David Langford

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3 June 2023 And now, the promised ebook of my own final SFX columns collection All Good Things: The Last SFX Visions.

1 June 2023. Four new things today! Ansible 431, the June issue of the infamous newsletter; Rob Hansen's latest fanhistorical compilation British SF Conventions Volume: 1937-1951 as a free ebook at the TAFF site; and Ted White's The Amazing Editorials and The Fantastic Editorials as a matched pair of TAFF-benefit paperbacks.

10 May 2023 In April 2022 I began what turned out to be the long process of taking back control of my Orion/Gollancz titles (long available only as SF Gateway ebooks with puny sales), and on 28 April 2023 received a formal letter agreeing the rights reversion for The Unseen University Challenge, The Wyrdest Link and The End of Harry Potter?. It could be fun to reissue the Discworld quizbooks as Ansible Editions ebooks – Rob Wilkins has given his blessing to this and confirmed Terry Pratchett's reassurance that his introductions "go with the book" and can be freely used in reissues, as with The Leaky Establishment. However, I feel the Harry Potter study – nice little earner though it was in its day – is now irretrievably past its remainder-by date and can be left to die of embarrassment. • Far speedier was Ian Whates of NewCon Press/Steel Quill, who reverted rights to All Good Things: The Last SFX Visions on the same day as my enquiry. I've already expanded this one with some added material as an Ansible Editions ebook to complete the set begun with The SEX Column and Starcombing.

4 May 2023 Today it's time to vote in the UK local elections! And not, I think, for the party of unashamed voter suppression. As the current Private Eye reminds us:

28 April 2023 Another early release to get in before the UK bank holiday: Ansible 430, nominally the May issue, is published today. Today I also celebrate Gollancz's reversion of rights to three books which have long been earning only microscopic royalties. Maybe I'll redo the two authorized Discworld quizbooks as Ansible Editions ebooks. Or maybe not.

10 April 2023 A birthday celebrating a number of unnerving roundness. After embellishing my pizza, Hazel suggested sweetly that it's time for me to retire; but from what?

31 March 2023 Rather than wait for 3 April when the UK postal rates rise again, I'm mailing out April's Ansible 429 today. If all goes well, copies will also be printed in Belfast for distribution at Corflu Craic (special thanks to Nigel Rowe for volunteering to collect them). Alas, I won't be there, nor at Conversation (Eastercon) in the Birmingham NEC hotel next weekend. Best wishes for a jolly good time to all attendees of either or both.

15 March 2023 An old Langford story, "Serpent Eggs", is reprinted in this UK Milford Writers' Conference benefit volume. Eclectic Dreams: A Milford Anthology, edited by Pete Sutton and Liz Williams, will be launched at Eastercon; alas, I won't be there. Here is an early review.

1 March 2023 What better way to celebrate St David's Day than a piping hot Ansible 428 with leeks and mint sauce? Also, yet more new ebooks at the TAFF site: click here for the full list with the latest additions shown first.

1 February 2023 The time has come for Ansible 427, the February 2023 issue. This announces several more new ebooks at the TAFF site: click here for the full list with the latest additions shown first.

3 January 2023 Happy New Year to all, and here's the January Ansible.