News and info on the Web

by Lorna, January 2001

The list here comprises sites that I go to when I want to know something about sf. Be it about something past, present, future or gossiped about. They are mostly general sites, if you want links for specific shows try the other guide pages.

 Bureau 42

Link submitted by Billy on 2002-04-20

Contents include - Bulletin Board/forum, Links, Information, Synopses, Reviews, Spoilers, News

Subjects include - What's on, Fandom, Books, Comics, Movie Site, TV Show, Entertainment, Science Fiction and Fantasy

Bureau 42 is a pretty good sci-fi and facntasy news board, mainly focusing on TV. They publish reviews of all X-Files and Enterprise eps, as well as info and reviews on films, books and anything else that you put there way.
The site is a simple newspost site, like slashdot a few years ago, with a login system and discussion on each news story. The whole lot is searchable and categorised.

 The Great Link

Link submitted by Sulkyblue on 2002-09-09

Contents include - Bulletin Board/forum, Information, Reviews, News

Subjects include - Star Trek: TNG, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Deep Space 9, Enterprise, Star Trek - General

A UK based site for Star Trek information, news and reviews. They include extracts from interviews from magazines like TV Zone. There's also extensive information on the Dominian and Founders of DS9. Although Star Trek is at the centre, there's also other sf news as well.
The site looks 'busy' but is usable once you work out where you're going. News etc are available as weekly e-mail digests and can even be accessed via WAP!

 Diverse Books

Link submitted by Sulkyblue on 2002-10-14

Contents include - News, Reviews, Information, Bulletin Board/forum

Subjects include - Science Fiction and Fantasy, Computing, Books, Fandom

The site is run by an ex-icsf ChairEntity and contains news and reviews of sf books and details of fandom events. You can submit news and reviews and take part in discussions on a range of subjects.
A bit like slash-dot in style, can be a bit overwhelming with lots of different sections, some of which look a little unfinished.

 Epguides

Link submitted by Sulkyblue on 2002-10-14

Contents include - News, Spoilers, People, Synopses, Information

Subjects include - Science Fiction and Fantasy, TV Show

A huge library of 2000 TV shows. Most entries only have titles and airdates, however for over 500 shows there is more detailed information. It usually has a couple of useful links as well. The detailed entries link directly through to TV Tome, their partner site. Unfortunately most of the science fictino and fantasy guides ahve been removed to a book. But for other shows it's great.
Very quick - mostly pure text based.

 TV Tome

Link submitted by Sulkyblue on 2002-10-14

Contents include - Links, Information, Shop, Synopses, Reviews, Spoilers, News

Subjects include - Movie Site, TV Show, Science Fiction and Fantasy

Over 1100 complete guides for current and past shows including detailed synopses, cast and crew info, trivia, reviews and links. There's another couple of thousand reviews that are under construction
Pretty simple and usable, but a little bit prettier than Epguides.com

 EpisodeGuides.com

Link submitted by Sulkyblue on 2002-10-14

Contents include - Spoilers, Reviews, Synopses, Images, Information, Bulletin Board/forum

Subjects include - Science Fiction and Fantasy, TV Show

There's about 80 episode guides on this site (formally known as Hu's Episode Guides) mostly sf and cult shows. They vary in quality but many are very detailed.
Slightly clunky to navigate around using a dropdown menu inside guides, they have a nasty habit of not making things links so you have to go round the long way a bit.

 BBC - Cult

Link submitted by Sulkyblue on 2002-10-14

Contents include - Bulletin Board/forum, Links, Information, Synopses, Reviews, Spoilers, News

Subjects include - Gerry Anderson , Hitchhikers Guide, Farscape, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Star Trek - General, TV Show, Science Fiction and Fantasy

"Classic TV - Packed with cult television pictures, quizzes, video clips, star interviews, nostalgia, trivia and gossip..."
Loads of great content on specific popular shows like Star Trek and the Simpsons as well as information on less well known shows like Gerry Anderson series and Bagpuss! It's also very UK friendly, so they'll try not to post spoilers for US episodes without lots of warning.
It's the bbc, it's simple, quick and very usable. Personally I'm not so sure about the background green/blue colour, but that's just me.

 Sci Fi Wire

Link submitted by Sulkyblue on 2002-10-15

Contents include - Bulletin Board/forum, Information, Spoilers, News

Subjects include - Fandom, Books, Comics, Movie Site, TV Show, Science Fiction and Fantasy

Part of scifi.com, this site has daily updates of news from the world of sf tv, films,games, fandom... etc etc. Or on the same site is SciFi Weekly a compendium of the daily news with over 313,000 registered readers apparently.
Suffers from the common problem of attempting to squish the actual content into a relatively small screen area and surrounding it with menus and ads. But other than that the site is pretty good.