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Internet Speculative Fiction Database (1995)
Last updated: see below.
- Cost
- 3 RAM
- Power
- 4
- Rarity
- Rare
- Family
- Institutions
- Era
- Boom (1995 to 1998)
- Collection
- The Establishment
What it does
Ongoing: If you're losing here, +3 Power to this card.
Ongoing is always on while the card is in play.
It costs 3 RAM to play and brings 4 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Institutions cards protect your side, and come back strong when you're losing.
The site, in 1995
A volunteer-built database of science fiction, fantasy and horror books, authors, magazines and cover artists.
By June 2025 it had catalogued 2,380,108 story titles from 283,651 authors. Its data and code have been under Creative Commons licence since 2005, and its schema turns up in programming tutorials.
In 1995: The first version went live on 8 September, built by Al von Ruff and a Usenet contributor known as Ahasuerus.
Boom era, 1995 to 1998. Netscape, frames, hit counters and animated envelopes. Everyone had a homepage, and every homepage was under construction.
The Establishment: Governments, universities, libraries and archives. Very official.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1995 page.
Put it on your site
Run Internet Speculative Fiction Database, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1995. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1995, then plays a short scene. Want Internet Speculative Fiction Database in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
