Ett nytt nr av Ansible är utkommet:
http://news.ansible.uk/a340.html
Många nyheter har redan tagits upp på listan, men jag saxar:
* John Carpenter won a plagiarism suit against Luc Besson
plus his co-writers and the production company EuropaCorp based
on the close resemblance between Carpenter's Escape from New York
(1981) and Lockout (2012), which has essentially the same plot
relocated into space. The French court duly 'noted many similarities
between the two science-fiction films: both presented an athletic,
rebellious and cynical hero sentenced to a period of isolated
incarceration despite his heroic past who is given the
offer of setting out to free the President of the United States or his
daughter held hostage in exchange for his freedom; he manages,
undetected, to get inside the place where the hostage is being held
after a flight in a glider/space shuttle ...' etc. EuropaCorp was
ordered to pay a modest 80,000.
* Tom Purdom, sf novelist and story writer, has been hospitalized
with spinal and other injuries ever since a cyclist crashed into him
from behind on the Schuylkill River Trail (Philadelphia) on 5 August.
* James T. Kirk was briefly prevented from boarding a flight at
Heathrow when revealed as a mutant imitator of the USS Enterprise
captain: former Scottish first minister Alex Salmond, an avowed Trekkie
who likes to travel incognito. 'I just wanted BA to "beam me up,
Scotty",' he hilariously explained.
*Priser:
Arthur C. Clarke Foundation Imagination in Service to Society Award:
Margaret Atwood.
British Fantasy Awards: ANTHOLOGY Lightspeed:
Women Destroy Science Fiction ed. Christie Yant. ARTIST
Karla Ortiz. COLLECTION Adrian Cole, Nick Nightmare
Investigates. COMIC/GRAPHIC NOVEL Emily Carroll,
Through the Woods. FANTASY NOVEL Frances
Hardinge, Cuckoo Song. FILM/TV Guardians of
the Galaxy. HORROR NOVEL Adam Nevill, No One
Gets Out Alive. INDEPENDENT PRESS Fox Spirit Books.
MAGAZINE/PERIODICAL: Holdfast Magazine, ed.
Laurel Sills and Lucy Smee. NEWCOMER Sarah Lotz for The
Three. NONFICTION Letters to Arkham: The Letters
of Ramsey Campbell and August Derleth, 1961-1971, ed. S.T. Joshi,
NOVELLA Stephen Volk, 'Newspaper Heart' (Spectral
Book of Horror Stories). SHORT STORY Emma Newman, 'A
Woman's Place' (Two Hundred and Twenty-One Baker Streets).
SPECIAL AWARD Juliet E. McKenna.
John Williams, US composer of theme music for many genre films
including Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Superman,
Jurassic Park, the Harry Potter sequence etc, is to
receive the American Film Institute's lifetime achievement award for
2016. He is the first composer to be honoured since this award began in
1973.
David A. Hardy, for his space art, was one of four recipients of the
American Astronautical Society's 'Ordway Award for Sustained Excellence
in Spaceflight History'
* RIP:
Ayerdhal (Yal Soulier, 1959-2015), French sf and
thriller writer who won the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire in 1993 and 2004
for his novels Demain une oasis and Transparences
respectively, died on 27 October aged 56.
Árpád Göncz (1922-2015) Hungarian
politician who was President of Hungary 1990-2000 and also translated
many English works including Frankenstein, The Lord of the
Rings and multiple titles by William Golding, died on 6 October; he
was 93.
Göran Hägg, (1947-2015), Swedish author whose
large output included three satirical sf novels Det
automatiska paradiset ('The Automatic Paradise', 1979); Doktor
Elgcrantz eller Faust i Boteå ('Doctor Elgcrantz, or Faust in
Boteå', 1983) and Anders och Dafne ('Anders and Daphne',
1987) and short fiction in similar vein, died on 30 September
aged 68. /Ja, Hr Hägg uppmärksammas!/
Maureen O'Hara (1920-2015), Irish-born actress whose
film credits include The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939), Sinbad,
the Sailor (1947) and Miracle on 34th Street (1947), died on
24 October; she was 95.
Liviu Radu (1948-2015), respected Romanian sf author and
translator, died on 16 October aged 66. His translations
include novels by Isaac Asimov, Neil Gaiman, Dean Koontz, George R.R.
Martin, A. Merritt and China Miéville.
Paul West (1931-2015), UK-born US novelist, essayist and
critic whose considerable output included fantasy e.g. Colonel
Mint (1973) and absurdist sf shorts and fables, died on 18
October age 85.
Christopher Wood (1935-2015), UK author and screenwriter
for the Bond films The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker
(1979) both of which he also novelized died on 17
October; he was 79.
* Mike Moorcock approves of
A Vince Clarke Treasury (att samla Vince' bästa fanzineskriverier)
'Glad the Vince Clarke book's out. I mention Vince quite a lot in The
Woods of Arcady. Sequel to Whispering Swarm. [...] As I say
in the book, Vince was something of a mentor to me and really helped me.
Great bloke.' (Jag nämner detta för att Vince var en god vän, som jag
brukade besöka
i London efter världskongresser.)
* GUFF 2016: Jukka Halme defeated his deadly rival Hold Over Funds
and on 6 October was declared the winner of the 2016 GUFF race. He will
attend Contact 16 in Brisbane next March.
TAFF 2016 and After:
Jim Mowatt writes: 'The TAFF admins (Nina Horvath, Curt Phillips and Jim
Mowatt) have been discussing the forthcoming races and have taken the
decision to switch direction and run another East/West race for 2016.
This means we are currently looking for nominees from Europe to visit
North America in 2016 and to attend MidAmericon II in Kansas City on the
17th to 21st August. The knock-on effect of this decision is that the
2017 race will be West to East so that we can send someone from North
America to Helsinki.
Och från andra nyhetskällor, som Europa SF, Locus och SF Site News:
* Senaste numret av det rumänska E-magazinet Fantastica.ro ägnar sig åt polsk
sf:
http://scifiportal.eu/fantastica-ro-a-romanian-sf-magazine-dedicated-to-the-european-speculative-fiction-the-polish-speculative-fiction/
* Det Tyska Fantastik-Priset,2015:
Best Novel in German language:
Bernd Perplies: Imperium der Drachen Das Blut des Schwarzen Löwen
Best Debut Novel in German:
Silke M. Meyer: Lux & Umbra 1 Der Pfad der schwarzen Perle
Best International Novel:
Neil Gaiman: Der Ozean am Ende der Straße (The Ocean at the End of the Lane)
Best German Short Story:
Vanessa Kaiser und Thomas Lohwasser: Der letzte Gast (published in the
anthology Dunkle Stunden)
Best Anthology/Story Collection:
Steampunk Akte Deutschland
Best Book Series:
DSA Das Schwarze Auge
Best Graphic Artist:
Arndt Drechsler
Best Work on Secondary Literature:
Christian Humberg & Andrea Bottlinger: Geek, Pray, Love: Ein
praktischer Leitfaden für das Leben, das Fandom und den ganzen Rest
Best Website:
www.fantasybuch.de
* The Neffy Awards are presented by the National Fantasy Fan Federation
(N3F). The first Neffy was presented in 1949 to Ray Bradbury and they
have been given out annually since 2005. This year, two awards were
presented:
Best Editor: Toni Weisskopf: Mindful that editors are judged on
their extended record, not a single work in a single year, and that
other editors may in future years be honored for their work in the same
time period, the nomination for 2015 for Best Editor is to Toni
Weisskopf, Baen Books
Heroic Commendation: All of Hugo Fandom for reviving the most
ancient and honorable of all fannish customs, the all-hobby fan feud.
* The winners for the 2015 Pegasus Award were announced at Ohio Valley Filk
Festival on October 24.
Best Filk Song: My Story Is Not Done, by Seanan McGuire
Best Classic Filk Song: Captain Jack & the Mermaid, by Meg Davis
Best Performer: Jeff and Maya Bohnhoff
Best Writer/Composer: Cat Faber
Best Adapted Song: Grabthars Silver Hammer, by Steve Macdonald
Best Time-Related Song: Precious Moments, by Phil Allcock
* Following the passage of a law to remove symbols and insignia reminding
the country of its communist past, a statue of V. I. Lenin in Odessa,
Ukraine has been transformed into a statue of Darth Vader. Vader, and
other Star Wars characters, is extremely popular in Ukraine, with
members of the Pirate Party of Ukraine frequently adopted their
appearance and names when running for office.
* NBC has announced that Amazing Stories will return to their schedule as an
anthology series with executive producer Bryan Fuller, who was responsible for
Pushing Daisies and Hannibal. Amazing Stories,
which takes its name from the oldest science fiction magazine, now a
webzine,was originally broadcast for two seasons beginning in 1985.
* Sinclair Broadcast Group has announced that it will launch Comet, a
television station devoted to science fiction, on October 31. The
station is expected to reach 60% of the country upon launch, including
the cities of New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Seattle,
Denver, St. Louis, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Boston, Pittsburgh,
and Houston. Initial programming will include Stargate SG-1 (and spin-offs),
The Outer Limits, and various science fiction films. Sinclair is partnering
with MGM in the venture
* The winner of this years WSFA Small Press Award, presented at Capclave
on October 10 to original short fiction published by a small press, is
Jackalope Wives, by Ursula Vernon. The story was published in Apex Magazine.
* With the Cubs defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates in a one-game play-off
and getting closer to the World Series and Pepsi announcing a limited
edition of Pepsi Perfect in a futuristic bottle, it appears the world is
moving a little closer to the October 21 predicted in Back to the Future II.
(Det handlar om en "förutsägelse" om amerikanska baseballigan, från Back to the
Future.)
* Cixin Liu won the 2015 Xingyun Award for Best Achievement, presented
October 18, 2015 in a ceremony in Chengdu, China. The annual Xingyun
awards are organized by the World Chinese Science Fiction Association,
and have been presented since 2010.
--Ahrvid
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