Home/Links: 2018This page is the final repository for 2018 links from the ever-scrolling sidebar column at the right of the Ansible Links page. The editor has no intention of running regular checks on their continued validity.
December 2018
• Ytterbium (Eastercon) accommodation bursaries
• DUFF: no 2019 race
• Nine Worlds tweetstorm; official response
• TAFF News Redux
• GUFF 2019 voting now open
• Concentric 2020 Eastercon bid
• SFWA and Writers of the Future
• 2019 TAFF voting has begun
• Dublin 2019 Special Hugo categoryNovember 2018
• Bad Sex Award
• Join the Dublin Worldcon by 31 December to qualify as a Hugo nominator
• Robert Silverberg vs The Internet
• Fake Britain map
• 2019 TAFF candidates announced
• "Science Fiction & Information Law" essay competition
• Japanese dystopia wins US award
• Stan Lee (1922-2018)
• "When I began A Game of Thrones I thought it might be a short story"
• Nebula Awards rules changes
• "Netflix, Warner Bros. Hit With $50M Suit Over Satanic Deity in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina"
• Greg Egan Superpermutes
• 2018 World Fantasy Awards Winners
• "I Tried to Make Piracy Work for My Film – but Pirates Don’t Work for Anyone"October 2018
• George R.R. Martin Is Number 48
• The Crimes of Bram Stoker
• 2018 British Fantasy Awards winners
• 2019 GUFF nominations open
• Kelly Link, MacArthur fellow
• "The London Horror Con Disaster"
• Gestetner exhibition photosSeptember 2018
• Space Opera Book Cover Maker
• "Philip Pullman loses His Dark Materials ballpoint pen"
• BSFA Awards: nominations open, with wider Best Novel eligibility
• Genre titles on Man Booker shortlist
• "Haruki Murakami withdraws from alternative Nobel prize"
• Together Again for the First Time: Malzberg, Spinrad and Verne!
• SF² Concatenation Autumn 2018 Newscast
• 2019 TAFF race: nomination and voting datesAugust 2018 continued
• Christopher Priest: "50 Not Out"
• What Should Become of Judy-Lynn Del Rey's Hugo?
• Requiem for Sad Puppies
• "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction is the Best Place on the Internet" (blush)
• Michael Scott Rohan memorial site (reminiscences solicited)Worldcon 76
• Closing Ceremony
• N.K. Jemisin's Hugo speech
• Hugo Awards; detailed voting breakdown [PDF]
• CoNZealand: Worldcon 2020 in New Zealand
• Hugo Base Design
• Sidewise Awards
• Chesley Awards
• Retro Hugo Base Design
• Retro Hugo Awards; detailed voting breakdown [PDF]
• Opening Ceremony Awards
• Daily NewslettersAugust 2018
• Michael Scott Rohan (1951-2018)
• R.I.P. Wadfest
• The Future of Nine Worlds Geekfest
• As the USSR Saw Us (1947)
• 2018 TAFF trip blog
• Worldcon 76 ProgrammeJuly 2018
• Stupid lawsuit against Worldcon 76 continues
• "Inside the World of Racist Science Fiction"
• World Fantasy Awards shortlists
• "Worldcon 76 Program Troubles"; A New Hope; more
• Mythopoeic Awards
• Lost moon
• Trademark application alerts: Dragon Slayer; highly distinctive cover design; BrewDog PLC grabs "fanzine".
• Arthur C. Clarke Award
• TAFF News Special Report
• Pooh map auctioned
• The last page of the Book of Mazarbul
• British Fantasy Awards shortlists
• New Zealand in 2020 (Worldcon bid): change of dates
June 2018
• Harlan Ellison (1934-2018)
• Weird Fantasy and Weird Science trademark applications
• Locus Awards Winners
• Blake's 7 remembered
• Shimmer magazine to close
• Donna Maree Hanson's GUFF trip report (ebook)
• Campbell Memorial Award shortlist
• Juliet E. McKenna and Wikipedia
• Space Babe Coloring Book (all proceeds to the Tiptree Award)
• James Branch Cabell meets OCRMay 2018
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch on literary agents and embezzlement; Jim C. Hines comments
• 2018 Hugo Voter Packet
• "UK Brexit proposals nominated for Hugo Award in Fantasy category"
• Michael Swanwick on Gardner Dozois (1947-2018); SF Encyclopedia links roundup
• Mythopoeic Awards shortlists
• The Further Adventures of Jerry Cornelius
• "The harbingers of Doomwatch"
• 2017 Nebula Awards
• "Time to take Science Fiction seriously?"
• H.P. Wells?
• Clarke Award tickets
• FAAn Awards
• 2019 Diana Wynne Jones conference call for papers
• Gollancz: An open letter to The Bookseller; the editor responds
• V.E. Schwab's Tolkien lecture: video online
• Clarke Award shortlist
• Hugo voting opens 3 May
• Locus Awards shortlistsApril 2018
• "Writers of the Future and Scientology, Redux"
• Jim Mowatt's TAFF report
• Amazing Stories open for submissions
• Gemmell Awards shortlists
• Twit sues Worldcon 76
• SF² Concatenation Summer 2018 Newscast
• British Science-Fiction Bibliography (1937)
• Sublime Cognition call for papers by 1 May
• Kitschies winners
• CRSF call for papers by 30 April
• Fan fund winners announced: DUFF, GUFF, TAFF plus fuller TAFF Press Release [PDF]March 2018
• BSFA Awards
• Hugo shortlist and Retro-Hugo shortlist
• Philip K. Dick Award
• Harry Potter and the Bookseller of Larceny
• The signs of Didcot
• Kitschies shortlists
• Clarke Award submissions list
• Kate Wilhelm (1928-2018)
• Peter Nicholls (1939-2018)
• A Proposal to Re-Name the Young Adult Book Award at Worldcon 76; more
• 2017 Bram Stoker Awards
• "Fantasy Writer Terry Goodkind Now Claims He Hated His Book Cover Because It's 'Sexist'" (see A368)
• Looking at some crowdfunding data (see A368)
• Tor Books reshuffle
• Ansible 368 had several production hiccups. Heavy snow on 1 March made the prospect of the usual town-centre copy shop seem deeply uninviting, and paper copies were coaxed out of the ancient Ansible laser printer. After an unpleasant trip to the post box, it was time for the digital editions ... at which point our broadband stopped working. Updating the website via cellphone is not unlike uploading a camel through the eye of a needle. Various other notifications, the email lists and Usenet had to wait until net access was restored on 2 March. What fun.February 2018
• Robotech RPG Tactics: when Kickstarters go bad
• LeVar Burton reads "Different Kinds of Darkness"; also at Apple Podcasts
• 28 February BSFA meeting postponed
• Dublin 2019 rates to rise in April
• 2017 Nebula finalists
• 2018 GUFF ballot
• BSFA Awards final ballot
• Gemmell Awards longlist voting
• Follycon day memberships
• Hugo nominations open
• Bram Stoker Awards finalists
• 2018 DUFF Ballot
• Brave New Words award shortlistJanuary 2018
• Retro Fan Hugos information page
• Ursula K. Le Guin 1929-2018; also BBC, Belfast Telegraph, File 770, Guardian, Independent, LA Times, Locus, New York Times, NPR, SFWA, Space.com, Washington Post; a Le Guin letter at Doctor Strangemind; Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell, Christopher Priest; "On Serious Literature" in Ansible and a letter to Thog
• SFWA decides to draw the line somewhere; File 770 names names (see also below)
• Philip K. Dick Award shortlist
• SF² Concatenation Spring 2018 Newscast
• FAAn Awards voting for 2017 work
• SF Foundation Masterclass in SF Criticism
• Peter Beagle's lawsuit delayed by Connor Cochran filing for bankruptcy; more here
• BSFA Awards: longlist and round 2 of nominations
• Worldcon 76 Exclusion Act; more at File 770; Jim C. Hines provides background
• True Rat: The Beast of Leroy Kettle [expanded 10 January with an article we'd all missed]
