Welcome to Alan Poulter's home page on Demon!

• Culture
  • Arts and Letters Daily
  • Science Daily
  
  
• Football
  • Walton & Hersham FC, my Dad used to play for them!
  
  
• Science fiction
  • Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel published in the UK each year
  • Best SF - database for locating free short fiction
  • BestScienceFictionStories.com
  • Big Dumb Object - excellent UK-based blog
  • The British Science Fiction Assocation - I have been a member for over 30 years!
  • Clarkesworld Magazine - free fiction zine
  • ElectricStory.com - publishes ebooks from sf authors
  • FANAC FanHistory Archives
  • Fictionwise - sells ebook novels and short stories from sf authors
  • Flurb - free fiction zine edited by Rudy Rucker
  • Free Speculative Fiction online
  • Futurismic - blog with fiction
  • William Gibson - author blog
  • Hivemind - social networking for SF fans
  • The Hub - free British fiction zine
  • Infinite Matrix - magazine
  • Infinity Plus - was the best site for free stories and reviews, now in stasis
  • Interaction 2005 Worldcon - I was there...
  • Internet Review of Science Fiction
  • Interzone - best British SF mag
  • io9 - portal
  • LibraryThing - hosts my SF collection and my reviews
  • Locus Magazine - the best print news/review magazine around
  • Paul Mcauley - author blog
  • Will McCarthy - author blog
  • Ian Mcdonald - author blog
  • Ken MacLeod - author blog
  • QuasarDragon - blog listing new free fiction
  • RevolutionSF - stylish magazine
  • Alastair Reynolds - author blog
  • Adam Roberts - author blog
  • Karl Schroeder's blog
  • Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database
  • SciFiDimensions - zine
  • Science Fiction Citations
  • Science Fiction Crows Nest - web/email magazine
  • Sci-Fi Channel UK
  • Scifiction - successor to Event Horizon, provided by the Sci-Fi Channel, now alas defunct
  • Sci Fi Wire - zine
  • Scribd - site for sharing fiction
  • SF Hub - the UK's major SF archive/academic centre
  • SF Signal - excellent blog
  • The SF Site - review portal
  • SFF Net
  • SFRevu - news zine
  • Strange Horizons - weekly fiction zine
  • Tangent Online - reviews short fiction
  • UK SF Fandom Archive
  • Bruce Sterling - author blog
  • Charlie Stross - author blog
  • Subterranean Magazine - fiction mag
  • Tor - major US SF publisher
  • Torque Control - blog of the editorial staff of Vector, the critical journal of the BSFA
  • Transreal - Edinburgh SF bookshop
  • UK SF Book News Network
  • Ultimate Guide to Modern Writers of Science Fiction and Fantasy - a spreadsheet author listing
  • Liz Williams - author blog
  • The Zone
  
  
• Wargaming
  
  • a PBEM game of A Mighty Fortress I ran
  • a PBEM game of After the Holocaust I ran
  • Against the Odds - magazine
  • I play PBEM games using the Automated Card Tracking System
  • Black Lion Games - Edinburgh games shop
  • Boardgamegeek - game database
  • I played in the 2000 World E-Mail Britannia Championship
  • Consim-L, the Conflict Simulation Games mailing list which I help administrate
  • check out John Kranz's excellent Consimworld covering the hobby via a forum and a social networking app.
  • Greg Costikyan - game designer blog
  • a PBEM game of Crusades I ran
  • I always attend Dicecon
  • Jim Dunnigan - game designer
  • a PBEM game of Empires of the Middle Ages I ran
  • I am in the Galaxy Hall of Fame, a long dead PBEM game
  • I played in the 2004 BPA Hammer of the Scots PBEM tournament on the Above the Fields PBEM site.
  • I am a member of the International Gamers Awards Historical Simulations Committee
  • a PBEM game of Machiavelli (1st ed.) I ran
  • I played in the 2004 BPA Napoleonic Wars PBEM tournament.
  • I play in PBEM games of Pax Britannica and am in the Internet Pax Britannica Ladder
  • a PBEM game of Russian Civil War I ran and one I recently played in
  • I play in PBEM games of Sopwith
  • Strategy and Tactics - magazine
  • I played in the 2007 BPA and the 2007 European Cup Twilight Struggle PBEM tournaments. I am playing in the Twilight Struggle Ladder
  • Vae Victis - magazine
  • VASSAL online gaming site
  • I played in the 2006 BPA We the People PBEM tournament.
  • Web-Grognards 'the site for wargames on the web', which I run. It has been reviewed in:-
    • 'Return of the hex-crazed wargamers' in Salon Magazine
    • 'Battle lines drawn on and off the Net' in the Connected Supplement of the Daily Telegraph
    • 'Les Grognards' in Escapist Magazine
  • I played in the 2007 BPA Wilderness War PBEM tournament.