<html><head></head><body><div><span data-mailaddress="foozler83@gmail.com" data-contactname="William Flynn Wallace" class="clickable"><span title="foozler83@gmail.com">William Flynn Wallace</span><span class="detail"> <foozler83@gmail.com></span></span> , 19/8/2014 4:58 PM:<br><blockquote class="mori" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-color: blue; border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="mcntgmail_default" style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br></div><div class="mcntgmail_default" style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; font-size: small;">I'd like to know if there are other such search engines you know of. Also, is there a reverse engine? That is, you put in the book's title and you get the characteristics of the book, like war or war, magic or no magic, etc.</div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>A bit like the keywords at IMDB?</div><div><br></div><div>The Internet Speculative Fiction Database, http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi has a search function where you can search by tag. Enter something like 'cyborg' and you get a list of novels with cyborgs. I don't think it can do negation (so no searches for "no cyborgs"), but it is pretty powerful. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Spike, the trick is to get your other friends to order books for your friends, in exchange for you ordering books for them. So I can order the erotic stuff for your friends so you don't have to be embarrassed, and you can order the lefty political stuff for my friends so I don't have to get adverts for Piketty.</div><br><div><blockquote class="mori" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-color: blue; border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="mcntgmail_default" style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; font-size: small;"></div></blockquote></div><br>Anders Sandberg,
Future of Humanity Institute
Philosophy Faculty of Oxford University</body></html>