Monthly Archives: October 2008

Early closing for book launch party

The SFScope offices are closing early today for Ian Randal Strock's book launch party, which is open to all, in Manhattan, New York... Read more [...]

Review of Between Planets

A new edition of a classic YA novel, but one that holds up to the years (as long as you can get beyond the science, which has evolved)... Read more [...]

Jeff Carlson’s Plague Year available as audio download

Jeff Carlson's Plague Year, previously available as a CD audiobook, is now available as an eleven-hour download from Audible.com... Read more [...]

J. Michael Straczynski to be Guest of Honor at New York Comic Con

Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski will be the Guest of Honor at next February's New York Comic Con... Read more [...]

Juno Books offering free ghost-story anthology

Juno Books is offering a free anthology of classic ghost stories as a pdf file, and though they remain closed to submissions, business is moving along... Read more [...]

Actor and reporter Gil Stratton dies

Actor and news/sports reporter Gil Stratton (1922-2008) had a few genre appearances, including... Read more [...]

Afterburn SF’s October issue

The latest stories at Afterburn SF include works by Z.S. Adani and Mike Rimar... Read more [...]

SFPA’s Online Halloween Poetry Reading

The Science Fiction Poetry Association's online Halloween reading features poems by members available as audio files through Halloween... Read more [...]

Editor Moshe Feder finally hits the NYT bestseller list

Brandon Sanderson's third "Mistborn" novel, The Hero of Ages, debuted on the extended New York Times bestseller list, giving editor Moshe Feder his first appearance... Read more [...]

Weekly World News Resuscitated

A new company has bought the Weekly World News and revived the brand as a web site, though a print publication may follow... Read more [...]

A review of Heroes’ “The Dying of the Light”

The writers may have burdened themselves with too many characters and too many plotlines, and might want to trim some back to get at the meat, which appears every now and again... Read more [...]

Free samples from Electric Velocipede

Editor John Klima has posted three stories from the brand new double issue of Electric Velocipede while he attends the World Fantasy Convention to sweat the magazine's nomination... Read more [...]

Top Box Office Grossers: Third Week of October

This is definitely not the season for sf/f/h movies, with only one in the top 10, and only four more in the next 15 (although two of those have returned from the depths)... Read more [...]

Most Popular Articles: 19-25 October 2008

The most popular SFScope articles during the last week... Read more [...]

Review of The Last Theorem

Sadly, Arthur C. Clarke's final, posthumous, collaboration with Frederik Pohl involves big ideas, but doesn't live up to either's reputation... Read more [...]