Monthly Archives: November 2008

Brenda Cooper wins Endeavour Award

This year's Endeavour Award, for an sf novel by a Pacific Northwest writer, goes to The Silver Ship and the Sea by Brenda Cooper... Read more [...]

Derek Gunn sells The Estuary the Permuted Press

Irish writer Derek Gunn sold The Estuary, a horror adventurue tale, to Permuted Press... Read more [...]

Lady Trudy Bliss Dies; conservator of Composer Sir Arthur Bliss’s works

The widow of the man who composed the music for Things to Come was a polymath in her own right... Read more [...]

Composer Irving Gertz Dies

B-movie composer Irving Gertz (1915-2008) worked on scores of scores of movies and television programs... Read more [...]

The Magic Dies—a review of Pushing Daisies’ “Oh, Oh, Oh… It’s Magic”

With minimal mysteries, but masterful settings, characters, and quirks, Pushing Daisies appears to have succumbed to attempts to make it too common... (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.) Read more [...]

Most Popular Articles: 16-22 November 2008

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

Updates to Previously Published Articles (16-22 November 2008)

This is a list of previously published articles that were updated between 16 and 22 November 2008. Read more [...]

Leigh Grossman Hospitalized

Editor/Publisher Leigh Grossman has been hospitalized with interstitial pneumonitis and acute respiratory failure, the result of a vent pipe leak in his office... Read more [...]

Off to Philcon

SFScope is closing early today to attend Philcon, a major science fiction convention being held, this year, in Cherry Hill, New Jersey... Read more [...]

Review of A Song in Stone

It's a time-traveling, fantastical, magical, religious mystery. A more cerebral, relaxed Indiana Jones story, but stakes even higher, and revelations around most corners... Read more [...]

Aeon Speculative Fiction calls it quits

Quarterly electronic magazine Aeon Speculative Fiction is suspending publication immediately, announced editors Bridget and Marti McKenna. The ezine published 14 issues during its four-year run... Read more [...]

F&SF changing URL

Editor Gordon Van Gelder announces that the URL for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction is changing. "Although we've used the URL of www.fsfmag.com for a decade, we're going to let it expire in January and switch to www.fandsf.com." Regular visitors, and those who've bookmarked the page, take note. At the moment, both URLs point to the same page, but this may change in the future. Read more [...]

Cecilia Tan is reading for a vampire-themed erotic e-anthology

Cecilia Tan is reading for a vampire-themed erotic e-anthology to be published by Ravenous Romance... Read more [...]

PS Publishing taking pre-orders for Tim Powers: Secret Histories with some remarkable additions

PS Publishing is now taking pre-orders for the complete, illustrated reference to the entire Tim Powers oeuvre, and including some remarkable additions, including a fascimile handwritten manuscript... Read more [...]

Debut novelist Ian Whates sells two to Solaris

British author and editor Ian Whates signed with agent John Jarrold two months ago. Now Jarrold has sold Whates's first two books to Solaris... Read more [...]