• Here are entered works about fictional heroes who possess abilities beyond those of normal human beings. Works about real people who are admired for their achievements, courage, or noble qualities are entered under Heroes.

• Mission (The Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) is an international non-profit volunteer educational organization. The SCA is devoted to the research and re-creation of pre-seventeenth century skills, arts, combat, culture, and employing knowledge of history to enrich the lives of participants through events, demonstrations, and other educational presentations and activities.)

• Here are entered works about science fiction conventions. Texts of the proceedings of science fiction conventions are entered under the appropriate subject heading with the subdivision Congresses.

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• The Science Fiction & Fantasy Research Collection is one of the world's largest academic collections devoted to these genres, containing books, pulp magazines, scholarly journals, epherema, maps, fanworks, collections of archival materials (including the personal and professional papers of authors), among other materials. The collection ranges across the early modern and recent histories of these genres, from the 16th century through today.

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• Primarily printed books, ephemera, and manuscript material. To a lesser extent, there are also material artifacts.

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• Comprised of nearly 30,000 volumes spanning military history from the American Civil War through and including the Gulf War, but concentrating most heavily on the twentieth century (from the Spanish-American war through the Gulf War). It is strong in areas such as naval and aviation history.