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Great reference books:

Dictionaries and Thesaurii


Learning Japanese


Writing and publishing


Military history


Naval history


Airships




Publishing magazine subscriptions:

Locus


Romantic Times Book Club


Publishers Weekly


Writers Digest

leesources
Links to helpful online reference tools. Lee uses 'em; you should, too!

General Reference
Google
Wikipedia
Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com
Library of Congress
National Archives
US census Bureau
CIA World Factbook
US Geological Survey
Project Gutenburg
20,000 Baby Names
Encyclopedia Britannica 11th Edition on CD-ROM

Language Translation
Google Language Tools
Travelang
Babblefish
Excite's Japanese-English Translation Page
Jim Breen's WWWJDIC Japanese-English Dictionary Server

Writers, Writing, and Publishing
Romance Writers of America
(RWA)
Science Fiction Writers of America
(SFWA)
Association for Mormon Letters
(AML)
PublishersWeekly.com
WritersDigest.com
Association of American Publishers
ICV2
(pop culture retail business news)
Romantic Times
Locus Online
Tangent Online
Oregon Coast Professional Writers Workshop

Bookstores
Amazon.com
Amazon Canada
Amazon UK
Amazon Japan
Amazon Germany
Amazon France
Barnes and Noble
Powells.com
Asia Books
(Thailand)
Deseret Book

Science Fiction Databases
Locus Index of Science Fiction
The Internet Speculative Fiction Database
(ISFDB)
Marny Parkin's Bibliography of Mormon Speculative Fiction
Adherents.com's Science Fiction/Fantasy Authors of Various Faiths
Uchronia Alternate History List
SF-Lovers Convention List

Science Fiction Online Communities
SFF.Net
DM.Net
(Dueling Modems)
Dean Wesley Smith's Blog and Forum

History
Air University
Naval Historical Center
Naval Institute Press
Royal Navy history page
USAF museum
US Army Military History Institute
American Military University
George L. Mosse lecture series
(free online audio files)

Airships
Airship: Homepage for Lighter-than-Air Craft
Naval Airship Association
Life on a Navy Blimp
Moffett Field Museum
Tillamook Air Museum





Lee trivia:    Lee owns a letherbound set of the ultimate reference work: the legendary Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopędia Britannica (1910-1911).


Lee trivia:    Most of the books in Lee's library have restaurant receipts as bookmarks.


Lee trivia:    Lee is an absolute nut about airships, zeppelins, dirigibles, and blimps. He names his computers after US Navy airships.


Lee trivia:    One of Lee's hobbies is visiting Civil War battlefields. He's been to Pea Ridge, Harper's Ferry, Antietam, Chickamauga & Chattanooga, and Vicksburg. He's also been to Lincoln biographer Carl Sandburg's Home.


Lee trivia:    Lee's favorite ice cream flavor is vanilla. It's the finest of the flavors.


Lee trivia:    Lee's ridden in a bullet train in Japan, seen the pryamids of Egypt, and worked inside Cheyenne Mountain (NORAD headquarters).


Lee trivia:    Lee has never been to visit either North or South Dakota, but then again, they've never come to visit him, either.