Ett nytt nummer har kommit av Dave Langfords brittiska newszine Ansible:
http://news.ansible.uk/a355.html
De flesta nyheter av intresse har nog stått här på gamla SKRIVA. Men jag saxar
några saker som kanske är nytt (och mer kommer nog i nästa SF-nyhetsil):
* Arthur C. Clarke's estate is one of several suing literary entrepreneur
Fredrik Colting, whose Moppet Books publishes unauthorized rewrites of
'classic' novels – including 2001: A Space Odyssey – thinly disguised as study
guides for schoolchildren. All allegedly 'in complete disregard of copyright
law.' /Intressant på flera sätt...!/
*Jeffry Dwight & Steve Ratzlaff announced that their 20-year-old Internet
community at SFF.net – hosting many sf forums and authors' websites – will
close at the end of March. (SFF.net, 18 January) The private SFWA forums had
already moved away from SFF.net in 2014.
* Priser. Golden Globes animated film category: Zootopia. Oscars: Arrival has 8
nominations including Best Picture. SF & Fantasy Hall of Fame (a bumper intake
for the twentieth anniversary): Douglas Adams, Margaret Atwood, Keith David,
Guillermo del Toro, Terry Gilliam, Jim Henson, Jack Kirby, Madeleine L'Engle,
C.S. Lewis, H.P. Lovecraft, Leonard Nimoy, George Orwell, Terry Pratchett,
Rumiko Takahashi, John Williams. Plus works: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Blade
Runner, Dungeons & Dragons, The Matrix, Myst, The Princess Bride, Star Trek,
Wonder Woman, The X-files. SFWA Solstice: Peggy Rae Sapienza (1944-2015), Toni
Weisskopf.
* RIP: Hilary Bailey (1936-2017), UK author whose early work included 'The Fall
of Frenchy Steiner' (1964 New Worlds), who co-edited New Worlds Quarterly
#7-#10, and whose later literary fiction often included fantastic elements,
died on 18 January. Her former husband Michael Moorcock wrote: 'She was greatly
loved by her family and will be sadly missed by them. She was a successful
novelist, critic, editor and writer of non-fiction.'
Pascal Garray (1965-2017), Belgian illustrator who drew 17 Smurfs albums, died
on 17 January aged 51.
David Meltzer (1937-2016) US jazz guitarist, poet and novelist whose erotic sf
written for Essex House included the 1968-1969 Agency trilogy, died on 31
December; he was 79.
Larry Smith (1946-2017), well-known US fan and bookseller who ran the dealers'
room at many conventions including Worldcons, died on 20 January aged 70.
Annemarie van Ewijck (1943-2017), Dutch fan, translator and editor of the
semiprozine Holland SF for 19 years, a mainstay of the national fan club and of
Dutch conventions, died on 15 January aged 73. Her favourite author to
translate was Jack Vance.
Igor Volk (1937-2017), former USSR cosmonaut and Hero of the Soviet Union who
with Valery Anisimov co-wrote the sf thriller Kosmicheskii kolpak (1990), died
on 3 January aged 79.
* Warren Lapine announced that Fantastic Stories of the Imagination is closing
after its January 2017 issue.
* Insert Name Here. 'The <blank> Award for Best Young Adult Book' is the new,
as yet unnamed, Worldcon not-a-Hugo. Do you prefer Anansi, Lodestar, Ouroboros,
Spellcaster, Tesseract or Worldcon? The WSFS survey at tinyurl.com/hse9txm
closes on 15 March.
* Leigh Edmonds is working on a history of Australian fandom 1956-1975: more
details at efanzines.com/iOTA/.
* DUFF: Paul Weimer is the only candidate for the 2017 trip from NA to
Australia
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