E-texts and Literature Related Stuff

Some favourite authors and E-texts, and so on.

Authors:

• Kurt Vonnegut, author of many excellent novels such as: Breakfast of Champions, Slaughterhouse Five, and Cat's Craddle.
• William Shakespeare, the immortal bard, truly.
• Climb into C. S. Lewis' Wardrobe, and you might find yourself in the land of Narnia.
• The world has never been quite the same since Edgar Allen Poe stumbled out among us.

Top literary honours for this page go to:

• Shelly's Frankenstein Quite possibly my favourite book of all time. The movies do NOT do justice to the original. If you have never read it, check out this link now. The entire text is online. Read it now!!!

Links:

• Project Gutenberg: Public Domain E-texts of Classic Literature.
• ALEX: A catalog of E-texts on the Internet.
• Yanoff's List's Liturature Links: A Variety of Related Links From a Plethora of Sources.
• Ethereal Library: Classic E-Texts, Fiction and Non-Fiction, from a historical Christian bent.
• Book Lovers: Fine Books and Literature

Interactive Fiction (Text Adventures)

This area is for those of us who sat at home, late at night, quaking in fear as we encountered the thief in Zork, or listening in delight to Floyd in planetfall. This is for those of us who believe that the best games required only a 8086 processor (or less), a monochrome monitor and an imagination.

Links:

• Colossal Caves (220k ibm pc version) is the one that started it all, the original "adventure". It is somewhat primitive by today's standards, but still well worth looking at. Check it out, or others at the Interactive Fiction Archive.
• Inform is a freely available compiler that allows you to design and create actual Infocom text adventure stories.
• The Interatcive Fiction FTP Site is where you can find a large collection of interactive fiction related files; including texts, authoring/programming systems, games, and more.
• The Interatcive Fiction Home Page houses many interactive fiction resources; including information, articles, links to news groups, files, and other resources.
• XYZZY News is a magazine dedicated to interactive fiction.
• Yahoo has some more interactive fiction related links.

Other sites

This is just a list of sites which I think are useful, neat, wacky or just felt like putting here...

Links:

• Scott Yanoff's List of Internet Services (HTML version).
• The Discovery Channel Home Page All sorts of info about discovery as well as some interesting links to other places and various discovery employee home pages.
• Lycos Web Search is probably the most effective way to find anything on the World Wide Web; more effective even than WebCrawler.
• Speaking of WebCrawler, how about ten Random Links to go check out?
• Spies are everywhere. but even ZONTAR has problems breaking in to PGP encrypted messages.