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Books from Critters!
Check out Books by Critters for books by your fellow Critterfolk, as well as my list of recommended books for writers.
How to Write SF
The Craft of Writing Science Fiction that Sells by Ben Bova, best-selling author and six-time Hugo Award winner for Best Editor. (This is one of the books your ol' Critter Captain learned from himself, and I highly recommend it.)
(Also via Amazon)
Stayin' Alive
If you want to make a career of SF writing, STAYING ALIVE - A WRITER'S GUIDE by three-time SFWA President Norman Spinrad, published by your Critter Captain's ReAnimus Press, is an indispensable guide to the inside workings of the SF publishing industry by an expert.
Interviewed!
I was interviewed live on public radio for Critters' birthday, for those who want to listen.
Free Web Sites
Free web sites for authors (and others) are available at www.nyx.net.
ReAnimus Acquires Advent!
ReAnimus Press is pleased to announce the acquisition of the legendary Advent Publishers! Advent is now a subsidiary of ReAnimus Press, and we will continue to publish Advent's titles under the Advent name. Advent was founded in 1956 by Earl Kemp and others, and has published the likes of James Blish, Hal Clement, Robert Heinlein, Damon Knight, E.E. "Doc" Smith, and many others. Advent's high quality titles have won and been finalists for several Hugo Awards, such as The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy and Heinlein's Children. Watch this space for ebook and print editions of all of Advent's current titles!
Book Recommendation
THE SIGIL TRILOGY:
The universe is dying from within...
"Great stuff... Really enjoyed it." — SFWA Grandmaster Michael Moorcock
Announcing ReAnimus Press
If you're looking for great stuff to read from bestselling and award-winning authors—look no further! ReAnimus Press was founded by your very own Critter Captain. (And with a 12% Affiliate program.) [More]
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Okay, this is really ancient, and most people just visit http://webnews.sff.net for the sff.net group, but the below is left here in case it helps someone. Note this only relates to the old sff.net newsgroups, not the new forums at www.critique.org/forums that you can access here to automatically log you in. =========== How to read SFF.Net newsgroups (such as the Critters newsgroups) if you clicked on the links on the resources page and it gave you an error. There are many ways to read the sff.* newsgroups, such as via Netscape (2.0 or above), MS Internet Explorer, Free Agent, NewsXpress, or others listed on sff.net's web page. There is a link on their page with information especially for AOL members. If you've tried using netscape to visit a "news://..." link and it said no way, you may not have installed the Netscape component that allows newsreading. (Called "Collabra discussion groups".) In my 4.05 version of Netscape, it's under the "Communicator" menu at the top. If you don't see it there, chances are you didn't install that component. You might go back to however you initially installed netscape and look for that. The other alternative is to point your browser to www.sff.net and navigate their links until you come to their browser-based newsreader. As of this writing there is a "Newsgroups" link on their main page.