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	Kathryn Cramer: A Proposal: SF Author Bios Should Be Moved from Wikipedia to the ISFDB Wiki
		The ISFDB author biographies were always an area of great churn, and mediating submitter differences could be difficult.
		Also, since ISFDB now has a Wiki, it makes sense to move the Wiki entries on its writers closer to the source from which many of the SF writer bios are lifted.
		According to comments on the ISFDB wiki, WP's licens is more restrictive than ISFDB's, implying that wholesale copying to IFSDB is disallowed.
	www.kathryncramer.com /kathryn_cramer/2007/01/a_proposal_shou.html (5757 words)

	Business Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		In 1995, Al von Ruff began communicating with Ahasuerus (a prolific rec.arts.sf.written author) and began to construct the ISFDB, using lessons learned with the SFCH and the bibliographic format finalized by John Wenn.
		Originally, the data and source code associated with the ISFDB was not available to the public, primarily due to disk space constraints.
		On 27 February 2005, both the source code and the bibliographic data from the ISFDB was released under the Creative Commons Attribution License, an the OSI Certified Open Source designation was removed.
	www.bizencyclopedia.com /index.php?title=Internet_Speculative_Fiction_Database (803 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		ISFDB is pretty much a one-man band; it doesn't have the broad base of support that made IMDB great.
		Initially, ISFDB was hosted on a commercial ISP, but the level of traffic made it too expensive to run, so in January 2003, it was closed down.
		The ISFDB is based, at least in part, on TheDissembler, from KenMacLeod's TheStarFraction: "In Mac__Leod's The Star Fraction, a famous bit of freeware called Dissembler serves as a magical data mining tool.
	urchin.earth.li /~twic/wiki/InternetSpeculativeFictionDataBase.twici (170 words)

	Internet Speculative Fiction Database
		The ISFDB was created by Al von Ruff in 1995.
		The data of the ISFDB is an OSI Certified Open Source, licensed under the OpenContent License.
		As of 27th March 2004 the ISFDB contains data on 27362 authors, 26743 awards and 132850 titles (including 33397 novels and 62039 unique pieces of short fiction).
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/i/in/internet_speculative_fiction_database.html (277 words)

	ISFDB Blog: Anything Good Happen While I Was Out? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Anyone who's ever browsed through the What's New section of the ISFDB (or has tried to get me to answer email for that matter), has probably noticed that I completely drop off the face of the planet from time to time.
		As such, the only reason at all that I stick with the ISFDB nowadays is that it has become an interesting technological and sociological playground.
		The first way is that the ISFDB is completely converted in 2005 into a self-sustaining, community-driven website.
	isfdb.blogspot.com /2005/01/anything-good-happen-while-i-was-out.html (855 words)

	[No title]
		I used the ISFDB canonical author & title, fixed the award (HNom) and picked one of the comments ("best writers of the 50's") - de Camp, L. Sprague Land of Unreason (1941) This is a duplicate of the same title, stored under "de Camp and Pratt" where it belongs.
		I found the ISFDB to be wrong a handful of times, especially in authors with marginal connections to SF.
		The ISFDB says 1989, mainly because it was nominated for the Locus and World Fantasy awards in 1990.
	world.std.com /~dgg/changes1 (6198 words)

	Sci-Fi Site of the Week: The Internet Speculative Fiction DataBase
		The ISFDB is a very useful tool that is intentionally graphics-light to keep access speedy -- even so the pages can load slowly (it would be nice if some of the larger lists could be broken up into smaller files).
		On the one hand it allows authors and fans to contribute to the project, which fits in with the community spirit of the SF and fantasy world.
		The ISFDB puts valuable data just a few clicks away from any browser, and there's no arguing that it's an excellent resource.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue34/web.html (441 words)

	ISFDB Blog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		We'll be moving all of the remaining static HTML pages from the ISFDB into the wiki, so that they can be edited by multiple people.
		Ahasuerus also asks: "The ISFDB forum last found at http://www.quicktopic.com/18/H/cA5ncMsbYm3Xj seems to be dead.
		The recent normalization of the author names required a new approach to the summary bibliography application, which has lead to a fairly substantial change in how data is going to be presented across the different pages.
	isfdb.blogspot.com (2566 words)

	ISFDB finds new home at Texas A&M - SFWA News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The Internet Speculative Fiction DataBase (ISFDB) has found a new home: The Cushing Library Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Collection and Institute for Scientific Computation at Texas A&M University.
		In January, many users were disappointed to find that searching the ISFDB was no longer available.
		The ISFDB is an effort to catalog works of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror.
	www.sfwa.org /News/isfdbhome.htm (187 words)

	INTERNET SPECULATIVE FICTION DATABASE FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		In 1995, Al_von_Ruff began communicating with Ahasuerus (a prolific rec.arts.sf.written author) and began to construct the ''ISFDB'', using lessons learned with the SFCH and the bibliographic format finalized by John Wenn.
		On 27_February 2005, both the source code and the bibliographic data from the ISFDB was released under the Creative Commons Attribution License, and the OSI Certified Open Source designation was removed.
		As of 1_March 2005 the ISFDB contains data on 30476 authors, 26743 awards and 137356 titles (including 37899 novels and 61916 unique pieces of short fiction).
	www.acculegal.com /Internet_Speculative_Fiction_Database (765 words)

	Isf Db in LeufBookLists
		ISFDB focus on FandSF works, omitting mainstream or other titles, even though these might also be seen as FandSF
		While the owner of ISFDB and the ISP were figuring out what was wrong and corrected things, they disconnected the site from that URL.
		After talking to the folks at our ISP, it seems that they are anxious about the level of activity caused by the site which is swamping their other domains and thereby slowing down response to those clients.
	leuf.net /ww/wikibook?IsfDb (422 words)

	sffworld.com - More "Big Planets"?
		According to the ISFDB, they're the only two.
		I didn't know that Isfdb, but it seems very interesting...
		Yeah, the ISFDB is an indispensible resource for any SFandF fan.
	www.sffworld.com /forums/showthread.php?t=6653 (137 words)

	[No title]
		Taken from the isfdb because I don't have to try to hold it open and up in my right hand while typing with my left.
		Also, the isfdb lists some stuff as novels I think were anthologies and I skipped them.
		The ISFDB lists Virgin Planet and Star Ways as Psychotechnic League but I feel they are wrong, as the FTL drive in, um, _Question and Response_ is different from the one in VP and SW.
	www.people.virginia.edu /~mdh5d/novels/anderson.txt (1499 words)

	Electrolite: And speaking of bandwidth,
		Quite apart from the depth of content, which ISFDB has a big head-start on, they also have a vaguely sane concept of what information is worth accumulating.
		The correct entry cgi is not available yet, but it is good news that the iSFdb has found a new home.
		ISFDB is my competitor, in the marketplace of free data on Science Fiction authors, books, and stories.
	nielsenhayden.com /electrolite/archives/002498.html (1430 words)

	ISFDB MySQL Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The code and data here are not ready for public consumption, are difficult to install, and are in a high state of flux.
		Awards are maintained by David G. Grubbs in a separate database, and we get periodic drops that need to be merged into the ISFDB database.
		There was an attempt to preserve the website scripts so that they can work in either MySQL or ISFDB mode, but I think that seems like a bad idea now.
	estebandito.org /isfdb/sql.html (531 words)

	Boing Boing: Literary treasure needs new home
		Rationale was that there were too many daily database queries (which exceeded your-site's limit of roughly 3000 per day), and the ISFDB was generating a system load beyond their specified per-account limits.
		I think that at this point the ISFDB has reached an awkward point for a non-profit site: it's too large (in size, bandwidth, processes, and system resources) to run at a typical ISP.
		They're being required to pay for the bandwidth used, and the ISFDB share for that would have been in the neighborhood of $80 a month.
	www.boingboing.net /2003/01/25/literary_treasure_ne.html (325 words)

	gopherit: ISFDB
		I have no easy way of writing java or perl web front end to this yet because there is no (public) sql version of the database.
		I know he's using Python in the dev version, but the cgi scripts were originally (ie in the early downloadable versions c 2002) in C. I'm sure someone posted (a link to) a perl query script to the ISFDB Forum sometime ago.
		There are things it doesn't do at all, and others that it doesn't do as well as it could, but I think it's OK for the amount of effort so far.
	www.livejournal.com /community/gopherit/4005.html (951 words)

	The Internet Speculative Fiction Database
		The ISFDB is a community effort to catalog works of science fiction, fantasy, and horror.
		The ISFDB is open for editing by the general public.
		We would like to recruit beta testers for this effort; if you are interested, please see ISFDB:Beta_recruitment.
	www.isfdb.org /cgi-bin/index.cgi (395 words)

	ISFDB - QuickTopic free message board hosting
		It would make sense if we used the ISFDB format so as to not re-invent the wheel.
		I will be pushing for as much data as possible to be submitted to the ISFDB too.
		If the titles are on the same bibliography then click on the [Titles] link on the author bibliography, and check the merge box of the two titles you wish to merge, then click on the "Merge Selected Records" button.
	www.quicktopic.com /18/H/cA5ncMsbYm3Xj (727 words)

	[extropy-chat] "The Transhuman" (1953) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		In this case, the Finlay illo was to the Leinster story with that title.
		However, the very inadequate source at http://www.jessesword.com/SF/sflastmod.shtml says: ISFDB to a 1953 story by Murray Leinster, "The Trans-Human"; Derek Hepburn confirmed the reference, but noted that the word is only used in the story title.
		> The ISFDB gives this (http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pw.cgi?b0e9f5): <The Trans-Human (1953) * Science-Fiction +, December 1953 (1953), [ed.] Hugo Gernsback, * Monsters and Such (1959), Murray Leinster, Avon, pb > >What is so interesting to me is that FM and Max separately never heard of >the word before using it themselves.
	lists.extropy.org /pipermail/extropy-chat/2005-January/013308.html (235 words)

	Projects - SFLink
		Data entered this way may be fed back to BernardPeek so that he can update his database of SF books.
		Currently ISFDB only indexes by author name or book # number which is not ideal.
		Even just taking the existing ISFDB database and adding to it will be a significant amount of work.
	www.sflink.net /info/index.php/Projects (1663 words)

	Great Isfdb at Eoob United Kingdom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Eoob.co.uk is a completly free-of-charge service that helps you save time and money when searching for Isfdb online.
		Search thousands of Isfdb websites for the products or services you're looking for.
		These tools enables you to find the best and cheapest Isfdb products.
	www.eoob.co.uk /entertainment/books/crime-novels/isfdb.html (75 words)

	sffworld.com - Pringle's 100 Best SF Novels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		October 28th, 2004, 11:07 PM Another interesting Top 100 list is ISFDB's Top 100 Novels (http://www.isfdb.org/topnbal.html) which is basically where all novels (SFandF) which have been nominated for an award are scored based on the number of award wins and nominations.
		As they say, this is not an attempt to list the best works of the genre, but rather just a list extracted from their database depending on award nominations/wins (also meaning it's skewed to newer works).
		Probably the biggest difference between ISFDB and Pringle's list is ISFDB is more up-to-date, which is why I've read more of those.
	www.sffworld.com /forums/archive/index.php/t-5309-p-6.html (1293 words)

	SFBook.com Science Fiction
		The data in the isfdb is governed by a OpenContent license, which means that it's okay for me to use the informations in the isfdb, as long as I follow curtain rules.
		All author and book information that comes from ISFDB is governed by the OpenContent license.
		Sometimes the isfdb take a bit long to update and I'll add books to sfbook.com before they are added to the isfdb.
	sfbook.com /modules.php?op=modload&name=FAQ&file=index&myfaq=yes&id_cat=6 (1035 words)

	The CHUD.COM Message Boards - Gollancz SF Masterworks Collection
		Kagemaru: I'm sorry, but as an old ninja, I don't really know how to enter from anywhere else.
		Sorry i should add the the ISFDB stands for
		If you do - then yeah, I've been working my way through the popular and critical lists for the last few years.
	www.chud.com /forums/showthread.php?t=43300 (2532 words)

	Authors "T" page of ULTIMATE SCIENCE FICTION WEB GUIDE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Sue Thomas: Novelist: isfdb lists: * Correspondence [The Women's Press, 1992] ISBN 0-7043-4297-9, £5.99, trade paperback [Overlook Press, 1993] ISBN 0-87951-480-9, $19.95, hardcover [Overlook Press, 1994] ISBN 0-87951-529-5, $10.95, trade paperback see: FEMINIST Theodore Thomas: isfdb lists: * "The Spy" [1962; 100 Astounding Little Alien Stories, eds.
		Denis Tiani: Fantasy/Science Fiction illustrator; isfdb lists: * Cover Artwork [Zod Wallop, William Browning Spencer, St. Martin's, 1995] ISBN 0-312-13629-3, $21.95, hardcover * Cover Artwork [The Night the Heads Came, William Sleator, Penguin/Dutton, 1996] ISBN 0-525-45463-2, $15.99, hardcover John Tibbetts: isfdb lists: * "Overtime" [The Twilight Zone Magazine, Dec 1988] ed.
		Tidian: Novelist; isfdb lists: * McGillicuddy the Bookseller: a Bibliofantasy [H. Tidian, Sam: Johnson's, 1997] ISBN 0-9658598-0-0, $20.00, hardcover Andrew Tidmarsh: Bibliographer: * "Michael Bishop Bibliography" [Interzone, April 1994] eds.
	www.magicdragon.com /UltimateSF/authorsT.html (9167 words)

	AUTHORS "F" Page of ULTIMATE SCIENCE FICTION WEB GUIDE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Stephen E. Fabian (1930-): Fantasy illustrator Stephen E. Fabian ISFDB Fable: {to be done}; see Aesop Epigrammatic or short tale whose characters are objects, animals, people, or gods, which usually illustrates a moral.
		Falkenstern ISFDB John Meade Falkner [1858-1932]: antiquarian novelist of England, with several books of adventures for boys.
		Betty M. Owen, Scholastic, 1979] ISBN 0-590-31264-2, paperback Charles Felstead: ISFDB lists: * "How the Land Lies!" [Amazing, May 1955] FEMINIST: science fiction and fantasy of, by, or for women Jean Femling: ISFDB lists: * "For Whom Are Those Serpents Whistling Overhead?" [Interfaces, eds.
	www.magicdragon.com /UltimateSF/authorsF.html (4389 words)

	Famous Science Fiction Authors - Page 1
		Anderson was ranked 12th on the ISFDB Top 100 Authors list.
		Cherryh was ranked 19th on the ISFDB Top 100 Authors list.
		Ranked 66th in ISFDB Top 100 Novels]; Runner up in 1998 Sideways Awards for "Waiting for the End"; The Stochastic Man (Campbell Award 2nd place in 1976).
	www.adherents.com /adh_sf.html (4166 words)

	The World of Fantasy and Science Fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		All the Weyrs of Pern was ranked 13th in ISFDB Top 100 Novels.
		The Dolphins of Pern was ranked 68th in ISFDB Top 100 Novels, Dragonsdawn, Campbell Award 3rd place in 1989), Crystal Singer novels.
		For more information on this wonderful author, please visit her website:
	www.moonproductions.com /Fantasy/Pern/biomccaff.html (100 words)

	Moorcock's Miscellany - Content (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Axign is the current web hosting company of Moorcock's Weekly Miscellany.
		Credits - ISFDB - Books - Omnibus Editions - Collections - Alternate Titles - Shorts & Non-Fiction - Submit A Biblio Update
		Alternate titles are in parentheses () and are frequently the original titles.
	www.multiverse.org /content-23.html (562 words)

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