Ansible Editions

Then book cover: white stenciled capitals on blue, design used by AE later especially for Rob Hansen titles.

More typical later Hansen cover, with a period B/W photo of the subjects

A small press run by Dave Langford, initially with various partners. It began as Ansible E-ditions with Chris Priest in 2003, publishing sf by David Masson and John Sladek as ebooks and later as print-on-demand co-published with Wildside Press. With Greg Pickersgill, Langford published three printed volumes collecting (for the first time, in 2012–13) the critical columns of Algis Budrys from the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 1975–1993. 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 Further paperbacks include previously uncollected or unpublished work by Brian Aldiss, Algis Budrys again, John Sladek again, Peter Nicholls (with proceeds to the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction) and Ted White (with proceeds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).

Since 2015, AE has reissued numerous fan classics – including The Enchanted Duplicator (May 2015), past TAFF reports and such collections of notable fanwriting as Charles Burbee's The Incompleat Burbee (February 2022), Terry Carr's Fandom Harvest (May 2019) and Harry Warner, Jr.'s All Our Yesterdays: The Fanzine Columns – as free ebooks downloadable from the TAFF website. In late 2024 there was a push to include GUFF as well as TAFF reports, with an initial batch of eight previously published GUFF reports added on 1 November 2024. Ebooks newly created or significantly expanded for this download page are listed in the table below. Further fannish titles are in preparation, usually announced in Ansible as they appear.

A new experiment from 2022 onward was the re-release of selected ebooks as trade paperbacks via Lulu.com with all proceeds going to TAFF. Available as of October 2024 are (listed, for simplicity, alphabetically by author/editor):

Minimalist typewriter typography employed on some other AE titles where no suitable cover image was available

1. Frank Arnold's The Frank Arnold Papers (expanded 2024)
2. Terry Carr's Fandom Harvest II
3. ed. Graham Charnock: Running Amok in the Fun Factory
4. A Vin¢ Clarke Treasury
5. Rob Hansen's 1957: The First UK Worldcon
   6. 1965: The Second UK Worldcon
   7. Beyond Fandom
   8. Bixelstrasse
   9. British SF Conventions Volume 1: 1937–1951
   10. British SF Conventions Volume 2: 1952–1957
   11. Challenging Moskowitz
   12. Faan Fiction 1930–2020
   13. Generation Femizine
   14. Homefront
15. True Rat: The Beast of Leroy Kettle
16. ed. Dave Langford: New Worlds Profiles
17. Charles Platt's The Complete Patchin Review
18. Bruce Sterling (et al.)'s The Complete Cheap Truth
19. William F. Temple's Temple at the Bar

The list of "TAFF Benefit Paperbacks" also includes two volumes of Ted White editorials mentioned above, whose ebooks are not free but sold for TAFF as well, and Kevin Smith's paperback trip report Nothing, which can be read on his website but has no ebook edition.

New TAFF / fanhistory / other ebooks

Note once again that this table includes only those that were newly created or significantly expanded, so not for example those classics mentioned above (with publication dates). Ebooks prepared for TAFF by AE include over 50 other titles, "simply" converted into ebook formats from older editions through Fanac.org or eFanzines scans, or rescanning by Langford, like Fanorama by Walt Willis.

Also note that Hansen's titles are usually a special form of fanthology, reprinting much text by others but interspersed with his own substantial comments. These are credited as "edited by Rob Hansen" on the cover, with other authors listed inside.

Author / editor	Title	Date	Notes / editor
Dave Langford	Don't Try This At Home	July 2015	convention reports 1976–2014; also issued as trade paperback in 2021
Vin¢ Clarke	A Vince Clarke Treasury	Oct 2015	Edited by Dave Langford
Various	TAFF Trip Report Anthology	July 2017	Unfinished TAFF reports; ed. Langford
Various	Running Amok in the Fun Factory	Nov 2017	UK con reports selected by Graham Charnock
William F. Temple	Temple at the Bar	Nov 2017	Edited by Rob Hansen
Frank Edward Arnold	The Frank Arnold Papers	Dec 2017; considerably expanded Oct 2024	Edited by Rob Hansen
Ron Bennett	The Complete Skyrack	Dec 2017	ed. Dave Langford; 1960s UK newszine
Leroy Kettle	True Rat: The Beast of Leroy Kettle	Jan 2018	Edited by Rob Hansen
Peter Roberts et al	The Complete Checkpoint	Nov 2018	ed. Dave Langford; 1970s UK newszine
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	ed. Dave Langford; incl. responses 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
Charles Platt	The Complete Patchin Review	July 2019	Edited by Dave Langford
Various	Then Again: A UK Fanhistory Reader 1930–1979	August 2019	ed. Rob Hansen with joint credit to Vin¢ Clarke for past research
Various (anonymous)	The Astral Leauge Dossier	Sep 2019	ed. Dave Langford; includes Jackie!
Various	Challenging Moskowitz: 1930s Fandom Revisited	November 2019	Fans' responses to The Immortal Storm; ed. Rob Hansen
Bob Shaw	The Serious Scientific Talks	November 2019	15 Talks incl. 5 previously uncollected, 5th added Aug '20. No editor given, Publisher's Note by Langford
Harry Warner, Jr.	All Our Yesterdays: The Fanzine Columns	December 2019	ed. Chuck Connor (1991/6); with missing text restored and an additional column. Further expanded July '20, March '23
Various	Homefront: Fandom in the UK 1939–1945	February 2020	Edited by Rob Hansen; see War
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	ed. Rob Jackson and David Langford
Bob Shaw	Slow Pint Glass: Volume Three of The Complete Bob Shaw	August 2020	ed.Rob Jackson and David Langford
Ella Parker	The Harpy Stateside	December 2020	ed. Rob Hansen; including and continuing the trip report Parker's Peregrinations
Chuck Harris	Creative Random Harris	March 2021	ed. 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; author's profile by Rob Hansen
Rob Hansen	American Trips	July 2021	Reports on Rob's post-TAFF US cons
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 – 1957–75 humorous UK fanzine stories
Charles Burbee	The Incompleat Burbee Volume 2	April 2022	Edited by Terry Carr; further Burbee pieces added by David Langford
edited by Rob Hansen	1957: The First UK Worldcon	June 2022	On Loncon 1
Ella Parker	The Compact Ella Parker	Aug 2022	Ella's other fanwriting, ed. Rob Hansen
Walt Willis and Madeleine Willis	TAWF Times Two	December 2022	1962 Tenth Anniversary Willis Fund trip reports, Twice Upon a Time and (never before collected) The DisTAWF Side
Ethel Lindsay	The Lindsay Report	Dec 2022	1962 TAFF trip report
Walt Willis	The Harp in England	March 2023	UK con reports (mostly 1950s)
Walt Willis	The Harp Stateside	March 2023	Expands the 1957 edition with further material inc. a speech transcript
Walt Willis	The Harp That Once or Twice	March 2023	All the Harp columns except the Stateside ones; incl. 2 published after Warhoon 28
edited by Rob Hansen	British SF Conventions Volume 1: 1937–1951	June 2023	On UK early conventions
edited by Rob Hansen	1965: The Second UK Worldcon	Aug 2023	On Loncon II
edited by Rob Hansen	Generation Femizine	September 2023	Women of UK fandom in the 1950s Femizine era
Walt Willis	The Harp Remembered	November 2023	Compiled and ed. by Dave Langford: early writing, auto­biography, miscella­neous articles, uncollected columns
edited by Rob Hansen	Beyond Fandom: Fans, Culture & Politics in the 20th Century	November 2023	Selected fans' (31 chapters, some on several) impact on the mundane world
Various	New Worlds Profiles 1953 to 1963	May 2024	Compiled and ed. by Dave Langford: all the author, editor etc profile pieces from John Carnell era New Worlds
edited by Rob Hansen	British SF Conventions Volume 2: 1952–1957	July 2024	On UK early "Eastercons" and others
David Langford	Work for Hire	October 2024	Essays for older genre reference works
edited by Rob Hansen	British SF Conventions Volume 4: 1958–1965	forthcoming 2024/2025	On UK early "Eastercons" and others

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