Ansible

22/07/2024

Well, at this late date I think I can safely speculate that it wasn't a block vote for dear old Lionel Fanthorpe.

22 July, 2024

08/07/2024

Random convention badge of the day: Novacon 6 (1976). Gnome Press artwork by Edd Cartier, supplied by guest of honour Dave Kyle.

01/07/2024

Amid a flurry of Ansible Editions book royalty statements and updates to the SF Encyclopedia, I somehow managed to sneak in the July issue of Ansible. Here:
https://news.ansible.uk/a444.html

01/07/2024

Rob Hansen's latest compilation of early UK convention reportage, with his own extensive commentary, is officially released today -- as both a free ebook and a paperback sold with all proceeds to TAFF.
https://ae.ansible.uk/?t=UKcons2

31/05/2024

Here we go again with Ansible 443....
https://news.ansible.uk/a443.html

21/05/2024

Rob Hansen's latest fanhistorical compilation is heading for the proofreader(s) soon. Cover photo of fancy dress ensemble at Cytricon II (Kettering, 1956).

01/05/2024

Mayday! Mayday! Help is urgently needed but all you get is Ansible 442 ... https://news.ansible.uk/a442.html

02/04/2024

Rejected blurbs, number 5,271,009: "An April without Ansible is like a sevagram without an interocitor!" Well, here it is anyway ... https://news.ansible.uk/a441.html

29/03/2024

Hugo finalists announced:

Glasgow 2024, the 82nd World Science Fiction Convention, is honoured to announce the finalists for the 2024 Hugo Awards, Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult

15/03/2024

A bit of a surprise here....

First Fandom members will begin voting this week on the First Fandom Awards for 2024. President John L. Coker III says arrangements are being made to present the awards during Opening Ceremonies at the 2024 Worldcon in Glasgow, Scotland, August 8-12. FIRST FANDOM AWARDS NOMINEES FOR 2024 Note: There...

05/03/2024

Very pleased that Rob Hansen's 2023 Ansible Editions book Beyond Fandom has just won the Fan Activity Achievement Award for best special publication. https://ae.ansible.uk/?t=BeyondFan

01/03/2024

Here we go again with the March issue of Ansible: https://news.ansible.uk/a440.html

27/02/2024

Brian Stableford.
https://sf-encyclopedia.com/news/brian_stableford

03/02/2024

Christopher Priest has left the building. Not only a writer of great and distinctive stature but an old friend -- for fifty years or more -- of SFE editors John Clute and David Langford. There are no words, at least not yet.
https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/priest_christopher

ETA https://sf-encyclopedia.com/news/christopher_priest

25/01/2024

Science fiction writer whose novel foreseeing reality TV was adapted as Bernard Tavernier’s film Death Watch

20/01/2024

The voting statistics for the 2023 Hugo Award, Lodestar Award, and Astounding Award Nominating and Final Ballot are now available. To see them, click here (PDF). As is usual practice, the administr…

17/11/2023

Novacon 53 memberships are now live and available to buy at https://novacon.uk/memberships/ These will be at the "At-convention" price of £50 for a few days. They will then rise to £53.

We will be returning to the Palace hotel in Buxton on November 8th-10th. Our Guest of Honour will be Dr Allen Stroud: SF author, musician, Chair of the BSFA, and a past Fantasycon author.

Details of hotel prices and booking process are not yet available and will be posted here and in the Progress Report in due course.

13/08/2023

The Clarke Award presentation has been announced for 16 August:

Presentation of the 37th Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction Book of the Year