[SKRIVA] Smånytt från Ansible
- From: Ahrvid Engholm <ahrvid@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 23:20:31 +0100
Dave Langfords brittiska, ofta lätt satiriska nyhetsblad Ansible har kommit med
sitt nr 270. tänkte citera litet smånyheter, men originalet finns här:
http://news.ansible.co.uk/a270.html
* Frank Frazetta's son Alfonso was caught red-handed removing $20m worth of
parental paintings from the Frazetta museum in Pennsylvania, after an
accomplice ripped off its door with a mechanical excavator (or backhoe, as they
say over there). He explained that his father told him to; but Frazetta Senior
says he didn't.
* Joe Haldeman will be honoured by SFWA as their Damon Knight Grand Master for
2010. The decision was made before Joe's serious illness and recovery in late
2009. Latest: he's out of hospital, again.
* Peter Jackson of Lord of the Rings film fame was made a knight in New Zealand
(a title abolished there in 2000 but now reinstated).
* Ursula K. Le Guin published an open letter to the US Authors Guild (of which
she'd been a member since 1972), resigning in protest at the Guild's part in
the Google Book Settlement. 'You decided to deal with the devil, as it were,
and have presented your arguments for doing so. I wish I could accept them. I
can't. There are principles involved, above all the whole concept of copyright;
and these you have seen fit to abandon to a corporation, on their terms,
without a struggle.' (18 December) She pointedly adds that she's remaining in
SFWA and the National Writers Union, which both opposed the settlement. /Tycker
inte Urusla Le Guin fattat poängen med Google Books!/
* Patrick Stewart was knighted in the UK New Year honours list, for services to
drama.
* Peter Watts, noted Canadian sf author, was beaten, arrested, held overnight
and charged with assault by US border police after trying to re-enter Canada on
8 December. No one who knows Watts can believe the 'assault'; it seems that
some touchy officer(s) objected to his asking why they were searching his car
on exit. The case continues and was referred to a US circuit court on 22
December. Watts feels that day's hearing 'went well – so well, in fact, that I
actually wondered if the whole thing might end then and there, despite having
been told that it never does. [...] And the prosecution chose not to show any
surveillance footage of the alleged offence. Draw your own conclusions.' (blog,
24 December)
Independent defence fund site: www.freethesquid.org.
* Christopher Anvil (Harry C. Crosby, Jr, 1925-2009), US author of many
magazine stories – mostly in John W. Campbell's Astounding and Analog – died on
30 November aged 84. The first of his eight novels was The Day the Machines
Stopped (1964). /Han kom också på svenska med Pandoras Planet./
* Court Circular. George Lucas lost his UK Court of Appeal lawsuit against
Andrew Ainsworth, the designer of Star Wars stormtrooper helmets and armour
who's been selling replicas made from his original mould. The ruling was that
the models are not fine-art sculptures (lifetime plus 70 years copyright) but
'utilitarian' industrial designs which can be protected for only 15 years.
Naturally Lucas plans to escalate this to the new UK Supreme Court.
* Rob Hansen revealed that 20 December 2009 was the 80th anniversary of the
first meeting of the first US sf fan group, the Scienceers, and that the UK
equivalent will be 27 October 2010 – eighty years from the inaugural meeting of
the Ilford Science Literary Circle in 1930. /Men jag har alltid ansett The
Scienceers möttes *11 december*. Måste undersöka vad Hansen menar./
Mer nyheter finns på själva webplatsen.
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