Home/Links: 2025This page is the final repository for 2026 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.
August 2026
- Hugo winners; administrators' report; full statistics
- Aussiecon5 in Brisbane is the 2028 Worldcon
- WSFS Business Meeting Recaps
- LAcon V (Worldcon 2026) newsletters
- Ted White remembered (Comics Journal); and again by Andy Hooper
- World Fantasy Awards finalists
July 2026
- LACon V Program Guide
- "Meta glasses banned by Comic-Con promoter after 'secret filming'"; also, "TikToker faces police probe over secret filming using 'smart glasses'"
- Unconfined (Eastercon 2027) PR1
- "The looting of science fiction"
- ESFS Awards winners
June 2026
- Ursula K. Le Guin Prize shortlist
- 2026 WSFS Business Meeting Agenda (LAcon V)
- BSFA Eastercon/Eurocon Bid 2030
- Sidewise Awards shortlists
- Nebula Awards winners (plus related SFWA awards)
- Sturgeon Award shortlist
- Bram Stoker Awards winners
- Mythopoeic Awards shortlists
- Clarke Award shortlist
- Locus Awards winners
May 2026
- Nuremberg 2028 Worldcon bid withdrawn
- The Cruciverbal Inquisitor meets Edward Lear and Edmund Crispin
- Shirley Jackson Awards shortlists
- British Fantasy Awards shortlists
- Clarke Award submissions list
- New magazine: Sci-Fi Ireland
- 2026 Hugo voting opens
- European Fan Fund winner announced
- European SF Society Awards shortlists
April 2026
- New SF outlet in Hay-on-Wye: Bookshop 451
- Hugo finalists
- Farah's Reading Sweepstake (GUFF fundraiser)
- Eastercon 2027 rates to rise on 1 May
- SF² Concatenation Summer 2026 Newscast
- Ian Watson 1943-2026
- Locus Awards shortlists
- 2026 TAFF race result
- Church to hold Doctor Who service and unveil Tardis
- LitHub article on Amazing attempts world record for sf name typos
- Eastercon 2026: newsletters, progress reports
- Tolkien Society Awards shortlists
- BSFA Awards winners
- Eastercon 2028
- European Fan Fund voting has opened
- SFWA Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award
March 2026
- British Fantasy Awards 2026 suggestions list
- Jeff Prucher researches fanspeak
- Iridescence (Eastercon) Programme Guide
- Lambda Awards shortlists
- Climate Fiction Prize shortlist
- GUFF winner announced
- Aldiss Award longlist
- Iridescence (Eastercon) weekend adult membership – currently £90 – rises to £110 at the door.
- The Cruciverbal Inquisitor tiles the plane
- Nebula Awards shortlists
- British Book Awards (Nibbies) shortlists
- Robert Silverberg interviewed at Corflu 43
- Lost Méliès film discovered (watch it here)
- John Shirley's guide to wrecking your career in science fiction
February 2026
- BSFA Awards shortlists
- Bram Stoker Awards final ballot
- 2026 GUFF race begins! Official announcement; ballot form with candidates' platforms.
- Eastercon 2027: February Newsletter
- Eastercon 2026: Progress Report 2
- ESFS Awards nominations open
- 2026 eastbound TAFF race opens! Ballot form; platforms; PDF ballot; online voting form
- GUFF 2026 nominations are open and close on 18 February – move fast, fans!
- Nuremberg in 2028 (Worldcon bid) now has a website
- Ansible 463 supplement: Charles Platt on James Sallis
- Locus Recommended Reading List for 2025
January 2026
- Bram Stoker Awards preliminary (not final) ballot
- European Fan Fund 2026: applications are open (closing 15 March)
- Lord Dunsany Rotates in Grave
- BSFA Awards Longlist
- Reconnect (Eastercon 2025, Belfast) financial report
- Writer Beware: 2025 in Review
- SF² Concatenation Spring 2026 Newscast
- The Incompleat Register 2025 (re FAAn awards eligibility and voting, now open)
- London "First Thursday" physical meeting postponed to 8 January; virtual meeting on 1 January