Ansible® 454, May 2025
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, ‘Robodog’ from1990. Available for SAE or the buns by great men reached and kept.
RECONNECT. The Belfast Eastercon (18-21 April) has duly happened, with physical attendance reported as 900+ members.
• Future Eastercons: 2026 is Iridescence at the Birmingham NEC Hilton; 2027 is Unconfined at the Crowne Plaza, Glasgow; more about both in the events list below. A combined 2028 Eastercon/Eurocon run by the BSFA was proposed; a different 2028 bid was also planned by Marcus Streets, and there will be Discussions.
• The Fan Funds Auction raised over £1,100.
• BSFA Awards. SHORT FICTION ‘Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole’ by Isabel J. Kim (Clarkesworld). SHORTER (novelette/novella) Saturation Point by Adrian Tchaikovsky. NOVEL Three Eight One by Aliya Whiteley. YOUNGER READERS. Doctor Who: Caged by Una McCormack. COLLECTION/ANTHOLOGY Punks4Palestine ed. Jasen Bacon. AUDIO ‘The Personal Touch’ by Rick Danforth. ART Jenni Coutts, cover of Nova Scotia Vol 2. SHORT NONFICTION ‘Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art’ by Ted Chiang (New Yorker). LONG NONFICTION Track Changes by Abigail Nussbaum. TRANSLATED SHORT WORK ‘Bone by Bone’ by Mónika Rusval, translated by Vivien Urban (Samovar).
• Doc Weir Award for unsung fan heroes: Christine Davidson, co-founder of Glasgow’s Satellite conventions and organizer of programming at these and other events, including a major track of the 2024 Glasgow Worldcon. More than 100 Doc Weir ballots were cast.
• Overheard: ‘If there’s one thing to make your Science Fiction hard, what would be your Viagra?’ ‘A WorldCon shouldn’t be a floating viscous scum.’ ‘What about the elvish military-industrial complex?’ ‘Dragons hoarding cryptocurrency.’ ‘It does cross the line into tasteful understated tentacle porn....’ ‘I think that traditional publishing is determined to shoot itself in the head with an AI bot.’ (Various fans via Reconnect’s Discord.)
Shinbone Alley
Nicola Griffith is the 2025 SFWA Grand Master honoree. [SFWA]
Joe Haldeman will receive the US National Space Society’s inaugural Arthur C. Clarke Award (no relation to the UK novel award) for ‘inspiring and educating the public about humanity’s journey to space’. [F770]
Ursula K. Le Guin’s estate was alerted to the Amazon Kindle ebook Earthsea Wizard by ‘Traci Holme’, since taken down. This was an AI- or otherwise machine-processed version of A Wizard of Earthsea starring the young mage ‘Sparrow Eagle’, who has the same adventures as the original Sparrowhawk but in sadly mangled prose. [RC] There are hints of back-translation from Chinese: the island of Gont becomes Gongte, its village Ten Alders is here Shiyang Village and the invading Kargs are Kalgs.
Willy Ley (1906-1969) – German-born advocate of space travel as early as 1926, rocketry pioneer, US sf fan, author of many pop-science books and science essays in the sf magazines – was in the news again when his cremated remains came to light in the basement of a New York co-op apartment building. Some feel the ashes should most fittingly be sent into space, but it’s expensive.... (New York Times, 21 April). [MF]
Charlie Stross grumbles: ‘Great to see The Guardian recycling an article of mine from 2023 without attribution’ (Bluesky, 15 April). He cites his ‘Torment Nexus’ speech (antipope.org, 10 November 2023) and the Guardian’s ‘Will sci-fi end up destroying the world?’ (14 April 2025)
Matthew Vaughn, producer/director whose credits include Stardust, Kick-Ass and X-Men: First Class, was knighted in Rishi Sunak’s resignation honours. Newspaper comment: ‘He is known as one of the relatively few high-profile people in the arts to support the Conservatives.’ (i, 12 April)
Conolophus
Click here for longlist • London • Overseas
2-4 May • Paracinema Cult Film Festival, QUAD Centre, Derby. Weekend passes £30 (£25 concessions) via paracinema.co.uk.
3-4 May • Portmeirion Steampunk event, Portmeirion. Day tickets £13, under-15s £11, under-5s free. See steampunk.wales.
3-4 May • Portsmouth Comic Con, Guildhall, Portsmouth. Tickets £33; concessions and day rates at portsmouthcomiccon.com.
7-9 May • GIFCon (University of Glasgow conference), ‘Queering the Fantastic’, online. See tinyurl.com/yfdbvdwj.
17-18 May • HorrorCon UK, Magna, Sheffield. Ticket prices and sales awaited at horrorconuk.com.
17-18 May • Steam Trains and Fairytales (steampunk), Midland Railway Trust, Butterley. See www.ministryofsteampunk.com.
19 May • Tolkien Lecture by Zen Cho, Pichette Auditorium, Pembroke College, Oxford. 6pm. Free tickets from tolkienlecture.org.
23-26 May • Jodiworld (Jodi Taylor), Doubletree by Hilton, Coventry. £100 reg; £30 supporting; under-13s free. See jodiworld.co.uk.
24 May - 31 Aug • Designing Terry Pratchett's Discworld (Paul Kidby exhibition), Weston-super-Mare. See tinyurl.com/pkdwexhib.
24-25 May • Lawless (UK comics), Hilton Doubletree, Bristol. Weekend ticket £70 plus fees; trader £80; day ticket £35. Under-14s free. See lawlesscomiccon.co.uk.
24-25 May • Surrey Steampunk Convivial, Stoneleigh, Epsom. See bumpandthumper.wixsite.com/steampunkconvivials.
25 May • Paperback & Pulp Book Fair, Holiday Inn Bloomsbury, Coram St, London. 9:30am-3pm. £3 entry. See etcfairs.com/2025/03/24/next-themed-fair-paperback-pulp-fair/.
6-8 Jun • Cymera: Scotland’s Festival of SF, Fantasy & Horror Writing, Edinburgh and online. See www.cymerafestival.co.uk.
19 Jul • Small Press Day, various events throughout the UK and Ireland, and online. See smallpressday.co.uk.
9-10 Aug • Dublin Comic Con, Convention Centre, Dublin. Various ticket prices (extra for early entry, etc.) at dublincomiccon.com.
13-17 Aug • Seattle Worldcon 2025, Seattle, WA, USA. Now $300 full adult registration. See seattlein2025.org for other rates. Hugo voting opened in April and the voter packet of nominated works is available to members: see seattlein2025.org/wsfs/hugo-awards/how-to-vote/.
3-6 April 2026 • Iridescence (Eastercon), Birmingham NEC Hilton. GoH R.J. Parker, Emma Newman, Dr Karen Lord, and Serena Culfeather & John Wilson. £80 reg; £50 concessions; £20 ‘child/teen’; £40 supporting only. See eastercon2026.org.
26-29 March 2027 • Unconfined (Eastercon), Crowne Plaza Hotel, Glasgow. GoH P. Djéli Clark, L.R. Lam, Mark Meenan and Tamsyn Muir. Early-bird rates ended on 30 April: now £90 reg, £65 concessions, £25 under-27s, £5 under-13s. See easterconglasgow.org.
Infinitely Improbable
Publishers and Sinners. That is not dead which can eternal lie: ‘Arkham House Publishers is officially back in business!’ Alas, not quite the same business: despite the traditional Sauk City location, the new www.arkhamhousepublishers.com has shaken off the fusty Derleth/Lovecraft heritage to become a vanity press offering not only to publish your book but to write it for you, apparently with AI. [LP] As HPL himself might have remarked, what a congeries of iridescent spheres. Meanwhile the former www.arkhamhouse.com lives only in the Internet Archive.
Blurbismo. ‘... failed visionaries who preach a dysfunctional anti-human future such as Ursula LeGuin [sic] and the covens of woke disciples infesting the literature of the imagination.’ (Publisher’s blurb for The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science Fiction & Fantasy by D.J. Butler) [CF]
Awards. Astrid Lindgren Memorial (children’s fiction): Marion Brunet. [F770]
• Compton Crook (debut genre novel): Samantha Mills, The Wings Upon Her Back.
• Horror Writers Association Lifetime Achievement: David Cronenberg, Dame Susan Hill, Del Howison, Sue Howison. Also Specialty Press Award to Mocha Memoirs Press.
• Hugo best novel finalists: Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley, Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky, Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell, A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher, The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett. 1338 nominating votes received. For the full list see seattlein2025.org/wsfs/hugo-awards/2025-hugo-award-finalists/.
• Philip K. Dick: Time’s Agent by Brenda Peynado.
• Prometheus (libertarian) finalists: Alliance Unbound by C.J. Cherryh and Jane S. Fancher, In the Belly of the Whale by Michael Flynn, Cancelled: The Shape of Things to Come by Danny King, Beggar’s Sky by Wil McCarthy, Mania by Lionel Shriver.
• SFWA Solstice Award: Eugen Bacon.
As Others See Us. From a review of What in Me Is Dark: The Revolutionary Life of Paradise Lost by Orlando Reade: ‘[He] unearths Paradise Lost in unexpected places [...] even in Philip K. Dick’s science fiction – declaring Blade Runner “the most influential cinematic version of Paradise Lost.”’ (Andrea Brady, Times Literary Supplement, 29 November) [O]
R.I.P. Sergey Alekseyev (1952-2025), bestselling Russian fantasy author who published over 40 novels, died on 21 April aged 73. [AM]
• Sian Barbara Allen (1946-2025), US actress in The Scarecrow (1972), died on 31 March aged 78. [SJ]
• George Barr (1937-2025), US artist active since 1959, whose early work in fanzines led to several Hugo nominations and a 1968 win as best fan artist and who professionally created book covers and much interior art for magazines etc until about 2016, died on 19 April aged 88. [SF] He published one art collection, Upon the Winds of Yesterday (1976).
• Damien Broderick (1944-2025), Australian sf author, anthologist, critic and scholar whose first major novel The Dreaming Dragons (1981) won a Ditmar award – as did his later Striped Holes (1988) and The White Abacus (1996) – died on 19 April aged 80. Notable nonfiction includes Reading by Starlight: Post-Modern Science Fiction (1995) and his Singularity study The Spike (1997; rev 2001). He received the 2010 Chandler award for career achievement in sf. [RH]
• Cora Sue Collins (1927-2025), US former child actress in Black Moon (1934), died on 27 April aged 98. [SJ]
• Pilita Corrales (1939-2025), Filipino actress in Mirror, Mirror on the Wall (1988), Vampire ang daddy ko (169 episodes 2013-2014), Basement (2014) and others, died on 12 April aged 85. [SJ]
• Colin Fox (1938-2025), Canadian actor in Virus (1980), Murder by Phone (1982), Food of the Gods II (1989), Scanners 3 (1991) and many more, died on 5 April aged 86. [SJ]
• Barbara Frischmuth (1941-2025), Austrian author of the ‘Sternwieser’ fantasy trilogy (1976-1979) and other genre novels, died on 30 March aged 83. [AM]
• Vladimir Gerasimov (1950-2025), Russian actor and dubbing director who dubbed over 300 productions including Star Wars 1-2, Back to the Future 1-2, Babylon 5, 2012, Super 8 and Game of Thrones, died on 16 April aged 74. [AM]
• Kerry Greenwood (1954-2025), Australian author best known for the Phryne Fisher period mysteries, who also wrote The Broken Wheel (1996) and several more YA sf novels, died on 26 March aged 70. [GC]
• Will Hutchins (1930-2025), US actor in Take Me to Your Leader (1964) and The Horror at 37,000 Feet (1973), died on 21 April aged 94. [SJ]
• Nicky Katt (1970-2025), US actor in Gremlins (1984), Martians Go Home (1989), Knight Rider 2010 (1994), Phantoms (1998) and others, died on 8 April aged 54. [SJ]
• Gerard Kennedy (1932-2025), Australian actor who co-starred in Body Melt (1993), died on 21 April aged 93. [SJ]
• Svetlana Kharlap (1940-2025), Russian voice actress who dubbed Gremlins, It (the 1990 miniseries), Last Action Hero, Contact and others, died on 26 April aged 84. [AM]
• Val Kilmer (1959-2025), US actor in Willow (1988), Batman Forever (1995), The Island of Dr Moreau (1996), Red Planet (2000) and others, died on 1 April aged 65. [SG]
• Daniel Kluger (1951-2025), Israeli author who wrote in Russian, four of whose 11 novels were sf/fantasy, died on 3 April aged 73. [AM]
• Marvin J. Levy (1928-2025), US publicist for many Spielberg films including E.T. (1982) and Jurassic Park (1993), died on April aged 96. He also promoted Back to the Future (plus sequels), Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Men in Black, Deep Impact and Shrek. [AIP]
• Bruce Logan (1946-2025), UK cinematographer and visual effects artist whose credits include 2001 (1968), Star Wars (1977), Tron (1982) and Batman Forever (1995), died on 10 April aged 78. [AIP]
• Dennis McCunney, US fan, Cult APA member and con-runner who chaired Philcon in 1974 and 1975, and Lunacon 34 in 1991, died on 29 April. [F770]
• Robert McGinnis (1926-2025), prolific US artist who created over 1,200 paperback covers including several genre titles, and film posters including Barbarella, died on 10 March aged 99. [F770]
• Patty Maloney (1936-2025), US actress in The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978), The Ice Pirates (1984), The Addams Family (1991) and others, died on 31 March aged 89. [LP]
• Jean Marsh (1934-2025), UK actress in Doctor Who (15 episodes 1965-1989 plus spinoffs), Return to Oz (1985), Willow (1988), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1989), The Ghost Hunter (2002-2002) and others, died on 13 April aged 90. [O]
• Lee Montague (1927-2025), UK actor in The Legacy (1978), Jekyll & Hyde (1990) and genre tv series, died on 30 March aged 97. [SG]
• Alexander Muratov (1935-2025), Ukrainian director and co-writer of the fantasy film Zolotaya tsep (The Golden Chain, 1986, based on a novel by Alexander Grin), died on 14 April aged 89. [AM]
• Jay North (1951-2025), US Dennis the Menace actor whose genre credits include Arabian Knights (1968-1969), Here Comes the Grump (1969-1970) and The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show (Flintstones spinoff, 1971-1972), died on 6 April aged 73. [F770]
• Mel Novak (1942-2025), US actor in many genre films from The Ultimate Warrior (1975) to Mega Ape (2023) and Space Sharks (2024), died on 9 April aged 82. [SJ]
• Rudolf Pankov (1937-2025), Russian voice actor who dubbed over 800 films including Jumanji, Contact, Men in Black and the entire Harry Potter series, died on 18 April aged 87. [AM]
• Lar Park-Lincoln (1961-2025), US actress in Friday the 13th Part VII (1988), died on 22 April aged 63. [AIP]
• Roy Phillips (1943-2025), US musician whose 1960s band The Peddlers did the theme song for the Dennis Wheatley-based The Lost Continent (Hammer 1968), died on 24 April aged 81. [SJ]
• David Schleinkofer (1951-2025), US artist for many genre covers from 1976 to 1994, died on 20 April aged 74. [SJ]
• Kate Soley-Barton, UK filk fan, Eastercon and filkcon regular and member of the N’Early Music Consort, died on 17 April. [O]
• Damien Thomas (1942-2025), Egyptian-born UK actor in Twins of Evil (Hammer 1971), Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977), Never Let Me Go (2010) and genre tv series, died on 18 April aged 83. [SJ]
• Robert Trebor (1953-2025), US actor in Universal Soldier (1992) and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1995-1999), died on 11 March aged 71. [AIP]
• Paul Wheeler (1934-2025), Jamaican-born UK author whose sf novel was The Friendly Persuaders (1968), died on 10 March aged 90. [JC]
As Others See Us II. From a review of books about super-tall buildings including one by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill in Manhattan: ‘Here, though, SOM ups the visual ante with a zoomorphic surrealism that suggests a colossal nest of robotic boa constrictors as imagined by some coked-up sci-fi fanboy.’ (Mark Fuller, NY Review of Books, May 2024) [JK]
Random Fandom. Corflu 42 (Newbury, April) news! Edie Stern was chosen by the fickle finger of fate as Guest of Honour; Leigh Edmonds, by popular vote, assumed the colossal responsibilities of Past President of fwa. FAAn Awards: FANWRITER Nic Farey. FAN ARTIST Teddy Harvia. COVER ART Elaine Cochrane for SF Commentary 118. LETTERHACK Leigh Edmonds. SPECIAL PUBLICATION Fandom and Its Part in Our Downfall (Claire Brialey and Mark Plummer). PERZINE This Here (Nic Farey). GENZINE Banana Wings (Brialey/Plummer). LIFE ACHIEVEMENT Mark Olson.
Publishers and Sinners II. Richard Chizmar of Cemetery Dance has reportedly drifted into a habit of being flippantly insulting to authors who dare ask to be paid. The HWA decreed: ‘... Cemetery Dance will not be allowed to hear pitches during StokerCon. The Horror Writers Association stands up for the rights of its members, including the right to receive royalties as contracted, to have their works published as contracted, and to have its members treated with civility and respect. Cemetery Dance appears to be lacking in all of these areas.’ [A-TC]
The Dead Past. 20 Years Ago: ‘Stephen Fry knows that Douglas Adams didn't write that icky sf stuff: “I’m not a fan of science-fiction but neither was Douglas. He just happened to write a book about space and time. / I wouldn’t want to mention names but I do think science-fiction writers take themselves far too seriously.” (Ireland OnLine news)’ (Ansible 214, May 2005)
• 50 Years Ago, a joke item in a list of Worldcon bidders – ‘1984: Great Britain (Winston Smith, Chairman)’ – was reprinted by ‘Another newszine, which shall remain nameless’ without the Chairman giveaway, panicking the Britain in ’79 bid committee with the concept of another UK bid unknown to them.... (SFinctor 6, May 1975)
Magazine Scene. Amazing Stories has reopened submissions for short stories to be published online, hard sf preferred. $20 for original work over 2,500 words; shorter and reprint items $10. Small change beyond the dreams of avarice awaits at submissions.amazingstories.com.
Fanfundery. TransAtlantic Fan Fund. Congratulations to Mikołaj Kowalewski, who is the 2025 TAFF winner and plans to travel to the Seattle Worldcon in August. First-round voting: Zi Graves 55, Mikołaj Kowalewski 64, Jan Vaněk jr. 10, Hold Over Funds 1, No Preference 8 (total 138). After eliminations and reallocation of second choices, the final figures were Graves 56 and Kowalewski 72. Further details in the official newsletter at taff.org.uk/news/Taffluorescence8.pdf.
• European Fan Fund: as gloomily predicted in A453, the next EFF race is delayed until 2026 owing to a lack of interested (at short notice) candidates this year.
Publishers and Sinners III. More happy joy for impoverished authors and small presses: as of 24 March, Publishers Weekly demands a $25 fee for each book submitted for review – unless the publisher is a ‘site license subscriber’ paying $950 or more per year. (PW, March)
Thog’s Masterclass. As One Does. ‘Jennika flinched as if she had swallowed a thistle whole.’ (Kevin J. Anderson, Hopscotch, 2002)
• The Tell-Tale Sign. ‘He could change his expression without effort, and this signified great mobility of thought and temperament. Serge saw at a glance that he was dealing with an intellectual.’ (James Corbett, The Merrivale Mystery, 1929) [WFD]
• Diagnoses. The ‘greatest neurologist in Europe’ on cause of death: ‘Something may have gone wrong with the youngster’s brain, and I do not deal in that realm.’ (James Corbett, The Monster of Dagenham Hall, 1935) ‘His pulse is gradually growing weaker and even the arteries of his blood are drying up.’ (James Corbett, Her Private Murder, 1932) [WFD]
• Dept of Possible Euphemism. ‘“I am a big man,” he said boastfully. “The women of the Masters like big men. They like to caress muscles like mine.”’ (P. Schuyler Miller, ‘The Titan’ [part 1], Marvel Tales, Winter 1934) [CR]
• Good Enough to Eat. ‘Her face, though not unattractive, was suggestive of a buttered bun ...’ (John Dickson Carr, ‘The Clue of the Red Wig’ in The Third Bullet, 1954) [BA]
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Group Theory.
• 15 May 2025, 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. As usual there are a couple of TAFF ebooks/paperbacks in preparation at Ansible Editions but not yet ready to be announced or added to the ebook downloads at taff.org.uk. The SF Encyclopedia team thanks the League of Fan Funds very much indeed for hugely appreciated support in the wake of Eastercon fundraising.
Con Rumblings. Worldcon 2026: LAcon V (Anaheim CA) membership rates are expected to rise on 2 May. See https://www.lacon.org/register/
R.I.P. II – Late and Last-Minute Reports. Taras Boko (1962-2025), translator of Dick, Lovecraft and Pynchon into Ukrainian, died on 10 April. [SHS]
• Priscilla Pointer (1924-2025), US actress in Death Takes a Holiday (1971), Carrie (1976), Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) and Nightmare on Elm Street 3 (1987), died on 28 April aged 100. [SHS]
• Bert Tanner (1933-2024), US artist who created a number of covers for F&SF and Venture from 1965 to 1973 – plus some interior art for Venture – died on 2 March 2024 aged 96. [AIP]
Some Links from the Ansible home page.
• Damien Broderick 1944-2025 (obituary at Black Gate)
https://www.blackgate.com/2025/04/20/damien-broderick-april-22-1944-april-19-2025/
• Good Omens graphic novel: forewords and afterword now dropped
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dunmanifestin/good-omens/posts/4348036
• Hugo finalists
https://seattlein2025.org/wsfs/hugo-awards/2025-hugo-award-finalists/
• Seattle Worldcon vets programme participants with LLM; comments at File 770
https://seattlein2025.org/2025/04/30/statement-from-worldcon-chair-2/
https://file770.com/responding-to-controversy-seattle-worldcon/
• SF² Concatenation Summer 2025 Newscast
http://www.concatenation.org/news/news4~25.html
Thog’s Golden Oldies from Ansible 214, May 2005. Game Theory Dept. ‘The best aspect of it was that it was not the last place they’d look for her. Anticipating her reaction, they would look at once in the last place.' (John D. MacDonald, ‘Escape to Chaos’, 1951)
• Dept of Noisy Quietude. ‘He said, dropping his voice to a sibilant whisper of well-nigh incredible loudness: “Doorr yonder!”’ (Philip MacDonald, The Polferry Riddle [UK The Choice], 1931)
• Dept of Big Science. ‘“The laboratory covers a dozen floors,” the general said, “and in it we have every kind of equipment known. We can produce temperatures of minus 900° Kelvin and we can build up our furnaces to half a billion degrees ...”’ (Silas Water, The Man with Absolute Motion, 1955)
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