references
[electronic sources - web pages]

1. Definitions of Science Fiction
   http://www.panix.com/~gokce/sf_defn.html
2. History and Definition of Science Fiction
   http://alcor.concordia.ca/~talfred/sf-def.htm
3. Branches in Time: Alternate Histories Are True SF by Stephen Baxter
   http://www.sam.math.ethz.ch/~pkeller/BAXTER/Articles/AltHist.html
4. Scifaiku.com
   http://www.scifaiku.com/

[electronic sources - cd-rom]

1. 1995 Grolier Multimedia Encylopaedia, Grolier Electronic Publishing, 1995
   

[graphics]
Science Fiction - The Illustrated Encyclopaedia:

1. index.html -robot graphic, p 71
2. intro.html -spaceship, p 83
3. main.html -eye graphic derived from p 98

[printed material - periodicals]

1. Argus Tonight, Jun 24, 1999, Why sci-fi's got a great future

[printed material - partial text]

1. Constellations - Stories of the future, Edited by Malcolm Edwards, Material used: Introduction
   

[printed material - entire book]

1. Science Fiction - The Illustrated Encyclopaedia, John Clute, Dorling Kindersley Limited, 1995
   
2. The Science Fiction Reference Book, Starmont House, 1981