv 2: The Dread Lords.

If you have anymore links you want to post, feel free.

Games

Huge compilation of info on Warhmmer 40K

Mostly focuses on the Astartes and their damned traitor brethren, but it touches base on other topics as well.

Classic Battletech

Fanpro's official website. Hopefully they're not going to fuck CBT sideways with a log like they are in the process of doing to Shadowrun.

More as they occur to me.

Chris, would you also want links to science fiction oriented webcomics like Free Fall?

Yes. Anything sci-fi related can have a link here, even if it's a game or comic. Yes we have forums for those, but that's no reason to exclude it from a comphrensive link database.

Way I see it on games is that discussions of the universes can reside here, whereas discussions of the games themselves, mechanics and so on, can go in C&G.
(And discussions that blur the distinctions can just happily rest where they started.)

I lost my link to Freefall, but I'll dig it up.

Freefall, the kickass science fiction webcomic.

No list of Stargate websites can be complete without Gateworld. It's not official, but it's as close to it as you'll find in a fansite. Not only does it have extensive information on both shows, including transcripts for many episodes and an encyclopedia, it's also home to interviews with cast and crew of the shows (ranging from the actors all the way up to the executive producers) and a large, active forum community, on which cast and crew also post.

In a different vein, Starship Dimensions is a site that shouldn't be missed. This site compares the sizes of ships from many different sci-fi settings. It really has to be seen to be believed.

www.ditl.org is an interesting Star Trek site

Jason_Firewalker wrote:www.ditl.org is an interesting Star Trek site

Graham Kennedy's site. I love the arbitrarily high numbers for Star Trek weaponry and shields, completely without any supporting citations or evidence. Garbage.

DITL is useless for figuring weapons and shield capabilities, but it is a useful resource for ship sizes, compliments, and standard armament (ignore the energy figures in the weapons).

Of course, that's about the ONLY thing DITL is good for...even when I was using it for my Trek Games in the old Utopia-RP board days.

Oh, and Kennedy's fiction is rubbish.