Older Home/Links: 2007This page is the final repository for 2007 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 2007
• Marion Van Der Voort dies (26 Dec)
• DUFF race 2008 (deadline 31 Jan!); on-line voting form with PayPal
• JKR oddments: Beedle the Bard and a BMJ paper
• Arthur C. Clarke's 90th-birthday message (video)
• Denvention song contest
• Terry Pratchett: "An Embuggerance" (11 Dec); Guardian
• Ellison no longer mad at Paramount (context here)
• Doris Lessing's Nobel speech
• SFWA rethink (after "Suicide Note" uproar); Scribd developments; Stross comment
• Douglas Adams street campaign
• Rowling lawsuit developments (4 Dec)
• More free publicity for Philip Pullman (3 Dec)
• "Why don't we love science fiction?" (2 Dec)
• "Is 'Science Fiction' harming your kids?"November 2007
• "SFWA: The Suicide Note"; more
• Dragon magazine's all-rights contract mocked by John Scalzi
• Steve Holland on Peter Haining (1940-2007); Independent (Jack Adrian)
• Proust the sf writer (via)
• Chris Garcia wins TAFF (20 Nov)
• Brian Aldiss on sf global warming (Guardian) -- fails to mention J.G. Ballard, George Turner or (see comments) Kim Stanley Robinson; more Aldiss (Times)
• Margaret Atwood on Brave New World (Guardian)
• As others see us
• SFRA Conference moves
• Ira Levin dies (12 Nov). International Herald Tribune; AP
• Harlan Ellison on the warpath again (scroll down); a comment
• SFWA on Writers Guild of America strike
• Norman Mailer dies (10 Nov)
• More American justice
• Rowling and Warner crack down on unauthorised Potter encylopedia (Times); more; more; more. Full text of complaint (PDF); Q&A; restraining order granted; more commentary; BoingBoing discussionOctober 2007
• Terry Pratchett's "mini stroke" (Mail)
• Failed futuristic predictions (via)
• More Doctor Who stuff (The Register)
• JKR: Dumbledore was gay (BBC)
• Brian Aldiss in The Times (16 Oct)
• Retro BSFA Award for 1958
• David Gemmell is plagiarized
• Doris Lessing wins the Nobel Prize
• More copyright logomachy ; Ursula Le Guin comments [updated 14 Oct]; Cory Doctorow apologizes
• "Fantastika in the World Storm": John Clute explains everything
• 2008 Hugo base design competitionSeptember 2007
• Clute on Robert Jordan (Independent, 27 Sep)
• British Fantasy Awards (23 Sep)
• Le Guin on Winterson (Guardian 22 Sep)
• Douglas Hill: late obit (Guardian 19 Sep)
• Robert Jordan dies (16 Sep) ; a word from George R.R. Martin ; AP report ; Times
• John Clute interviewed
• More on SFWA/Scribd at CNET
• Creationist/ID sf
• William Gibson in Belfast Telegraph
• Madeleine L'Engle dies (6 Sep) ; Slate retrospective
• Quantum Pratchett computing (The Reg)
• Publishers Weekly on Ellison / Fantagraphics settlement -- the Ellison site version doesn't include the agreed Gary Groth rebuttal ; comment from Ellison lawyer ; past lawsuit timeline at Comics Journal
• SFWA reaction (3 Sep) to bad press -- see (30 Aug)
• Anticipation (Montréal) wins 2009 Worldcon site selection
• The 2007 Hugos (1 Sep); voting breakdown (pdf)
• Nippon 2007 NewslettersAugust 2007
• SFWA acts "fraudulently" in DMCA piracy complaint (30 Aug) ; more at Making Light , Ars Technica , Slashdot, SFWA, Scribd.com ...
• Edward Gorey's Tribbles (via)
• Cormac McCarthy: another award
• Infinity Plus: the final update
• World Fantasy Awards nominations -- updated with Life Achievement winners, Betty Ballantine and Diana Wynne Jones
• #8: Harry Potter and the Chinese Empire (Scotsman, 19 Aug)
• Gibson digested (Guardian, 14 Aug)
• The New Yorker on Philip K. Dick
• Alfred Bester letters quoted
• John Gardner (1926-2007)
• American Gods, and London literary novelists
• More Gor
• BFS Awards nominees
• Anna Kavan panel photos
• TAFF 2008: the race is on and here's the ballot (also PDFs: A4 and US)July 2007
• "Sci-fi helped make the present; now it's obsolete." (Discover)
• Roz Kaveney on Deathly Hallows (TLS) ; also A.N. Wilson (Times)
• For authors who don't know any better
• Jon Carroll reprints without asking anyone's permission ; and so does Cory Doctorow (though with a link)
• Homer Simpson and the Giant
• Paleo-Future: A Look Into the Future That Never Was
• TAFF 2008: nominations deadline extended
• "Angry Old Men": Moorcock on Ballard
• The pulp cover for "On Serious Literature"
• Another "As Others [Don't] See Us" rant
• Your Harry Potter Spoiler of Doom
• Ellison/Fantagraphics lawsuit resolvedJune 2007
• Harry Potter and the Imitation of Christ
• Moorcock on Chabon (Telegraph)
• Fred Saberhagen (1930-2007)
• Sterling E. Lanier (1928-2007)
• Douglas Hill (1935-2007) ; Independent
• "The new sci-fi" (Guardian, 27 Jun)
• Worrying about SETI (Independent, 27 Jun)
• "Harry Potter and the Pedant of CIX" (The Register)
• Roger Elwood (1943-2007)
• Transformerbots!
• "Lunatics meet the Fringe" ( via)
• Locus Awards (16 Jun)
• International Horror Guild award nominees (15 Jun)
• Sci Fiction archive about to vanish (12 Jun) ; now gone (15 Jun); still here, though
• Ditmar Awards (Australia)
• Levitating islands. Allegedly. ( via)
• Mythopoeic Awards finalists (9 Jun)
• Sydney J Bounds: the last interview (The Zone)
• "Geekological endgame" (Star Wars in the Guardian)
• BFS Awards recommendations
• Ray Bradbury misunderstood
• Campbell Memorial Award shortlist (1 Jun)May 2007
• Doctor Who shutdown rumour (31 May) and comments
• As Others Consult Us (or, The Dreamer Fithp Rides Again); Wired comment
• SF Book Club upheaval (24 May)
• Sturgeon Award shortlist (24 May)
• Lloyd Alexander dies (17 May) ; Independent
• Nebula Awards (12 May)
• Clarke Award: M. John Harrison wins for Nova Swing (2 May)
• More recognition for sf ; and more ; Slate analysisApril 2007
• BBC on Alastair Reynolds (30 Apr)
• 2008 TAFF race announced (30 Apr)
• Maggie Gee on Vonnegut (Telegraph, 28 Apr)
• Gwyneth Jones on sf technology (Guardian, 26 Apr)
• The Children of Húrin digested (24 Apr)
• Langford on International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day (23 Apr) ; Jo Walton's links
• Locus Award finalists (20 Apr)
• GUFF fan fund result (18 Apr)
• Mlclm Edwrds shrtns clsscs! (14 Apr)
• JETS fan fund result (14 Apr)
• Ballard World theme park?
• Wired (12 Apr) on "As Others See Us"
• SFWA VP denounces "webscabs" and the "Pixel-stained Technopeasant Wretch" ; a response; another (via)
• Kurt Vonnegut dies (11 Apr): BBC ; AP ; Guardian ; Independent ; Telegraph
• Eastercon 2007 newsletters ; more ; more
• Eastercon 2009
• Charlie Stross: "Why the commercial ebook market is broken"
• Hugo list correction (1 Apr; not a joke)March 2007
• 2007 GUFF candidates (16 April voting deadline!)
• 2007 Hugo shortlist; official version
• The Curse of Barbara Bauer (still resenting this)
• The Times discovers World of Warcraft
• Redemption 09 venue change
• On the "As Others See Us" syndrome (Guardian)
• SFX says "Happy birthday Interzone!"
• Obscure sf author achieves copious publicity
• Tiptree biography wins NBCC award
• Avoid alien mind control!
• David Masson dies (25 Feb): Clute, Independent; Priest, Guardian; author page
• Iain Banks mini-interview
• Fantagraphics Defense Fund; more; more; more; TCJ discussion
• J.K. Rowling to sue eBay? (via)
• Concordia: Eastercon bid folds (3 Mar)
• 100 most treasured books (Guardian); dissenting comments here (scroll down) and hereFebruary 2007
• 2007 Nebula ballot (26 Feb)
• "World's Ugliest Awards": BFS , Poe , but why not the World Fantasy Award ?
• Saturn Awards (film) shortlists
• Checkpoint archive complete! (18 Feb)
• Ed Gorman remembers Lin Carter
• FAAn Awards (11 Feb)
• Lee Hoffman dies (6 Feb)
• ABEbooks sf & fantasy "rooms"
• Whither the Fan Writer Hugo?
• Keith Henson arrested ( CNET )January 2007
• David Eddings, Pyromaniac
• 2007 GUFF race
• Desert Island Aldiss (28 Jan)
• DNA Publications in trouble? Update
• Clarke Award shortlist (20 Jan)
• Weird Tales reshuffle
• BSFA Awards final ballot (14 Jan)
• Robert Anton Wilson dies (11 Jan); Independent (Clute)
• Nebula preliminary ballot (9 Jan)
• Sci Fi Weekly site of the week (gosh)
• ISFDB: now anyone can edit it
• Coming this year: The Journal of Horror Studies
