Ansible 349 -- August 2016 [long]

[David Langford]

ANSIBLE(R) 349
AUGUST 2016

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ANSIBLE(R)! My application to register _Ansible_ as a UK trademark was
approved on 8 July. This began when I worried online that a mooted new sf
magazine might usurp 'my' title, and there was a surprise flood of
contributions towards trademark registration. Thanks very much to everyone
who chipped in; and to Ursula K. Le Guin, as ever, for smiling on all the
terrible things I've done with her word since 1979.


### TENSER, SAID THE TENSOR ###

LUC BESSON was found guilty by an appeals court of plagiarizing John
Carpenter's _Escape from New York_ (1981) in his film _Lockout_ (2012), and
ordered to pay Euro450,000 damages. (IndieWire, 29 July)

ROBERT E. HOWARD's Western collection _A Gent from Bear Creek_ is worth a
few bob if you happen to have the 1937 first edition from Herbert Jenkins.
Brian Ameringen confides: 'On 6 July a jacketless ex. lib. copy of this was
auctioned by Ebay for British Heart Foundation for Pounds1020 -- around a
dozen copies are known to exist. On 24 May the only known copy with a 7/6d
D.J. was similarly put up for auction. It has a signature from August
Derleth and was being sold on behalf of the family of Glenn Lord. Starting
bid was $19,500 -- no takers!'

STEPHEN KING is to be honoured by the Library of Congress for 'his lifelong
work promoting literacy.' (www.loc.gov/bookfest/) [L]

ROB LATHAM on 8 July: 'Yesterday, after twenty years of service on the
board of _Science Fiction Studies_, I submitted my resignation as editor,
effective with the March 2017 issue. It has been a joy working with the
greatest editorial collective in the world, including my brilliant
coeditors, all the hard-working consultants, and the scores of incredible
essayists and reviewers who have made _SFS_ the greatest journal on this or
any planet.' Has he never seen the Rigellian edition of _Ansible_?

PATRICK NIELSEN HAYDEN is now Associate Publisher of Tor, and Devi Pillai
of Orbit is joining Tor with the same role. (Tor.com, 26 July)

JANE YOLEN brags of having been chosen as one of the 125 -- by your
editor's count -- Unsung Heroines of Massachusetts for 2016, and asks
meaningfully: 'How does a body get sung around here?' (18 July)


### CONOPHOLIS ###

Until 1 Oct [] SCI-FI UNDER THE STARS (BFI summer film season), various
venues. See www.thelunacinema.com/sci-fi/4592658751.

Until 2 Oct [] ADVENTURES IN SPACE (exhibition; sf architecture), The
Lighthouse, Glasgow. Free. See www.thelighthouse.co.uk.

6 Aug [] PRESTON COMIC CON, Guild Hall, Preston. 9:30am-5pm. Adults
Pounds12 (Pounds8 from 10:30), under-15s Pounds6 (Pounds4 from 10:30),
under-5s free. See www.prestoncomiccon.co.uk.

12 Aug [] FANTASY IN THE COURT (mass signing), Goldsboro Books, Cecil
Court, London. 'Evening.' Tickets Pounds5. See fantasyinthecourt.com.

12-15 Aug [] CONTINUUM (RPG), John Foster Hall, Leicester University. Cost
revealed when you sign up at continuumconvention.co.uk.

12-14 Aug [] NINE WORLDS GEEKFEST (multimedia), Novotel London West,
Hammersmith. _Now Pounds115 reg (day Pounds50); 5-15s Pounds38 (day
Pounds17)_; under-5s free. Book online at nineworlds.co.uk.

12-14 Aug [] WADFEST (Discworld camp con), Wood Green Animal Shelter,
King's Bush Farm, London Road, Godmanchester, Cambs, PE29 2NH. Adult
campers Pounds25. See www.wadfest.co.uk for other rates.

17-21 Aug [] MIDAMERICON II (74th Worldcon), Kansas City, MO, USA. $210 reg
(_$240 at door_); $100 YA/active military service (_$120 at door_); $60
under-16s; $50 supp. Adult day rates (others at door only) $40 Wed, Sun;
$70 Thu, Fri, Sat. Adult weekend (Fri-Sun) $150. _Advance booking closes on
5 August._ See midamericon2.org for more.

20-21 Aug [] CREATUREGEDDON (monsters etc), Langley Conference Suite,
Watford. Pounds49 reg or Pounds28.50/day. See www.creaturegeddon.net.

21 Aug [] WORCESTER COMIC CON, Worcester Arena. Tickets Pounds10 from 11am,
Pounds15 10am; under-8s Pounds5. See www.worcester-comiccon.com.

24 Aug [] CLARKE AWARD CEREMONY, Foyles Bookshop, Charing Cross Rd, London.
6:30pm-9:30pm. By invitation only.

25-29 Aug [] FRIGHTFEST (horror film festival), VUE Shepherds Bush, London.
Bookings: www.frightfest.co.uk or 020 8296 0555.

26-29 Aug [] THE ASYLUM (steampunk), Lincoln. Pounds35 reg plus Pounds2.24
fee (under-17s Pounds17.50 + Pounds1.72) at www.asylumsteampunk.co.uk.

SOLD OUT 26-29 Aug [] DISCWORLD CONVENTION, Chesford Grange Hotel, Warwick.
Pounds75 reg. See dwcon.org to join the waiting list.

26-28 Aug [] STARBURST FILM FESTIVAL, MMU Student Union, Manchester.
Tickets Pounds75; day Pounds25.50. See www.starburstfilmfest.co.uk.

28-29 Aug [] STARS OF TIME (film/comics), The Tropicana, Weston-super-Mare.
10:30am-5pm. Pounds6; child Pounds3. See www.starsoftime.co.uk.

3-4 Sep [] MIDDLE-EARTH FESTIVAL, Sarehole Mill, Cole Bank Rd, Hall Green,
Birmingham, B13 0BD. Free. See middleearthfestival.co.uk.

CANCELLED 9-10 Sep [] ANDROMEDA 2, Moseley, Birmingham. Cancelled owing to
'low advance sales'. The website instantly vanished.

12-18 Sep [] GOLLANCZ FESTIVAL, London (Phoenix Artist Club 17 Sep; Foyles
17-18 Sep) and online (12-16 Sep). See gollanczfest.co.uk.

5-16 Oct [] LONDON LITERATURE FESTIVAL: 'Living in Future Times', Southbank
Centre, London. See www.southbankcentre.co.uk.

26 Nov [] SLEDGE-LIT, QUAD Centre, Derby. 10am-6pm. Tickets Pounds25. See
www.derbyquad.co.uk/special-event/sledge-lit-2016.aspx.

3 Dec [] DRAGONMEET (gaming). _New venue announced:_ Novotel London West,
Hammersmith. 10am-midnight. Tickets Pounds10 (concessions Pounds6);
Pounds12 at door; group discounts. Booking at www.dragonmeet.co.uk.

24-26 Feb 2017 [] REDEMPTION '17 (multimedia), Royal Victoria Hotel,
Sheffield. Pounds65 reg, _rising to Pounds70 on 1 Sep_ (day Pounds40);
under-18s Pounds25 (day Pounds15); under-3s free; Pounds15 supp. Contact 61
Chaucer Rd, Farnborough, Hants, GU14 8SP. See
www.redemption-convention.org.uk.

RUMBLINGS. _Conception_, the long-running RPG convention held in New
Milton, Hants, has been discontinued: see www.conceptionuk.org.


### INFINITELY IMPROBABLE ###

AS OTHERS SEE US. Forget boring old cli-fi! Here's the latest
future-fiction category that's untainted by sf. 'This future is only 13
years away, as Lionel Shriver depicts it in "The Mandibles: A Family
2029-2047," her searing exemplar of a disquieting new genre-call it
dystopian finance fiction.' (Ruth Franklin, _New York Times_, 11 July) [GF]

AWARDS. _Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award:_ Judith Merril.
_Munsey_ (pulp community): Laurie Powers.
_Man Booker Prize:_ the 13-book longlist includes one sf novel, David
Means's alternate-1970s _Hystopia_. [KM]
_Prometheus_ (libertarian): NOVEL Neal Stephenson, _Seveneves_. HALL
OF FAME Donald M. Kingsbury, _Courtship Rite_.
_Scribe_ (tie-in) genre novel winners. ORIGINAL/SPECULATIVE Dayton
Ward, _Star Trek The Next Generation: Armageddon's Arrow_. ADAPTED Stephen
D. Sullivan, _Manos -- The Hands of Fate_.
_Seiun_ (Japan), translation: NOVEL Ann Leckie, _Ancillary Justice_
trans Hideko Akao. SHORT Ken Liu, 'Good Hunting' trans Yoshimichi
Furusawa.[] _Shirley Jackson Award_ (suspense etc) novel winner: Gemma
Files, _Experimental Film_.
_World Fantasy Award_ for life achievement: David G. Hartwell and
Andrzej Sapkowski.

AS OTHERS SEE US II. The baseball angle: 'Not long ago, Terry Collins,
baseball lifer, would not have pulled an effective reliever after only a
few pitches. Pitchers are now plug-in robots and managers are bound by "The
Book", the latest edition filled with science fiction read as repetitive
formulas for success.' (_New York Post_ sports, 31 May) [PL]

R.I.P. _Caroline Aherne_ (1963-2016), UK comic actress, writer and producer
whose main genre credit was _Strange Hill High_ (2013-2014), died on 2 July
aged 52. (_Telegraph_, 2 July)
_Michael Cimino_ (1939-2016), Oscar-winning US producer, director and
screenwriter who co-wrote _Silent Running_ (1972), died on 2 July aged 77.
[PDF]
_Ron Cummins_, US actor seen in _Capricorn One_ (1977), _Ghostbusters
II_ (1989) and _The Relic_ (1997), died on 1 July.
_Maurice G. Dantec_ (1959-2016), French writer (in Quebec from 1999)
whose sf includes _Babylon Babies_ (1999; trans 2005; filmed as _Babylon
A.D._ 2008) and _Cosmos Incorporated_ (2005; trans 2008), died on 25 June;
he was 56. (Europa SF)
_Jack Davis_ (1924-2016), US cartoonist whose genre work was mostly
for EC Comics -- including _Tales from the Crypt_, _Haunt of Fear_, _Vault
of Horror_, _Incredible Science Fiction_ and the early _Mad_ -- died on 27
July; he was 91.
_Jerry Doyle_ (1956-2016), US actor and radio host who played
Garibaldi in _Babylon 5_ (1994-1998) and its tv-film spinoffs, died on 27
July; he was 60. Other genre credits include _Captain Simian & The Space
Monkeys_ (1996-1997) and _The Outsider_ (1998). [BB]
_Corrado Farina_ (1939-2016), Italian director, screenwriter and
novelist best known for his film _Baba Yaga_ (1973, aka _The Devil Witch_
and _Kiss Me, Kill Me_), which he adapted from Guido Crepax's comics, died
on 11 July aged 77. [SG]
_Robin Hardy_ (1929-2016), UK film director and writer best known for
_The Wicker Man_ (1973), died on 1 July aged 86. (BBC, 2 July)
_Aharon Ipale_ (1941-2016), Morocco-born actor who played Pharaoh Seti
I in _The Mummy_ (1999) and _The Mummy Returns_ (2001), died on 27 June
aged 74. Another genre credit is _Xanadu_ (1980). [SFS]
_Joyce Katz_ (1939-2016), long-time US fan who co-chaired the 1969
Worldcon, published many fanzines (including the 1970s newszine _Fiawol_
with husband Arnie Katz) and was a mainstay of Las Vegas fandom, died on 30
July. All sympathy to Arnie.
_Tim LaHaye_ (1926-2016), US evangelist and author who with Jerry
Jenkins wrote the 13-book 'Left Behind' sequence of near-future
Bible-thumping apocalyptic fantasies, died on 25 July aged 90. (_Washington
Post_, 25 July)
_Norman Longmate_ (1925-2016), UK novelist and military historian
whose _If Britain Had Fallen_ (1972, based on the BBC tv series of that
name) is an alternate-nonfiction study of the Hitler Wins scenario, died on
4 June; he was 90. [JC]
_William Lucas_ (1925-2016), UK actor whose genre credits include _The
Strange World of Planet X_ (1956 tv), _X the Unknown_ (1956), Hammer's _The
Shadow of the Cat_ (1961), _Night of the Big Heat_ (1967), _Doctor Who_:
'Frontios' (1984) and _Vampire Cop_ (1990), died on 8 July aged 91.
_John McMartin_ (1929-2016), US actor whose rare genre credits include
_Beauty and the Beast_ (1987-1989), _Touched by an Angel_ (1997-1998) and
_Into the Woods_ (2002 Broadway revival), dies on 6 July aged 86. [MMW]
_Garry Marshall_ (1934-2016), US film/tv writer/producer whose
best-known genre creation was _Mork & Mindy_ (1978-1982), died on 19 July
aged 81. (Variety, 19 July)
_Noel Neill_ (1920-2016), US actress who played Lois Lane in the film
serials _Superman_ (1948) and _Atom Man vs. Superman_ (1950), and also the
tv _Adventures of Superman_ (1953-1958) -- with later appearances in
_Superman_ (1978) and others -- died on 3 July; she was 95. [PDF]
_Carlos Nine_ (1944-2016), Argentinian illustrator and sculptor whose
work appeared in Alejandro Dolina's fantasy collection _Gray Angel
Chronicles_ (1988) and the magazines _Playboy_, _Le Monde_ and _L'Echo des
Savanes_, died on 16 July aged 72. [SG]
_Marni Nixon_ (1930-2016), US singer with many uncredited ghost
performances including Audrey Hepburn's songs in _My Fair Lady_ (1964),
died on 24 July aged 86. Her genre films are _Cinderella_ (1950), _Jack and
the Beanstalk_ (1967) and _Mulan_ (1998). [AIP]
_Robert Nye_ (1939-2016), UK poet and historical novelist whose
stylistically rich works include some fantasy -- _Merlin_ (1978) and
_Faust_ (1980) for adults plus many more for younger readers -- died on 2
July; he was 77. [DP]
_Joe Napolitano_, US director whose genre credits include _Earth
Angel_ (1991), _Quantum Leap_ (1990-1992) and _Earth 2_ (1994-1995), died
on 23 July. [SFS]
Sandy Pearlman (1943-2016), producer, manager and lyricist for Blue
Oyster Cult, whose sf-themed album _Imaginos_ draws on his unpublished
alien-conspiracy verse cycle 'The Soft Doctrines of Imaginos', died on 26
July aged 72. [AIP]
_Carolyn See_ (1934-2016), US author whose sf novels were _Golden
Days_ (1986) and _There Will Never Be Another You_ (2006), died on 13 July;
she was 82. [JC]
_April Rose Selley_, US academic who published at least one genre
story and whose writings on popular culture often dealt with _Star Trek_,
died on 13 July aged 61. [PDF]
_The Shawshank Tree_, a white oak in Ohio featured in the Stephen
King-based film _The Shawshank Redemption_, blew down _circa_ 22 July; it
was 180-200 years old.
_Richard Thompson_ (1957-2016), US cartoonist best known for his strip
_Cul de Sac_, whose early work appeared from the 1980s in such fan
publications as _Science Fiction Eye_, _Blat!_ and the Disclave programme
book, died on 27 July. [F770]
_Carolyn Whitaker_, UK literary agent who founded her London
Independent Books in 1971 and represented Alex Bell, Joe Delaney, Elizabeth
Kay, Richard Morgan and Chris Wooding, died on 17 June; she was 79. [AIP]

PROPHETIC DEPT. James Thurber gives an imaginary example of terrifying
broadcast statistics: 'Every eleven seconds in America some man, woman or
child is stricken with Googleman's disease.' (_Lanterns and Lances_, 1961)
The infection rate is much higher these days.

SFWA now admits writers of sf/fantasy/horror game narratives -- as distinct
from nonfiction game instructions or mechanics -- who meet the stated
paid-word-count criteria. (www.sfwa.org, 21 July)

AS OTHERS RESEARCH US. A new DVD box-set of _Timeslip_ (BBC 1970-1971)
includes a 'making of' book by Andrew Pixley that says: 'By the start of
October _[1971]_, it transpired that _Timeslip_ -- and Cheryl Burfield in
particular -- had won an award. The actress was awarded the Nova Cup
because Liz Skinner had been voted the Best Character in Science Fiction
(Production of British Television 1971); this was part of the forthcoming
Novacon, a science fiction convention being held at Birmingham's Imperial
Centre in November 1971.' Whatever was that? Novacon's Nova Award (for
fanzines) didn't launch until 1973. [SG]

AWARD SHORTLISTS. _Gemmell_ (heroic fantasy): NOVEL Miles Cameron, _The
Dread Wyrm_; Larry Correia, _Son of the Black Sword_; David Guymer, _Gotrek
& Felix: Slayer_; John Gwynne, _Ruin_; Mark Lawrence; _The Liar's Key_.
DEBUT Stephen Aryan, _Battlemage_; Seth Dickinson, _The Traitor_; Francesca
Haig, _The Fire Sermon_; Lucy Hounsom, _Starborn_; Peter Newman, _The
Vagrant_; Sabaa Tahir, _An Ember in the Ashes_. Cover Art Kerem Beyit, _The
Dread Wyrm_ by Miles Cameron; Jason Chan, _The Liar's Key_ by Mark
Lawrence; Larry Elmore & Carol Russo Design, _Son of the Black Sword_ by
Larry Correia, Raymond Swanland, _Archaon: Lord of Chaos_ by Rob Sanders;
Paul Young, _Ruin_ by John Gwynne.
_Sidewise_ (alternate history): LONG FORM Julie Mayhew, _The Big Lie_;
Tony Schumacher, _The British Lion_; Harry Turtledove, _Joe Steele_. SHORT
FORM Eneasz Brodski, 'Red Legacy' (_Asimov's_ 2/15); Eric Cline.
'Elizabethtown' (_Galaxy's Edge_, 11/15); Bill Crider. 'It Doesn't Matter
Anymore' (_Tales from the Otherverse_); Rev Dicerto, 'Losing Amelia' (_Deco
Punk_); Ken Poyner. 'The Last of Time' (_Daily SF_, 5/11/15). James
Reasoner. 'The Hero of Deadwood' (_Tales from the Otherverse_).
_World Fantasy_ (novels only): Kazuo Ishiguro, _The Buried Giant_;
N.K. Jemisin, _The Fifth Season_; Naomi Novik, _Uprooted_; K.J. Parker,
_Savages_; Anna Smaill, _The Chimes_; Paul Tremblay, _A Head Full of
Ghosts_. For other categories see www.locusmag.com/News/2016/07/11044/.

PUBLISHERS AND SINNERS. Ian Whates's NewCon Press celebrated ten years of
publishing at a 9 July London pub party. Books were released; birthday cake
was eaten; toasts and various guests were drunk.

OUTRAGED LETTERS. _Stephen Baxter_ on his and Arthur C. Clarke's Brexit
'prediction' (_A348_): 'If only Clarke had got his prediction of cold
fusion right, instead of that! / I vaguely remember cooking that up with
him. He was an advocate of world government, etc. I doubt he would have
voted Brexit. But he liked to be playful. When we worked on that book there
was a rumour circulating that President Lincoln had been gay (he once
shared a bed with another young lawyer in digs, but at a time when
everybody did that, innocently). In the end we decided to have him accepted
as a gay icon, but then have our time viewer prove he wasn't after all.
"Good," said Arthur. "That will annoy everybody!"'

MAGAZINE SCENE. Scott M. Roberts took over from Edmund Schubert as editor
of _Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show_, the first issue under
the new regime being dated July/August 2016. [SFS]

RANDOM FANDOM. _Jonathan Coleclough_'s SF/Fantasy Literary Map -- the UK
built from authors' names -- flatteringly plasters me all over Reading.
Search for Coleclough at www.theliterarygiftcompany.com.

THE DEAD PAST. _70 Years Ago:_ '_New Worlds._ Most of you will have seen a
copy of this, the first post-war British science-fiction magazine. In my
opinion the best story, though it is not s-f and hardly even fantasy, is
William F. Temple's "The Three Pylons". It is a neat, well-printed
magazine.' (D.R. Smith, _British Fantasy Society Bulletin_ 27, August 1946)
Useful to know that the _New Worlds_ tradition of destroying the sf canon
by printing non-sf stories goes right back to issue 1.
_60 Years Ago_, Kingsley Amis wistfully imagined contemporary
mainstream writers broadening their scope: 'only the hyper-sensitive could
greet without warm emotion [...] an imagined invasion of Earth by Vegan
vegetables from the pen of Miss Ivy Compton-Burnett.' (_Spectator_, June
1956)

C.O.A. _Brad Foster_ (email) jabberwocky2000 at hotmail dot com.

THOG'S MASTERCLASS. _Simile Dept._ 'Rolant seemed to shrink into himself
like a dried garlic clove.' (Lionel Fanthorpe, 'Curse of the Khan',
_Supernatural Stories 105_, 1966)
_A la Recherche des Eyeballs Perdus._ 'The letter, of whose provenance
he knew absolutely nothing, fascinated him and at any moment I expected his
glittering eyeballs to detach themselves from their sockets and fly to the
letter, insignificant in itself, which his curiosity had magnetised.'
(Marcel Proust, _Sodom et Gomorrhe_, trans C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence
Kilmartin, 1989) [JFH]
_Hitler Was a Martian Dept._ '... Robot Army ... From a million metal
throats burst a terrifying roar -- the Martian Cry of Victory: / "Zhig
Gheil! Zhig Gheil!"' (Errol Collins, _Mariners of Space_, 1949) [RR]

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APPARITIONS.
[] 12 August 2016: Brum Group Summer Social meal at the Black Eagle. Normal
Brum Group meetings are 7:30pm for 8pm at the Briar Rose Hotel, Bennett's
Hill, Birmingham city centre. Pounds4 or Pounds3 for members. Contact
bhamsfgroup at yahoo co uk. Future meetings/speakers: 12 September 2016
Jasper Bark (Andromeda 2 joint meeting, plus panel discussion); 14 October
2016 Andy Lound; 4 November 2016 Film Night; 2 December 2016 Christmas
Social.

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EDITORIAL. Again fervent thanks to all who contributed to the _Ansible_(R)
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BSFA LONDON OPEN MEETING. The usual fourth-Wednesday timing gives 24
August, clashing with the Clarke Award presentation. Watch the BSFA site
and/or _Ansible_ London events page for news of rescheduling or
cancellation.
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THE DEAD PAST II. _70 Years Ago:_ H.G. Wells died on 13 August 1946.

YET MORE EVENTS (2017 Preview).
29-30 Apr 2017 [] EM-CON (media), Motorpoint Arena, Nottingham.
Labyrinthine tickets/extras pricing to follow at www.em-con.co.uk.
2 Jun - 1 Sep 2017 [] INTO THE UNKNOWN: A Journey through Science
Fiction (exhibition), Barbican, London. See www.barbican.org.uk.


Ansible(R) 349 Copyright (c) David Langford, 2016. Thanks to Barbara
Barrett, John Clute, Gregory Feeley, File 770, Paul Di Filippo, Steve
Green, John Francis Haines, Locus, Pamela Love, Kevin McVeigh, Andrew I.
Porter, David Pringle, Roger Robinson, SF Site, Martin Morse Wooster, and
as always our Hero Distributors: Dave Corby (Birmingham SF Group),
SCIS/Prophecy and Alan Stewart (Australia).

1 August 2016

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