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   GROUP THEORY.   
        21 November 2024, evening: London Zoom meeting, third Thursday of each   
   month. 'Please share this with people who you know typically come to the   
   Bishop's Finger, but aren't on Facebook.'   
   https://bohemiancoast.medium.com/first-thursday-london-sf-fan-vi   
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   EDITORIAL. _Ansible_ HQ has been in the throes of building maintenance work   
   for most of October and my nerves are all jangled. Nevertheless there has   
   been much progress with a collection of Ian Watson's nonfiction writing for   
   fanzines and con publications, which he has titled _Watto's Wisdom_. All   
   proceeds from the paperback edition will go to TAFF.   
        As noted on the website: apologies to subscribers who received more   
   than one copy of the October _Ansible_ via the Google Groups list. After an   
   unusual lack of email response, a complaint from a regular correspondent   
   that nothing had arrived, and the non-appearance of my own admin copy, I   
   thought something had gone wrong and unwisely tried again.   
      
   R.I.P. II -- LATE AND LAST-MINUTE REPORTS. _Peter Goodfellow_ (1950-2022),   
   UK artist who painted many genre book covers beginning with _Tales from the   
   White Hart_ (1972 UK) and continuing to the late 1990s -- including _The   
   Encyclopedia of Fantasy_ (1997) -- died on 11 December 2022 aged 72. [LD]   
   Alas, nobody told _Ansible_ until last month....   
        _Steven Mohan, Jr._ (1967-2024), US military sf author active from   
   1998, who wrote fiction for the _BattleTech_ wargame franchise and other   
   game universes, died on 2 October aged 57. [SHS]   
      
   ANOTHER EXHIBITION. Until 30 December [] BATMAN UNMASKED, Covent Garden,   
   London. Tickets GBP29 with small discounts for groups, children,   
   concessions. See batmanexhibition.com/london/.   
      
   SOME LINKS from the _Ansible_ home page.   
        Reconnect (Eastercon 2025) rates announcement   
   https://easterconbelfast.org/new-news-page/   
      
   THOG'S GOLDEN OLDIES from _Ansible_ 208, November 2004. _Dept of Sound   
   Effects._ 'He made a face at me, soundlessly humming under his breath as if   
   he was bored.' (Laurell K. Hamilton, _The Killing Dance_, 1997) 'As Reith   
   approached he heard a sudden wordless cry of outrage from within.   
   "Unclean!"' (Jack Vance, _The Pnume_, 1970)   
        _Alien Planetology Dept._ 'A tall fountain of spray reached skyward,   
   high enough that its top was touched red by the light of the sun rising in   
   the west.' (S.M. Stirling and David Drake, _The Sword_, 1995)   
        Dept of Subtle Gender Distinctions.' 'Wade harpooned the lamb chop   
   with his fork and amputated a sizable portion with his knife. He waited   
   until he had consigned it to the mysteries of gastric chemistry before   
   speaking. Shirley was daintily toying with peas.' (Charles Eric Maine,   
   _Thirst!_, 1977)   
      
      
   _Ansible_(R) 448 (C) David Langford, 2024. Thanks to Brian Ameringen, Johan   
   Anglemark, Chris Barkley, Sandra Bond, John Clute, Lawrence Dean, _File   
   770_, Paul Di Filippo, Lisa Goldstein, Steve Green, Steve Jones, Steve   
   Holland, Andrew Love, Mike Lowrey, Sean McLachlan, Andrey Meshavkin, Chris   
   Moore, Lawrence Person, Mark Plummer, Andrew I. Porter, _Private Eye_,   
   Marcus Rowland, _SF2 Concatenation_, Steven H Silver, Vernon Speed, Candi   
   Strecker, Geri Sullivan. Also Durdles Books (BSFG), SCIS/Prophecy and Alan   
   Stewart (Australia).   
      
   1 November 2024   
   --   
   David Langford | http://ansible.uk/ | http://news.ansible.uk/   
      
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