The web-site was originally dedicated to bibliographies, specifically those related to science fiction and fantasy authors, and introduced a list of fiction magazines (with particular emphasis on which had or had not been indexed) as a useful reference. However, this latter list grew and grew with time (particularly after I joined the FictionMags mailing list) and it now occupies about 95% of the website (and 99% of the effort devoted to it!). At the same time I got more and more involved in actually indexi
The website is therefore divided into three (very unequal) sections: This is the section that attempts to document all known fiction magazines, in varying levels of detail. As there are over 9400 of these, they are also organised into various different subsets for those who, for instance, are not wildly interested in 19th century magazines. A fuller description of these can be found by following the link to the left, or for those who want to jump straight to the chase, the following are the main subdivisi
In addition there are a wide range of indexes and bibliographic resources which are listed on a separate page .
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