Older Home/Links: 2006This page is the final repository for 2006 (and late 2005) 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 2006
• 2007 FAAn Awards Ballot
• Children of Men ... not science fiction
• Philippa Pearce dies (21 Dec); Times
• J.K. Rowling gets a title
• Joseph Barbera of Hanna-Barbera dies (18 Dec)
• D.G. Compton, SFWA Author Emeritus
• Craig Hinton memorial fanthology
• Who Killed Science Fiction? (1960; 1961 Hugo winner; now expanded on line)
• As Others See Us (The Age)
• Eastercon 2007 has a hotel (7 Dec)
• JETS candidates and ballot
• HogfatherNovember 2006
• SFWA Grand Master: James Gunn
• Maggie Noach dies (17 Nov)
• Octavia Butler: call for papers
• 99 Rooms
• Welsh Dragon sausage horror
• Eastercon 2007 rescue bid approved at Novacon
• Jack Williamson dies (10 Nov) ... Independent (Clute) ; Telegraph
• TAFF race postponed to 2008
• Verity Stob: Under Torch Wood
• Choosing Eastercon 2009
• Tolkien's million-pound bungalow
• Wired: six-word sf stories
• Hub magazine (launches Dec)
• Nigel Kneale obits: BBC; Guardian ; Independent ; Telegraph ; Times
• Alternative to Eastercon 2007? ; more; more; more
• BBC "My Science Fiction Life"October 2006
• Convoy (Eastercon 2007) cancelled
• Nigel Kneale dies (29 Oct)
• The headline that awaits sf authors
• The D&D Defence
• Ursula Le Guin "despicability" update
• Stross vs Rusch (via)
• More on John M. Ford (Guardian)
• 50 Years of Aniara (via)
• Warning Signs for Tomorrow
• Battlestar Galactica is ... not sf (Slate)
• TAFF 2007 announcement and ballot
• Homage to Fred Hoyle
• Wilson Tucker dies (6 Oct) : Independent (Clute) ; Bloomington (IL) Pantagraph
• BBC4 "Science Fiction Britannia"
• Illustrating Eon
• Fahrenheit 451 "filth"
• Robert Anton Wilson needs help
• Look and Learn
• The Discworld Cake
September 2006
• Ballard interview (29 Sep)
• John M. Ford: Independent (Clute) ; more sample postings ; more still ; memorial service
• Greg Egan's "plea to save New Scientist"
• The Prestige
• Ursula Le Guin responds to all this stuff
• John M. Ford dies . At age 49. Words fail me. He was a friend.
• British Fantasy Awards
• Sputnik57 e-zine
• Another Harlan Ellison lawsuit, leading to infighting at PW ; and another
• MacArthur grants
• Nicola Griffith interview
• Charles L. Grant dies (15 Sep)
• Harry Bell to Corflu 2007 fund
• Ballard reviewed: Guardian (Le Guin) ; Sunday Times ; TLS (Harrison) ; Telegraph
• Apogee Books -- new sf line
• Times on Trek (11 Sep)
• Eastercon 2007 woes
• Oxford Mail on Brian Aldiss (6 Sep)
• Checkpoint: 1970s archive complete
• To boldly not go ...
• The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction
• Dangermouse returns
• Pantechnicon e-zine Worldcon 2006
• Hugos and statistics; the award
• Minding Harlan Ellison[3]; more; more; more; more; more still
• Denver wins 2008 bid
• John Hertz to Nippon 2007 fund
• Hugo editor/artist rules change
• Prometheus Awards
• Sidewise Awards
• Wired coverageAugust 2006
• Joseph Stefano dies (25 Aug)
• Thog.org
• British Fantasy Awards shortlist
• Ursula Le Guin on Studio Ghibli Earthsea
• Philip E. High dies (9 Aug)
• Bob Leman dies (8 Aug)
• World Fantasy Awards nominations
• Emerald City to fold
• Sapphire Award nominations
July 2006
• David Gemmell dies (28 Jul) Obits: Guardian (Priest), Independent (Clute), Times (Stan Nicholls), Telegraph
• Japan Expeditionary Travel Scholarship (JETS) -- a one-off fan fund
• July TAFF newsletter
• Edmund Cooper still controversial
• Chesley Award nominations
• Hugo deadline reminder: 31 Jul
• rich brown dies (6 Jul)
• Aieeeeeeee!
• Helix: new free sf webzine
June 2006
• Jim Baen dies (28 Jun)
• 2007 TAFF race announced (25 Jun)
• Eastercon glossary
• Bram Stoker Awards (17 Jun)
• Locus Awards (17 Jun)
• Tim Hildebrandt dies (11 Jun)
• Sidewise Awards finalists (11 Jun)
• Terry Pratchett on piracy
• International Horror Guild shortlist (Jun)
• Mythopoeic Awards shortlist (5 Jun)May 2006
• Aeon Award contest (31 May)
• The R.L. Fanthorpe Write-Alike Contest
• Plunkett (Lord Dunsany) Award?
• Bridget Bradshaw wins TAFF (27 May)
• Dracorex hogwartsia
• Octopus Pulp, Talking Squid
• The 20 Worst [Literary] Agents List (updated after Barbara Bauer's attack on AbsoluteWrite)
• Campbell & Sturgeon shortlists (23 May)
• Darlingtonians of Gor (19 May) (Also:)
• Carl Brandon Awards (17 May)
• Val Guest dies
• SLF Fountain Award result (15 May)
• FAAn Awards (11 May) -- correcting initial announcement
• Alexander Zinoveyev dies (10 May)
• Nebula Awards (6 May)
• The Sultan's Elephant (4-6 May)
• "Archeology of the Future"
• May-July Borders readings announced
• Eurocon & Chernobyl photos
• Geoff Ryman wins Clarke AwardApril 2006
• BSFA Awards
• Eurocon Awards
• Concussion (Eastercon) newsletter
• Bram Stoker Awards shortlist
• Clute on Morressy (Guardian, 10 Apr)
• Priest on Lem (Guardian, 8 Apr)
• TAFF voting deadline change
• The Infinite Matrix returns as a 1 April one-off (including The Runcible Ansible)March 2006
• Stanislaw Lem dies (27 Mar)
• 2006 Hugo Nominees
• David Feintuch dies (16 Mar)
• Moorcock's Miscellany site down
• Adam Roberts on the Clarke shortlist
• Tom Shippey in the TLS
• CrapAuthors.com
• Octavia Butler memorial
• "People's heads are becoming strange." (Studio Ghibli Earthsea trailer script)
• Ballard on the Empire of the Sun filmFebruary 2006
• Octavia Butler dies (25 Feb)
• Nebulas: final ballot
• Ibooks & Byron Preiss Visual Publications bankruptcy
• Robert Stanek meets Wikipedia
• Lionel Fanthorpe sighting
• Nick Lowe in the TLS
• Dark Side plagiarism siteDecember 2005
• Ken Bulmer dies (16 Dec)
• Robert Sheckley dies (9 Dec)
• 2006 TAFF ballot and PDF
