Older Home/Links: 2013This page is the final repository for 2013 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 2013
• "Chaosium Cleans Up Its Act"
• Neil Gaiman, UK Book of the Year winner
• Loncon 3 PR2 available
• Holmesian Xmas card by Bryan Talbot
• David Cameron's "Parental Control" blocking of SF Encyclopedia, Ansible, much much more
• Brian Aldiss interviewed
• The Hobbit and Vitamin D
• 2014 GUFF ballot [PDF]
• Santa Claus/George R.R. Martin
• Hobbit films lawsuit; Walking Dead tv lawsuit
• Tolkien on a banknote? Not really
• "Can Science Fiction Survive in Saudi Arabia?"
• Colin Wilson (1931-2013); at last the BBC notices
• 2017 Worldcon bid: Washington DC
• Samuel R. Delany, SFWA Grand Master
• 2014 DUFF nominations close on 6 January
• "Grisly Remains Of 15 Hobbits Discovered In Peter Jackson’s Attic"
• SF imagery wins Bad Sex Award
• Asterix legal actions
• "Behold the ... Moorcock" (interview)
• Kramer trial begins, ends; commentary at File 770
• Waterstones and the future of book deliveries (in response to Amazon drones)November 2013
• Saudi sf censorship
• Guardian: How to write science fiction
• SFWA qualifying rates to rise
• Dysprosium: a 2015 UK Eastercon bid
• Skiffy in North Korea
• 2014 GUFF candidates announced
• Rights challenge to It's a Wonderful Life sequel
• "C.S. Lewis's literary legacy: 'dodgy and unpleasant' or 'exceptionally good'?"
• Can there be such a thing as too much Doctor Who? (Yes.)
• C.S. Lewis celebrated in Belfast
• Michael Swanwick: "The Name of the Genre"
• Doris Lessing (1919-2013); photos; BBC report; Tor.com; BBC obituary; Guardian obituary
• "Who owns the Tardis?"
• Saltire Prize for first sf novel in Gaelic
• World Fantasy – The Fun Bits; The Dark Side; updates and oddments; Harassment Roundup
• Asimov FBI Investigation
• The Frankenstein Notebooks: read the original drafts
• TAFF newsletter: TAFFtastic 1:1 [PDF]
• A science fiction museum in Washington DC?
• British Fantasy Awards 2013
• World Fantasy Awards 2013
• Ender's Game controversy coverage at the Guardian; "sequel no longer likely"; a "Primer" at Vulture.comOctober 2013
• Gemmell Awards 2013
• Plato and Dumbledore
• C.S. Lewis remembered in November
• "Jacob Wallenstein Is the Greatest Science-Fiction Writer to Never Have Lived"
• Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Radio Show 2013 Tour cancelled
• 2014 GUFF nominations open
• Charles Platt on driving with Tom Disch and Marilyn Hacker
• 2014 TAFF nominations open
• Doctor Who: lost episodes found
• Tom Clancy (1947-2013)September 2013
• Spider Robinson has heart attack, is recovering well
• Margaret Atwood again
• SF2 Concatenation: Autumn newsdump
• "The Hugo Awards: an Apology"; Audiobooks and Hugos
• Ann (A.C.) Crispin (1950-2013)
• Frederik Pohl (1919-2013); SF Encyclopedia; Guardian (Chris Priest); Independent (John Clute); New York Times
• Nova Awards online ballot
• Not sour grapes at all. Of course not.
• Hugo winners
• Hayao Miyazaki retires
• Worldcon Newsletters in PDF
• Spokane wins 2015 Worldcon; official site hereAugust 2013
• Dublin Worldcon bid for 2019
• Fun with WFC panels
• SF still not SF when Margaret Atwood writes it
• Games in Iain Banks
• "The future's bright. Shame cinema isn't" (Guardian)
• Alien gargoyle
• Lovecraft Wars: S.T. Joshi gives an opponent a good kicking
• Google Street View inside the TARDIS
• SFWA kicks out unspecified member, whose identity comes as no surprise
• World Fantasy Awards shortlist
• Iain M. Banks deckchairs at the Edinburgh International Book Festival
• Gemmell Awards shortlist
• Ansible (and others) reviewed
• Omni Reboot
• Ho Ho Very Satirical
• Destroy All Fan Hugos; John Scalzi disagreesJuly 2013
• Stephen King's horrific treatment of his children
• Mick Farren (1943-2013); SFE; Independent
• The Decline and Fall of the Book Cover; some risible examples; and more!
• Flann O'Brien, Pulp SF Author
• Prometheus Awards
• H.P. Lovecraft Square
• Mythopoeic Awards
• The Crime of J.K. Rowling; more
• More on the Ender's Game film boycott call
• Giant maize Dalek
• So. Farewell then, James Frenkel ...
• Dragon*Con dumps Ed Kramer; more
• "A Timeline of the 2013 SFWA Controversies"
• Asteroid Iainbanks
• "Dear Twelve Rabid Weasels of SFWA, please shut the fuck up."
• Sidewise Awards shortlist
• Expensive comics pulped; another version
• Arthur C. Clarke will make it into space, by a hairJune 2013
• Roger Dean sues James Cameron over Avatar
• Locus Awards
• Weird Tales un-acceptance letter
• Pat Cadigan: bad news but maybe not too bad
• Sexual harassment at conventions: reporting and naming names; a round-up of links
• Letters on Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" (1948)
• Giant Gromits in Bristol
• Richard Matheson (1926-2013)
• An unexpected Diana Wynne Jones novel
• More on the Voynich Manuscript
• The World SF Blog: "A Last Word"
• British Fantasy Awards shortlist
• "Racist Takes Dump in SFWA Twitter Stream"
• "Dangerous Visions": Ballardian radio
• The Saul Zaentz Company strikes again
• Stoker Awards
• DUFF result
• Campbell, Sturgeon, Lifeboat awards
• Joe Queenan is grumpy about superhero films
• More SFWA controversy
• Iain Banks (1954-2013); BBC; Guardian; tributes; more tributes. Full obituaries: Guardian, Independent, Telegraph; Granta
• Doctor Who to regenerate again
• Various SFWA rumblings; sources quoted [scroll down]; Jim C. Hines summarizes with ever so many linksMay 2013
• Jack Vance (1916-2013); Guardian; Independent; The Register
• Forry Ackerman sends blot from beyond the grave!
• Naomi Mitchison bibliography
• Doctor Who racist?
• Iain Banks is more cheerful
• Loncon 3 "special May holiday sale": membership discounts 24-27 May
• Another plagiarist exposed
• 2012 Nebula winners
• SF Encyclopedia Picture Gallery
• Mythopoeic Awards shortlist
• Remember Perry Rhodan?
• Star Wars vs Doctor Who in Norwich
• Sturgeon and Campbell award shortlists
• "Don’t make fun of renowned Dan Brown"
• Jay Lake: worse news
• Locus Awards shortlist
• Ray Harryhausen (1920-2013)
• N. Lee Wood and cancer
• Clarke Award winner; a tangential criticismApril 2013
• 2013 DUFF race begins
• More from Iain Banks
• "BRING ME THE SEVERED HEAD OF RUPERT MURDOCH!"
• Jim Mowatt wins TAFF 2013; voting details etc in TAFFline #6,
• Concatenation Summer news review
• Eurocon 2013 Awards
• Complex literary hoaxing involves our very own Foundation ...
• "War of the worlds: who owns the political soul of science fiction?"
• Hugo meta-debate
• Clarke Award shortlist
• Night Shade Books: another mess
• Iain Banks: bad news
• 1 April Locus drollery; plus one that was removed, with an apology
• 1 April Moorcock Horror!March 2013
• EightSquaredCon newsletters
• BSFA Awards
• Hugo nominees; a protest
• Philip K. Dick Award winner: Brian Francis Slattery, Lost Everything
• Paul Williams (1948-2013)
• James Herbert (1943-2013)
• Anders Celsius outlines an sf story c1735
• Clarke Award submissions
• Tiptree Award
• Card's Superman story postponed after artist withdraws; another view
• Richard E. Geis (1927-2013)February 2013
• Kitschies winners
• Hobbit film dispute documents released
• Bram Stoker Awards shortlist
• Nebula Awards shortlist
• Dragon*Con boycott urged (again)
• Scientology Fun with Harlan Ellison
• FAAn awards ballot at corflu.org
• Meteor smash results in shameless plug for BSFA
• 3-D Printing, Game of Thrones and IP Law
• Orson Scott Card to script Superman comics; and what of his film?
• "Dr Fredric Wertham Lied And Lied And Lied About Comics"
• Games Workshop claims to own the term "space marines" (as used by Heinlein, Doc Smith ...); update with better news
• Tolkien estate countersued over LOTR slot machinesJanuary 2013
• "Flawed forecasting"
• Stoker Awards preliminary ballot
• Hugo Gernsback, SF Artist?
• PULP-O-MIZER Pulp Magazine Cover Generator
• "The battle against 'sexist' sci-fi and fantasy book covers"
• Amazing Stories relaunch
• Kitschies shortlist
• Urgent BSFA January meeting rescheduled
• BSFA Awards shortlist
• Bogus guest-speaker invitations for sf writers
• Concatenation Spring news review
• Jay Lake's cancer treatment fundraiser
• GUFF 2013 result
• Official TAFF 2013 announcement and ballot form as RTF and HTML
• Philip K. Dick Award shortlist
• TAFF 2013: Theresa Derwin vs Jim Mowatt
• The Hobbit and Macroeconomics
• Man Somehow Eats Entire Denny’s Hobbit Menu Without Dying
• Charles Chilton (1917-2013)
• Costa Book Awards