Alex

Alex McLintock was at college when the science fiction newsgroup was actually called rec.arts.sf-lovers and you could actually read all the messages posted to it. At college he discovered the local sf society and he is still a member some 9 years later. At the same time he discovered an interesting project started by Paul Clegg and Steve Baker. It took a few years for it to sink in but he eventually became the third editor. As a fan of Patrick McGoohan's "The Prisoner" he asked to be editor "Number Six" and so confused a generation of field researchers afterwards.

As of October 1999 Alex has taken over the mantle of webmaster and to that end has registered the domain galactic-guide.com

Alex McLintock does not live in Surrey, but would be quite happy to hear from Estate Agents in Chiswick, Putney or Shepherds Bush.

Alex writes more reviews of Science Fiction books than he writes PGG articles: SF Books

Roel

Late 1993 two important things happened in the life of Roel van der Meulen (also known as "Rule vander Unpronounceable"). He made a startling discovery during that oh-so-important moment of the day, lunchtime, and he was introduced to the internet, where he soon found Project Galactic Guide. With the report of his startling discovery he became hooked to The Project and could not control his fingers typing entry after entry... Roel had finally found his purpose in life, after having been dropped off from his mothership onto this life-infested piece of rock quite some years ago. He decided to become editor too. Thanks to Alex's manipulations, he became editor number 8, which, as everyone knows, is the character for infinity on its side. Roel thought, this means something, and was therefore quick to take over the position of Librarian (Oook!) when Steve Baker beamed down from the PGG Mothership in the summer of 1995. He helped set up the peer review process, and maintained the archive, seeing it triple in size until his studies demanded more of his time and he had to take a looong lunch break late 1997.

In a back seat he now fends off telemarketers and believers in flying saucers piloted by alien life forms, and sometimes he grunts to the newsgroup when the urge to participate becomes too strong. He is working hard on his thesis so that he can prepare for THE SECOND COMING OF ROEL, which should occur sometime at the beginning of the new millennium.

Aaron

Pondering the mysteries of how to do something more constructive than re-rearranging all the icons on his desktop, Aaron Rice happened to stumble across a quite remarkable project. Having just entered the world of the personal Internet connection (patent refused due to the sheer number of people who have been in the same position at one time or another), and quite mystified by the phenomenon of Buskers, he put finger to key and set about a good days work. Several hours later he deleted the string of "a"s and worked long and hard on his article. Some wonder if this feat might ever be repeated.

In August 1996, after many more articles written in a fit of panic (so he claims, the real reason is rumoured to be related to a nervous twitch), he entered the editorial arena as editor nine. He sometimes claims this is his lucky number, though this loses plausibility when you discover that he's been claiming this about most other numbers under two million. His editorial abilities were stretched further still when after being part of the editorial reform of early 1997, he became the Guide's second Review Coordinator.

Now mostly immersed in his work, he is trying to find time to return to the Guide and resume his editorial position. He has produced over sixty articles for the Guide, and written the Windows article browser, PGG for Windows. You can sometimes hear him moan about things he doesn't like, and he occasionally comes up for air. [Verbose guy, isn't he? -- ...Paul]

Mark

Mark is now the librarian who helps keep the editors organised. He also wrote the very useful PGG-O-Vision, a suite of Perl modules to aid the reading of PGG data, and writing of HTML files. This web site uses it. Mark is currently studying at a university somewhere in the UK.

Stéphane

Stéphane has offered so much useful advice over the years that I thought he deserved an entry on this page. Although Stéphane is currently a techie (like most of the rest of us) Stéphane has a useful ability to produce graphics and web designs which really look good. Stéphane will be in charge of the graphic design of this website in its future incarnations.

Stéphane a bloke.

...Paul

Though his credit card says "Paul Clegg", he's better known on the internet as ...Paul. This is the guy who pitched the idea of Project Galactic Guide way back in 1991, and then led the masses towards what you see here today. Paul has retired from running the megadodo.com website as he has done it for some years now. As a penalty for this despicable act he has been relegated from the top to the bottom of this list. These days he patrols the alt.galactic-guide newsgroup and offers helpful advice to all asunder.

Everyone Else

Project Galactic Guide would not be what it is today without everyone who has given even five minutes of time towards the project. The 'staff' of the Project would like to thank every single person who so much as looked at the website for being a part of our little world.

Special Thanks go to Steve Baker who has contributed so much to the project over the many years since inception. Steve wrote the first Dos based PGG browser and edited many articles in his day. Steve also looked after the famous mothership, the ftp site vela.acs.oakland.edu, which is now to be found here.