DISCLAIMERS

Ok, here it is: These author pages are written by me (Espana), mainly from information I've gotten from books, magazines and online resources (Usenet, Web Pages, etc). I can pretty much guarantee you that any page you look at will be incomplete. This is for various reasons: The 24-hour day, the need to sleep, eat and so on and the fact that many of these authors are alive and of the annoying habit of continuing to produce.

So... if you find an author biography or bibliography which is incomplete or incorrect and you have the complete/correct/additional information please send it to me so that I may add it in.

And to the many, many people who have done just that... including some of the authors themselves, who certainly have better things to do, thank you very much, it's what makes these pages work.

I generally reply to just about all comments or questions no matter how stupid , even ones from those domains (if you don't know which those are you're probably on one). I am far more patient and polite by email than I am realtime.
But some quick pointers before you do email me:

a) I will not reply to email messages written in ALL CAPS. This is basic netiquette, it's the online equivalent of shouting. If you don't know this yet I'm surprised you found my site.

b) I will not reply to emails with extreme cutsey abbreviations. The usual acronyms are fine (BTW, IIRC, IMHO, and so on). But a message such as "u r 2 kewl!" no matter how well intended just irritates the hell out of me. If you can't be bothered to write a whole sentence then neither can I. Similarily try to do some basic spellchecking-typos and general errors are fine, god knows I make enough of them... but if it looks like you were drunk and typing with your feet I'll probably skip it too.

c) I will probably not reply to abusive messages (unless I'm feeling ornery). I may or may not have a reason for not including your favorite author but saying "why the hell isn't X on your site, you suck!" is not going to do much towards making me want to add X ... no matter how great he/she is. Addendum: I WILL NOT RESPOND TO TROLLS. If you don't understand humour I'm not the one to ring your clue phone.

d) I will probably be nice to you even if you send me a totally irrelevant note asking me to add Shakespeare, Hemmingway or last year's Pulitzer prize winner but... please take a quick look through the site to make sure what you ask is relevant and/or isn't already there. You don't have to memorize the whole place but it might save you a "doh" moment.

e) I WILL NOT DO YOUR HOMEWORK. (If you try for the double whammy of asking me for help with a paper on a non-genre author I will in all probability reply with an irritated email or none at all)

f) No I will not add Joseph Heller to my author listing. Yes Catch-22 was brilliant. Yes the domain that hosts my pages is catch22.com. However, he's not a genre author. See point "d".
Heller obituary and links

g) Pretty much anything else is fair game. Comments, questions, suggestions for additional authors (even if you aren't totally sure wether they qualify), artists and/or links (your own or someone elses) and corrections of my spelling are all welcome. You can usually expect a reply either nearly instantly or in a fortnight-in between seems to elude me. I can be contacted at espana@catch22.com, not withstanding the above, I am actually happy to receive email from visitors to the site and quite likely to do my best to help you out.

Just in case (and while I'm at it), no responsibility is taken for the content of the books mentioned, or the ideologies of the writers. This is a informational resource presented as is, the presence or absence of any given writer is not meant as review or criticism of them, their work or their opinions. The presence of absence of any piece of information (bio or bibliographical) is not to be taken as a comment or criticism on the information in question.

All links from these pages are provided for the use of the readers and do not imply the support or recommendation of the author, contents or opinions expressed therein unless specifically stated.

Any links to these pages are the responsibility of the linker and do not imply any association to me, the Boulevard or my provider

Please keep in mind that the subjects and/or titles of the works mentioned in these pages may be offensive to any given group and their inclusion without comment does not necessarily imply the support or lack of support of the author.

These pages were created for good, not evil and use of any of these pages for evil purposes is heavily frowned upon.

Of course the disclaimer applies to the Gebiet and surrounding pages as well