Ansible® 448, November 2024
From David Langford, 94 London Road, Reading, Berks, RG1 5AU, UK. Website news.ansible.uk. ISSN 0265-9816 (print); 1740-942X (e). Logo: Dan Steffan. Cartoon: Ian Gunn, 1990s. Available for SAE or the secret plans hidden by Erihsibrad under the Wollip.
The Furtive Feasters
Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki was removed from the SFWA Board of Directors – a recent ‘Director-at-Large’ appointment on 1 July – after public complaints regarding his professional ethics. (SFWA, 28 October; File 770, 26 October; see also Erin Cairns, ethicsreport.tiiny.site)
Alan Moore can see both sides of the issue: ‘I believe that fandom is a wonderful and vital organ of contemporary culture, without which that culture ultimately stagnates, atrophies and dies. At the same time, I’m sure that fandom is sometimes a grotesque blight that poisons the society surrounding it with its mean-spirited obsessions and ridiculous, unearned sense of entitlement.’ (Guardian, 26 October)
Elon Musk, along with Tesla and Warner Bros Discovery, is being sued by the makers of Blade Runner 2049 (Alcon Entertainment) for allegedly using AI-generated imagery based on that film at the launch event for Tesla’s robotaxi – after Alcon ‘specifically denied a request from Warner Bros to use material from the film’. (BBC, 22 October) [SF²C]
Katherine Rundell revealed the secret of making children’s books ‘shine’ by pruning unnecessary detail. ‘The greatest children's books pull off this balancing act, per Rundell: To this day, she can recount, exactingly and with absolute confidence, the hair color of the Pevensies of Narnia, “but they are never described in the book.”’ (Washington Post interview, 10 September). Bibliophiles are now eagerly seeking the rare edition of The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe without the mentions in Chapter 17 of Susan’s long black hair and golden-haired Lucy. [AL]
Robert Runte had a soul-searing insight: ‘You know you’re taking too long to finish your novel when you started at the same time as Last Dangerous Visions and it comes out first.’ (Facebook, 5 October)
Bram Stoker is in the news for ‘Gibbet Hill’, a rediscovered short story from a Christmas supplement to the Dublin Daily Express on 17 December 1890. (BBC, 19 October) A ‘first’ book edition was announced for November, but Wildside Press released their version in October.
Condylotomy
Click here for longlist • London • Overseas
Until 4 Jan • The Lost Worlds of Ray Harryhausen, Lauriston Gallery, Waterside, Sale, Manchester. See tinyurl.com/2jbbwxcw.
1-3 Nov • Armadacon, Future Inns, Plymouth. £45 reg; £35 concessions; single day £25. More at www.armadacon.org.
1-2 Nov • Frightfest (film), London, Odeon Luxe, Leicester Square. Two-day ticket £79; more at www.frightfest.co.uk/filmsandevents/.
1-3 Nov • Glasgow 2024, Back to Our Futures, free online for Glasgow Worldcon attending or virtual members: tinyurl.com/2earcc4d.
8-10 Nov • Novacon 53, Palace Hotel, Buxton. £53 reg; couples £106; under-17s £12; under-13s free. Day rates at novacon.uk. The hotel no longer accepts cash in the bar or restaurants – card payments only.
9 Nov • Cymera Writers’ Conference, Edinburgh/online. £75; concessions/virtual at www.cymerafestival.co.uk/writers-conference.
9-10 Nov • Surrey Steampunk Convivial, Stoneleigh, Epsom. See bumpandthumper.wixsite.com/steampunkconvivials.
9-10 Nov • Women in Horror Weekend, Waterstones, Nottingham. £18; day rates £10 Sat, £8 Sun. See tinyurl.com/mr3spmz2.
16 Nov • Winter Haunts 3 (Gothic etc), online. See https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/winter-haunts-2024-tickets-998430531597.
16 Nov • Writing and Mental Health (BFS event), online with panels, interviews and readings. See tinyurl.com/bfs-mental-health.
23-24 Nov • Christopher Tolkien centenary conference, online: www.tolkiensociety.org/events/christopher-tolkien-centenary-conference/
25-26 Nov • DarkFest 6 (film), Genesis Cinema, 93-95 Mile End Rd,
London, E1 4UJ. £55. See infinitymagazine.co.uk/product/darkfest-6/.
30 Nov • Dragonmeet (gaming), Novotel Hammersmith, London. 9am-11pm. Tickets £15.50 (under-18s £8) at www.dragonmeet.co.uk.
7-8 Dec • Women in the Black Fantastic (SFF conference), online. £30; £15 unwaged. See www.sf-foundation.org/fresh-about.
29 Dec - 1 Jan • Steampunk New Year, Belmont Hotel, Leicester. See www.ministryofsteampunk.com/steampunknewyear2025.
21-23 Feb 2025 • UK Ghost Story Festival, Museum of Making, Derby. In-person ticket sales awaited. Also online 14-16 February, £50 plus fee. See www.ukghoststoryfestival.co.uk.
18-21 Apr 2025 • Reconnect (Eastercon), Hilton Lanyon Place Hotel and ICC, Belfast. Now £90 reg, rising to £100 on 1 January and £120 at the door; £40 discounted (under-18s, concessions, Eastercon first-timers and fans living in Ireland, with the last two rising to £70 on 14 November); £25 supporting. Hotel bookings have opened. See easterconbelfast.org.
26-27 Apr 2025 • Sci-Fi Scarborough (multimedia), The Spa, Scarborough. £30 reg; students £20; ‘kids’ £10. See scifiscarborough.co.uk.
8 Nov 2025 • PictCon1, Salutation Hotel, 30-34 South St, Perth, Scotland. Date changed from 18 October 2025. £30 reg; £20 concessions. See www.facebook.com/events/1186045639366253/.
Rumblings. Worldcon 2025 (Seattle): hotel bookings are open; members have been emailed. See www.seattlein2025.org.
• Worldcon 2030 now has a bid from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. (Bluesky, 30 October)
Infinitely Improbable
SF Predictions Dept. ‘A large statue in green marble loomed [...] He recognized it as belonging to the Progress of Man series which lined the tenth-floor main corridor. This one represented John W. Campbell.’ (Poul Anderson & Gordon Dickson, Earthman’s Burden, 1957)
Awards. British Fantasy. HOLDSTOCK (fantasy novel) Talonsister by Jen Williams. DERLETH (horror novel) Don’t Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones. NOVELLA The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar by Indra Das. SHORT ‘The Brazen Head of Westinghouse’ by Tim Major. COLLECTION Jackal, Jackal by Tobi Ogundiran. ANTHOLOGY Out There Screaming ed. Jordan Peele. INDEPENDENT PRESS Flame Tree. NONFICTION Writing the Future, ed. Dan Coxon & Richard V. Hirst. MAGAZINE Shoreline of Infinity. ARTIST Asya Yordonova. AUDIO The Tiny Bookcase by Nico Rogers & Ben Holroyd-Dell. BOUNDS (newcomer) Teika Marija Smits. KARL EDWARD WAGNER Ramsey Campbell. LEGEND OF FANTASYCON (non-BFS) Debbie Bennett.
• Rhysling (poetry): LONG ‘Little Brown Changeling’ by Lauren Scharhag (Aphelion). SHORT ‘No One Now Remembers’ by Geoffrey Landis (F&SF ).
• Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize: A City on Mars by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith.
• Ursula K. Le Guin Prize: It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over by Anne de Marcken.
• World Fantasy: NOVEL The Reformatory by Tananarive Due. NOVELLA ‘Half the House Is Haunted’ by Josh Malerman (Spin a Black Yarn). SHORT ‘Silk and Cotton and Linen and Blood’ by Nghi Vo (New Suns 2). ANTHOLOGY The Book of Witches ed. Jonathan Strahan. COLLECTION No One Will Come Back for Us by Premee Mohamed. ARTIST Audrey Benjaminsen. SPECIAL/PRO Liza Groen Trombi, for Locus. SPECIAL/NON-PRO Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, for Uncanny.
As Others See Us. ‘Playground [by Richard Powers] belongs in the commercial sci-fi tradition, where outsiders can see themselves reflected in the characters and enjoy the warm glow of wish fulfilment. [...] These are the syrupy consolations of genre fiction, a category usually overlooked by prestigious literary prizes but cleverly laundered here by judicious engagement with weighty themes.’ (Sunday Times, 22 September) [VS]
R.I.P. John Amos (1939-2024), US actor in Dance of the Dwarfs (1983), Hologram Man (1995), Dr. Dolittle 3 (2006) and Voodoo Moon (2006), died on 21 August aged 84. [LP]
• Roger Browne (1930-2024), US actor in Vulcan Son of Jupiter (1962), Venus Meets the Son of Hercules (1962), Argoman the Fantastic Superman (1967) and others, died on 11 October aged 94. [SJ]
• Pierre Christin (1938-2024), French comics writer best known in English for the Valerian space opera saga created with Jean-Claude Mézières in 1966 and adapted as a 2017 Luc Besson film, died on 3 October aged 86. [JA]
• Scott Connors, editor of critical anthologies on Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith – also, with others, Smith’s collected fantasies, letters and definitive bibliography – reportedly died in October. [LP]
• Robert Coover (1932-2024), noted US author of much literary fantasy, metafiction and fabulation including The Universal Baseball Association Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. (1968) and stories in his first collection Pricksongs & Descants (1969), died on 5 October aged 92. [PDF]
• William Crain (1949-2024), US director of Blacula (1972) and Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde (1976), died on 22 June aged 75. [SJ]
• Ron Ely (1938-2024), US actor who starred in Tarzan (1966-1968 tv) and Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze (1975), died on 29 September aged 86. [SF²C]
• Bob Foster (1943-2024), US comics writer and animation artist who wrote the Toy Story and Hercules graphic novels, died on 30 September aged 80. Animation work for tv included Godzilla (1978-1979), Spider-Man (1981-1983) and Incredible Hulk (1982-1983). [SG]
• Teri Garr (1944-2024), US actress in Young Frankenstein (1974), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Oh, God! (1977), Mom and Dad Save the World (1992), Batman Beyond (1999-2000) and others, died on 29 October aged 79. [CB]
• Art Henderson (1942-2024), US fan and book dealer at many East Coast conventions, died on 12 October aged 82. [PDF]
• Greg Hildebrandt (1939-2024), noted US fantasy artist whose many paintings with his brother Tim (1939-2006) include work based on Tolkien, Shannara, Star Wars and Magic: The Gathering, died on 31 October aged 85. [SHS]
• Ken Howard, songwriter (with Alan Blaikley as Howard Blaikley) of many chart-topping hits, documentary director, film composer and novelist whose Follow Me: A Quest in Two Worlds (2017) is SF, died on 24 September 2024 aged 84. [SH]
• John Lasell (1928-2024), US actor in Dark Shadows (1967) and Deathmaster (1972), died on 4 October aged 95. [LP]
• Ed McLachlan (1940-2024), noted UK cartoonist active from the early 1960s in Punch, Private Eye and many other magazines and newspapers – often with surreal or fantastic images like the famous giant hedgehog running across a motorway crushing cars – died on 29 September aged 84. I loved his work.
• Elisa Montés (1934-2024), Spanish actress in Faustina (1967), Island of the Doomed (1967), The Girl from Rio (aka Future Women, 1969) and others, died on 9 October aged 89. [SJ]
• Mario Morra (1935-2024), Italian film editor for Queens of Evil (1970), Black Belly of the Tarantula (1971), The Humanoid (1979) and many more, died on 11 October. [SJ]
• Paul Morrissey (1938-2024), US director of Flesh for Frankenstein (1973, which he also co-wrote) and Blood for Dracula (1974), died on 28 October aged 86. [SHS]
• Karl Mostert, South African comics artist who worked on various Batman titles (DC) and drew the strips The Man Who F#&%ed Up Time (Aftershock Comics) and Concrete Jungle (Scout Comics), died on October aged 43. [SH]
• Lynda Obst (1950-2024), US producer with credits for Helix (2014-2015) and Interstellar (2014), died on 22 October aged 74.
• Nobuyo Ōyama (1933-2024), Japanese actress best known for voicing the robot title character of the anime Doraemon (1979-2005), died on 16 October aged 90. [AIP]
• Ken Page (1954-2024), US actor in the Broadway Cats (1982), All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989), The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993 plus spinoffs) and others, died on 30 September aged 70. [SJ]
• Christopher Penfold (1941-2024), UK scriptwriter/story consultant whose credits include Space: 1999 (1975-1976), Alien Attack (1976) and The Tripods (1985), died on 29 July aged 83. [SH]
• Dick Pope (1947-2024), UK cinematographer whose credits include Inseminoid (1981), Whoops Apocalypse (1982) and 1984 (1984), died on 22 October aged 77. [SJ]
• Nicholas Pryor (1935-2024), US supporting actor in Omen II: Damien (1978), Hunger Games: Mockingjay 1 (2014), Doctor Sleep (2019) and others, died on 7 October aged 89. [SJ]
• Alvin Rakoff (1927-2024), Canadian film/tv director – genre films include King Solomon’s Treasure (1979) and A Haunting Harmony (1993) – and author of the sf novel The Seven Einsteins (2013), died on 12 October. [JC/SHS]
• Robert J. Randisi (1951-2024), US author best known for thrillers and Westerns who collaborated with Warren Murphy on some genre novels in the Destroyer series, died on 4 October aged 73. [JC]
• Fred Smith (1927-2024), long-time Scots fan who was a 1952 founder member of Glasgow’s New Lands SF Club (the first such club in Scotland), published the fanzine Haemoglobin 1953-1959, and after a long gap returned to fannish activity in the 1990s, died on 2 October aged 97. [MP]
• Nancy St. John, visual effects producer for Babe (1995 plus sequel), I, Robot (2004), Total Recall (2012), Ender’s Game (2013) and many more, died on 23 October aged 70. [SJ]
• Sam Strangis (1929-2024), US producer/production manager whose credits include Batman: The Movie (1966), The Immortal (1969-1971), The Six Million Dollar Man (1974) and War of the Worlds (1988-1989), died on 23 July aged 95. [AIP]
• Jeri Taylor (1938-2024), US screenwriter, producer and showrunner with credits for most of Star Trek: TNG (1990-1994) and Voyager (1995-1998) plus episodes of DS9 (1993-1994), died on 24 October aged 86; she also wrote three ST novels. [MR]
• Kevin J. Taylor (1962-2024) prolific US erotic comics creator whose genre titles include The Girl, Model by Day (adapted for film), Fang and CoEd Diaries, died on 24 September aged 61. [SM]
• Larry S. Todd (1948-2024), US writer and illustrator for Galaxy, If and Worlds of Tomorrow in the 1960s – later known for comics including his own Dr. Atomic and work in Heavy Metal – died on 28 September aged 76. [SH]
• Bruce Townley (1954-2024), US fan, fan artist and fanzine publisher active from 1970, member of WSFA and the Southern Fandom Confederation and a later contributor to email lists, died on 17 October aged 70. [CS]
• Valery Verkhovsky (1969-2024), Ukrainian writer who translated Ender’s Game and Connie Willis’s Doomsday Book, died on 23 October. [AM]
• Robert Watts (1938-2024), UK producer of The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981 plus sequels), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) and others, died on 30 September aged 86. [CM]
• Bob (Brayton) Yerkes (1932-2024), US stuntman in Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979-1981), Poltergeist (1982), Return of the Jedi (1983), Back to the Future (1985), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) and many more, died on 2 October aged 92. [SJ]
The Weakest Link. Q. ‘Which famous potter has a statue erected in his honour in Stoke-on-Trent?’ A. ‘Beatrix.’ (ITV, The Chase) [PE]
Awards II. The UK Kitschies will be presented for the last time in June 2025, for 2023/2024 work in the usual categories. Novel finalists are Infinity Gate by M.R. Carey, In Ascension by Martin MacInnes, Julia by Sandra Newman, Jungle House by Julianne Pachico and The Premonition by Banana Yoshimoto as translated by Asa Yoneda. Announcement and the other shortlists at blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/editorial/Kitschies.
Random Fandom. Sandra Bond observes: ‘I have been hearing about certain sub-optimal aspects of the Fantasycon 2024 hotel, but let’s just say I have never been asked before now if I wanted ice in my pint of craft beer.’ (Discord, 13 October)
• Bill Higgins, Former Beam Jockey, on the end of an era: ‘I retired from Fermilab in June, so my long-time address (higgins@fnal.gov) will no longer reach me.’
• Northumberland Heath SF Society: fan meetings on the second Thursday of each month have moved to The Royal Oak, 270 Bexley Road, Erith, Kent, DA8 3HB. [SF²C]
Magazine Scene. The TTA Press online shop, selling back issues of Interzone, Black Static and Crimewave, closed down in October.
Orwellian Horror! ‘Multipack bags of crisps are only five grams heavier than the reduced chocolate rations handed to surveilled citizens in George Orwell’s nightmare, Nineteen Eighty-Four. Is 25g all our appetite is worth?’ (Natalie White, Crunch: An Ode to Crisps, 2024) [PE]
Court Circular. A Russian court ruled that Google owes Russia’s media $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ($20 decillion) for blocking their content – more money than exists on Earth. Google, no longer active in Russia, seems untroubled. (The Register, 29 October)
The Dead Past. 50 Years Ago at Novacon 4: ‘Peter Weston gave a good rambling account of his recent TAFF trip, which was supposed to be illustrated with the aid of an extraordinary epidiascope that looked more like a mimeograph. The first picture put into the machine was burnt to a cinder, and the bulb then fused, so the talk was perforce without pictures.’ (Checkpoint 56, November 1974)
• 30 Years Ago: ‘You thought Kim Stanley Robinson’s Green Mars was hard sf? Not so, implies the write-up in Fire and Water (HarperCollins newsletter), explaining how to reach this particular Mars: “Cross the astral belt ...”.’ (Ansible 88, November 1994)
• 20 Years Ago, Ceefax TV Choice offered its best argument for Battlestar Galactica on Sky One: ‘Take it on trust and watch anyway – Galactica is genuinely exceptional and the less you like science fiction, the more you'll love this new US drama.’ (Ansible 208, November 2004)
SFWA. Following resignations and a ‘special election’ for new leadership, Kate Ristau is now the president of SFWA. (SFWA, 29 October)
Fanfundery. TransAtlantic Fan Fund. Sarah Gulde is home from her long TAFF trip and has taken over as NA administrator: Mike Lowrey can retire at last. The next westbound TAFF race will be to the 2025 Seattle Worldcon: nominations open 11 November 2024, closing 20 December; voting from early January to just after Eastercon; candidates are now sought. See taff.org.uk. [SB/ML]
• TAFF Ebooks: our 100th title is Harrison Country (2007) by Steve Stiles, reporting without indecent haste on his 1968 TAFF trip. [GS] With much help from Irwin Hirsh, the library now includes GUFF reports by John Foyster (first ever GUFF trip, 1979), Ian Gunn & Karen Pender-Gunn (1995), Eric Lindsay & Jean Weber (2001), Pat McMurray (2004), James Shields (2010), Gillian Polack (2014), Donna Maree Hanson (2017), Marcin ‘Alqua’ Kłak (2018) and Simon Litten (2019). Latest additions at taff.org.uk/ebooks.php?all&chron.
Thog’s Masterclass. Neat Tricks. ‘Paula Ray, in a chair a few feet away was sleeping, her head on her breast.’ (Edmond Hamilton, ‘The Stars, My Brothers’, 1962) [BA]
• Again and Again. ‘[J.R.R. Tolkien] was taken away from the blaze of his African life when he was very young ... and he never saw his father, who died a year later, again.’ (William Ready, The Tolkien Relation, 1981) [LG]
• Eyeballs in the Sky. ‘The blood-laced eyes of Ruthlen Beauson bagged gibbously behind their horn-rimmed lenses.’ (Richard Matheson, ‘The Doll That Does Everything’, 1954) [BA]
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Group Theory.
• 21 November 2024, evening: London Zoom meeting, third Thursday of each month. ‘Please share this with people who you know typically come to the Bishop’s Finger, but aren’t on Facebook.’
https://bohemiancoast.medium.com/first-thursday-london-sf-fan-virtual-drinks-5232021e961f
Editorial. Ansible HQ has been in the throes of building maintenance work for most of October and my nerves are all jangled. Nevertheless there has been much progress with a collection of Ian Watson’s nonfiction writing for fanzines and con publications, which he has titled Watto’s Wisdom. All proceeds from the paperback edition will go to TAFF.
• As noted on the website: apologies to subscribers who received more than one copy of the October Ansible via the Google Groups list. After an unusual lack of email response, a complaint from a regular correspondent that nothing had arrived, and the non-appearance of my own admin copy, I thought something had gone wrong and unwisely tried again.
R.I.P. II – Late and Last-Minute Reports. Peter Goodfellow (1950-2022), UK artist who painted many genre book covers beginning with Tales from the White Hart (1972 UK) and continuing to the late 1990s – including The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997) – died on 11 December 2022 aged 72. [LD] Alas, nobody told Ansible until last month....
• Steven Mohan, Jr. (1967-2024), US military sf author active from 1998, who wrote fiction for the BattleTech wargame franchise and other game universes, died on 2 October aged 57. [SHS]
Another Exhibition. Until 30 December • Batman Unmasked, Covent Garden, London. Tickets £29 with small discounts for groups, children, concessions. See batmanexhibition.com/london/.
Some Links from the Ansible home page.
• Reconnect (Eastercon 2025) rates announcement
https://easterconbelfast.org/new-news-page/
Thog’s Golden Oldies from Ansible 208, November 2004. Dept of Sound Effects. ‘He made a face at me, soundlessly humming under his breath as if he was bored.’ (Laurell K. Hamilton, The Killing Dance, 1997) ‘As Reith approached he heard a sudden wordless cry of outrage from within. “Unclean!”’ (Jack Vance, The Pnume, 1970)
• Alien Planetology Dept. ‘A tall fountain of spray reached skyward, high enough that its top was touched red by the light of the sun rising in the west.’ (S.M. Stirling and David Drake, The Sword, 1995)
• Dept of Subtle Gender Distinctions.’ 'Wade harpooned the lamb chop with his fork and amputated a sizable portion with his knife. He waited until he had consigned it to the mysteries of gastric chemistry before speaking. Shirley was daintily toying with peas.’ (Charles Eric Maine, Thirst!, 1977)
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