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Data sources & licenses

Loreful stands on open bibliographic data. Here's exactly where the shelves come from.

ISFDB

CC BY 4.0

Series, works, publication data and the reading-order backbone contain information from the Internet Speculative Fiction Database, used under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. Records are edited and re-organized by Loreful; errors are ours, not ISFDB's.

Wikipedia

CC BY-SA 4.0

Author biographies and some series, work and universe descriptions contain text from Wikipedia, used under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. A credit appears beside each excerpt.

Wikidata · Open Library

CC0 · OPEN

Universe entities and cross-database identifiers come from Wikidata (CC0); genres blend Wikidata with ISFDB tag data (CC BY 4.0, credited above); edition records and cover imagery from Open Library.

Curated reading orders

LOREFUL ✦

Chronological and recommended orders marked are written by the Loreful team, with a rationale published on every one.

Covers

PUBLISHERS

Cover thumbnails appear for identification, credited to their publishers. A rights holder can request removal at any time.

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