Ett nytt nummmer av Dave Langfords sf-nyhetsblad Ansible har kommit. Se:
https://news.ansible.uk/a376.html
Mycket av nyheterna har ju rapporteras tack vare SFJs skarpa öga, men några
saxningar av saker som kanske missats... (Nå, det är en del, då Dave
specialiserar sig på RIPs, skojiga citat och udda, personliga nyheter!)
* Poul Anderson’s ashes were scattered in Puget Sound by Astrid Anderson Bear
and her children on 14 September. (Hm, var detinte 1,5 decennium sedan han dog?)
* Liz Gorinsky, Hugo-winning editor who in 2018 left Tor after 15 years there,
is now President and Publisher at the new independent genre publisher Erewhon
Books: see www.erewhonbooks.com.
* Kelly Link has joined the select list of sf/fantasy authors to receive
MacArthur ‘genius’ fellowships. Responding to news of the $625,000 grant, she
mused ‘I believe the traditional reaction is to feel that someone must be
pulling your leg ...’
* George R.R. Martin had a little gloat when his Game of Thrones books placed
48th in the Great American Read voting: ‘Pretty cool. I was in the top 50,
anyway, and I edged out the Foundation series and War and Peace. Not half bad.
* Bram Stoker plumbed greater depths of evil than we ever knew. While
researching Dracula at The London Library, of which he was a member, he defaced
library books with crosses, underlinings, instructions for passages to be
transcribed, and so forth: 25 such marked-up works including Sabine
Baring-Gould’s The Book of Were-Wolves can still be found in the collection.
See www.londonlibrary.co.uk/dracula.
* ‘Hell of course will have a library, but one stocked exclusively with science
fiction, six-hundred-odd page novels by men whose first name is Jonathan, and
books extolling the 1960s.’ (Joseph Epstein, First Things magazine, November)
* Not the Booker Prize (another alternative award, given by the judges – in
defiance of popular vote – to a genre novel): Rebecca Ley, Sweet Fruit, Sour
Land. (Guardian, 15 October)
* On the future of transport: ‘... I do not think it at all probable that
aeronautics will ever come into play as a serious modification of transport and
communication – the main question here under consideration. Man is not, for
example, an albatross, but a land biped, with a considerable disposition
towards being made sick and giddy by unusual motions ...’ (H.G. Wells,
Anticipations, 1902) On the future of warfare: ‘I must confess that my
imagination, in spite even of spurring, refuses to see any sort of submarine
doing anything but suffocate its crew and founder at sea.’ (Ibid)
* RIP:
Tim Bateman (?1961-2018), UK comics fan and fanzine contributor who was a
founder member of the Prime (later British) Amateur Press Association, died on
13 October.
Richard Bausch (1945-2018), US author whose one fantasy novel was Almighty Me
(1991) – filmed as Bruce Almighty in 2002 – died on 9 October; he was 73.
Dave Duncan (1933-2018), Scottish-born Canadian author of 60 sf and
(predominantly) fantasy novels beginning with the sf A Rose-Red City (1987),
died on 29 October aged 85. He was a founder member of SF Canada and won two
Aurora Awards for best novel.
J.R. Hammond (1933-2018), UK academic who founded the H.G. Wells Society in
1960 and wrote critical works about Wells (several volumes), Orwell, Poe and
others, died on 20 September aged 85.
James Karen (1923-2018), US actor in Capricorn One (1977), Topper (1979),
Poltergeist (1982), Return of the Living Dead (1985), Invaders from Mars (1986)
and many more, died on 23 October aged 94.
* ANZAPA (Australia and New Zealand Amateur Press Association) celebrated its
50th anniversary with a gathering in Melbourne on 7 October.
* The Dirty Movie Book by John Brosnan and Leroy Kettle is now a free ebook
download at the TAFF site, with a new Kettle introduction. See
taff.org.uk/ebooks.php?x=DirtyMovie. Also released on 1 November: The Complete
Checkpoint repackages the web archive of Peter Roberts’s fondly remembered
1970s UK fan newsletter Checkpoint – predecessor of and inspiration for Ansible
– as a 300,000-word ebook, again free. See taff.org.uk/ebooks.php?x=Checkpoint.
Pat Lupoff (1937-2018), long-time US fan who married Richard A. Lupoff in 1958
and shared a Hugo for their and Bhob Stewart’s fanzine Xero (1960-1963) –
becoming the second female Hugo winner – died on 18 October.
Sue Martin-Smith (1960-2018), New Zealand fan who founded the long-running
‘Phoenix’ sf club and co-created FFANZ (Fan Fund of Australia and New Zealand),
died on 23 September.
* Much bad feeling followed the postponement (from 30 June/1 July to September)
and then cancellation (announced on Facebook, 11 July) of Victor Wright’s
London Horror Con. The money had been eaten up by a failed Edinburgh event in
May, and LHC soon found itself unable to refund either ticket fees or extras
like photo opportunities presold at £95. At least one guest, Alex Vincent from
the Child’s Play films, felt not only ill-treated but actively insulted. The
website (www.horrorconbirmingham.com) vanished; Wright declared that the
holding company couldn’t afford a liquidator and would be voluntarily struck
off the register – apparently problematic when you have lots of annoyed
creditors.
* TAFF 2019: nominations for the 2019 race from North America to the Dublin
Worldcon remain open until 22 November; voting will run from 1 December to 22
April 2019. See taff.org.uk for official announcement.
* GUFF: nominations for the 2019 race from Australasia to the Dublin worldcon
opened on 8 October and close on 5 December; voting will end on 22 April 2019.
See ozfanfunds.com/?page_id=6.
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