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The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Th first two edition of this came out as books. This third edition in online and will always be a work in progress.
The work has different types of entries:
- Author entries, including entries on writers who have written about science fiction or whose ideas fed into the genre
- Theme entries, on subjects often encountered in science fiction, e.g. telepathy or robots, but also entries about science fiction itself (like the history of science fiction)
- Terminology entries, similar to theme entries, explaining common words used in science fiction (e.g. ion drive) as well as terms used to describe science fiction
- Science fiction in various countries, entries that describe science fiction in the non-English speaking world
- Films. While the focus of the encyclopedia lies with written science fiction, 500 films are mentioned in the 1992 hardcover edition
- Television. Roughly 100 entries about TV series of science fiction interest have been included
- Magazines. This includes the science fiction magazines, but also those pulp magazines that regularly featured sf content and academic magazines about science fiction.
- Fanzines.
- Comics. Entries have science fiction comics, publishers, writers and artists.
- Illustrators. These entries only contain artists whose work is most closely associated with the science fiction genre, mostly book or magazine illustrators.[5]
- Book publishers. Present and past science fiction publishers have their own entries. There are theme entries about publishing.
- Original anthologies. Some original anthology series are given their own entries.
- Awards. Certain science fiction awards have their own entries and there is also a more general entry on them.
- Games. The 3rd edition adds coverage of science fiction games, with entries given to gamebooks, role-playing, board, card, war and video games.
- Miscellaneous. Some 30 entries that did not fit elsewhere, including on science fiction organisations, collections, publishing formats and even some character entries.
As of the latest update to this page in November 2011, this encyclopedia contains 12,366 entries totalling 3,295,937 words. There are 116,125 internal hyperlinks between entries, corresponding to cross-references in the book editions. For comparison, the second print edition (1993) had 6571 entries totalling 1,311,108 words, with 41,712 internal cross-references; the slightly expanded CD-ROM (1995) had 6732 entries totalling 1,378,261 words, with 43,302 internal links. The first edition (1979), assembled without word processors, ran to 3574 entries and an estimated 730,000 words; no one has been able to face counting the internal cross-references.
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