to boldly beta-launch

[realthog]

Yes, folks, the beta version of the massive, new online edition of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction has now gone public. There's a colossal amount of work still to be done, not least on the artist entries (*skulks guiltily*), but at least users can get some idea of this enormous venture . . . and a lot of the entries are complete.

Confusingly, one of the people who worked on artist entries in the first edition had the initials JG, and signed himself thus. I say "confusingly" because, well, I'm signing myself JGr. But, if that's the most confusing thing in the beta version, we can count ourselves incredibly lucky!