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
  • The British Science Fiction Assocation - I have been a member for over 30 years!
  • Clarkesworld Magazine - free fiction zine
  • Darker Matter - free fiction zine
  • ElectricStory.com - publishes ebooks from sf authors
  • Event Horizon - successor to Omni, now itself defunct but on archive.org
  • 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
  • William Gibson - author blog
  • Helix fiction zine
  • The Hub - free British fiction zine
  • Infinite Matrix - magazine
  • Infinity Plus - best site for free stories and reviews
  • Interaction 2005 Worldcon - I was there...
  • Interzone - best British SF mag
  • 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
  • OMNI - online magazine now sadly defunct but stored on archive.org
  • RevolutionSF - stylish magazine
  • Alastair Reynolds - author blog
  • Adam Roberts - author blog
  • Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database
  • Scribd - site for sharing fiction
  • Science Fiction Citations
  • Science Fiction Crows Nest - web/email magazine
  • Science Fiction Resource Guide - enormous and comprehensive and now only on archive.org
  • Science Fiction Weekly - best online news magazine
  • Scifi UK Online - Sci-Fi Channel
  • Scifiction - successor to Event Horizon, provided by the Sci-Fi Channel, now alas defunct and on archive.org
  • SF Hub - the UK's major SF archive/academic centre
  • SF Signal - excellent blog
  • The SF Site - includes material from IASFM, Interzone, Analog and more
  • SFF Net
  • SFRevu
  • Strange Horizons - weekly fiction zine
  • Tangent Online - reviews short fiction
  • UK SF Fandom Archive
  • SF Novelists - a group blog
  • Bruce Sterling - author blog
  • Charlie Stross - author blog
  • Subterranean Magazine
  • Transreal - Edinburgh SF bookshop
  • UK SF Book News Network
  • 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
  • I play PBEM games using the Automated Card Tracking System
  • Black Lion Games - Edinburgh games shop
  • Boardgamegeek
  • 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's blog - noted game designer
  • a PBEM game of Crusades I ran
  • I always attend Dicecon
  • I played for Team 'Yorkshire Terriers' in the 2000 World E-Mail Masters Diplomacy Tournament
  • a PBEM game of Empires of the Middle Ages I ran
  • I played in a number of Galaxy games and am in the (old) Galaxy Hall of Fame
  • 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
  • I play in PBEM games of Sopwith
  • I am playing in the 2007 BPA and the 2007 European Cup Twilight Struggle PBEM tournaments
  • 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 - 1998
    • 'Battle lines drawn on and off the Net' in the Connected Supplement of the Daily Telegraph - 1999
    • 'Les Grognards' in the Escapist Magazine - 6/12/2005
  • I am playing in the 2006 BPA Wilderness War PBEM tournament.

Alan Poulter (PGP public key), last updated 15/04/08
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