Yearly Archives: 2008

Writer Edward D. Hoch Dies

Edward D. Hoch (1930-2008) was best known as a mystery writer, but three of his novels... Read more [...]

Mythic Creatures moving to Chicago’s Field Museum

"Mythic Creatures," a wonderful exhibit tracing the birth and evolution of myths, is moving from New York City to Chicago... Read more [...]

Oscar nominees announced

The nominees for this year's Academy Awards (including very few genre pictures) are... Read more [...]

Bloodlines—a review of Moonlight’s “The Mortal Cure”

Not a great episode, but a good one with some nice character development. A fitting season finale, if that's what it is to be... (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.) Read more [...]

Razzy Award Nominees Announced

The Razzy Awards, honoring the worst in film, have announced this year's nominees. They include... Read more [...]

Updates to Previously Published Articles (13-19 January 2008)

This is a list of previously published articles that were updated between 13 and 19 January 2008. Read more [...]

Dave Howe is the Sci Fi Channel’s new president

Dave Howe has been promoted to president of the Sci Fi Channel, charged with overseeing pretty much everything and helping to stabilize and grow the company's diverse, but interlocking, businesses... Read more [...]

Doctor Who: Short Trips: The Quality of Leadership line-up announced

Editor Keith R.A. DeCandido has announced the table of contents for the forthcoming anthology Doctor Who: Short Trips: The Quality of Leadership. Contributing authors include... Read more [...]

Establishment of the Shirley Jackson Award

New award established to honor psychological suspense, horror, and dark fantasy fiction... Read more [...]

Antipodean SF’s January-February 2008 Issue

Antipodean SF has posted its January-February 2008 issue. The online 'zine focuses on Australian short-short sf, and includes... Read more [...]

Arisia this weekend in Boston (Cambridge), Massachusetts

SFScope and editor Ian Randal Strock will be at Arisia this weekend in Cambridge, Massacshuetts... Read more [...]

Michael Jasper sells two to Prime Books

Michael Jasper sold two novels to Sean Wallace at Prime Books. The first, A Gathering of Doorways, is "the story of a missing child... Read more [...]

Subterranean publishing a stand-alone Dresden Files novelette by Jim Butcher

"Backup" by Jim Butcher is a new Dresden Files story appearing soon in several limited editions... Read more [...]

Diana Gill buys supernatural anthology

Diana Gill at Eos bought a new supernatural anthology featuring Kim Harrison, Melissa Marr, Jeaniene Frost, Vicki Pettersson, and Jocelynn Drake. Read more [...]

Review of Dark Integers and Other Stories

Greg Egan's collection isn't pulse-pounding, edge-of-your-chair action, but it is brain-pounding, depths of your mind fiction, and it's good... Read more [...]