The Weird Worlds of A.E. van Vogt
The Weird Worlds of A.E. van Vogt is the world’s oldest and most prominent website dealing with this author from the Golden Age of science fiction. Created in the late ’90s by Magnus Axelsson in Iceland, it has provided superb resources and a central gathering place for fans, and can be credited with bringing van Vogt back to the attention of the general public after he unjustly languished in obscurity for many years.
In March 2008, after moving on to other fields of interest, Magnus ceased updating his site apart from adding a few news items. Since October 2009, it has seen no updates of any kind, and now it will soon be removed altogether from its current home on MMedia at vanvogt.www4.mmedia.is. Fortunately, over the last few months Magnus and I have been working together to move his entire site to my Icshi.net domain, where it is now accessible at www.icshi.net/worlds/.
Icshi.net Update — December 1st, 2011
— The Doctor Who-related Virgin Territory section has been extensively redesigned for easier use and quicker loading times. Rather than the booklist consisting of one gargantuan page with tons of images, each book now has its own individual page, and each index is now a separate page as well. It’s also now possible to click on any author or artist name to see a list of all of the other Doctor Who work which they did for Virgin Publishing.
— New Updates page added. This gives a short summary of all changes made to Icshi.net. This Space Rubbish blog will still be used to discuss these changes in greater depth and to make other announcements. The Updates page is intended to give regular visitors a page where they can drop by every now and then to see what’s new just at a glance, rather than having to wade through my rambling blog entries.
— Credits page udpated (mostly adding new items to the “Web-Development Tools” section at the top).
— Sevagram Links page udpated to include Roger Russel’s site and the Yahoo discussion group.
Icshi.net Update — October 26th, 2011
As promised last week, Daniele Bitossi’s article rebutting Damon Knight’s criticisms of A.E. van Vogt is now online. As someone who never quite got around to reading Knight’s famous “Cosmic Jerrybuilder,” I found Daniele’s piece quite illuminating.
Icshi.net Update — October 22nd, 2011
Some major updates to the site this time around:
— I’ve recently switched from using static HTML pages to using dynamic PHP pages.
— Three sections have been added to the Sevagram A.E. van Vogt site: Articles, Interviews, and Links.
(see below for full details)
Requesting Submissions for Sevagram Site
All of the covers and most of the items appearing on the old Earthlink A.E. van Vogt website were done by myself. Most of this was due to the severe lack of hosting space and my very limited web-designing skills. Now, however, I have unlimited web space, and am using a much more modern array of web technologies. These two factors together make it much, much easier to add new material and update existing pages. So I’m taking this opportunity to ask for you to submit material for the A.E. van Vogt Sevagram site on Icshi.net.
Icshi.net Update — Oct 1st, 2011
Sevagram: The New A.E. van Vogt Website
The old version of my A.E. van Vogt website hosted on Earthlink (called Icshi: The A.E. van Vogt Information Site, at the URL http://www.home.earthlink.net/~icshi/) has now been taken down and will no longer be accessible. It has been replaced with the new website Sevagram, hosted on my own domain of Icshi.net.
Announcing the Launch of Icshi.net
Most of you are already aware of my A.E. van Vogt website at www.home.earthlink.net/~icshi/, called Icshi: The A.E. van Vogt Information Site. Most of you will also be aware that it will be taken down fairly soon, probably by the end of July in a few weeks’ time.
I do however have a new site with its own domain name, www.icshi.net. It will feature several sections on different topics, most of them science fiction. At the moment only the new Doctor Who-related Virgin Territory section is online. This section deals with the Who books published by Virgin Publishing during the 1990s — including the New Adventures, the Missing Adventures, the Bernice Summerfield series, and the Decalog anthologies — and is copiously illustrated with huge, high-quality scans. By the end of July I hope to have most of the old A.E. van Vogt site modernized. This new van Vogt site will be called Sevagram.
