Older Home/Links: 2014This page is the final repository for 2014 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 2014
• EU VAT horror coming in the New Year: my summary with added links, now moved from Ansible 329 to a page of its own; one small concession from HMRC
• "From androids to zombies: taxation of the undead"
• "Arthur Machen Collection at Risk"; more (BBC 29 December)
• "Alert: Questionable Terms of Use in HBO's Game of Thrones Compendium"
• Jerry Pournelle: small stroke, prospects good
• Gabriel García Márquez: what's his archive worth?
• "How I Defeated the Tolkien Estate"
• Sue Mason wins Rotsler Award
• Stu Shiffman remembered
• Home Office changes its official reason for refusing "L. Skywalker" passport
• "Interstellar is not a science fiction film ..."November 2014
• Chris "Mr Controversy" Priest rides again!
• Ursula K. Le Guin at the National Book Awards (Guardian); video
• "Winnie the Pooh banned ..."
• Sex, violence and Paddington Bear; more
• Terraform: new online magazine
• World Fantasy Awards 2014
• One London, fifty Paddingtons
• "A Report on Damage Done by One Individual Under Several Names" [now PDF]; an impressive collection of links by Ann Somerville; a word from Peter Watts; Wikipedia debates reliable sources for all this
• "When Greg Bear Has Open Heart Surgery"
• France in 2023: Worldcon bid revivedOctober 2014
• "Hammer horror archive opens to public for first time"
• "Jack Kirby is Now Credited in Marvel Comics as the Creator ..."
• SF&F Translation Awards Closing Down
• David Mitchell interviewed
• Eastercon 2015 news!
• Someone else better not reviewed
• SF "bit of plastic" valued at £40-£50,000
• "The New Death of New Worlds"
• #GamerGate: Brianna Wu targeted by online psychopaths; File 770; Guardian; defence fund planned
• Langford interview at Nocturnia
• Mild-mannered Thai author and notoriously abusive blogger revealed to be one and the same; huge discussion thread ensues; apology links
• Harlan Ellison survives stroke
• Death of the Book Award: 2014
• October Batman stamps confirmed
• On "Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination"
• Asimov Will Be Watching YouSeptember 2014
• Asterix lawsuits over at last
• "Science Fiction Fanzines Before the Future Got Broken"
• "Marvel and Jack Kirby estate settle their disputes"
• Disney's Frozen allegedly plagiarized; more
• "Celebrity Trekkies"
• Did Jeff Bezos invite you?
• "Hypocrisy, Race and Literary Gentrification"
• Slate on urban dystopias
• Aieee! Roleplayers of Gor?
• Lou Anders leaves Prometheus/Pyr; a gloomy view is taken
• Roger Dean loses his Avatar lawsuit
• "Save Bradbury’s Hugo"
• SF2 Concatenation: Autumn newsdump
• Salon on Lovecraft's racism and the WFA trophy; The Guardian joins in
• Graham Joyce (1954-2014); Obituary by Chris Priest; Guardian; io9; Tor.com; Leicester Mercury; Graham's last blog post
• Ursula K. Le Guin honoured by US National Book Foundation
• Man Booker Prize Shortlist
• British Fantasy Award winners
• George R.R. Martin on Kirby McCauley (1941-2014)
• Life achievement Oscar for Hayao MiyazakiAugust 2014
• Writing SF punishable as thoughtcrime?; "Did This Teacher's Novel Cause Craziest Police Overreaction Ever?"; more; The Atlantic weighs in; Change.org petition; Nalo Hopkinson at LA Review of Books; "Suspended Teacher Speaks Out"
• Google doodle for Sheridan Le Fanu's 200th birthday
• Post-Loncon TAFF newsletter [PDF]
• Barcelona wins Eurocon 2016; discounted membership until 31 August 2014
• Paris in 2023: Worldcon bid withdrawn
• A good word from The Guardian; "World Science Fiction Convention 2014 beams [oh dear] into London"; Loncon 3 in pictures
• Hugo winners; full voting details [PDF]
• Worldcon 2016: Kansas City (defeating Beijing)
• Retro Hugo winners
• Howl's Moving Castle Google doodle for Diana Wynne Jones's 80th birthday
• Eaton Collection under threat? An update; $3.5m donation from Jay Kay Klein
• Sasquan (Worldcon 2015) rates rise 1 September
• Mythopoeic Award winners
• TAFF winner arrives
• Lolita and the Chocolate Factory; more
• That GISHWHES thing; Charlie Stross
• More on that Sherlock Homes copyright case
• Paris in 2023July 2014
• "Skywalker" verboten on passport
• "Welcome to Westerminsteros!"
• Momentous Changes at HWA
• "Science fiction takes over London"
• A fan in need: Velma (Vijay) Bowen
• Tove Jannson on Finnish 2-Euro coins
• Seiun Awards
• US Supreme Court rebuffs Conan Doyle estate
• 2014 World Fantasy Award shortlist, plus two life-achievement honorees
• BBC Worldwide leaks Doctor Who scripts; and apologizes
• "Terry Pratchett forced to cancel [Discworld convention] appearance by Alzheimer's"
• "Classic books become London benches"
• "Curiosities of Biological Nomenclature"June 2014
• "Authors dress up as their favourite characters"
• Locus Award winners
• Loncon programme overview
• SF Hall of Fame 2014
• Chris Priest on Felix Dennis
• Jim C. Hines on Marion Zimmer Bradley; File 770; Liz Williams; The Guardian
• Silly Season at the Daily Mirror; and at the Daily Star
• Proposed Worldcon/WSFS constitution change
• Angry Robot shuts down two imprints
• "Philip K. Dick in Orange County"
• "Conan Doyle Estate Loses Appeal Over 'Sherlock Holmes' Rights"
• Daniel Keyes (1927-2014); SFE
• As Others See Us
• "George RR Martin to kill off crowdfunding donors in Game of Thrones books"
• 2014 GUFF result
• Anthracosuchus balrogus
• Mythopoeic Awards shortlists
• Campbell Memorial & Sturgeon winners
• Ditmar winners
• Sidewise Awards shortlists
• British Fantasy Awards shortlists
• Kickstarter for film of David Langford's "BLIT"May 2014
• Jay Lake (1964-2014)
• 2014 Hugo Voter Packet
• Jay Lake: "Well, the news isn't good"; more; and more
• Ray Bradbury's house for sale
• Campbell Memorial Award shortlist
• Nebula Winners; SFWA's accidental omission
• Ian McEwan archive sold (with sf revelation)
• "Jaws" dentaltechnicianmechanic fined
• Orbit Books and the Hugo Voter Packet; What Orbit Authors Say; John Scalzi
• RIP: H.R. Giger and Patrick Woodroffe
• Bram Stoker Awards
• Shirley Jackson Awards shortlist
• Locus Awards finalists
• "Daily Mail pays damages to JK Rowling"
• Eyeballs in the Sky; Thog hits at that site
• Sturgeon Award shortlist
• Who'll pay a silly price for Science-fiction.org?
• Arthur C. Clarke Award winner
• "How 'Star Wars' ruined sci-fi"April 2014
• Gravity author sues Warner
• Atari E.T. game trove found in New Mexico desert
• SFWA membership plunges by 1 ... 2 ... 3 ...
• Posthumous Octavia Butler collection includes another refugee from The Last Dangerous Visions
• SF2 Concatenation: Summer newsdump
• Shock horror yawn: Matrix not plagiarized!
• "Czech chief rabbi revealed as the author of sci-fi bestseller"
• Curt Phillips wins TAFF; official release with voting breakdown; newsletter TAFFtastic 3
• Eileen Gunn in The Smithsonian
• Gemmell Awards shortlists
• Hugo shortlist commentary: John Scalzi (plus rebuttal links), James Nicoll, Guardian; Brandon Sanderson, Making Light (plus clarification; continuation thread); Kameron Hurley; Tor.com; Scalzi again; Abigail Nussbaum; Bleeding Cool; Jim C. Hines; Scrivener's Error; Mark Tiedemann; Larry Correia; We Hunted the Mammoth; Cheryl Morgan; USA Today via File 770; PZ Myers; Steve Davidson; Martin Wisse; ongoing accumulation of links at Far Beyond Reality.
• Guardian archive: Eastercon 1965
• GUFF 2014: new online voting form
• BSFA Award winners
• Tolkien Society awards
• Hugo shortlist and Retro Hugos
• 2014 Dick Award
• Glasgow Evening Times on Eastercon; The Herald
• Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014)
• "Man ruins Game of Thrones with series of novels full of spoilers"
• Chris Priest interview
• Clute and Langford interviewed at Amazing Stories
• David A. Hardy painting stolen? ... recovered ... more
• April Foolery at The Register; Ancestry.com; Tor.com; and again and again; SF SignalMarch 2014
• SF Encyclopedia themed slideshows
• "Lawsuit of the Rings": dark lord's triumph
• Anti-Beijing Worldcon Bid site
• Lucius Shepard (1943-2014); Guardian (Christopher Priest)
• Clarke Award shortlist
• TAFF: 2014 candidates reveal all
• The Orthodox Church of Heinlein
• David Gemmell Legend Awards: longlists and voting
• [Loncon 3's page announcing Jonathan Ross as Hugo Awards MC has been taken down]; controversy [Farah Mendlesohn's ensuing public letter of resignation from the Loncon committee (which was not given a say in this MC choice) has been taken down but is partly quoted here]; controversy rapidly defused; "How Could You Not Have Seen This Coming?"; Bleeding Cool; Charlie Stross; Daily Dot; File 770; Wertzone; Shattersnipe; Cheryl Morgan (again); Guardian; Chuck Wendig; New Statesman; Tor.com; Loncon 3 apology to all and sundry; Evening Standard; TeleRead; Neil Gaiman; Cora Buhlert looks back, with many links; David Perry; James Nicoll.February 2014
• "Oscars: Gravity 'not sci-fi'"
• HWA Life Achievement Awards
• "For the Love": on semiprozines
• Nebula Awards nominees
• Shamrokcon Call for Volunteers
• Bram Stoker Awards finalists
• "How Not to Get an Actor to Be in Your Zombie Movie"
• "For me, science fiction classic is an oxymoron" (scroll down)
• 2016 Worldcon site selection: Beijing vs Kansas City
• Loncon 3 membership rates rise 1 March [PDF]
• Tiptree Award winner announced
• Further SFWA dispute fallout. With added lawsuit action: "Science Fiction Community Generates This Weekend's Buffoonish Defamation Threat". And more; and more; and more. Newer writers now deemed "insects". Still more ... but can this be the end (for now)? On accepting apologies; Jim C Hines summary
• Kitschies winners
• More SFWA fun; the current call to arms; more links; Daily Dot summary; George Orwell invoked; a parody; SFWA presidential statement; Scalzi summary in ever so general terms; more.
• A modest proposal: "Require Every Hugo Award Category to re-qualify every five years"
• FAAn Awards ballot
• LibDems and SF
• "Redfearn and Wood promoted at Gollancz"
• Locus Poll Online Ballot
• Little, Brown buys Constable & Robinson
• Ansible on Twitter at last ...
• Locus Recommended Reading List for 2013
• "The Lib Dems are a party of science fiction fans"January 2014
• Phil Foglio belabours Tor; Patrick Nielsen Hayden responds; more Foglio
• Clarke Award Submissions: full list
• BSFA Awards shortlist
• Nick Mamatas on Harlan Ellison
• Kitschies shortlist
• Quercus (including Jo Fletcher Books) up for sale
• Beijing in 2016 Worldcon bid; official site
• Bram Stoker Awards preliminary ballot
• Clarke Award Submissions I: Female
• Loving Big Brother
• 2014 DUFF ballot [PDF]; announcement
• "Iranian news agency says the U.S. is secretly run by Nazi space aliens. Really."
• SF2 Concatenation: Spring newsdump
• Alexandra Bastedo (1946-2014)
• Hugo nominations are open
• More sf art "appropriation"
• Farewell to a major Tolkien litigator
• Adam Roberts on award pimpage
• Klingon gets everywhere
• 2014 TAFF voting begins
• Another Harry Potter political metaphor
• Happy New Year, everyone!