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FantLab

FantLab.ru
FantLab.ru
Type of site
Bibliographic database, forum.
Available in Russian
Created by Alexei Lvov
Website fantlab.ru
Alexa rank 24001 (2 May 2011)
Commercial No
Registration Optional
Current status Online

Laboratoria Fantastiki, or FantLab (Russian: Лаборатория фантастики, "speculative fiction laboratory"), is a Russian website dedicated to science fiction and fantasy literature. It was founded in 2004 by Alexei Lvov.

The website contains an extensive user-populated database of books, annotations, and reviews. Unregistered users have access to author pages, ratings, news and awards. If users sign up, they can review and rate books, generate reading lists. They can also create their own bookshelves and publish articles. In June 2013, the site had over 88,000 members and over 244,000 works by authors had been added. In April, 2012, the 2000th author (Murray Leinster) was added to the database.

Fantlab calls its mission:

Collected information for Russian and non-Russian writers is presented on Author's pages. Each author’s page will have biography completed with photos and bibliography. Bibliography is a compiled list of known published and unpublished works, derived from multiple sources by comparisons and additions that characterize its reliability. All author’s works are categorized into cycles, series and epics. Each will have publishing editions information along with edition’s detail. Each item in bibliography displays average rating, count of readers and number of reviews. Any title’s page reflects number of people who read and rated it, an average rating, annotation, comments or synopsis, listing of parent series, epics, collections or anthologies and awards where applicable. Title’s page will also contain any available information for published editions, including cover images, sorted by year and divided between Russian and non-Russian editions.

FantLab is tracking all of notable international literary awards such as Locus award, Hugo award, Pulitzer, World Fantasy Award and others. In 2007 as popularity of the site grew and number of daily visitors reached approximately 4 thousand a day, Fantlab decided to implement a voting system that allowed nomination of popular and best reviewed books, this resulted in FantLab's Book of the Year Award. It is given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works of the previous year.


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