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great resource that no one writing science fiction or fantasy, or writing, edited by John Clute and David Langford. Originally launched in 1979, the book had a massively expanded section edition in 1993, then made its online debut with the third edition in 2011. That version contained 12,230 entries totalling 3,222,920 words. The fourth edition, now published by SFE Ltd and Ansible Editions, making its debut exactly ten years later, and offered at launch 18,834 entries, 6,362,055 words and 226,451 links. Updated several times a week, this amazing resource is entirely free. Explore a whole universe of science fiction at

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