Home/Links: 2017This page is the final repository for 2017 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 2017
• TAFF News #3: the 2018 candidates reveal all
• GUFF 2018 nominations open
• Nature sf roundup
• Short Shrift ebook upgraded
• Doctor Strangemind (Kim Huett)
• 2018 DUFF nominations open
• 2018 TAFF race announced in TAFF News #2; online voting form; HTML and PDF ballots.November 2017
• BSFA Awards nominations are open
• Science fiction triggers "poorer reading", allegedly, or just makes you stupid
• Christopher Tolkien steps down
• Jet pack over Reading
• World Fantasy Awards winners
• The Peter S. Beagle statement; a related legal development
• 2018 westbound TAFF raceOctober 2017
• Saint Tolkien?
• Burn This Book
• Transcribing Rusty Hevelin's fanzine collection
• Amazing Stories/NBC dispute apparently resolved
• Sputnik Awards
• British Fantasy Awards
September 2017
• 1956 Hugo finalists revealed
• SF² Concatenation Autumn 2017 Newscast
• Jerry Pournelle (1933-2017); more from Locus, John Scalzi, SFWA; memories shared at Chaos Manor
• NBC and Amazing Stories
• Dragon Awards
• Remembering Brian Aldiss; PDF now added as Ansible 362½August 2017
• Who Owns Buck Rogers?
• Pratchettiana crushed by steamroller
• "The Brief, Tumultuous Reign Of An Erstwhile Best-Seller"; more at The Mary Sue
• Brian Aldiss (1925-2017); SF Encyclopedia entry and news piece with links; Guardian obituary by Chris Priest
• Worldcon 77: Dublin in 2019
• 2017 Hugo winners; Guardian commentary. Official PDFs: voting; nominations; last 10 nominations rounds; E Pluribus Hugo vs former system; admin decisions; Worldcon 75 site
• Dragon [Con] Awards shortlist; Puppy and other slates; Goodreads ratings comparisons; more statistics; John Scalzi withdraws; official press release | Dragon Con response to Alison Littlewood, who asked to withdraw; F770 is on the case. Next: Littlewood allowed to withdraw, Scalzi persuaded to remain; official confirmation; Scalzi comments; N.K. Jemisin withdraws.
• Harper Voyager UK diversifies into cheap Chinese NFL jerseys; site now fixed, but we kept a screenshot
• Dublin in 2019 presupporter sign-up closes on 6 August
• As Others See UsJuly 2017
• Mythopoeic Awards winners
• Clarke Award winner: The Underground Railroad
• World Fantasy Awards finalists and life achievement honorees
• "How to Make a Clichéd High Fantasy Cover"
• "Predatory Journals Hit By ‘Star Wars’ Sting"
• Worldcon 75 (preliminary) programme schedule
• The Doctor Who news you've all heard
• British Fantasy Awards shortlists
• Penthouse (Re-) Acquires Omni; files lawsuit against Omni Reboot
• SFRA Awards
• Science Fiction or Post Apocalypse?June 2017
• Authors for Grenfell Tower: An Online Auction (closes 27 June)
• James White Award finalists; winner
• Locus Awards
• Sidewise Awards finalists
• 2017 ESFS Awards
• Eurocon 2019 in Belfast
• Satellite 6 prices rise 1 July
• Dr Seuss lawsuit developments
• Washington DC in 2021 Worldcon bid (replacing the DC in 2024 bid)
• Mythopoeic Awards finalists
• Adam West 1928-2017; Bat-Signal in his honour
• Fear magazine closes
• "Why won’t novelists reckon with climate change?"
• 2019 Worldcon site selection voting begins
• 2017 Campbell Memorial Award finalistsMay 2017
• British Fanzine Bibliography now also covers 1991-2000
• Sturgeon Award finalists
• Nebula Awards winners
• Locus Awards finalists
• Birmingham FearFest "postponed"
• 2017 Clarke Award shortlist; "Shadow Jury" choicesApril 2017
• 2017 FAAN Awards winners
• 2017 Stoker Awards winners
• Adam Roberts reads all of H.G. Wells
• 2017 Gemmell Awards shortlists and voting
• 2017 TAFF result; also GUFF
• Ytterbium (Eastercon 2019)
• BSFA Award winners
• Doc Weir Award winners
• Philip K. Dick Award winner
• SF² Concatenation Summer 2017 Newscast
• Eastercon programme schedule
• World Fantasy Award: new trophy design
• Don't mess with the X-Men
• Obscure SF author jailed for rape
• Harry Potter and the Awards of Olivier
• 2017 Hugo shortlist; a note on diminished rabidity
• Changes at Strange Horizons
• Peter David: "I am in Desperate Trouble"
• 2017 SFF Critical Masterclass: how to apply
• How Many Times Does Braid-Tugging and Skirt-Smoothing Happen in The Wheel of Time?
• TLDV
• Last Tweets of the Krell
• Tolkien Society Awards shortlistMarch 2017
• Edward James: 2017 IAFA Distinguished Scholarship Award
• Prometheus Award shortlist
• SFPA becomes SFPA!
• Doctor Who and the CIA
• Zootopia lawsuit
• Amazon Yanks Castalia House’s The Corroding Empire; a comment from Camestros Felapton; more at F770
• 2017 DUFF result
• 2017 GUFF voting deadline extended
• Some HWA Awards
• File 770 Withdraws From 2017 Hugos
• FAAn Awards ballot [PDF]
• The Kitschies have a new sponsorFebruary 2017
• Ursula K. Le Guin honoured
• Rhysling Awards longlist
• 2017 TAFF Campaign Latest (and voting deadline extended)
• Stoker Awards shortlist
• Ted White "Save My House" appeal
• Anglia Ruskin Centre for Science Fiction and Fantasy
• Nebula Awards shortlist –corrected; as first announced; Cat Rambo comments
• BSFA Awards shortlist
• The Clute Science Fiction Library
• 2017 Clarke Award submissions
• Hilary Bailey: Guardian obituary
• Exit Fangoria? Another view
• Edward Bryant (1945-2017)
• Locus Poll and SurveyJanuary 2017
• WSFS: The <blank> Award for Best Young Adult Book Shortlist Survey
• 2017 DUFF Ballot
• "SFWA Statement on Magazines and the Monetization of Writers"
• 2001 etc. in another copyright lawsuit
• SFF.net closing down
• SF² Concatenation Spring 2017 Newscast
• Ansible Editions offers a free Then sample download in a naked attempt to influence BSFA shortlist voting and Hugo nominations
• Borges plagiarism case
• Peter Weston 1943-2017; Locus
• Hugo nominations are open
• BSFA Award longlists (vote for shortlist by 31 January)
• Axanar lawsuit latest; and now it's been settled
• Chris Priest flees Brexit-torn England
• All Romance eBooks goes down in flames; more
