Home/Links: 2025This page is the final repository for 2025 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.
September 2025
August 2025
- AI spam at SFE
- Aldiss Award inaugural shortlist
- The Cruciverbal Inquisitor meets H.G. Wells
- Seattle Worldcon: Daily 'Zine
- Hugo and Related Awards; Voting statistics (expanded in September); Administrators' report; Nomination statistics
- Sidewise Awards
- Montréal Worldcon 2027 – now official
- First Fandom Awards
- TAFF delegate Mikołaj Kowalewski is in the USA! See the latest fund newsletter Taffluorescence! #9
- Seattle Worldcon Souvenir Book; Pocket Program; Online Schedule; Restaurant Guide; membership demographics
July 2025
- Sidewise Awards finalists
- Seattle Worldcon Business Meeting Agenda and Recaps
- The Cruciverbal Inquisitor meets Tom Stoppard
- Shirley Jackson Awards
- 2025 World Fantasy Awards Finalists
- Worries about the 2027 Montréal Worldcon bid; "Don't Panic!" say the co-chairs; "Things Also Don't Look Great for Worldcon 2028"
- 2025 ESFS Awards
- Seattle Worldcon 2025: Business Meeting Agenda and virtual meeting instructions (with dates and times)
June 2025
- 2027 Worldcon site selection
- Arthur C Clarke Award winner
- Clute Science Fiction Library opens; European access to blocked site
- British Fantasy Awards finalists
- Locus Awards
- Bram Stoker Awards
- Mythopoeic Awards finalists
- Clarke Award ceremony on 25 June
- Nebula Awards winners
- Barry B. Longyear (1942-2025)
May 2025
- Sturgeon Award finalists
- LAcon V (Worldcon 2026) adult membership price to rise on 15 June
- Clarke Award finalists
- Otherwise (formerly Tiptree) award winners
- Seattle Worldcon Hugo admins and WSFS division head resign
- Locus Awards finalists
- Seattle Worldcon vets programme participants with LLM; comments at File 770; File 770 roundup (2 May); Seattle Chair apologizes; a further Seattle statement/apology; more from the Chair
April 2025
- TAFF 2025 results; newsletter
- 2025 Hugo voting begins; voter packet available
- LAcon V (2026 Worldcon) rate rise expected on 2 May
- Damien Broderick 1944-2025
- Reconnect (Eastercon, Belfast): programme; publications; Doc Weir Award online voting and winner; Fan Funds auction catalogue (in-person bidding only); Iridescence (Eastercon 2026); Unconfined (Eastercon 2027) – rates rise on 1 May; BSFA Awards winners
- Prometheus Awards finalists
- SF² Concatenation Summer 2025 Newscast
- FAAn Awards results and statistics
- Hugo finalists
- Nicola Griffith, SFWA Grand Master
- George R.R. Martin on the Glasgow Worldcon
- Good Omens graphic novel: forewords and afterword now dropped
March 2025
- European Fan Fund 2025 nominations deadline extended to 30 March [no candidates: race held over to 2026]
- NASA deletes "women can be astronauts" comics
- Richard Shaver in The Paris Review
- Seattle Worldcon 2025: Statement from the Chair
- BSFA Awards finalists
- Nebula Awards finalists
- Details on the New Owners of Analog, Asimov's, and F&SF
- The Cruciverbal Inquisitor celebrates Edward Gorey
- SF Encyclopedia Ltd dissolved!
February 2025
- Bram Stoker Awards finalists
- Satellite 9 rates rise on 2 March
- BSFA Awards longlist
- Locus Recommended Reading List
January 2025
- The Nic Farey Fan Fund (oh please can we call it the N3F?)
- SF² Concatenation Spring 2025 Newscast
- Neil Gaiman allegations continue; BBC; Neil Gaiman responds; Guardian; Dark Horse Comics; Publishers Weekly; NME; Guardian again; Deadline; Good Omens graphic novel Kickstarter; Deadline on new lawsuit
- Steve Holland on Barry Malzberg (The Guardian)
- TLDV: "The Last Orphan Stories"
- The Incompleat Register 2024 (re FAAn awards eligibility and voting)
- George Zebrowski obituary (Times Union)
- TAFF online voting form