Five Million Words
News item dated 10 November 2015
Last night’s site update finally took the SF Encyclopedia past five million words. As you know, Professor, the first edition of 1979 ran to some 730,000 words and the second edition of 1993 to about 1.3 million words. We launched the third edition in October 2011 with 3.2 million words, and reached 4 million in January 2013. Gasp. Suddenly, after months of ever-closer approach to this milestone, it seems a long way to the next one ...