Links

Updated July 10,2000

This is my page of links to my other intersest besides the Wold Newton Chronicles.

First, the site I use to start my day every morning. Personally I can't think of a better way to get out of bed than a good shot of Tarzan.

For other comics, go here. For Flash Gordon, go here..

Another place I go everyday is the Astronomy Picture of the Day. The pictures presented here are the most recent and amazing pictures of the sky ever taken. The photos come from the Hubble and other state of the art observatories, and are absolutely beautiful. If you check out nothing else on this link page, you owe yourself this one.

Next up comes a major love of mine: Progressive Rock:

First up is the Progressive Rock Ring, a webring bringing you into contact with literally hundreds of top notch prog bands from Djam Karet and Dream Theater to Hermetic Science and Spock's Beard. Learn about the bands, sample their music, and, yes, buy some if it appeals to you.

Second, check out the best source of information on progressive music, Progression magazine. Every issue has hundreds of reviews of concerts and albums, interviews with leading artists, and quite often a free CD.

And for the best progressive label currently in business, bringing you bands like Magellan, Shadow Gallery, Cairo, as well as Jam projects like Bozzio-Levin-Stevens, Liquid Tension Experiment and Explorer's Club, try Magna Carta Records.

Next, check out Notes From The Edge, the premiere Yes-related news magazine.

Here is the homepage for power-classic prog trio, Emerson, Lake and Palmer.

Renaissance is a bit of a guilty pleasure amongst prog-rockers, but they're really pleasant to listen to. What can I say?

If somewhat more challenging rock is more your taste, try Gentle Giant.

Don't forget the ultimate progressive band, King Crimson.

Although not progressive rock, there's no musician I'd recommend more highly than Miles Davis. And for those of you looking for the prog connection, check out Miles' electric music.

Also not prog, but tremendous fun, are two artists from West Africa,: Fela Kuti combines the rythmic power of James Brown and 70s-era Miles with a fiery and controversial political stance. King Sunny Ade is the leader of the juju music scene. If he comes to your town, don't miss him, unless you just don't like extremely skillful musicians, infectious dancing, and a powerfully good time.

If philosophy is more your style, please check out the following:

The Mythos and Logos website is an amazing collection of information on philosophy, existentialism, myth and psychology. Prepare to spend days exploring this site. The man who created it has done a job that just leaves me in awe. Highly recommended.

The man who taught me to love philosophy and stop taking my life for granted was Colin Wilson, the author of The Outsider. There are a couple of interesting sites devoted to his thought.

The first is John Morgan's Colin Wilson site. It hasn't been updated in a while, but there is a good deal of info available here, and it's the best Wilson site on the map.

Another good site on Wilson's thought is Hosam Soleh's Faculty X. On this site, Hosam reconstructs Wilson's thought based on his own experiences and the work of Carlos Castaneda and G.I.Gurdjieff.

Another writer who always makes me think, and quite often makes me laugh, and sometimes makes me feel insulted is Robert Anton Wilson. Not only will his site provoke the same responses in you, but his links will take you to the most informative and mind-expanding locales on the internet.

Another site designed to make you think is Great Minds Online, a catalogue of information about the most visionary of thinkers in history.

Fans of Herman Hesse might check out an interesting attempt to create the multi-media Glass Bead Game.

If you're interested in the origins of man, you might try to learn a little something about Neandertals at this informative site.

For an all too brief period in the 1980s, I lived on the island of St.Kitts.

Ok, Now for some more fun stuff.

I am a member of the Los Angelese Science Fantasy Society, the organization with the longest continuous meeting record in the history of science fiction fandom. They meet every Thursday night at their clubhouse in Burbank, California, and host Loscon, the Los Angeles regional convention every Thanksgiving weekend. For more information about this great group, go to the LASFS homepage.

If you're interested in the larger world of SF, and aren't getting LOCUS, WHAT ARE YOU THINKING? It's a sort of cross between Time magazine and Publisher's Weekly. The best source for interviews, reviews and news about Science Fiction.

For a wonderful website devoted to Lost Races, Swashbucklers, Fin de Siecle Ghost stories and the macabre, check out Violet books. Owned and operated by fantasy novelist, Jessie Amanda Salmonson, this site is more than just a bookstore. It's a treasure trove of information about books that are just too darned hard to come by anymore. Please support her efforts, and, at the very least, enjoy them.

If you like the writers who contributed to Adventure magazine during the pulp era, you might stop by these two sites:

Harold Lamb- Creator of Khlit the Cossack and author of a number of excellent historical biographies.

Talbot Mundy -The creator of Tros of Samothrace and Jimgrim.

For a look at some of my favorite illustrators, check out Richard Garrison's Art of the Fantastic.

An artist not included on the above site, but too good to miss, is Roger Dean.

And last, but far from least, click here to pay your respects to Earth's Mightiest Superheroes, The Avengers.

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