Home/Links: 2024This page is the final repository for 2024 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 2024
- 2025 TAFF candidates wanted by 20 December!
- Jodiworld (May 2025) has a new website
- Coming from overseas to a UK convention? Electronic travel authorization now required.
November 2024
- Rob Latham on The Last Dangerous Visions and New Worlds
- Novacon 54 adult membership rates rise on 22 November 2024
- Eastercon 2027 bid
- Eastercon 2026 bid
- The Cruciverbal Inquisitor at Full Moon
- Taffluorescence #6 announces the 2025 westbound TransAtlantic Fan Fund race
October 2024
- Kitschies final shortlist
- Reconnect (Eastercon, Belfast) rates will rise on 1 November! Also on 1 January and at the door.
- World Fantasy Awards
- British Fantasy Awards
- Apologies to Ansible subscribers who received more than one copy of the October issue 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.
September 2024
- The Byte finally catches up with "AI slop" submissions
- SF² Concatenation Autumn 2024 Newscast
- Jason Sanford: "What the Hell Is Going On With SFWA?"
August 2024 (2)
- League of Fan Funds newletter with Glasgow Worldcon fundraising details
- 2024 ESFS Awards
- British Fantasy Awards finalists
- More on that Vibrant Food Culture
- On disabled access at the Glasgow Worldcon
- Publishers Weekly; The National
- Hugo winners; administrator's report; full statistics
- Glasgow 2024 Instant Fanzine
- GRRM's Alfie Awards
- Los Angeles wins 2026 site selection
- Fan Funds Auction Catalogue and Silent Auction Catalogue
- WOOF #49 (Worldcon APA)
- The Unicorn (official Worldcon newsletter)
- First Fandom Awards
- BBC coverage; Sky News; Sky again
- New film Hugos: consultative vote
- Convention Guide/Pocket Programme
- Programme Guide
August 2024 (1)
- World Fantasy Awards finalists
- Taral Wayne (1951-2024); Schirm tribute
- Pre-Worldcon GUFF newsletter
- Neil Gaiman allegations continue
July 2024
- Pre-Worldcon TAFF newsletter
- Conversation 2023 (Eastercon) – Final Accounts
- Arthur C. Clarke Award
- Dodgy Hugo votes rejected!
- 2019 GUFF trip report by Simon Litten
- Sidewise Awards finalists
- Shirley Jackson Awards
- Clarke Award (date and place announced 12 July, too late for Ansible 444)
- "Preliminary Notes on the Delvish Dialect" by Bruce Sterling
- SFRA Awards
June 2024
- Worldcon bid revived: Brisbane in 2028
- Locus Awards winners
- Nebula winners
- N3F Awards winners
- Mythopoeic Awards finalists
- Bram Stoker Awards winners
May 2024
- Lego "Brick Fest" in Wonka Experience tradition
- Eastercon 2024 Final Report
- Hugo voter packet released
- H. Bruce Franklin (1934-2024)
- Arthur C. Clarke award finalists
- David Redd (1946-2024)
- Roger Corman (1926-2024)
- Locus Awards finalists
- Son of Chengdu Rising from the Grave?
April 2024
- Beatrix Potter and the Cruciverbal Inquisitor
- Kat Clay wins GUFF
- Clarke Award: complete submission list
- SF² Concatenation Summer 2024 Newscast
- Another TAFF newsletter with further updates
- Joro Penchev wins EFF
- Sarah Gulde wins TAFF
March 2024
- Levitation (Eastercon) 2024; newsletters; ReadMe; more at the Member Portal; BSFA Awards; Dave McCarty refused entry at the door.
- 2024 Hugo finalists
- Chesley Awards
- 2024 GUFF race: ballot [PDF] and online voting form
- Vernor Vinge (1944-2024)
- Adam Roberts: "Under Mirk Wood"
- Nebula Awards finalists
- First Fandom Awards nominees
- Seattle Worldcon 2025 rates rise on 15 March 2024
- FAAn Awards winners, 2024
- Charlie Stross: "A Wonky Experience"
- BSFA Awards finalists
February 2024
- Brian Stableford (1948-2024); charity fundraiser in his memory
- Bram Stoker Awards finalists
- 2024 GUFF race announced; more at File 770
- Samantha Mills: "'Rabbit Test' unwins the Hugo"
- Camestros Felapton: "Hugo 2023: Here is what I think happened"; also, Worldcon 2036!
- The 2023 Hugo Awards: A Report on Censorship and Exclusion
- Montréal in 2027 Worldcon bid
- Christopher Priest (1943-2024); Paul Kincaid remembers him; SF Encyclopedia with further links
- "Resignations, Censures Follow in Wake of Hugo Awards Controversy" (Publishers Weekly)
- Locus Recommended Reading List for 2023
January 2024
- 2024 Hugo nominations open
- EFF 2024 Race Begins
- The Guardian on D.G. Compton at last
- 2023 Hugo voting statistics finally published on 20 January; direct link to PDF; commentary at File 770; Cora Buhlert; Alpennia.com; Camestros Felapton with multiple posts; Hugo administrator remains tight-lipped (File 770); The Guardian takes notice; a Chinese perspective (F770); Hugo Admin apology-of-sorts (F770); Worldcon Intellectual Property announces Hugo-related censuring, reprimand, resignations
- BSFA Awards longlist
- Levitation (Eastercon) rates rise on 1 February
- Bad Things Come in Threes: Rich Horton on Terry Bisson (1942-2024), Tom Purdom (1936-2024) and Howard Waldrop (1946-2024)
- 2024 eastbound TAFF race opens! See the latest newsletter, ballot form and online voting form.
- SF² Concatenation Spring 2024 Newscast
- FAAn Awards 2023 voting form
- MidJourney AI and sf/fan artists: names are named