2000 - 2003
- November 25, 2003
- Added a link to Jill Tarter and Margaret Turnbull's scientifically accurage HabCat Star Database. This is the short list of stars likely to have human habitable planets.
- November 12, 2003
- Added a link to David Nash's incredible HYG Star Database. This is your one-stop shopping for star data.
- October 14, 2003
- Added a link to Geoff Eddy's Worldbuilding Site.
- October 2, 2003
- Added a link to Hartley Patterson's StarForce style map.
- September 18, 2003
- Added a link to Tero Niemi web site. He has some stunning rendered 3-D maps.
- August 28, 2003
- Added a link to the new book 3-D Star Maps of Nearby Stars by Space-Art by KAF. It has details about constructing physical 3-D starmap displays.
- July 4, 2003
- Added a link to the comprehensive Roleplaying Directory of Worldbuilding Links.
- June 10, 2003
- Added a link to John Whatmough's incredible Extrasolar Skies web site. It will generate an image of the night sky from any star in the Hipparcos Star Catalog.
- May 11, 2003
- Added a link to Jed Whitten's marvelous online starmap.
- April 18, 2003
- After another too long a hiatus, fixed more zillions of broken links and fixed the navigation bar.
- March 22, 2002
- After too long a hiatus, fixed zillions of broken links and slightly changed the navigation bar.
- January 9, 2000: Suggested Reading
- Added a link to Michael McCollum's mind-bogglingly useful Astrogator's Manual. This is another book that belongs on the shelf of all serious 3-D starmappers. It has all the stars in a 150 light year cube centered on the sun! This book is chock full of valuable information! Check it out!
- January 9, 2000: Freebies!
- Claus Børnich's It's Full Of Stars has returned!
- January 9, 2000: Misc Links
- Added a link to the Velvet worldbuilding site. This Berkeley based site is an extended worldbuilding project similar to Epona.
1999
- September 8, 1999: Misc Links
- Added a link to the truly incredible Internet Stellar Database. You have got to check this one out, it is really useful.
- June 27, 1999: Freebies!
- Claus Børnich's It's Full Of Stars has gone dead, as has his email. If anybody can get in touch with him, please let me know. Added a link to the hot new site The Three-Dimensional Universe. This site allows you to dynamically generate a 3-D stereogram using the Hipparcos data, using your co-ordinates. Added a link to an incredible shareware program called StarStrider. This program is the real thing, check it out right now!
- June 27, 1999: Misc Links
- Added a link to Eric's Treasure Troves of Science. Added a link to the AllExperts.com site.
- June 27, 1999: NStars
- Added a link to NASA's new near star database NStars. Check this baby out!
- February 14, 1999: But Wait, there's more!
- Added a commentary by Chris Lawson about heliocentric versus galactic co-ordinates.
- February 14, 1999: Freebies!
- Thomas York's 3D Stars program is now in version 1.1! It has lots of new features, give it a go! Jim Smith (of Free Virtual Galaxy fame) has a new program, the Free Virtual World! This program allow the generation of voxel landscapes for your alien planets. Added a link to my own experimental program StereoStar. It allows one to view and rotate a map in 3-D, using the cross-eyed, wide-eyed, or red-blue anaglyph glasses method.
- February 14, 1999: Map Index
- Added a link to a new set of accurate 3-D maps created by the author for the starship combat game Full Thrust.
1998
May - Dec
- December 29 1998: Misc Links
- Found the new home of the Accrete web site! Added a link to Ed Hobb's excellent Star View java applet, which shows the closest 272 stars. Fixed the broken link to The World, The Flesh, and The Devil. Added a link to the Xenology WebRing. Added a link to the Bad Astronomy Homepage. Added a link to Thomas Anderson's Stellar Cartography site. James Shuster's VRML starmap now has a second larger starmap. Fixed a broken link to the Stellarium site.
- December 29 1998: Freebies!
- Warp Now! is now in version 9.
- December 29 1998: Suggested Reading
- Added a recommendation for the marvelous computer game Independence War. Added a link to Geoffrey Landis's hypothesis explaining the Fermi Paradox.
- December 29 1998: Freebies!
- Added a link to a marvelous shareware program Sky3D. Added a link to Dr. Cramer's Macintosh Hypercard stack about Sol's Neighbors.
- December 29 1998: Map Index
- Fixed a broken link to the new improved Rana Sector map.
- December 23 1998: Misc Links
- Regretfully disabled the link to the Accrete home page, as apparently Ian Burrell has graduated and departed for parts unknown. If anybody knows where he is, please get in touch with me. Added a link to the Signposts Timeline future history. Fixed a bad link to the Quick and Dirty FAQ. Dave Allen's World Builder program is now in version 1.5! Added a link to Chrisopher Neufelds FTL = Time Machine proof. Added a link to the sci.physics.relativity FAQ. Added a link to the Web Nebula site. Added a link to John Dollan's Planetary Classification List. Added a link to Carl Burke's Solar System Synthesis Java Applet. Added a link to Sky and Telescope's list of Online Star Charts. Added a link to Tom Loredo's list of Physical and Earth Sciences links. Added a link to the lists of Astrodynamic Constants.
- December 23 1998: Suggested Reading
- Added a link to the book The Millenial Project. Added entries for two good articles by Milton Rothman.
- July 4 1998: Misc Links
- Added a link to Dave Allen's World Builder program. This goodie creates maps of planets using real plate tectonics and other geophysical science.
- Added a link to Beth and Richard Treitel's Quick and Dirty SF Science FAQ. This FAQ has lots of valuable answers to common questions about the science in science fiction, and should prove useful to worldbuilders.
- Added a link to Mitchell Charity's awesome "A View from the Back of the Envelope" site. This site gives useful information about visualizing the scale of the universe and dealing with powers of ten.
- Added a link to Mitch Dotson's Stellar Cartography web site.
- Added a link to the JPL's Solar System Simulator. (Thanks to David Paulsen.)
- July 4 1998: My God! It's Full of Stars!
- Added a link to Vargas' homepage, the King of astronomical catalogues. He's got it all!
- July 4 1998: Freebies!
- It's Full Of Stars! is now in version 2.2
- Fixed a broken link to James R. Smith's Free Virtual Galaxy.
- July 4 1998: Alien Skies
- Fixed a broken link to the PCSpace shareware program. (Thanks to Lorin)
- July 4 1998: Suggested Reading
- Added a note about the availability of Warren Salomon's article The Economics of Interstellar Commerce
Jan - Apr
- April 26 1998: Freebies!
- Added a link to Thomas York's 3D Stars program, that makes maps, allows one to fly around the local group of stars, and even lets one run the map forwards and backwards in time plus or minus one million years!
- March 27 1998: Suggested Reading
- Added a link to an online version of Greg Costikyan's marvelous article The $11 Billion Dollar Bottle of Wine, The possiblities of interstellar trade. An insightful analysis.
- March 1 1998: Stars in Science Fiction
- Fixed a broken link to speculations about ST:TOS Vulcan's sun.
- March 1 1998: Freebies!
- Added a link to David Morgan-Mar's Postscript Starmapper. Fixed a broken linkto Claus Børnich's It's Full Of Stars. Added a link to Jim Vassilakos' STARMAP, an incredible 3-D starmap generator/viewer (Check this one out! It is worth the download!)
- March 1 1998: Misc Links
- Added a link to Reaction Drives Formulae website by David Morgan-Mar. Added a link to Reaction Drives and Deltavees, Science Essays and Physics Reference by Erik Max Francis. Added a link to Earth System by Nicholas Law.
- March 1 1998: Suggested Reading
- Added a listing for World Tamers Handbook.
- Feb 15 1998: Freebies!
- Added a link to the Java Accrete solar system maker. The NearStar program now includes the Pascal source code!
- Feb 15 1998: Misc Links
- Added a link to Warp Drives and Wormholes.
- Feb 14 1998: Misc Links
- Added a link to Astronomy and numerical software source codes. Fixed broken link to Megastrutures in SF. Added a link to Klaus Richter's 3-D Starmap website. Added a link to Michael Brundin's 2-D Starmap site.
- Feb 14 1998: My God! It's full of Stars!
- Added a link to Klaus Richter's German Extrasolar Planet site.
- Feb 14 1998: Freebies!
- Added a link to Scott Halbert's animated GIF of the Gliese starmap. Added a new sample starmap by Thomas York.
- Feb 14 1998: See-A-Show in Sterr-ee-oh
- Added a link to Christoph Bungert's mavelous Stereoscopic 3D Homepage.
- Feb 14 1998: Everywhere
- I'm trying to fix all the broken links, bear with me...
- Feb 9 1998: Stars in Science Fiction
- Added a note about the Kzinti Homeworld.
- Feb 9 1998: Oh no! Not Trigonometry!
- Added Eric Max Francis' explaination about the preference of radians over degrees.
- Feb 9 1998: Alien Skies
- Added a link to the PCSpace shareware program.
- Feb 9 1997: Freebies!
- 3Star is now in version 1.1. It's Full Of Stars! is now in version 2.1.
- Feb 9 1998: Misc Links
- Fixed the instructions to the 3-d starmapping list. Fixed broken links to World and Critter Building, and World Builders presents: Epona
- Feb 9 1998: Suggested Reading
- Added a link to the site where one can order copies of Michael McCollum's wonderful SF novels. Added an entry about The Writer's Guide to Creating a Science Fiction Universe. Added an entry about The Wealth of Galaxies.
1997
July - Dec
- Sept 19 1997: My God! It's full of stars!
- Added a link to the NASA ADC and Navy Aries archives of astronomical catalogs.
- Sept 19 1997: Freebies!
- Added a link to the Sky 3-D program by Corvus. Added a link to the 3 Star program by Nicholas Law. It's Full Of Stars! is now in version 2.0.1.
- Sept 19 1997: Map Index
- Added a link to an nifty starmap created by Brian M.
- Sept 19 1997: Misc Links
- Added a link to an ABC article pointing out a nasty flaw in the Alcubierre "Warp Drive". Added a link to SETI At Home. Added a link to Sagars Planetary Formation program. Fixed broken links to the Lunar College Starship Design and Exobiology. Re-fixed a broken link to James Shuster's SGC page.
- August 4 1997: Freebies!
- Fixed a bug in Gliese.exe.
- July 22 1997: Freebies!
- Added a link to James R. Smith's Free Virtual Galaxy, an IBM program that allows one to travel within a 3-d starmap.
- July 22 1997: Misc Links
- Join the 3-D Starmapping mailing list!
- July 22 1997: My God! It's full of stars!
- Added a link to the Yale Bright Star catalog.
- Added a link to a site that will allow one to create a user-defined subset of the Hipparcos data.
- July 22 1997: Suggested Reading
- Added ordering information for Guy Ottewell's stunning THE ASTRONOMICAL COMPANION. This is another "must have" book for any serious 3-d starmapper.
- Added a link for a site with the text to The Zeta Reticuli Incident.
- July 11 1997: Map Index
- Added a new section with an index of the starmaps available at this site.
- July 11 1997: Freebies!
- Added a link to Claus Bornich's It's Full Of Stars! freeware program. This program allows one to plot out interstellar empires and star systems. Very nicely done.
- July 11 1997: Freebies!
- Updated Max Lambertini's Warp Now! freeware program to version 3.0
- July 11 1997: Suggested Reading
- Added a link to Michael McCollum's Astrogator's Manual. Written by a famous hard SF writer, this is a valuable resource. And it's free!
- July 11 1997: Suggested Reading
- Added a link to Terry Kepner's Proximity Zero webpage. You need this book.
- July 10 1997: Stars in Science Fiction
- Added a few notes about starmaps in the movies.
- June 25 1997: But wait, there's more!
- Added a link to William Sandberg's marvelous notes on the derivation of the galactic co-ord transformation and how to calculate the night sky on other planets.
Jan - June
- June 24 1997: My God, It's full of Stars!
- Added an update on the availbility of the Hipparcos star catalog.
- June 24 1997: Freebies!
- Added an impresive starmap created by Nelson Cunnington . Added a nice share ware package called CircumSpace.
- June 24 1997: But wait, there's more!
- Fixed a broken link to the Shuster Galactic Co-ordinates page and another broken link to the Useful equations for Science Fiction.
- March 13 1997: See-A-Show in Sterr-ee-oh
- Added an anaglyphic map of all Gliese 3.0 stars within 5.0 parsecs.
- March 7 1997: See-A-Show in Sterr-ee-oh
- Added sample stereo pictures and some source code.
- March 5 1997: Suggested Reading
- Added listings for several good articles on interstellar travel and communication, all given to me by Jean Schneider (who is at an observatory in France..
- March 5 1997: Suggested Reading
- Added listing for Richard Monkhouse and John Cox's 3-D Star Maps.
- March 5, 1997:See-A-Show in Sterr-ee-oh
- Added a link to Hipparcos anaglyphs.
- March 5, 1997: Alien Skies
- Fixed some nasty bugs in the equations as pointed out by Alessandro Fabbri.
- March 4 1997: Suggested Reading
- Added listing for Ben Bova and Anthony R. Lewi's Space Travel: A writer's guide to the science of interplanetary and interstellar travel.
- March 4 1997: But Wait, there's more!
- Added updated equations, for calculating galactic co-ords for epoch 2000.0 data.
- February 14, 1997
- Added new section See-A-Show in Sterr-ee-oh, about making stereographic images of starmaps.
- January 20, 1997: Suggested Reading
- Added references to Habitable moons around extrasolar gas giants
- January 20, 1997: Misc. Links
- Added a link to the Extrasolar Planet Catalog
- January 20, 1997: My God, It's full of Stars!
- Added a link to the Extrasolar Planet Catalog
- January 20, 1997: Suggested Reading
- Added references to Martyn Fogg's An Estimate of the Prevalence of Biocompatible and Habitable Planets and Temporal Aspects of the Interaction among the First Galactic Civilizations.
- January 17, 1997
- Added new section It takes Balls to make an Empire, about making interstellar empire spheres of influence.
- January 17, 1997: Freebies
- Added a really excellent computer program called Warp Now./dd>
1996
- December 20, 1996: Misc. Links
- Added link to The World, The Flesh, and The Devil..
- November 29, 1996: Misc. Links
- Added link to 3-D mapping of the Local Interstellar Medium.
- November 29, 1996: Suggested reading
- Added listing for Heinlein's novel FRIDAY and Foster's FLINX IN FLUX.
- November 29, 1996: Stars in Science Fiction
- Added listing for stars in Heinlein's FRIDAY.
- November 12, 1996: Freebies
- Added a link to Aina's ACCRETE based starsystem generator program.
- November 11, 1996: Freebies
- Added a downloadable demo of Mark Smith's impressive starmap display program.
- November 7, 1996
- Added new section ALIEN SKIES, about making skymaps for other planets.
- November 7, 1996: Stars in Science Fiction
- Added a link to a site discussing the location of the planet Vulcan from Star Trek.
- October 4, 1996: Suggested Reading
- Added listing for OUR NEAREST CELESTIAL NEIGHBORS. Revised notes on HOW TO BUILD A PLANET. Revised notes on HOW TO BUILD A FUTURE. Added listing for ALIENS AND ALIEN SOCIETIES. Added listing for TERRAFORMING
- October 4, 1996: Freebies
- Added a new 3-D starmap, all plotted for you!
- October 4, 1996: Suggested Reading
- Added listing for Robert Forward's TIMEMASTER.
- October 2, 1996: Misc. Links
- Geoffrey A. Landis' Classifications of FTL Stardrives in Science Fiction, the SETI Institute, The Interstellar Propulsion Society, The Alternate View: Space Drives, The Alcubierre "Warp Drive", Propulsion Systems, Spacetime Hypersurfing, Electro-Gravitic References, Megascale and Space-Time Engineering.
- October 1, 1996: Freebies
- Darren Garber's Other Worlds, Distant Suns VRML.
- October 1, 1996: Misc Links
- Darren Garber's Other Worlds, Distant Suns.
- September 30, 1996
- Realized that this web page had grown too large, and divided it into sections.
- September 30, 1996: Suggested Reading
- Added mini-review of book WORLD BUILDING, as I had recently obtained a copy from Amazon.com Books.
- September 30, 1996: Misc. Links
- Daniel Hatch's Worldbuilder, Megastructures in SF.
- September 17, 1996: But Wait, There's More!
- James Shuster's SGC page.
- September 17, 1996: Freebies!
- Jame's Shuster's VRML starmap.
- September 17, 1996: Suggested Reading
- Starflight Handbook.
- September 17, 1996: Misc Links
- James Shuster's SGC page, James Shuster's VRML starmap, Karl Kofoed's Galactic Geographic, World Builders presents: Epona.
- April 2 to September 17, 1996
- Everything else.
