Site Update Log 2005

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30 December 2005
End of an era: The Runcible Ansible 201
SFX 135 column, "First Thursday" (written just after 7 July)
23 December 2005
The Runcible Ansible 200
Cloud Chamber 155 (December 2005)
16 December 2005
The Runcible Ansible 199
9 December 2005
The Runcible Ansible 198
6 December 2005
Ansible 221 (December 2005)
SFX 134 column, "The 64-Square Madhouse"
SFX 134 feature, "Back to the Roots"
Thanks to further efforts from Peter Sullivan and Alison Scott, there are now 47 issues of Checkpoint on line.
2 December 2005
The Runcible Ansible 197
26 November 2005
The Runcible Ansible 196
11 November 2005
The Runcible Ansible 195
7 November 2005
SFX 133 column, "Eye of the Beholder"
More of this year's Langford reviews in SFX
5 November 2005
Ansible 220 (November 2005)
4 November 2005
The Runcible Ansible 194
28 October 2005
The Runcible Ansible 193
21 October 2005
The Runcible Ansible 192
Samuel McDonald transcribed and sent three more issues for the Checkpoint archive; further volunteers welcome!
14 October 2005
The Runcible Ansible 191
Paul Vincent transcribed and sent another issue for the Checkpoint archive
8 October 2005
Ansible 219 (October 2005).
7 October 2005
The Runcible Ansible 190
29 September 2005
The Runcible Ansible 189
25 September 2005
SFX 132 column, "Rule Britannia"
23 September 2005
The Runcible Ansible 188
16 September 2005
The Runcible Ansible 187
5 September 2005
Ansible 218 (September 2005); also mirrored here.
2 September 2005
The Runcible Ansible 186
26 August 2005
The Runcible Ansible 185, linking to Chris Priest's Worldcon GoH Speech at the Ansible and mirror sites.
19 August 2005
The Runcible Ansible 184
14 August 2005
How Unlike the Home Life of Our Own Dear Queen (1979) and The Horror in the VAT (1979) -- Kim Huett strikes again, transcribing more embarrassing old Langford fanzine material.
13 August 2005
Torching John Brosnan -- remembering his funeral and wake.
12 August 2005
The Runcible Ansible 183
2 August 2005
Ansible 217 (August 2005); also mirrored here.
1 August 2005
Cloud Chamber 154 (July 2005)
SFX 131 column, "Confound Their Politics"
29 July 2005
The Runcible Ansible 182
22 July 2005
The Runcible Ansible 181
19 July 2005
Randy Byers's latest TAFF newsletter, [was] temporarily hosted here while the TAFF site has problems.
18 July 2005
My account of John Brosnan's funeral and wake isn't yet on this site, but can now be read on-line as part of that classy fanzine Chunga 10: High-res PDF (6.5Mb) or Low-res PDF (3.7Mb).
15 July 2005
The Runcible Ansible 180
8 July 2005
The Runcible Ansible 179
7 July 2005
Even more of my 1980 TAFF trip report: continuing her heroism of 1st, 5th and 19th June below, Bridget Bradshaw rekeyed Chapter 2 and Chapter 3.
5 July 2005
Ansible 216 (July 2005); also mirrored here.
1 July 2005
The Runcible Ansible 178
SFX 130 column, "Retro Wars"; also more 2005 SFX reviews
F&SF "Curiosities" index updated again
24 June 2005
The Runcible Ansible 177
19 June 2005
Still more of my 1980 TAFF trip report: continuing her heroism of 1/5 June, Bridget Bradshaw rekeyed Chapter 4 and Chapter 5.
17 June 2005
The Runcible Ansible 176
8 June 2005
Cloud Chamber 153 (May 2005)
SFX 129 column, "Farewell, Kelly Freas"
5 June 2005
More of that 1980 TAFF trip report: continuing her heroism of 1 June, Bridget Bradshaw has now rekeyed Chapter 6.
4 June 2005
Ansible 215 (June 2005); also mirrored here.
3 June 2005
The Runcible Ansible 175
1 June 2005
I've started to put my 1980 TAFF trip report on line (although printed copies, with all the illustrations, remain available for a modest sum), and Bridget Bradshaw has kindly rekeyed Chapter 7, never before seen in digital form....
27 May 2005
The Runcible Ansible 174
20 May 2005
The Runcible Ansible 173
13 May 2005
The Runcible Ansible 172
7 May 2005
I've been neglecting the SFX uploads of late:
SFX 126 column, "As Others See Us"
SFX 127 column, "Centenaries and Things"
SFX 128 column, "Note That Foot"
2005 SFX reviews (to be updated through the year)
And here's Kim Huett again, digitizing another ancient fan article, "The Young Assassin's Guide" from 1979 (the fiend). Speaking of fannish matters, updates continue at the TAFF site.
6 May 2005
The Runcible Ansible 171
3 May 2005
Ansible 214 (May 2005); also mirrored here.
29 April 2005
The Runcible Ansible 170
22 April 2005
The Runcible Ansible 169
15 April 2005
The Runcible Ansible 168
9 April 2005
A shorter route to the TAFF site: taff.org.uk
8 April 2005
The Runcible Ansible 167
3 April 2005
The Novacon Records ... silliness about a 1981 convention, scanned after Randy Byers reminded me of its existence. But dare I upload the even older account of that H*rlan Ell*ison nose-tweaking incident, mercilessly digitized by (him again) Kim Huett? Maybe in a password-protected directory with a sign reading BEWARE OF THE LEOPARD....
2 April 2005
Ansible 213 (April 2005); also mirrored here.
1 April 2005
The Runcible Ansible 166
25 March 2005
The Runcible Ansible 165
18 March 2005
The Runcible Ansible 164
Once again Kim Huett has been digitizing ancient Langfordiana: George the Tortoise, a long forgotten 1978 letter of comment....
11 March 2005
The Runcible Ansible 163
Still more reviews, mostly from Vector in the early 1980s: Isaac Asimov's Life and Time, reviewed with John G. Taylor's Black Holes; Stephen Donaldson's The Runes of the Earth (completing the set of 2004 SFX reviews), John Grant's and Colin Wilson's The Book of Time, Frank Herbert's The Home Computer Handbook, Michael Talbot's Mysticism and the New Physics, F. Paul Wilson's Wheels Within Wheels, The Writers' and Artists' Yearbook for 1984, and Gary Zukav's The Dancing Wu Li Masters.
8 March 2005
Ansible 212 (March 2005); also mirrored here.
Another ancient review from the files: Colin Kapp's The Unorthodox Engineers
4 March 2005
The Runcible Ansible 162
As for the older stuff, I'd been meaning to take a rest, but Kim Huett has struck again with a digital version of my 1976 fanzine article on the Pieria writers' group. It's all his fault.
3 March 2005
From the mists of 1985, a never-published G.K. Chesterton crime omnibus introduction.
2 March 2005
SFX 125 column, "Secret Histories"
More fanzine oddments: 13 Things You Hadn't Thought To Believe In and Bumper Snufkin Introduction.
1 March 2005
Can the uploads possibly get more trivial? Here's the introduction to the 1986 reprint of Twll-Ddu.
28 February 2005
Unwisely encouraged by Kim Huett, I've once again been scraping the barrel of the hard disk and have uploaded further aged fragments: Computer Slaying Drama Bid Probe (command performance for one of George Hay's unlikelier projects), Dinomania (embarrassingly short sf filler), The Thing from the Slushpile (RPG-related silliness), and Where Were You During The Eastercon, Daddy? (cobwebbed fan controversy).
27 February 2005
Now added: Chapter 8 of my 1980 TAFF trip report, the only full chapter existing in digital form. Also a couple of ancient squibs: a brief 1988 Rubicon report and a 1989 computer magazine column. Boring statistic: there are now well over 850 documents on this site, several with multiple contents -- like the early file of SFX material that contains 53 individual reviews.
26 February 2005
While feeling under the weather, I've been tinkering with some of the "long bibliography" lists here -- in particular the journal and fanzine contributions -- to add "READ" links to items on this site. This work unearthed several reviews not previously uploaded (none of them particularly special, or long enough to have been considered for Up Through an Empty House of Stars). Books covered: On a Pale Horse by Piers Anthony, The Cosmic Blueprint by Paul Davies, Yes, We Have No Neutrons by A.K. Dewdney, They'd Rather Be Right by Mark Clifton and Frank Riley, Strange Toys by Patricia Geary, Fly By Night by Jenny Jones, Quantum Leaps in the Wrong Direction by Charles M. Wynn and Arthur W. Wiggins, The Wind's Twelve Quarters by Ursula Le Guin, War of the Worlds by Mark Slouka, and Night of the Cooters by Howard Waldrop. Not to mention appreciations of Malcolm Edwards, John Jarrold, and G.K. Chesterton's play Magic....
25 February 2005
The Runcible Ansible 161
18 February 2005
The Runcible Ansible 160
12 February 2005
SFX 124 column, "I Was a Dunnikin-Diver"
Nearing the end of my 2004 SFX reviews, with Clive Barker's Abarat II and Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.
"Three Faces of Horror" -- article from 1999
11 February 2005
The Runcible Ansible 159
'The Eye of Argon' -- at last reunited with its lost ending.
8 February 2005
New bibliography page (under construction) of external links to Langford stories and articles on-line elsewhere.
4 February 2005
Ansible 211 (February 2005); also mirrored here.
The Runcible Ansible 158
1 February 2005
Cloud Chamber 152 (January 2005)
30 January 2005
New style sheet applied to index, bibliography and other "front" pages on this site.
F&SF "Curiosities" index updated
28 January 2005
The Runcible Ansible 157
21 January 2005
The Runcible Ansible 156 -- lost ending of "The Eye of Argon" found! Allegedly.
16 January 2005
SFX 123 column, "Who Owns Your Name?"
Still more 2004 SFX reviews: Ramsey Campbell's The Overnight and Conrad Williams's London Revenant
14 January 2005
The Runcible Ansible 155
11 January 2005
Ansible 210 (January 2005); also mirrored here.
7 January 2005
The Runcible Ansible 154

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