Så har marsnumret kommit av Ansible, Dave Langfords mångfaldigt Hugo-vinnande
sf-nyhetsblad:
http://news.ansible.uk/a356.html
Många av nyheterna har stått här på SKRIVA tidigare, men jag saxar några saker
som törhända inte gjort det:
John Clute /känd för bl a SF Encyclopedia/ has given his name to an
institution, the Clute Science Fiction Library in Telluride, Colorado, whose
11,000 volumes came from his private sf collection. It's now a public
collection under the auspices of the nonprofit Telluride Institute, whose
trustees include John and Pamela Lifton-Zoline – yes, that's Pamela Zoline of
'The Heat Death of the Universe' fame.
Ursula K. Le Guin has been invited into the American Academy of Arts and
Letters, a formerly genre-hostile institution that accepted Kurt Vonnegut but
never Ray Bradbury.
Cat Rambo's 'Red in Tooth and Cog' (F&SF) was announced as a Nebula novelette
finalist and then found to be too short to qualify. In its proper category,
short story, it would break the three-way tie for fifth place. Rather than
disappoint three announced finalists, Rambo (SFWA President) withdrew her story.
Några döingar:
Alan Aldridge (1943-2017), UK artist and designer who created several memorable
Penguin sf covers and illustrated The Penguin Book of Comics (1971, text by
George Perry) and The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper Feast (1973, verses by
William Plomer), died on 17 February; he was 73.
Edward Bryant (1945-2017), highly regarded US author of short sf who won Nebula
awards for 'Stone' (1978) and 'giANTS' (1979), was found dead on 10 February;
he was 71. He published several fine collections, notably Cinnabar (1976).
Susan Casper (1947-2017), US short-story author and Gardner Dozois's wife for
47 years, died on 24 February. They co-edited the anthology Ripper! (1988) and
collaborated on stories included in Gardner's Slow Dancing through Time (1990).
William Melvin Kelley (1937-2017) US author who used fantastic tropes to
explore his country's racial issues in the near-future sf A Different Drummer
(1959) and other works, died on 1 February; he was 79.
Bill Paxton (1955-2017), US actor seen in The Terminator (1984), Weird Science
(1985), Aliens (1986), Brain Dead (1990), Future Shock (1994), Thunderbirds
(2004), The Colony (2013), Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013), Edge of Tomorrow
(2014) and others, died on 26 February aged 61.
Jiro Taniguchi (1947-2017), prolific Japanese manga writer/artist since 1970,
whose 1998-1999 time-travel fantasy A Distant Neighbourhood was filmed in 2010,
died on 11 February aged 69.
Tzvetan Todorov (1939-2017), Bulgarian-born literary critic long resident in
France, whose 1970 study translated as The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to
Literary Genre (1973) has been influential, died on 7 February; he was 77.
Nancy Willard (1936-2017), prolific US author and 1982 Newbery Medal winner
whose fantasies include the Anatole trilogy for children and, for adults,
Things Invisible to See (1984; Crawford winner) and Sister Water (1993), died
on 19 February; she was 80.
The long-running horror glossy Fangoria may never see another print edition,
says its editor (or ex-editor since mid-December) Ken W. Hanley. Even the
digital version is struggling.http://news.ansible.uk/a356.html
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