Archive for 'Editorial'

Balticon weekend

We’ll be at Balticon this weekend. Come say hi!

Sorry for the absence

We’re back. Here comes the news…

We’re still here! And we’ll be in Boston

Sorry for the outage. Come see us at Arisia this weekend in Boston…

Stanley Schmidt looks beyond the atmosphere

Dr. Stanley Schmidt’s acceptance remarks upon receiving the Robert A. Heinlein Award include his view of the heavens, humanity’s next great frontier…

Enterprise is coming to town

In which SFScope Editor Ian Randal Strock takes the morning off to greet the arrival of Space Shuttle Test Vehicle Enterprise in New York City…

Looking for a specific piece of art

Looking for the current owner of the original of this piece of art…

SF and Jazz: A Marriage Made in a (Virtual) Heaven

Melding music’s ghetto (jazz) with literature’s (science fiction) was the genesis for Rod Rees’ new sf series, The Demi-Monde

Funny once: the gall of turning bad publicity news into good

When a reviewer sells your galley on eBay, you can grumble, or you can turn it into a publicity opportunity (well, not anymore, because this publisher did)…

Of religion, hunger, and cows

You can help make the world a better place, one cow at a time…

Wonderful books?

What’s the last absolutely wonderful book you’ve read?…

Albaconning

Off to Albacon for the weekend. Why not join me?

How not to contact us

Lately, we’ve been getting a spate of messages consisting of nothing but a link (or two or three). Sometimes the subject line seems descriptive, implying that the message might be legitimate. But as a fair warning to our correspondents, any message consisting of just a link will be deleted unclicked…

A galaxy, a space station, and four moons walk into the yard…

A family visit to light-pollutionless ruralia results in some wonderful astronomical viewing opportunities…

Technical difficulties

Bad connection, and then a bad virus, have slowed us down temporarily…

E-books: how much, or how many?

Determining the pricing e-books will be important, but keeping an accurate count of the number of sales will be a far bigger issue…