Welcome to The Classic Fantasy & Science Fiction Database
Welcome to Classic-SF website. My aim is for a 'first stop' site for all general queries regarding fantasy and science fiction stories together with links to other sites for 'in-depth' information. If you have any useful comments or suggestions please forward them to me via the Contact Me form.
HELP MS Outlook crashed
If the person / organisation who emailed me yesterday (Tuesday 4th) regarding a new work by Orson Scott Card is reading this, could you resend your message. I've had trouble with my mail client and lost all messages received over the last 24 hours.
Emergency announcement from SFcrowsnest.com: please help
Note received from Stephen Hunt this last weekend: Hi all,
Stephen here, in the rather ridiculous situation of having to write to you and all of SFcrowsnest.com’s others readers to ask for your help.
Yesterday afternoon, a minute after posting an update to the two FaceBook groups I founded, the SFcrowsnest.com Magazine FaceBook group at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=21093694832 (for the magazine), and the Rule Jackelia FaceBook group (for readers of my novels) at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=34257537930 , FaceBook sent me an automated message to say this was spamming and immediately cancelled my account.
An hour after that I started being flooded by personal complaints from members of the SFcrowsnest.com Magazine FaceBook group saying that the group now had someone called ‘Tore Heimstad’ installed as administrator (not appointed as admin by me, I assure you!) who was using the SFcrowsnest.com Magazine FaceBook group’ admin ‘message all’ function to send out a spam via FaceBook to our sci-fi magazine’s thousands of readers that began ‘Hey guys. if u think that u look good and if u have CONFIDENCE, then join our pageant group on eupee .’ (don’t ask, groan).
I can only presume that this breech of our FaceBook group is a major hack of the recently upgraded FaceBook system, but I am currently in the ridiculous situation of not even being able to contact my own FaceBook friends to inform them of this terrible situation, with my account now being cancelled.
I have repeatedly been contacting Face Book?’s staff e-mails since yesterday (Friday 15th November 2008) and as of twelve hours later have received nothing but canned autoresponders in return. for full email see Message From Stephen.
A New Writer
Well a new writer to me. I've not read his books yet, although I hope to change that soon. I've had a look at the précis and he seems to herald a return to a more 'traditional' science fiction story. His name is James T Lay and his books are in the Galactic Rescue Inc series. Check the books, read them and tell us all what you think.
New Forum
I have replaced the foum on this site. As well as the ContactMe form there is now the forum to post questions and answers. I shall also use it to make announcements.
A third board is available for general discussion. These may be altered or developed as time goes on.
At all times CLEAN and NO SPAN!
Please Help Classic-SF:
If you have a little money to spare and you could donate a small amount to keep the site open, then please click the button at the top right.
If you would like to help, either by editing, providing / correcting information then you now may create an account and log-in or Contact Me with the information you would like added or altered.
If you are a writer and you are or are not included or you would like to add / correct any information or indeed if there is any content or lack of content to which you object, then again please Contact Me with details and I'll try to make the changes as soon as I can.
Help for user
A visitor to the site has asked me for help in identifying a story from a few years ago. I've moved this to the forum so if anyone can help they can post the comments directly.
Changes to Site
- Universal Edit Button is now enabled for this site. If Firefox is your browser, then you will see a green pencil to the right of the address bar denoting an editable page. see http://universaleditbutton.org/Universal_Edit_Button.
- If you click on the cover images on the book pages using the latest version template, a page will open showing the cover image much larger for easier viewing, similarly clicking on the head shot images on the Authors pages.
- PDF - Each page can now be viewed or saved individually onto your local hard-drive in portable document format (PDF), using the link in the menu at the top-right.
Layout
Following trials with my mobile phone (Nokia 73 with service provider Three), I have decided to experiment with re-skinning the site. All facilities will be retained, but with a slightly cleaner display which will provide a better display on a smaller screen.
The menu bar which was previously to the left will appear at the bottom, reached using the 'Menu' button at the top of each page.
If you have any comments, Contact Me as always.
Collection / Anthology
After a bit of head-scratching I've decided to use the following definitions:
- Anthology - a collection of stories by more than one author, usually edited by yet another.
- Collection - a collection of stories by one author.
