The first edition was published in September 1990. It contained 198 recursive items (178 written, 5 graphic, and 15 performance) and had a neat cover by Merle Insinga. Many people responded with additional items and corrections and, as the 1990s went on there was a burst of recursive items being produced. Soon we found that the number of items would require a much larger book—one whose price would put it out of the market for most fans. With the advent of the NESFA web site it was determined that the second edition would be on-line—here it is.
These on-line files correct errors in the first edition and add significant information for 797 new items (708 written, 27 graphic, 61 performance), for a total of 995 items (887 written, 32 graphic, 76 performance). About 59.7% of the new items [currently, 476] were published (or presented) after the first edition went to press.
Here's a definition and discussion of recursive SF with some related terms
...and Barry N. Malzberg's thought on the subject
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We are always looking for
additional items to be
placed in these files—please help us.
NOTE: Links to pages outside the NESFA web site are not under our control and may disappear or transmogrify at any time.
Written Items (alphabetically by author's surname):
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZDramatic Presentations (includes Animation, Cartoons, Films, Musicals, Opera, Plays, Puppet Shows, Radio Plays, Slide Shows, Teleplays)
Histogram showing the number of recursive items from 1830 to the present.
An incomplete list of references, trademarks, and copyrights
People who have helped over the years
Changes in the last year
- April 4, 2008
- Added: Danvers, Dennis, "Here's What I Know"
- April 3, 2008
- Added:
Churchill, Reginald Charles, "The Short History of the Future"
Added: Cowdrey, Alfred E., "Thrilling Wonder Stories"
Added: Lawrence, Ann, Do You Believe?
Added: Lethem, Jonathan, "Phil in the Marketplace"
Added: Utley, Steven, "The 400-Million-Year Itch" - January 9, 2008
- Added: Ringo, John, Princess of Wands
- December 27, 2007
- Added: Sheldon, Walt, "A Lack of Verisimilitude"
- December 17, 2007
- Added: Barnes, John,
Gaudeamus
Added: Machen, Arthur, The Three Imposters
Added: Sheckley, Robert, "The Two Sheckleys" - December 12, 2007
- Added: Campbell, Ramsey,
"The Insects from Shaggai"
Added: Mieville, China, "Reports of Certain Events in London"
Added: Wilson, Gahan, "The Power of the Mandarin"
Added: Wilson, Gahan, "Them Bleaks" - November 19, 2007
- Added: Brown, Fredric,
"Preposterous"
Added: Hall, Steve, "Einstein's Universe"
Added: Lovisi, Gary, Minesweeper
Added: Lupoff, Richard, "God of the Naked Unicorn"
Added: Rocklynne, Ross, "Alphabet Scoop"
Added: Stirling, S. M., In the Courts of the Crimson Kings - October 22, 2007
- Added: Cannon, Peter Hughes, "The Sky Garden"
Added: Lipinski, Miroslaw, "The Sacrifice" - October 11, 2007
- Added Online reference to Archie Mercer's Meadow of Fantasy
- October 1, 2007
- Added: Strock, Ian Randal, "All the Things That Can't Be"
Added: Tidhar, Lavie, "Daydreams"
Added: Online reference to Andrew Lang's Old Friends: Essays in Epistolary Parody - August 16, 2007
- Added: MacIntyre, F. Gwynplaine, "An Actor Prepares"
- July 22, 2007
- Added: Wellman, Manly Wade, "When It Was Moonlight"
- July 10, 2007
- Added: Ward, Jean Marie & Smith, Teri, With Nine You Get Vanyr
- July 4, 2007
- Added: Jamneck, Lynne, "The Paramount Importance of Pictures"
- June 26, 2007
- Added: Clark, Simon, "The Raffle"
Added: Kaylan, Howard, "Hi, Bob"
Added: Rowlands, David G., "The Codex" - May 22, 2007
- Added: Morrow, James, "Apologue"
- Added: Wagner, Karl Edward, "Neither Brute Nor Human"
- May 17, 2007
- Added: Curlovich, John Michael [as by Michael Paine], Steel Ghosts
Added: Johnson, Peter, Rescuing Dad
Added: Shea, Michael, "The Pool"
Added: Swanwick, Michael, "Congratulations from the Future!"
Added: VanderMeer, Jeff, "The Secret Lives of Rick and Peggy"
Added: Wilson, Richard, "Time Out for Tomorrow"
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