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• Football
  • Walton & Hersham FC, my Dad used to play for them!
  
  
• Science fiction
  • 47 North - Amazon's SF imprint
  • Amazon's Science Fiction Forum
  • Brian Aldiss
  • J.G. Ballard
  • Iain M. Banks
  • Stephen Baxter
  • BestScienceFictionBooks.com
  • Best SF - database for locating free short fiction
  • Michael Bishop
  • Terry Bisson
  • BestScienceFictionStories.com
  • Big Dumb Object - excellent UK-based blog
  • The British Science Fiction Assocation - I have been a member for over 30 years!
  • Chronicle community UK
  • Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel published in the UK each year
  • Clarkesworld Magazine - free fiction zine
  • Philip K. Dick
  • Eclipse Online - quality free short fiction
  • Greg Egan
  • ElectricStory.com - publishes ebooks from sf authors
  • Europa SF - the European  Science Fiction Portal
  • The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction - online edition of a classic text
  • FANAC FanHistory Archives
  • Fictionwise - sells ebook novels and short stories from sf authors
  • Flurb - free fiction zine edited by Rudy Rucker
  • Jeffrey Ford
  • Free Speculative Fiction online
  • Futurismic - blog with fiction
  • Galaxy's Edge - webzine with fiction / edited by Mike Resnick
  • William Gibson - author blog
  • Ursula K. Le Guin
  • M. John Harrison
  • Infinite Matrix - magazine
  • Infinity Plus - was the best site for free stories and reviews, now in stasis, ...and now reborn as an ebook publisher
  • Interaction 2005 Worldcon - I was there...
  • Internet Review of Science Fiction
  • Internet Speculative Fiction Database
  • Interzone - best British SF mag
  • io9 - portal
  • Gwyneth Jones
  • Jay Lake
  • LibraryThing - hosts my SF collection and my reviews
  • Locus Magazine - the best print news/review magazine around
  • Ian R. MacLeod
  • Ken MacLeod - author blog
  • Paul Mcauley - author blog
  • Will McCarthy - author blog
  • Ian Mcdonald - author blog
  • Phillip Mann - author blog
  • In May/June 2012 the National Library of Scotland ran an exhibition on Scottish science fiction, which included talks by writers Ken MacLeod, Charlie Stross and Gary Gibson, and the exhibition's curator. In the exhibition (Item 12) was a copy of Spectrum SF 9 which I had donated.
  • Kim Newman
  • Frederick Pohl
  • Tim Powers
  • QuasarDragon - blog listing new free fiction
  • RevolutionSF - stylish magazine
  • Robert Reed
  • Alastair Reynolds - author blog
  • Adam Roberts - author blog
  • Karl Schroeder's blog
  • Sci Fi Wire - zine
  • Science Fiction  and Fantasy Research Database
  • Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines
  • Science Fiction Citations
  • Science Fiction Crows Nest - web/email magazine
  • Sci-Fi Channel UK
  • SciFiDimensions - zine
  • Scifiction - successor to Event Horizon, provided by the Sci-Fi Channel, now alas defunct
  • Sci-Fi Lists
  • Scribd - site for sharing fiction
  • SF Hub - the UK's major SF archive/academic centre
  • SF Signal - excellent blog
  • The SF Site - review portal
  • SF Crowsnest
  • SffMeta - 'meta' rates books from their reviews
  • SFF Net
  • SFRevu - news zine
  • Robert Silverberg
  • Dan Simmons
  • Brian Stableford
  • Strange Horizons - weekly fiction zine
  • SF Fandom Archive
  • Bruce Sterling - author blog
  • Charlie Stross - author blog
  • Subterranean Magazine - fiction mag
  • Tangent -short fiction review mag
  • Tor - major US/UK SF publisher offering non-DRM'd ebooks
  • 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
  • Ian Watson
  • Weightless Book - epublisher of non-DRM'nd fiction magazines
  • Liz Williams - author blog
  • Walter John Williams
  • Connie Willis
  • Robert Charles Wilson - author blog
  • World SF Blog
  • John C. Wright
  • The Zone
  
  
• Wargaming
  
  • I play 1960: the Making of a President on gametableonline.com
  • I play A Few Acres of Snow on yucata.de
  • Allan's Games - Empire and Sopwith
  • a PBEM game of A Mighty Fortress I ran
  • a PBEM game of After the Holocaust I ran
  • About Board Games
  • Against the Odds - magazine
  • I play PBEM games using the Automated Card Tracking System
  • Black Lion Games - Edinburgh games shop
  • Blue vs Gray Tracker - PBEM utility
  • Boardgamegeek - game database
  • Boardgameinfo
  • I played in the 2000 World E-Mail Britannia Championship
  • Consim-L, the Conflict Simulation Games mailing list which I helped 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 have an account on Days of Wonder
  • I always attend Dicecon
  • Jim Dunnigan - game designer
  • a PBEM game of Empires of the Middle Ages I ran
  • The Gamer's Alliance
  • 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 was 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.
  • opinionatedgamers.com
  • PocketTactics.com
  • I played 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
  • 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 ran from 1994 to 2013. It has been reviewed in:-
    • 'Return of the hex-crazed wargamers, 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 and am playing in the Wilderness War 2010 PBEM tournament.