Editorial


SF and Jazz: A Marriage Made in a (Virtual) Heaven
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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
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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
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You can help make the world a better place, one cow at a time...

Wonderful books?
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What's the last absolutely wonderful book you've read?...

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

How not to contact us
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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...
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A family visit to light-pollutionless ruralia results in some wonderful astronomical viewing opportunities...

Technical difficulties
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Bad connection, and then a bad virus, have slowed us down temporarily...

E-books: how much, or how many?
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Determining the pricing e-books will be important, but keeping an accurate count of the number of sales will be a far bigger issue...

On the differences between listings and reviews
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Someone has taken a listing from SFScope, and claimed it as a review. Yet another reason why ego searches and Google alerts really do have a role to play in the internet society...

The last doomsday was a fizzle? How about this one?
Opinion > Editorial
How many impending doomsdays can they predict for a thinking populace before we say: "The heck with it; we're going to survive."?

Sales numbers? A personal request.
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Trying to track down the 29 people who bought electronic versions of this book. Or, alternatively, hoping to find that more than 29 people bought it...

Why does Oscar hate SF?
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SFScope reviewer Sarah Stegall takes the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to task for an 81-year history of slighting science fiction, fantasy, and horror movies...

Off to Arisia
Opinion > Editorial
This a long weekend here in the US, and also the weekend of Arisia, a major multi-tracked sf convention in Cambridge, Massachusetts. So we're out of here for the weekend. If you're coming to the con, I've posted my schedule...

Catherine Asaro's "The Spacetime Pool" available for free
Opinion > Authors
Catherine Asaro has posted her novella "The Spacetime Pool", which first appeared in Analog and is currently on the preliminary Nebula ballot, on her Facebook page...

Welcome back! Here are the most popular articles from the last week, month, and year
Opinion > SFScope Site News
Welcome to SFScope in 2009! We're glad you're back. The most popular articles on the site in the last week, month, and year were...

Live, from New York, it's SFScope!
Opinion > Editorial
We're finally back in New York, and the news is all pretty darn good (at least, from the trip). The rest of the sf/f/h news will begin flowing as you've become accustomed to...

Off to Philcon
Opinion > Editorial
SFScope is closing early today to attend Philcon, a major science fiction convention being held, this year, in Cherry Hill, New Jersey...

Editor Ian Randal Strock's New Place on the Web
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SFScope Editor Ian Randal Strock has started a new blog, uspresidents.livejournal.com, supporting his forthcoming book...

Reviewers Wanted
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SFScope is looking to expand our stable of reviewers, and the coming of the Fall television season is the perfect time to add a few new opinions to the mix...

SFScope's first get-together a hit at the rockin' Huey Lewis concert
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...and we know you're sorry you couldn't make it. There will be more opportunities...

Brooklyn Concert/Get-together Tonight
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Join the staff of SFScope at a free Huey Lewis and the News concert tonight in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York...

SFScope's first meet-up: a concert in Brooklyn
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There's a free concert in Brooklyn on 21 August, and SFScope will be there. Join us for the fun and camaraderie...

Janet Kagan and Robert Legault Memorials
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The author and the editor were remembered in separate ceremonies this weekend. Photographs are available...

Discover said; io9 said; Discover said...
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From an innocuous "here are some things you might not know about science fiction," we're witnessing what may be a rather amusing...
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