Sources of Bibliographic Information

For an overview of the sources used by the ISFDB in 1994-2004 see Reference:General_Overview.

This page lists resources that ISFDB editors can use to verify bibliographic data. Note that this list is not intended to be all-inclusive. If you find yourself regularly using a resource that is not listed here, please feel free to add it to the page.

Aggregate Library Catalogs and Search Engines

 * WorldCat is a collection of 200+ million searchable bibliographic records maintained by the OCLC inter-library cooperative. Covers books, serials, music, films and some other types of holdings. OCLC is in the process of linking individual editions to present a Summary/Detail view of the catalog similar to the ISFDB's Title/Publication view, but it's a work in progress. You can access the data in this catalog in the following ways:


 * See Help:Using Worldcat data for more details and warnings.


 * Sigla Searches 1600 library catalogs, click on the British flag icon for the English language version. Use the template when referring to this source within the ISFDB Wiki.
 * British Library Integrated Catalogue Searches the combined holdings of the British library. A very good source for UK publications, and may be helpful on any publication. The "system number" is a unique identifier for a particular record, similar to the OCLC accession number. May be abbreviated as "BLIC". Often lists cover prices on books that have ISBNs -- rarely if ever on older books.
 * COPAC, combined catalog of numerous UK/Irish libraries.
 * Open Library is an open source project sponsored by the Internet Archive. Their stated goal is to have "One web page for every book ever published." They can be searched by ISBN or by title, author, Publisher and other fields. Once a book is found it can be linked to by ISBN, or by the OL's internal ID. Like the ISFDB, the OL depends on volunteer labor and freely available data.
 * Search engine for the US Social Security Death Index

Individual Library catalogs

 * . Use the template when referring to this source within the ISFDB Wiki.
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General SF Bibliographies

 * The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (third edition of this work, available only online and continuously updated)
 * The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (online version of the 1997 print edition and only slightly updated as of 2013/12/06)
 * Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database
 * Great Science Fiction and Fantasy Works
 * The Classics of Science Fiction
 * Scifan
 * The Science Fiction Foundation Collection
 * The Locus Index to Science Fiction 1984 - 2007 (1984-1998 combined; individual indexes for the later years.)
 * Contento's Index to SF Anthologies pre-1984 (recently moved to www.philsp.com)
 * Fantastic Fiction
 * Australian pre-1993 bibliographies Add /author/1stnamelastname to retrieve; the list of author is available as a drop-down list here.
 * The NESFA database
 * SF Hub
 * The Ultimate Science Fiction Web Guide
 * CyberSpace Spinner Archive of Science Fiction Magazine and writer bibliographies
 * Pywrit.com by Jeffrey S. Timmons Author/magazine/anthology bibliographies hosted by a bookstore
 * George C. Willick's Spacelight Biographies and bibliographies of Golden Age writers
 * Don D'Ammassa's "Critical Mass" Bibliographies and reviews of SF/F/H books and series
 * SFBooklist.co.uk

General Bibliographies that include SF

 * Internet Book List
 * Internet Book Database of Fiction
 * The Native American in Long Fiction: An Annotated Bibliography : Supplement, 1995-2002

Regional Bibliographies that include SF

 * AustLit Extensive Biographic and Bibliographic database of Australian writers. A subscription is needed to view the details.
 * "The Gallery to Science Fiction, Fantasy, Weird & Occult as published by the British, Australians and Canadians From the 1930s-1966 as Paperbacks, Digests, Pamphlets, Pulps, and Magazines"
 * Canadian SF Works Database

Series

 * The Four-Part Trilogy (series biblios)
 * seriesbooks.com - Book Safari
 * Internet Book List
 * Juvenile series by subject
 * Star Trek books by year (through 2010)
 * Novel series on Memory Alpha
 * Much more at ISFDB:Series Cleanup

Publishers

 * Ralan.com lists hundreds of publishers, magazines, reviewzines, etc, both current and defunct

Publisher Web sites

 * The Ace Image Library has both cover images of Ace publications and is also a publisher bibliography that can be used to see if earlier or later publications than yours exist.
 * Arkham House's Web site
 * Badger Books cover gallery
 * Baen's catalog by author, by title and by series
 * Bantam Spectra and Dell Web site
 * Black Coat Press, a small press dedicated to proto-SF and pulp adventures, mostly translations of early French SF/pulps
 * Steven H. Silver's DAW biblio
 * Publisher:DAW is a page that summarizes information about DAW publications and also lists all of their publications.
 * Del Rey's online catalog
 * List of SF titles by Project Gutenberg
 * Eos, HarperCollins' SF/F imprint
 * Haffner Press, small press specializing in Hamilton, Brackett, Williamson, etc.
 * Immanion Press, a UK-based SF/F/H small press with an extensive online catalog
 * Pulpville Press, a small press specializing in pulp reprints
 * Science Fiction Book Club (UK) - 1953-1982
 * Science Fiction Book Club (US)
 * Collecting SFBC books -- gutter codes and more
 * Tor/Forge Web site
 * Voyager Australia catalog
 * White Wolf's online store, good for identifying non-fiction and reconstructing series information.

SF Romance and Erotica publishers

 * Changeling Press - lots of SF erotica, mostly non-traditional (gay, bi, BDSM and beyond)
 * Ellora's Cave
 * ImaJinn Books
 * Phase Books, a romance/erotica imprint of Mundania Books

Books received by bookstores

 * Infinitas books by genre Australia
 * Galaxy Fantasy and Science Fiction Australia
 * Uncle Hugo Newsletter Archives US
 * White Dwarf Canada

Magazine Checklists and Indexes

 * Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Weird Fiction Magazine Index: 1890-2001 by Stephen T. Miller & William G. Contento (Checklist of issues indexed only. For information about the CD-ROM of the complete index go here.)
 * The FictionMags Index
 * Westcity's checklist of SF magazines with cover images
 * Galactic Central's Magazine Checklists
 * Cover Browser - select "Pulp" for a large list of cover scans

Fanzines

 * Fanac.org Fanzine Archive by Joe Siclari
 * British Fanzine Bibliography by Peter Roberts, Vince Clarke, and Rob Hansen
 * Temple University fanzine collection
 * Science Fiction Book Review Index Annual Volumes by Issue Date, includes full text of each volume in PDF format

Individual Magazines

 * Interzone index'' by Greg Egan
 * Bibliography of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction by Ray Lovell
 * Nebula Science Fiction by Jim Linwood.
 * Pulp magazines at L'encyclopedie Francophone de la SF (in French, but the story titles are in English; includes cover scans)
 * Science Fiction Studies checklist; includes the texts of most published reviews and abstracts of many articles

Subgenres
Many fan pages are available where someone covers an area in great depth.
 * Uchronia -- The Alternative History List
 * Slipstream bibliography
 * supernaturalfiction.co.uk
 * Prehistoric Fiction - Novels set in prehistoric times, or in which the principal characters are members of a prehistoric society.
 * Lost race checklist
 * Recursive Science Fiction at NESFA
 * Fantastic, Mysterious, and Adventurous Victoriana
 * The Detective and the Toga - Historical mysteries set in the Roman era. It does not look like specfict at first glance but the site contains several links to ISFDB author bibliographies.
 * Fiction about Antarctica, many older books are SF
 * Science Fiction and Utopia by Women, 1818-1949: A Chronology
 * Time travel romance books listed by topic.
 * Mormon Speculative Fiction, i.e. SF written by LDS members
 * SF Pornography compiled by
 * Vault of Evil - British horror fiction

Author-specific sites

 * ERBzine Has cover scans and bibliographic data for many works by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

International

 * General:
 * Translated SF - "Non-English SF, available in Translation"


 * Bulgarian:
 * SFBG - Bibliography of SF published in Bulgaria
 * БГ-Фантастика - Encyclopedia of Bulgarian SF
 * Croatian:
 * SF&F bibliografija
 * SFera - links to 6 publication series-specific lists
 * Czech and Slovak:
 * LEGIE - A Czech/Slovak fantasy and science fiction database - Only Czech or Slovak language books are listed.
 * Dutch:
 * Catawiki General collector's site with an extensive SF section.
 * De Boekenplank SF and thrillers published in Dutch (in the Netherlands and Belgium). There is a page translating common bibliographical terms.
 * Fandata SF published in Dutch. Author search only. Is not being maintained, and will be replaced (someday).
 * SFANpedia Extensive SF website. Also includes graphic novels, movies/tv series and radio plays.
 * De Nederlandse Bibliografie - The Dutch Royal Library
 * Boekbeschrijvingen - A personal web page, but with a fairly extensive collection of Dutch SF.
 * French:
 * BDFI
 * Collector's Showcase
 * Fantastinet
 * Index SF
 * Le Monde du Fleuve (Noir) - articles and select bibliographies
 * Livre de SF (8660 books by 1277 authors)
 * NooSFere
 * Science-Fiction
 * German:
 * Bibliographien zur Science Fiction, including series information and SF in DDR
 * Bibliography of German Science Fiction Stories and Books
 * Phantastik-News.de
 * German Science Fiction Database
 * World of Fantasy
 * Science Fiction Leihbuch Database
 * Science Fiction publisher listing primarily covers
 * Hungarian:
 * SF stories translated from [mostly English to Hungarian]
 * Israeli:
 * Survey of the State of sf in Israel in the Last Five Years (Hebrew only)
 * Italian:
 * IntercoM Science Fiction Station: Enciclopedia
 * Fantascienza - Italian science fiction
 * SF quadrant
 * Urania Mania
 * On line Public Access Catalog of National Library Service
 * Latin American (Spanish and Portuguese):
 * Chronology of Latin American Science Fiction, 1775-2005 with an extensive bibliography
 * Lithuanian:
 * SF at Knygute.lt
 * National Library of Lithuania
 * Polish:
 * Encyklopedia Fantastyki
 * Fantasta
 * NUKAT - union catalog of Polish libraries
 * Catalog of the Polish National Library
 * Projekt: Antykwariat, including magazines and writers
 * Wroble Galaktyki - Polish SF published between 1945 and 1991
 * Portuguese:
 * Bibliowiki da literatura fantástica em português
 * Colecção Argonauta
 * Livros de Ficção Científica
 * Russian:
 * Arkhiv fantastiki
 * Bibliofantast - 1918-1991
 * Bibliograph, Russian translations of foreign language SF
 * FantLab
 * Russian SF, 1950-2009
 * Russian SF, 1992-2001
 * Russian SF, 1998-2006
 * Russian SF, 1997 (partial)
 * "Russian and Soviet Science Fiction in English Translation: A Bibliography"
 * Spanish:
 * Catalogo BNE - National Library of Spain Catalogue (English interface available)
 * Stardust
 * Tercera Fundacion - La Biblioteca de Ciencia Ficción, Fantasía, Terror y Misterio (The Library of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror and Mystery)
 * Leelibros, Biblioteca de Sedice - (Fantasía, Ciencia Ficción, Terror)
 * Swedish:
 * LIBRIS - Joint catalog of the Swedish academic and research libraries with 6.5 million records
 * Turkish:
 * Kayıp Rıhtım - Bibliography of SF in Turkish
 * Ukrainian:
 * Ukrainian/Russian SF, 1997-2010

Also see the ISFDB list of ISFDB:Foreign Language Abbreviations.

Pseudonyms

 * "a.k.a." Over 11,000 entries
 * The FictionMags Index
 * CyberSpace Spinner pseudonym directory

General

 * AwardWeb
 * Science Fiction Award Watch
 * Locus list of SF awards

Individual awards

 * Apollo
 * Aurora
 * Australian Shadows
 * British Fantasy
 * BSFA
 * Campbell
 * Campbell Memorial
 * Chandler
 * Chesley
 * Clarke
 * Dick
 * Ditmar
 * Golden Duck
 * Hugo
 * Locus
 * Mythopoetic
 * Nebula
 * Prometheus
 * Rhysling
 * Sapphire
 * Sidewise
 * Stoker
 * Sturgeon
 * Tiptree
 * World Fantasy

Notable Recommended/Reading Lists

 * List of all Locus reviews since 1984
 * Jeff Vandermeer's Exhaustive Essential Fantasy Reading List
 * Amy Sheldon's Fantasy List
 * NESFA's Hugo Recommended Reading List
 * David Pringle's 100 Best Fantasy Novels
 * David Pringle's 100 Best Science Fiction Novels
 * Don D'Ammassa's Annotated Checklist of Speculative Fiction
 * SFWA recommended reading lists
 * Gardner Dozois' recommended reading list

General Bibliographies

 * Donald H. Tuck. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy through 1968: A Bibliographic Survey of the Fields of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction through 1968, Chicago, Advent Publishers, 1974-1982, in 3 volumes:
 * v. 1. Who’s who, A-L. 1974, ISBN 0-911682-20-1
 * v. 2. Who’s who, M-Z. 1978, ISBN 0-911682-22-8
 * v. 3. Miscellaneous. 1982, ISBN 0-911682-26-0
 * , Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature: A Checklist, 1700-1974, with Contemporary Science Fiction Authors II, Gale Research Co., October 1979, 1141p.
 * , Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, 1975-1991: A Bibliography of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Fiction Books and Nonfiction Monographs, Gale Research Inc., November 1992, 1512 p.
 * The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, 2nd edition, eds. John Clute and Peter Nicholls, New York, St. Martin's Griffin, 1993, ISBN 0312096186, 1370p.
 * 1995 printing: ISBN 031213486X, 1386p. (3rd edition available only online)
 * Encyclopedia of Fantasy, eds. John Clute and John Grant, New York, St. Martin’s Press, 1997, ISBN 0312145942, 1049p.
 * Science-Fiction: The Early Years, ed. Everett F. Bleiler (with Richard J. Bleiler), Kent State University Press, 1990, ISBN 0873384164, 998p.
 * Jon Warren. The Official (R) Price Guide. Paperbacks, New York, House of Collectibles, 1991, ISBN 0876377932, 934p.
 * Lloyd Currey. Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors: A Bibliography of First Printings of Their Fiction and Selected Non-Fiction, Boston, G.K. Hall & Co., 1979, ISBN 0816182426, 571pp.
 * Christopher P. Stevens. A Checklist of Some New Science Fiction Writers, 1995-2007, Ultramarine Publishing Company, ISBN 0-89366-271-2, 190p.
 * Latin American Science Fiction Writers : An A-to-Z Guide
 * Jack L. Chalker and Mark Owings. The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History 1923-1998, Electronic Edition, Westminster, Baltimore, Mirage Press, 1998, 1049p (pdf on CD).

Magazine Checklists and Bibliographies

 * Donald B. Day. Index to Science Fiction Magazines: 1926-1950, Perri Press, Portland, Oregon, 1952. (Revised with corrections, G. K. Hall, 1982)
 * Erwin S. Strauss. The MIT Science Fiction Society's Index to the Science Fiction Magazines 1951-1965, MITSFS, 1966.
 * Anthony R. Lewis. Index to the Science Fiction Magazines 1966-1970, NESFA Press, 1971.

Pseudonyms

 * Roger Robinson. Who's Hugh? An SF Reader's Guide to Pseudonyms, Beccon Press, 1987, ISBN 1870824024, 173p.
 * Barry McGhan. Science Fiction and Fantasy Pseudonyms, Cleveland, Misfit Press, 1976, 1979, 70p. (945 authors and 1,483 pseudonyms)
 * Rock, James A. Who Goes There: A Bibliographic Dictionary of Pseudonymous Literature in Fantasy & Science Fiction, Bloomington, IN: James A. Rock & Co., Publishers, 1979, 201pp. (1200+ authors, 2000+ pseudonyms)

Sub-Genres
Romance:
 * Sheridan &amp; Bontley, Enchanted Journeys Beyond the Imagination: An Annotated Bibliography of Fantasy, Futuristic, Supernatural, and Time Travel Romances, Blue Diamond Publications, 1995-1999. More than 1,000 speculative fiction romance books.
 * Clevenger, Macho, &amp; McCravy, The Alternate reality romance guide: A reader's and collector's resource for the paranormal sub-genres, Blue Diamond Publications, 1998.

International

 * Dutch
 * Rinus Gaasbeek, Georges Gorremans and Arnold Spaink - Fantasfeer plus Aanvulling 1979, Aanvulling 1980 and Aanvulling 1981


 * French
 * Pierre Versins - Encyclopedie de l'Utopie des Voyages Extraordinaires et de la Science Fiction
 * French Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror & Pulp Fiction, McFarland & Company, 2000, ISBN 0786405961, 800p.