Ett nytt nummer av Dave Langfords Hugo-vinnande Ansible är ute,
http://news.ansible.uk/a361.html Och nedan saxar jag n¨gra nyheter som inte ;
stått här tidigare (Ansible är känt för att hitta de udda nyheterna...).
* (Om en känd sf-kännare:) Mike Ashley, CEO at Sports Direct, had an sf moment
while assuring the High Court that his management style is far from
dictatorial: 'I am not Obi-Wan Kenobi controlling the Death Star'.
* Harry Potter may be to blame for a sharp rise in illicit owl trading in
Indonesia, according to a recent ecological study: 'Harry Potter normalized
keeping owls as pets.' Even their usual Malay name Burung Hantu has now become
Burung Harry Potter...
* Tracy K. Smith, poet whose 2011 collection Life on Mars (a Pulitzer winner)
is sf-themed, was named as US Poet Laureate in June.
* 'Neuroskeptic' of Discover magazine found four allegedly peer-reviewed
science journals happy to accept a paper on Star Wars 'midi-chlorians', based
on Wikipedia's mitochondria entry (after a quick search-and-replace and
thesaurus shuffling), peppered with references to the Force, Darth Plagueis of
the Sith, etc., and signed as by Dr Lucas McGeorge and Dr Annette Kin. Of nine
targeted journals, five rejected this nonsense (full marks to JSM Biochemistry
and Molecular Biology for 'The authors have neglected to add the following
references: Lucas et al., 1977, Palpatine et al., 1980, and Calrissian et al.,
1983'); three published the paper; one accepted it but wanted a $360
publication fee which was not forthcoming.
* Christopher Teague announced the closure of his Wales-based horror imprint
Pendragon Press, established in 1999. See www.pendragonpress.net for more.
* The New York Times magazine has sensationally discovered printed fanzines, or
rather, 'the resurgence of zines'. One publisher explains their charm: 'He
described zines as the successor to personal blogs, but personal blogs have
been in the decline over the past decade. And zines can't get replies or
hateful remarks in a comments section.' (NY Times, 7 March) An agonizing
reappraisal may follow when they rediscover the concept of the letter column.
* DIV PRISER (och jag utsluter dem jag tror nämnts tidigare):
Clareson (sf/f promotion): Pawel Frelik.
Munsey Award (services to pulp community): Phil Stephensen-Payne.
Mythopoeic (fantasy): ADULT Patricia A. McKillip, Kingfisher. CHILDREN'S Adam
Gidwitz, The Inquisitor's Tale. SCHOLARSHIP: INKLINGS Philip & Carol Zaleski,
The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen
Barfield, Charles Williams. SCHOLARSHIP: OTHER Richard Firth Green, Elf Queens
and Holy Friars.
Pilgrim (life contribution to sf/fantasy scholarship): Tom Moylan.
Prize for American Fiction, Library of Congress non-genre life award: Denis
Johnson (see R.I.P. below).
World Fantasy Award for life achievement: Marina Warner; Terry Brooks
* DÖINGAR (tar även här bara dem jag tror inte dött tidigare, och jag utesluter
många skådisar - de bara *spelar* döa):
Trevor Baxter (1932-2017), UK actor whose credits include Doctor Who: 'The
Talons of Weng-Chiang' (1977) and Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004),
died on 16 July aged 84.
Denis Johnson (1949-2017), highly regarded US author whose sf novel is the
post-holocaust Fiskadoro (1985), died on 24 May aged 67.
Jordin Kare (1956-2017), US fan, aerospace engineer and filker – a partner in
the pioneering filk songbook publisher Off Centaur – died on 19 July aged 60.
William Sanders (1942-2017), US author of the alternate-history Journey to
Fusang (1988) and other genre novels, who with Lawrence Watt-Evans edited Helix
SF 2006-2009, died on 30 June aged 75.
Galip Tekin (1958-2017), Turkish sf/fantasy comics artist and dystopian
novelist, was found dead on 6 July; he was 59.
David Widdicombe (1962-2017), Canadian playwright and film-maker whose play
Science Fiction (2000) won an Aurora award, died on 8 July 8; he was 55.
Jeanne Moreau (1928-2017), French actress, screenwriter and director whose
genre films include The Trial (1962), Hu-Man (1975) and Until the End of the
World (1991), was found dead on 31 July; she was 89.
Sam Shepard (1943-2017), US actor, director and playwright who played Chuck
Yeager in The Right Stuff (1983), died on 27 July aged 73. Genre credits
include The Return (2006) and, as writer and director, the supernatural western
Silent Tongue (1993).
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