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Classics of Science Fiction

classicsofsciencefiction.com · a site they built themselves

Read them at classicsofsciencefiction.com → The writing is on their site. This page is what the index measured.

Classics of Science Fiction publishes art, essays and short stories about books & reading, fantasy & SF and place & nature at classicsofsciencefiction.com, a site they built themselves. Last published September 2026, still publishing this year. Vouched for by 3 other writers in the index. Not in the top million domains: the big engines have never ranked it.

86 dated posts since 20183 writers vouchunfound by the big engines

Posts per month, from their own dated linksSeptember 2019 to August 2026

JFMAMJJASOND20192019-03: 12019-05: 22019-06: 22019-11: 12019-12: 520202020-01: 120212021-06: 120222022-02: 12022-08: 12022-09: 52022-10: 102022-11: 12022-12: 220232023-01: 12023-07: 120242024-10: 120252025-05: 42025-06: 22025-07: 62025-08: 22025-09: 22025-10: 42025-11: 32025-12: 320262026-01: 32026-02: 32026-03: 12026-04: 32026-05: 42026-06: 12026-07: 52026-08: 2
fewermorepeak: 10 in October 2022

Counted from links on their own pages whose paths carry a year and a month. That reaches only the pages the crawl has seen, so early years may be undercounted.

Posts per year

11201912020120212020222202312024262025222026

2026 is January to October.

Years at it, against the index

0 yrs10 yrs20 yrs30 yrsthis writer · 34

Every writer in the index by years since their earliest evidence. This writer: 34, from the earliest date the crawl saw. The index reads front pages, so it sees most writers as younger than they are.

Anatomy of the site

Pages
13 captured1 section found
Front page
976 KB, 30 scripts, 190 imagesindex median front page: 112 KB
Built with
a static generator
Trackers
none
Links out
6 other writers in the index, 66 other sites, 8 platforms
Found
2026-09-08, by following another writer's link

Words they use that almost nobody else in the index does

jameswharris2simak6heinlein19galaxy126travel627fittest5comment1598alien245impractical5interstellar32spaceship36clifford21younger164would1429

Single words from their own pages, weighted by how rare each is across the 4,473 sites in the index. The small number is how many sites in the index use the word at all. Never a line of the writing.

Who vouches3 writers in the index

3 writers in the index keep a link to this site. What they call it is printed as they wrote it.

Their neighbourhood

Auxiliary MemoryClassics of SciencClassics of SciencAuxiliary MemoryClassics of SciencGalactic JourneyPulp Covers74 sites outside the indexClassics of Science Fict
in the indexoutside itthis writer

They link to Auxiliary Memory, Classics of Science Fiction, Galactic Journey, Pulp Covers, Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations, pseudopodium.org.

Why it ranks on Longhand Featured

ranked here because: unfound by the big engines · still publishing · essays, stories, or poems · vouched by 3 other writers

How the machine sees this site

  • Not in the top million domains. No big engine has ranked it for anything.
  • A feed. Readers can follow the site without a platform in between.
  • Built with a static generator. The pages are files, written once.
  • The copyright line names a person, not a company.
  • No trackers. Nobody is counting the readers.
  • The navigation carries a commercial page or two.

Why search does not surface this site, and why that is the machine's problem.

Readers

Hearts show once a writer reaches three. No account, no cookie.

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