Ansible Editions

A small press run by Dave Langford, initially with various partners. It began as Ansible E-ditions with Chris Priest, publishing sf by David Masson and John Sladek as ebooks and later as POD editions co-published with Wildside Press. With Greg Pickersgill, Langford published three printed volumes collecting (for the first time) the critical columns by Algis Budrys that had appeared in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction from 1975 to 1993. He continued, solo, to produce Ansible Editions reissues of his own writing, both backlist titles and new collections, mostly in ebook form.

In 2016 AE published the first book edition -- much expanded from its fanzine incarnation -- of Rob Hansen's Then, and the first ebook of Yvonne Rousseau's 1980 The Murders at Hanging Rock (also with added material). Further paperbacks include previously uncollected or unpublished work by Brian Aldiss, Algis Budrys again, John Sladek again, Peter Nicholls (with proceeds to the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction) and Ted White (with proceeds to TAFF).

AE has also reissued numerous fan classics -- including The Enchanted Duplicator, past TAFF reports and such collections of notable fanwriting as Charles Burbee's The Incompleat Burbee, Terry Carr's Fandom Harvest and Harry Warner, Jr.'s All Our Yesterdays: The Fanzine Columns -- as free ebooks downloadable from the TAFF website. Ebooks newly created or significantly expanded for this download page are listed in the table below. Further fannish titles are in preparation; these are usually announced in Ansible when they appear.

A new experiment in 2022 was the re-release of selected ebooks from the list below as trade paperbacks available from Ansible Editions via Lulu.com with all proceeds going to TAFF. Currently available in paperback are Rob Hansen's 1957: The First UK Worldcon, 1965: The Second UK Worldcon, Bixelstrasse, British SF Conventions Volume 1: 1937-1951, Faan Fiction 1930-2020 and Homefront, Leroy Kettle's True Rat: The Beast of Leroy Kettle, Charles Platt's The Complete Patchin Review (see Patchin Review), Bruce Sterling's The Complete Cheap Truth (see Cheap Truth) and William F. Temple's Temple at the Bar.

Author	Title	Date	Notes
Dave Langford	Don't Try This At Home	July 2015	Ebook also issued as trade paperback in 2021
Vin¢ Clarke	A Vince Clarke Treasury	October 2015	Edited by Dave Langford
Various	TAFF Trip Report Anthology	July 2017	Unfinished TAFF reports. Edited by Dave Langford
Various	Running Amok in the Fun Factory	November 2017	UK con reports selected by Graham Charnock
William F. Temple	Temple at the Bar	November 2017	Edited by Rob Hansen
Frank Edward Arnold	The Frank Arnold Papers	December 2017	Edited by Rob Hansen
Ron Bennett	The Complete Skyrack	December 2017	Edited by Dave Langford; see Skyrack
Leroy Kettle	True Rat: The Beast of Leroy Kettle	January 2018	Edited by Rob Hansen
Peter Roberts et al	The Complete Checkpoint	November 2018	Edited by Dave Langford; see Checkpoint
R. Lionel Fanthorpe	Down the Badger Hole	March 2018	Original version edited by Debbie Cross; expanded by Dave Langford
Francis T. Laney	Ah! Sweet Idiocy!	April 2019	Edited by Dave Langford; with additional material by Alva Rogers and Harry Warner, Jr.
Terry Carr	Fandom Harvest II	June 2019	Edited by Dave Langford
Bruce Sterling	The Complete Cheap Truth	June 2019	Edited by Dave Langford; see Cheap Truth
Charles Platt	The Complete Patchin Review	July 2019	Edited by Dave Langford; see Patchin Review
Various	Then Again: A UK Fanhistory Reader 1930-1979	August 2019	Edited by Rob Hansen with joint credit to Vin¢ Clarke for past research
Various (anonymous)	The Astral Leauge Dossier	September 2019	Edited by Dave Langford; see Astral Leauge
Various	Challenging Moskowitz: 1930s Fandom Revisited	November 2019	Edited by Rob Hansen
Bob Shaw	The Serious Scientific Talks	November 2019	Includes five previously uncollected Serious Scientific Talks
Harry Warner, Jr.	All Our Yesterdays: The Fanzine Columns	December 2019	Edited by Chuck Connor; with missing text restored and an additional column
Various	Homefront: Fandom in the UK 1939-1945	February 2020	Edited by Rob Hansen
Algis Budrys	A Budrys Miscellany: Occasional Writing 1960-2000	May 2020	Edited by David Langford
Bob Shaw	The Full Glass Bushel: All the Hyphen Columns, and More	June 2020	Edited by Rob Jackson and David Langford
Bob Shaw	Slow Pint Glass: Volume Three of The Complete Bob Shaw	August 2020	Edited by Rob Jackson and David Langford
Ella Parker	The Harpy Stateside	December 2020	Edited by Rob Hansen, including and continuing the trip report Parker's Peregrinations
Chuck Harris	Creative Random Harris	March 2021	Edited by Rob Hansen and David Langford
Various	Faan Fiction 1930-2020: an exploration	June 2021	Edited and with critical commentary by Rob Hansen
D.R. Smith	The Road to Fame	June 2021	1940s fan fiction with profile of the author by Rob Hansen
Rob Hansen	American Trips	July 2021	Reports on Rob's post-TAFF US conventions
Walt Willis	Willis Discovers America and other fan fiction	July 2021	Collecting Walt's shorter fan fiction
Various	Bixelstrasse: The SF Fan Community of 1940s Los Angeles	November 2021	Edited by Rob Hansen
"Harry Hurstmonceaux and Cyril Faversham"	The Harrison Saga: The Extraordinary Exploits of Sir William Makepeace Harrison	March 2022	Edited by Rob Hansen; see Harrison.
Charles Burbee	The Incompleat Burbee Volume 2	April 2022	Edited by Terry Carr; further Burbee pieces added by David Langford.
Rob Hansen and others	1957: The First UK Worldcon	June 2022	On Loncon 1, edited and with commentary by Rob Hansen
Ella Parker	The Compact Ella Parker	August 2022	Ella's other fanwriting, edited by Rob Hansen
Walt Willis and Madeleine Willis	TAWF Times Two	December 2022	Their 1962 Tenth Anniversary Willis Fund trip reports, Twice Upon a Time and (never before collected) The DisTAWF Side
Ethel Lindsay	The Lindsay Report	December 2022	1962 TAFF trip report
Walt Willis	The Harp in England	March 2023	Collecting all his reports on British conventions (mostly 1950s)
Walt Willis	The Harp Stateside	March 2023	Expands the 1957 edition with further material including a speech transcript
Walt Willis	The Harp That Once or Twice	March 2023	All the Harp columns except for instalments of The Harp Stateside; includes two published after Warhoon 28
Rob Hansen and others	British SF Conventions Volume 1: 1937-1951	June 2023	On early UK conventions, edited and with commentary by Rob Hansen
Rob Hansen and others	1965: The Second UK Worldcon	August 2023	On Loncon II, edited and with commentary by Rob Hansen
Rob Hansen and others	Generation Femizine	September 2023	Women of UK fandom in the 1950s Femizine era, edited and with commentary by Rob Hansen
Walt Willis	The Harp Remembered	November 2023	Early writing, autobiography, miscellaneous articles, uncollected columns
Rob Hansen and others	Beyond Fandom: Fans, Culture & Politics in the 20th Century	forthcoming ?2023	Selected fans' impact on the mundane world, edited and with commentary by Rob Hansen

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Ansible Editions POD titles.

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