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5 June 2022 Further excitement in the wake of the 1 June publications below: since the trade paperback of Bixelstrasse: The SF Fan Community of 1940s Los Angeles has sold quite a cheering number of copies (all proceeds to TAFF), Rob Hansen and I have agreed that there will sooner or later be a similar Ansible Editions paperback of 1957: The First Worldcon, to be sold on the same basis. Proof copies are now awaited. • There's been a minor upheaval at the little-known site davidlangford.co., long used for announcements (with masthead artwork) of new issues of Ansible. This was a WordPress blog bundled as a freebie with my web hosting package, which grew increasingly cranky and senile over the years – for example demanding that for mysterious security reasons I must delete unused WordPress visual "themes" which the software had installed without being asked to and which it faithfully reinstalled whenever I deleted them. The last straw came this month when trying to create a new post failed with a PHP error (presumably WordPress was too busy reinstalling unwanted themes to update itself to comply with the latest PHP rules). I deleted the blog and substituted a little script that automagically provides Ansible links and artwork for any year; that is, pretty much what the site used to show, minus WordPress clutter and now going all the way back to Ansible 1 in 1979. Thus I waste my days....

1 June 2022 As well as the expected Ansible 419, here's yet another fanhistorical ebook treatise edited by Rob Hansen, 1957: The First Worldcon.

5 May 2022 Technobabble alert: I finally found time to investigate the tiresome "fuzzy logic" URL matching at the Ansible site. If someone tries to get to the nonexistent issue 500 (which if it ever happens will be a500.html), I want the server to show the 404 error page – not silently redirect to its best guess of a50.html. This was particularly tiresome when smartarse readers (a) entered the easily predictable URL of the not-yet-posted next issue in hope of a sneak preview; (b) got redirected to some weird guess at what they might have mistyped, as it might be 148 for 418; (c) when the real issue appeared, still saw the guesstimate instead because it was helpfully cached in their web browser; (d) emailed me to complain that the perfectly good home-page link to the new issue didn't work. Anyway ... it turns out that my web hosting service likes to set the default server option "MultiViews" (producing this behaviour) with no visible way to turn it off; which can however be done with an extra line in the .htaccess file. At last!

29 April 2022 A little early rather than (owing to the weekend and bank holiday) late, it's time for Ansible 418. Or Ansible 406, as its masthead said until embarrassingly late in the day: I'd copied the May 2021 header and updated the year only....

13 April 2022 For a variety of reasons I won't be at the coming Eastercon, Reclamation. Even before lockdown I had found myself enjoying conventions less and less owing to ever-worsening hearing (added to which, both my NHS hearing aids have died during the long closure of the local audiology service centre), while with Covid infections rising yet again I still don't care to mingle with crowds. Best wishes to all Eastercon attendees: I've laid in ample supplies of vintage Co-Op cider and from time to time will raise a glass. Meanwhile, there's Ansible newsgathering and SF Encyclopedia maintenance to keep me occupied, and Rob Hansen has started work on another monumental fanhistorical ebook....

1 April 2022 No April Fool gags, just Ansible 417 and another fanhistorical ebook, The Incompleat Burbee Volume 2 (the latter much expanded from the 1996 version).

1 March 2022 Echoing the February message with slight variations: here are Ansible 416 and another fanhistorical ebook, The Harrison Saga.

1 February 2022 Today: Ansible 415 and another fanhistorical ebook, The Incompleat Burbee (1958) by Charles Burbee

3 January 2022 At last, after much ringing out of the old and ringing in of the new, here's Ansible 414.

1 January 2022 Another year, but not (just yet) another Ansible. Here is the latest ebook addition to the Little Free Library at the TAFF site: Ah! Sweet Laney! The Writings of a Great Big Man by Francis Towner Laney.

21 December 2021 Merry Solstice to everyone! Hazel is putting up decorations and I'm posting the promised link to my miserable Xmas-card substitute Cloud Chamber 165. • Of late I've been beset by pangrams. A recent Inquisitor crossword revolved around Mark Dunn's 2001 novel Ella Minnow Pea (fortunately I have a copy), whose plot requires the finding of a sentence that contains all the letters of the alphabet and improves on the traditional THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG by being shorter yet still comprehensible. The book's answer is the long-known but less famous PACK MY BOX WITH FIVE DOZEN LIQUOR JUGS. Just two weeks later, another Inquisitor setter required us to discover and write in a "perfect" pangram of exactly 26 letters: CWM FJORD BANK GLYPHS VEXT QUIZ. "Carvings on the side of a valley inlet annoyed an eccentric", according to the official explanation of that puzzle in last Saturday's i. Whose easier general knowledge crossword included PANGRAM as an answer which Hazel pointed out to me. "Blimey," I said, since I'm comfort-rereading Augustus de Morgan's A Budget of Paradoxes (1872, revised 1915, mostly about circle-squarers and other mathematical cranks) and had just reached the page in Volume 1 where de Morgan trades pangrams with a friend, decides it's necessary to use I for J and omit V altogether (as presumably covered by W), and comes up with I, QUARTZ PYX, WHO FLING MUCK BEDS. The fickle finger of fate, insecurely attached to the long arm of coincidence, had struck again.

1 December 2021 It's time for the last Ansible of the year (no wimpy Christmas special in these tough times, although I do have a new issue of Cloud Chamber up my sleeve): here's Ansible 413.

7 November 2021 Today I discovered something I'd have kept back for Ansible if not for the December deadline involved. The National Library of New Zealand quietly announced in July that it's giving a huge tranche of discarded books from its overseas collection to the Internet Archive, which will digitize them all and put them online. In October it was revealed equally quietly that authors who'd rather not be pirated have until 1 December to opt out. See here. I downloaded the immense spreadsheet of 428,232 titles and found only one by me. But 46 by or edited by Robert Silverberg; 24 by Michael Moorcock; several by Chris Priest; many more still-in-copyright titles. Author friends may want to check for their names. • Later, 29 November: plans for the donation, now given as 600,000 titles, บาคาร่า เครดิตฟรี ไม่ต้องฝากก่อน ไม่ต้องแชร์ ยืนยันเบอร์โทรศัพท์.

3 November 2021 Covid booster shots today at the local pharmacy: Pfizer this time. Perhaps my arm felt a little bit sorer that night than after the previous AstraZenecas, but nothing alarming happened.

1 November 2021 October was mostly spent settling the SF Encyclopedia into its new web-server home, as briefly mentioned in today's Ansible 412.

1 October 2021 Shut up, Fred Hoyle, I'm publishing Ansible 411 no matter what you say!

21 September 2021 Here's a belated review of All Good Things: The Last SFX Visions. Also, Keith Freeman points out that The Leaky Establishment is cited in the comments to this recent story at The Register.

1 September 2021 What, Ansible 410 already? Where does the time go? When will the RIP list get shorter and Thog less resolutely tasteless? Answers may be submitted on a postcard, but not to me.

24 August 2021 An unexpected bookplate discovery on the front endpaper of a volume in my collection (The Story of Manon Lescaut, 1731; translated by Helen Waddell for the New York Heritage Press, 1935):

30 July 2021 The traditional avoidance of weekends means an early "August" issue: Ansible 409 is out today!

1 July 2021 It's time for Ansible 408.

25 June 2021 At last I've disposed of that long run of complimentary copies of SFX magazine, after going through the whole lot and (for the sake of future bibliographers) noting all the title changes they made to my long-running column there. More than I remembered. In the collections – The SEX Column and Other Misprints, Starcombing and All Good Things: The Last SFX Visions – I naturally used my original titles, thus causing fearful confusion at the Internet SF Database.... • Do I regret not having that regular soapbox for (almost) anything I cared to write? Not really, although I could have had some fun with the true and terrible history of the online SF Encyclopedia following the Gollancz announcement that they will be pulling the plug on this noble enterprise in October 2021. Instead – in between the agonies of constructing a replacement website where the SFE show will go on – I've written about all this for the next issue of William Breiding's fanzine Portable Storage.

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