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Slovenian SF&F book cover gallery.
Slovenian and foreign SF&F video content.
High-quality clips and those unavailable on YT.
See also: Anthropology, Adventure, Children's Literature, Folklora, Gothic Fiction, Horror, Mystery Fiction, Mythology, Psychology and other genres The Guide only discusses fleetingly as elements in otherwise SF&F works.
A good deal of SF&F literature in different languages is available through Wikisource,
and there is also a growing collection of Slovenian works uploaded to Wikivir.
The official web site of author Ursula K. Le Guin.
Le Guin's World
The author's official and fan website (fans can request an autograph with a dedication).
Philip K. Dick – The Official Site
... "dedicated to his work, his life, and his vision".
The Official Stanislaw Lem Site
The Polish author's official website, maintained by his son.
Into the Wardrobe: a C. S. Lewis web site
Online since 1994; features a lot of material and is regularly updated.
Robert A. Heinlein, Dean od Science Fiction Writers
A website dedicated to one of the greatest.
The Official Dune Website
Dune Index
Dune is one of many SF novels which should have been translated into Slovenian long ago, but are still waiting. The official website and a fan tribute to the cult series by Frank Herbert.
TerryPratchettBooks.com
A Terry Pratchett / Discworld Web Site
Terry Pratchett and his famous Discworld series.
The Encyclopedia of Arda
A reference guide to Tolkien's work with almost 5000 entries is "written in the same context as Tolkien himself used; he presented himself simply as a translator, rather than originator of the tales. Hence, we try to describe his world from a 'historical' rather than a literary perspective".
BBC Online – The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
H2G2: the fan-built online version of HHGG saw active participation from the late Douglas Adams himself. The website also offers other interactive content, a comprehensive take on the original and its author, quizzes etc.
Floor 42
An extensive fansite, dedicated to Douglas Adams.
Marvin's Page
Dedicated solely to the paranoid android Marvin from the Hitchhiker's Guide..
The Meaning Of Liff
A dictionary of alternative meanings by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd online.
Liff
Fans continue the tradition by building their own version. Ljubljana is also present as "one of those things which are funny as they happen but only receive sceptically raised eyebrows when explained". :)
Znak Sagite
Znak Sagite handles SFFH, especially Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian authors, illustrators and editors with biographic and bibliographic data, but also hosts acitve forums and publishes stories, essays, illustrations etc. (HR)
NOSF – SF portal i magazin
"Never Ordinary Sometimes Fantastic" – the website and corresponding magazine were created by Davor Banović, editor of the first five parts of Via Gallactica. This new project is dedicated to publishing SF stories by Croatian authors, fresh news, reviews, top lists, forums and more. (HR)
Fantastic Fiction
An extensive list of fantasy authors.
Bukla: Ker knjige navdihujejo ...
A free magazine on good books. (SI)
Fantastikon
The Fantastikon series of the publishing company Tuma. (SI)
Tehniška založba Slovenije
TZS has been an indispensable force in the field of Slovenian SF for decades with the stories continually published in the magazine Življenje in tehnika. Also, translated SF in the official online bookstore: Znanstvena fantastika. (SI)
Futura
A bibliography of new Futura issues, data on authors and stories, forums and general SF news. (HR)
InterNOVA
This semiannual magazine, dedicated to contemporary German science fiction, was first published in December 2002. There was an overabundance of good stories to translate, so the international version was born, dedicated to contemporary SF in countries regularly overlooked by Anglo-American centred SF markets.
Asimov's Science Fiction
The renowned SF magazine publishes quality material. Some texts from the current issue are always available for free online.
Analog Science Fiction and Fact
"ASF is often considered the magazine where science fiction grew up. When editor John W. Campbell took over in 1938, he brought to Astounding an unprecedented insistence on placing equal emphasis on both words of "science fiction." No longer satisfied with gadgetry and action per se, Campbell demanded that his writers try to think out how science and technology might really develop in the future-and, most importantly, how those changes would affect the lives of human beings."
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
The magazine, the original publisher of many SF classics, was founded in 1949.
Alef: ZF knjižara
The untraditional SF bookstore Alef is run by Siniša Lekić. (HR)
SF eye
The semiannual magazine by Stephen P. Brown published articles by renowned authors, interviews and critique of contemporary SF as well as unusual and bold illustrations. Unfortunately it has been defunct for years but past issues can still be tracked down.
Update: 1 August 2011
Only Slovenian translators who have published a SF&F work of literature are listed, and only with works in that genre. Monographs are written in italics and individual stories in collections/magazines in a normal font. Children's and young adult literature is tagged as [ya], poetry as [p], and theory as [t]. Some novels appear more than once, if several translators worked on them. The list – far from finished – is currently composed on the basis of Cobiss, which does not allow any type of comprehensive automatic extraction of this data.
The list currently encompasses mostly literary prose, but will eventually expand to poetry and theoretical contributions to SF&F culture. It also includes comicbooks and picture books, hybrids between the literary and the visual, mainly because of their scarcity and availability through Cobiss. It contains all works which follow the genre's fundamental rules, regardless of quality.
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