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Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Because I was 8 years old when this site was created and because I’m professionally rather new to speculative fiction (I only recently discovered Alfred Bester and Robert Sheckley), I didn’t know about the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.

Here’s a look at what it feels like:

So it’s just pages and pages of things I didn’t know existed. And many of these stories didn’t exist.

FC Shultz? You reading this? Check out the Ray Bradbury page on There Will Come Soft Rains:

Title: August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains Title Record # 95330
Author: Ray Bradbury 
Date: 1951-06-00 
Variant Title of: There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [may list more publications, awards, reviews, votes and covers] 
Type: SHORTFICTION 
Length: short story 
Series: The Martian Chronicles 
Language: English 
User Rating: 8.50 (4 votes) Your vote: Not cast VOTE 
Current Tags: X Minus 1 (2), into-movie (1), Dimension X (1), into-comics (1), fire (1), dogs (1), robots (1), Los Angeles (1), housework (1), into-radio (1), science fiction (1), post apocalypse (1), near future (1), smart house (1), postapocalyptic (1), only Earth (1), nuclear war (1)

Publications

TitleDateAuthor/EditorPublisher/Pub. SeriesISBN/Catalog IDPricePagesFormatTypeCover ArtistVerif
The Martian Chronicles1951-06-00Ray BradburyBantam Books886$0.25?200pb?collCheckmark
The Martian Chronicles1951-08-00Ray BradburyBantam Books886$0.25?200pb?coll 
The Silver Locusts1956-00-00Ray BradburyCorgi8862/-?256pb?collJohn RichardsCheckmark
The Martian Chronicles1958-05-00Ray BradburyDoubleday $2.95?222hc?collRobert Watson (artist) 
The Martian Chronicles1959-09-00Ray BradburyDoubleday  222hc?collRobert Watson (artist) 
The Martian Chronicles1961-02-00Ray BradburyDoubleday  222hc?collRobert Watson (artist)Checkmark
The Martian Chronicles1962-02-00Ray BradburyDoubleday  222hc?collRobert Watson (artist) 
The Martian Chronicles1963-04-00Ray BradburyBantam Books $?viii+
181		pb?coll 
The Martian Chronicles1964-04-00Ray BradburyBantam Books $?viii+
181		pb?coll 
The Martian Chronicles1964-08-00Ray BradburyBantam Books $?viii+
181		pb?coll 
The Silver Locusts1965-00-00Ray BradburyCorgiGS71853/6?181pb?collJosh KirbyCheckmark
The Martian Chronicles1965-03-00Ray BradburyBantam Books $?viii+
181		pb?coll 
The Martian Chronicles1966-03-00Ray BradburyBantam

It has pages on:

And on and on and on.

I’m assuming by now you’ll check out the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.

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Lancelot Schaubert

Lancelot Schaubert authored Bell Hammers, which Publisher’s Weekly called “a hoot.” He edits anthologies and journals; produces albums, films, and photo novels; raises funds, friends, and minds for artists. Learn more here.

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  1. CC

    Woah what a cool site! Somehow I have never seen it! My favorite collection of speculative fiction short stories we read recently was Lucy Corin’s One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses – highly recommend!

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    1. Lancelot Schaubert

      Yooooo CC thanks for the comment. What was cold about Corin?

      Reply



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