Home/Links: 2016This page is the final repository for 2016 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 2016
• LiveJournal worries
• Richard Adams 1920-2016
• Carrie Fisher 1956-2016
• More on the Oh, The Places You’ll Boldly Go! lawsuit
• 2017 DUFF nominations open
• BSFA Awards nominations: first-round deadline is 31 December
• "I'm not Sith, I’m Alt-Jedi, clarifies Darth Vader"
• Greg Egan on that EM drive
• 2017 TAFF ballot
• 2017 GUFF ballot
• On JerusalemNovember 2016
• Jane Yolen, SFWA Grand Master
• J.G. Ballard's house for sale
• "Dr. Seuss estate sues over Star Trek 'mashup' book"
• Novacon 47: rates rise 15 November!
• European SF Society Awards 2016
• Nemo 2018 (Eurocon), Amiens, France: rates rise 7 November!
• Susan Cooper interviewOctober 2016
• UK in 2024 Worldcon bid
• World Fantasy Awards
• "Where is the fiction about climate change?"
• Sheri S. Tepper 1929-2016
• Wonder Woman, UN ambassador
• "The Future of the Future: How science fiction fails us"
• TAFF 2017: call for nominations
• "Dr Who Christmas Special to be whimsical, uplifting and utterly terrible"
• Worldcon 75 statement on recent staff controversy; some back-story at File 770
• Gaylactic Spectrum Award winner
• The Wind in the Willows as motive for murder; verdict and sentence
• BSFA Awards nominations openSeptember 2016
• SFWA on Galaktika
• British Fantasy Awards winners
• Gemmell Awards winners
• "Why I'm Boycotting My Own Book"
• Dave Kyle 1919-2016
• GUFF 2017: call for nominations
• SF² Concatenation Autumn 2016 Newscast
• Dragon Con awards
• Official THEN T-Shirt
• Tanith Lee's house is for sale
• Pokémon Go! The Medieval Edition
• Ursula K. Le Guin in the Library of AmericaAugust 2016
• Clarke award winner
• Hugo winners; Chuck Tingle pounded again; Hugo statistics [PDF]
• 2018 Worldcon: San José, California
• Chesley Award winners
• First Fandom awards
• 1941 Retro Hugo winners
• "Counterfactual histories should be fun"
• Dragon Con's Dragon Awards shortlist
• Worldcon programme (in full)
• Clarke Award Ceremony tickets
• Another fantasy map
• Ramsey Campbell is intensely suspicious of this fundraiserJuly 2016
• Fun with World Fantasy Convention programming
• "Luc Besson Found Guilty of Plagiarizing"
• Conception (RPG event) discontinued
• SFWA admits game writers
• UK SF/Fantasy Literary Map
• 2016 Seiun Awards
• 2016 World Fantasy Awards shortlist and Life Achievement honours
• Shirley Jackson Awards winners
• 2016 Sidewise Awards shortlist
• 2016 Gemmell Awards shortlists/voting
• Fear magazine returnsJune 2016
• Lord Vetinari takes control of the UK
• 2016 Locus Award winners
• George Lucas abandons Chicago; another view
• First Eugie Foster Award shortlist
• 2016 Rhysling Award winners
• Retro Hugo ballot change
• One for Writer Beware?
• 2016 Campbell Memorial Award shortlist
• Eurocon 2016 (Barcelona) sold out!
• 2016 Chesley Awards shortlist
• 2016 British Fantasy Awards shortlist
• 2016 Mythopoeic Awards shortlistMay 2016
• 2016 Hugo voter packet released (PIN needed)
• Ayn Rand, Superhero
• Axanar counterclaim; ongoing coverage at Axamonitor
• Marvel and DC back down over "superhero" trademark enforcement
• MidAmeriCon II membership offer, 27-30 May only
• Chuck Tingle grabs the www.therabidpuppies.com domain
• Nicholas Fisk (1923-2016)
• Hugo Awards: voting now open
• FAAn Awards winners
• Nebula Awards winners
• Bram Stoker Awards winners
• Gemmell awards longlists: voting now open
• "Into the dystopian world of Beatrix Potter"
• Forgotten Futures: no more shareware registration
• 2016 Hugo finalists, amended; what has changed
• Fantasy books such as Game of Thrones can damage children's brains, head teacher says
• SF Signal closing down
• Locus Awards shortlist
• Shirley Jackson Awards shortlist
• Black Gate declines Hugo nomination (see File 770 for ongoing Hugo and topical coverage)April 2016
• 2016 Clarke Award shortlist
• 2016 Hugo finalists [PDF]; puppy droppings analysed; Tom Mays withdraws story
• Retro Hugo finalists [PDF]
• SF² Concatenation Summer 2016 Newscast
• "Hugo Award Nominations Shatter Records; Finalists to be Announced April 26"
• Sturgeon Award shortlist
• SF Hall of Fame: nominations thrown open to the public, closing 10 April!
• Astrid Lindgren memorial award
• Dragon Con launches its own awards
• Prometheus Award shortlist
• Tiptree Award winners
• Sad lack of pointless and annoying April Fool japes in Ansible 345March 2016
• Design a new World Fantasy Award! Commentary at File 770
• 2016 TAFF winner announced; see also TAFFWorld #6, April 2016
• Follycon: Eastercon 2018
• BSFA Awards
• Ditmar Awards
• TAFFWorld #5 with deadline alert
• 2016 DUFF online ballot
• Paramount/CBS Amended Complaint Against Axanar
• Follycon: Eastercon 2018 bid, Harrogate
• Pasgon (Eastercon 2017, Cardiff) has been cancelled; email sent to members
• Kitschies Winners
• Arthur C. Clarke Award complete submissions list 2016
• HWA Life Achievement honoursFebruary 2016
• Samhain Publishing to close
• Stoker Awards shortlist
• Kitschies shortlist
• Bud Webster (1952-2016) medical expenses fundraiser
• Nebula Awards shortlist
• Norma K. Hemming Award shortlist
• "C.J. Cherryh Named SFWA Damon Knight Grand Master"
• Amazon's fake Stephen Kings
• Health & Safety Strikes Back
• Amazon and the zombie apocalypse
• DUFF nominations open (and close soon)
• Another lawsuit: Dark Hunter vs Shadowhunter; defendant has past form; a spirited response; Slate commentary
• BSFA Awards shortlist
• London First Thursday meetings: another change of plan
• On World Fantasy Con harassment and accessibility concerns; belated action
• Locus Recommended Reading ListJanuary 2016
• Hugo nominations are open
• FAAn Award nominations are open
• "On the Firing of a Tenured Professor" (sf critic Rob Latham)
• Lionel Fanthorpe in the news
• A plaque for Terry Pratchett
• SFWA market reports now available to all
• Campaign for Gerry Anderson plaques in Kilburn
• Thog on Fire
• Stoker Awards: Preliminary Ballot
• David G. Hartwell 1941-2016
• SF² Concatenation Spring 2016 Newscast
• "Pullman resigns from Oxford Lit Fest over author pay"
• Second lawsuit against Peter Beagle's publisher
• Apex & Lightspeed no longer semiprozines
• Eurocon 2017
• David Bowie 1947-2016
• Lois Tilton leaves Locus Online; Locus responds
• Rabid Pups vs Goodreads
• "Name new element 117 Octarine, in honour of Terry Pratchett's Discworld"
• "Google translated Russia to 'Mordor' in 'automated' error"
• Edward Gorey’s Illustrated Envelopes
• Horror Writers Association UK Chapter
• Beware Fake Penguin Employee!
• BSFA Award nominations, round 2
• The Axanar FAQ
• 1956 Worldcon photos: can you identify the unknowns?
