Older Home/Links: 2012This page is the final repository for 2012 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 2012
• Peter David had a stroke; more from Kathleen David
• A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs
• Doctor Who stamps
• Gerry Anderson, 1929-2012 (BBC); Guardian; Independent; Telegraph
• Scrooge in Klingon
• Christmas treat for fan historians: online archive-in-progress of The Fantast (1939-1942) ed. Sam Youd alias "John Christopher" and others
• Well, I like the headline.
• The traditional Ansible Christmas image [larger]
• Gene Wolfe, SFWA Grand Master
• Hans Christian Andersen MS discovered
• Hobbit `mockbuster' parody release blocked
• LoneStarCon rates rise 1 January
• Patrick Moore (1923-2012)
• Angela Carter fantasy wins James Tait Black "Best of Best" award
• Thog and Bad Sex (Mainstream Dept)
• As Others See Us
• Another failed space elevatorNovember 2012
• LoneStarCon membership discount until 3 December
• C.S. Lewis in Poet's Corner
• Boris Strugatsky (1933-2012)
• McCrum on genre (yawn)
• Inaugural British Comics Awards
• 2012 TAFF candidates sought
• Terry Pratchett "almost died"
• Farewell Fictionwise.com
• Bestselling sf "Infographic"; Making Light commentary
• Ken MacLeod on socialism and transhumanism
• Nova Awards
• "Horror: a genre doomed to literary hell?"
• The $480,000 dress
• The Famous Five with added time travel
• World Fantasy Awards
• Mind at the End of Its TetherOctober 2012
• Another New Yorker piece on genre fiction and how it can't be as good as ...
• David (Cloud Atlas) Mitchell on genre
• Paul Krugman introduces the Folio Society Foundation trilogy
• Quivering Puppies: Thog vs paranormal fantasy sex
• Warner Bros defeats Shuster heirs in Superman copyright lawsuit
• "5 Famous Artists Who Tried to Destroy Their Own Work"
• 2013 GUFF race is on; ballot forms here
• "2012 TAFF Nominations announced"
• Terry Pratchett reminisces (Independent)
• Charlie Stross is broken (see X-ray)
• US presidential campaign goes skiffy
• Can this be Thog fanfiction?
• Dorchester Publishing rights reversion: are you on this typo-strewn list?
• As Others See Red Dwarf fans
• "6 [SF] Movie Mysteries the Characters Should've Solved Way Sooner"
• New Worlds site has some content at last!
• Nova Awards online ballot
• "Scientology’s Meltdown"
• British Fantasy Awards 2012September 2012
• James White Award: deadline 16 December
• "Every Doctor Who villain since 1963"
• SF Concatenation news, Autumn 2012
• The Picture of Dorian Gray, still timeless
• Censored Hugo ceremony video to be rebroadcast on 9 September
• 2012 Hugo winners; voting and nomination statistics [PDF]; "How copyright enforcement robots killed the Hugo Awards"; more on this; photo of 2012 trophy; Guardian
• Loncon 3 is the 2014 London Worldcon
• 2012 Chesley winners
• Being horrid to Doctor Who
• "JG Ballard and the alchemy of memory"
• Ed Kramer and Dragon*Con (again)August 2012
• Pre-Hugo tension
• Ray Bradbury: not a commie
• TAFF: latest newsletter
• GUFF 2013 nominations open
• Weird Tales racist/non-racist uproar analysed; more at io9; Weird Tales volteface; background; Guardian comment
• Harry Harrison (1925-2012); Guardian obituary by Chris Priest; New York Times; Independent
• Parke Godwin: bad news
• The Guardian discovers fan fiction (including The Enchanted Duplicator); gets a lot wrong
• Unusual convention invitation
• Strange Horizons on (inter alia) Ansible
• "The secret is out."
• Forbes: Top-earning genre authors
• Carl Brandon Award winners
• World Fantasy Award final ballot
• Emma Bull and Steve Brust: help with medical horrors suggested
• Mythopoeic Awards: 2012 winners
• Readercon public statement; a comment; another
• SCA abuse settlement
• Gore Vidal (1925-2012)
• The Hobbit: why stop at a trilogy?July 2012
• Ursula K. Le Guin interview (Wired)
• "Zero tolerance" at Readercon; more; more; Whatever summary; a letter/petition – continued – further continued; a note from the Readercon chair; huge link summary; board resignations
• "Ayn Rand’s The Lord of the Rings”
• Hobbit obesity warning; confirmed
• London in 2014: Progress Report -1
• Library of America 1950s SF classics: read the introductions
• Vampires and revenants in Congress
• World Fantasy Life Achievement awards
• Batman's Bane and Mitt Romney
• Depressing news from Colorado
• Shirley Jackson award winners
• 2012 Prometheus winners
• Chicon: main hotel full
• Terry Goodkind outs a pirate
• Never call him an obsessive
• Amazing "Relaunch Prelaunch"
• The John Sladek SocietyJune 2012
• Gerry Anderson: bad news; Fanderson
• "How to vote for the Hugos"
• The Economist on Ray Bradbury
• Michael Swanwick mourns The Prince
• How the ansible works
• "Harry Potter is the Antichrist!"
• Wall Street Journal discovers fan fiction
• Fifty Shades of Thog
• Locus Award winners
• David Gemmell Legend Award winners
• Peter Jackson and Hobbits
• Bring Me the Head of George W. Bush
• Sidewise Awards shortlist
• "Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against PublishAmerica"
• George Takei, cyberterrorist
• Ray Bradbury (1920-2012); Locus; President Obama; BBC tributes roundup; "Ray Bradbury wrote modern myths, not science fiction"
• Pay £300 to be reviewed? There are cheaper deals.
• "Scientology Wins a Major Award Again!" (Village Voice)
• DUFF result: Hold Over FundsMay 2012
• Terry Pratchett wins Wodehouse prize
• Olaf Stapledon remembered
• Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire winners
• Leo Dillon (1933-2012)
• Worst unmade movie poll
• WARNING DALEKS AHEAD
• Sturgeon Award shortlist
• Mythopoeic Awards shortlist
• SF/Fantasy Translation Awards shortlist
• Nebula winners
• "'Game Of Thrones' Running Out Of Unkempt Old Men To Cast"
• DUFF 2012 voting opens; ballot [PDF]
• Warren Ellis on New Worlds
• John W. Campbell Memorial Award shortlist
• "Fandom matters" (Guardian)
• British Fantasy Awards shortlist
• The Pentagon on The Avengers
• Another Paul Krugman interview, with sf plugs
• The Guardian on the Clarke Award result; and again with reference to the Priest Polemic; a photo
• Dear Speculative Fiction ...; a response
• Locus Awards shortlist
• Terry Pratchett, banking guruApril 2012
• Kate Wilhelm: "A lifetime of writing"
• Mary Doria Russell: Saying “No” to Hollywood
• Dublin wins 2014 Eurocon
• The 10 Grumpiest Living Writers
• Tor to abandon ebook DRM; Tor UK likewise
• More Adjustment Bureau lawsuits
• Shirley Jackson Awards shortlist
• "Battlefield Earth is the worst film ever"
• Philip K. Dick on Blade Runner (1981)
• Alleged Lookalikes
• "H.P. Lovecraft Answers Your Relationship Questions"
• Concatenation news for Summer 2012
• Lego remake of 2001
• Milford (UK) SF Writers' Conference – bookings now open
• Nick Webb (1949-2012)
• Guardian on Eastercon 2012; EightSquaredCon (Bradford) is Eastercon 2013; Satellite 4 (Glasgow) is Eastercon 2014
• BSFA Awards winners; the introductory performance aroused much comment; more from PW Genreville; John Meaney; Liz Batty; Cheryl Morgan; Dave Hutchinson; BSFA grovels; PW Genreville again
• Hugo shortlist
• Dynamite Comics response to ERB Inc trademark lawsuit
• Prometheus Awards shortlist
• Pre-Eastercon TAFF newsletter
• The British Fantasy Awards Constitution 2012
• Stoker Award winners
• Priest vs Clarkes redux (Irish Times)1 April 2012
• Unicorn Cookbook Found at the British Library
• The Great Wall of Mexico (as predicted in John Sladek's 1973 story)
• Writer Beware’s Swag Shop for Discerning Scammers
• Stross Rule 35 remix novel
• Locus drollery
• "Clarke Judges Resign!"
• Mary Robinette Kowal apologizes to his fans
• "Spot Betting Scandal Hits British SF"
• Lawrence Watt-Evans: "A new form of publication"March 2012
• John Clute's giraffe
• The Register's worst-film poll
• CBS vetoes fan production of Norman Spinrad's unused 1967 Star Trek script
• Chris Priest lambasts the Clarke shortlist; others are moved to respond; Guardian coverage; more; still more (Scalzi roundup); Irish Times; Priest summary
• Olympus 2012 membership now closed.
• Racism and The Hunger Games
• Village Voice and Writers of the Future; original article
• 2012 Clarke Award shortlist
• Christine Brooke-Rose (1923-2012)
• Eastercon programme online
• H.P. Lovecraft remembered (BBC); "Lovecraft anniversary marked by feeling of creeping dread"
• "What should a sci-fi spaceship REALLY look like?" (Register)
• Harry Potter scenery tour a "rip-off" (Telegraph)
• Reviewers for hire
• M.A.R. Barker (1929-2012); obituary by Jo Walton at Tor
• Solstice Awards for Octavia Butler, John Clute
• "Hobbit pub in Southampton threatened with legal action" (BBC); Ian McKellen weighs in; possibility of resolution
• Jean Giraud/Moebius (1938-2012)
• London in 2014 Worldcon bid doomed to success
• Thirstier Choppers (anag. 11, 6)
• Chicon membership rates to rise on 1 AprilFebruary 2012
• Clarke award submissions list
• Bram Stoker nominees
• Arc magazine launches today (20 Feb); some actual content on their Tumblr site
• Nebula nominees
• Harry Potter actor whinges about lack of Oscar nominations
• Clive Barker has been at death's door
• Kitschies winners
• As Others See (and Patronize) Us
• John Christopher (Sam Youd, 1922-2012); Guardian obit by Chris Priest; a footnote
• Ardath Mayhar (1930-2012)
• Spawn lawsuit settled
• Muppets respond to Fox NewsJanuary 2012
• BSFA Awards shortlist; SFE comment
• "Starship Voyager dumped into skip"
• FAAn Awards: deadline 1 March
• File 770 scoops Ansible
• HarperCollins e-rights grab
• Shippey on Saler
• Kitschies novel prize shortlist
• This page as it was on 18 January
• Connie Willis: SFWA Grand Master
• Peter Nicholls (Our Founder) on the SFE
• Suppressed by NASA: "the best science fiction film ever made in space"; may now be released
• "5 Beloved Book Series That Continued (Badly) After the Original Authors Died "
• Concatenation Spring 2012
• Tolkien and the Nobel Prize (BBC)
• "A sci-fi brothel for nerds"
• Arthur C. Clarke in the DNB
• Hugo nominations open
• A graphic comment on the Cowboys & Aliens lawsuit
• 3 January: 75 Years Ago
