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Ancient Web: A Physicist Spent Years Taking Star Wars Seriously

Curtis Saxton’s Star Wars Technical Commentaries began in 1995 and applied scientific reasoning to spacecraft, planets, biology, measurements and other technical details of the Star Wars universe.

Ancient Web: KAGAYA's Celestial Exploring Imagined Earth Three Thousand Years From Now

KAGAYA's Celestial Exploring combines digital fantasy art with a far-future story in which humanity spreads among the stars and returns to a restored Earth as a sacred home world.

Ancient Web: The Abyss of Wonder Preserves Alexei Panshin's Personal Web Library

Alexei Panshin maintained The Abyss of Wonder from 1999 until 2022, publishing fiction, criticism, essays, song lyrics, book material, and personal commentary in a hand-built archive that remains preserved after his death.

Ancient Web: Chicon 2000 Left an Entire Worldcon Online

The surviving Chicon 2000 website preserves the logistics, guests, program culture, rules, songs, and Web design of the 58th World Science Fiction Convention.

Ancient Web: Urth.net Preserved Decades of Gene Wolfe Arguments in Plain Text

Urth.net preserved a long-running public mailing-list discussion of Gene Wolfe's fiction, leaving behind one of those dense plain-text archives that became more valuable as the years passed.

Ancient Web: Jerry Oltion's Homepage Is Half Sci-Fi Bibliography, Half Telescope Workshop

Jerry Oltion's personal site mixes decades of science-fiction writing with homemade telescopes, astronomy projects, sundials, workshop notes, repaired Volkswagens, and the kind of deep hobby pages personal websites do best.

Ancient Web: Chronos Built a Fake Time-Travel Corporation and Committed to the Bit

Chronos.ws presents time travel as the corporate technology of a twenty-second-century company, complete with fictional divisions, dimensional physics, operating procedures, and a disclaimer explaining that no, they will not reunite you with your dead relatives.

Ancient Web: RAMA3D Built a Personal Science-Fiction CGI Gallery for Arthur C. Clarke Fans

Espen Paulsen's RAMA3D is a surviving personal gallery of homemade science-fiction CGI, guest art, space imagery, and Arthur C. Clarke fandom from the era when rendering Bryce landscapes was enough reason to build an entire website.

Ancient Web: Greg Egan Has Kept a Science-Fiction Home Page Alive Since 1997

Greg Egan's personal site has been online since 1997, combining fiction, bibliographies, science notes, illustrations, applets, free stories, and author-controlled context in one durable home page.

Ancient Web: Jane Fancher's Hand-Built Author Site Still Points Back to Gate of Ivrel

Jane Fancher's long-running personal site preserves traces of her science-fiction career, bibliography and graphic-novel work adapting C. J. Cherryh's Gate of Ivrel, including material that modern author platforms rarely keep visible.