Downtime Alert: 23 January

The main SF Encyclopedia and SF Gateway sites are scheduled for roughly three hours of downtime on Thursday 23 January, beginning at 10:30am GMT, while Hachette IT instals a server patch. Pages and features hosted at the editors’ site [now incorporated into the main site] will remain available. These include What’s New, On This Day and the ever-growing Picture Gallery (now with more than 8500 images), though their links to main-site entries will fail during the downtime period.

In other news, we regret the recent passing of US author Neal Barrett Jr on 12 January 2014 and Norwegian author Jon Bing on 14 January 2014.