Nytt nr av Dave Langfords sf-nyhetszine Ansible är ute:
http://news.ansible.uk/a362.html
Några klipp:
Worldcon 75. Post-con committee tweet: 'We are the second biggest Worldcon
ever. 10516 Members and Day Passes / 7119 Warm Bodies on Site.' Thanks to an
unexpected late surge of registrations, there was much overcrowding and
queueing (even for items other than George R.R. Martin autographs, a four-hour
wait) until more function space could be brought into play.
Business Meeting. Proposed changes to the Hugo nomination process (EPH+ and
three-stage voting) were voted down, while Best Series was ratified as a
permanent category and the YA not-a-Hugo award approved for 2018.
Worldcon 2019: the unopposed Dublin bid won, of course, with 1,227 site
selection votes cast.
Terry Pratchett's unfinished work – or at least, a single elderly and perhaps
merely symbolic IDE hard drive – was in accordance with his wishes crushed by a
steamroller on 25 August. /Hm, var det bara en "symbolisk" ångvältning?/
Awards. Big Heart: Carolina Gomez Lagerlöf.
First Fandom Hall of Fame: Les and Es Cole, Jim Harmon.
Sidewise: SHORT (tie) Daniel Bensen, 'Treasure Fleet' (Tales from Alternate
Earths); Adam Rovner, 'What If the Jewish State Had Been Established in East
Africa?' (What Ifs of Jewish History). LONG Ben H. Winters, Underground
Airlines.
US Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame: Beatrix Potter, Richard Powers.
RIP: Jack Wodhams (1931-2017) UK-born Australian author of many hard sf stories
(mostly for Analog 1967-1990), three solo novels beginning with The Authentic
Touch (1971) and one 2015 children's book with Adam Wallace, died on 3 August;
he was 85.
Mark Merlis (1950-2017), US author whose gay fantasy An Arrow's Flight (1998)
won a Lambda Award, died on 15 August aged 67.
On 24 August, Lani Sarem's fantasy Handbook for Mortals was briefly number one
on the New York Times YA hardback bestseller list. That a debut novel from a
new publisher, not widely available from retail outlets, could sell 18,000
copies in a week roused suspicion and even suggestions of strategic bulk
ordering from selected bookshops that report sales figures to NYT. Within hours
a replacement NYT list appeared, with Sarem no longer included.
More on the lawsuit against Moppet Books and its KinderGuides (see A355) by
publishers and literary estates including Arthur C. Clarke's: a US judge ruled
on 28 July that these 'unauthorized derivatives' of copyright texts, though
framed as study guides for kids, weren't protected by fair use. (PW, 1 August).
A later injunction against their further distribution made little difference,
since takedown notices had removed the offending KinderGuides from sale months
ago. (PW, 17 August). Yet more court proceedings begin on 2 October.
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