Som vanligt vid månadsskiftena: ett nytt nummer av Dave Langfors
Ansible...
http://news.ansible.uk/a360.html
Mycket har stått på SRIVA tidigare, men jag saxar några nyheter:
Margaret Atwood is to receive this year's €25,000 Peace Prize, not the Nobel
but awarded by the German book trade.
Herbert W. Franke was presented with a special Kurd Laßwitz Award for his
lifetime achievement in German science fiction.
John Gilbert announced the demise of Fear on 7 June. 'There will be no further
issues. Whilst my publisher organised the print side of the magazine I was left
to produce the editorial but have so far received no recompense for the
outgoings so far and this situation does not look as if it will change. Another
£300 bill for the annual maintenance of the website and shop is due this month
and I just cannot afford to pay out these sorts of sums any more.' The Fear
website goes dark on 4 July.
J.K. Rowling became a Companion of Honour in the Queen's Birthday honours list.
Others on this list who have genre links include Billy Connolly (The Hobbit:
The Battle of the Five Armies etc), knighted; Julie Walters (Mrs Weasley in the
Harry Potter films), a dame; and Raymond Briggs of Snowman and Fungus the
Bogeyman fame, an OBE.
TAFF Trip Report Anthology: this long-planned ebook of unfinished reports
since 1964, plus 'teaser' chapters from newer ones still in progress, is now a
free download at taff.org.uk/ebooks.php.
Mer priser (men jag misstänker en del av dem rabblats tidigarepå listan):
Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction: Naomi Alderman, The Power.
James White (debut short): Stewart Horn, 'The Morrigan'.
John W. Campbell Memorial: Lavie Tidhar, Central Station.
Locus Awards novel categories: SF Cixin Liu, Death's End. FANTASY Charlie Jane
Anders, All the Birds in the Sky. HORROR Joe Hill, The Fireman. YA Alastair
Reynolds, Revenger. DEBUT Yoon Ha Lee, Ninefox Gambit. [L]
Sturgeon (short): Catherynne M. Valente, 'The Future is Blue' (Drowned Worlds).
RIP (med en del kommentarer av mig):
Michael Bond (1926-2017), creator of Paddington in A Bear Called Paddington
(1956) and of the animated BBC series The Herbs (1968), died on 27 June aged
91; he received a CBE in 2015. Paddington starred in many book sequels to 2014,
plus a 1976 BBC tv series and 2014 film.
Rodney Leighton (1948-2017), Canadian fan whose recent fanzines – produced
without a computer or net access – included Rodney's Fanac and Life of Rodney,
died on 18 June; he was 68. (Producerad utan dator eller nätaccess... Han var
unik!)
Anita Pallenberg (1944-2017), Italian-born model and actress in Barbarella
(1968), Performance (1970) and 4:44 Last Day on Earth (2011), died on 13 June
aged 73. (Hon var tydligen groupie till Rolling Stones också...)
William F. Touponce (1948-2017), US academic and critic who published
extensively about Ray Bradbury and also wrote books on Isaac Asimov and Frank
Herbert, died on 15 June; he was 68. He co-founded the Center for Ray Bradbury
Studies at Indiana University and The New Ray Bradbury Review. (Den som forskat
om Asimov förtjänar att hedras!)
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