Steve Jackson

A brief biography and bibliography. Currently about six years out of date; in my copious time, I should polish this up.

A few links to neat pages related to my other interests . . .

Charging madly into the future:

• The home page for the Artemis Society International, working to return to the moon through private enterprise. As of mid-2004, I am serving as a director of the related Moon Society.
• The Mars Society. "To further the goal of the exploration and settlement of the Red Planet . . ."
• The Extropy Institute. High-tension thinking going on here . . .
• The Alcor Foundation. Cryonics. Yes, when I die, I'm going into the freezer, and I just might be back.
• The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, which, in between bouts of dreary internal backbiting, is now providing some genuine services for SF writers.

Some nice dinosaur & fossil pages:

• The massive and neat web site of the University of California at Berkeley Museum of Paleontology.
• Oyvind Hammer's page of fossil photos.
• Jeff Poling's Dinosauria Online.
• My own Dino Hunt game.

Pages about water gardening:

• The really incredibly beautiful Austin Pond Society pages.
• Pete's Pond Page, for pond and fish fans.
• The International Waterlily and Water Gardening Society page. Includes some live camera links.

Lego, one of my favorite time-wasters:

• My want list . . . wanna trade? (This page hasn't been updated since 2000; I don't have much time for trade offers. But maybe I'll get back to it.)
• Jonathan Woodward's Lego Ogre, using Mindstorms robotics.
• The Holy Grail of Lego sites, with links everywhere . . . Lugnet.
• My Pirate Ship Otaku Page . . . information only another Lego Pirate geek would care about.
• What I have learned about making sails for Lego-style ships.
• Finally, the rules to my Pirate Game are online. That portion of the site is still very unfinished, so if you like what you see, come back later and look again.
• Wanna play? Here's a schedule of upcoming games at conventions.

This page is not very heavy on links, because my main web interest is the whole SJ Games site. Check out our various manifestations of High Weirdness and sideways applications of web technology to gaming. Marvel at the time we wasted, and gleefully continue to waste, on the Basement of Warehouse 23!

Other pages I just want to link to:

• My friend Jackie Hamilton, a.k.a. Kira, a perl/CGI coder, author, graphic artist, and web designer. She's responsible for the look of the SJ Games site and much of its functionality . . . as well as the look of THIS page.
• Puzzle Pirates. A cool multiplayer online game. Arrrr!
• Linucon, our local SF and Linux convention, which I have the honor to serve as "host of honor."