[SKRIVA] Nytt nr av Ansible
- From: Ahrvid <ahrvid@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "skriva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <skriva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 17:11:22 +0100
Dave Langfords mången gång Hugo-belönade sf-nyhetsblad Ansible är ute med ett
nytt nr:
http://news.ansible.co.uk/a317.html
En del har jag nog täckt i SKRIVA-notiser, men jag saxar dock:
* Isaac Asimov's FBI file, released after a US freedom-of-information request,
revealed a lukewarm 1960s search for his alleged communist links (which even J.
Edgar Hoover didn't take seriously). The evidence: his name appeared on a US
Communist Party list of the 'possibly amenable', and one informant felt he had
a bad attitude because 'I question the position he takes with respect to the
first nuclear power plants being built by Soviet Russia.' That's it.
* Arthur C. Clarke Award for Impact of Imagination on Society (not the sf novel
award): Ursula K. Le Guin.
* Censored! The Saudi Arabian Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and
Prevention of Vice has reportedly raided bookshops and ordered them to stop
selling the sf novel H W J N by Ibraheem Abbas and Yasser Bahjatt (translator
of the English edition). This apparently treats jinni in sf terms and features
human/jinn romance, horrifying the Saudi equivalent of our 'Harry Potter is
satanic and must be burnt!' loons. A shocked Facebook post which may have led
to the ban warned that the book not only includes jinni but could tempt teenage
girls to experiment with ... Ouija boards.
* Fanfundery. TAFF 2014. Candidates so far announced for the coveted TAFF trip
from North America to Loncon 3: Brad and Cindy Foster are running as a couple,
and Curt Phillips solo.
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