Yearly Archives: 2008

Spec the Halls sf writing contest

Winter-themed speculative fiction contest offers first prize of $42 and honorable mentions. Reprints are encouraged... Read more [...]

New webzine Expanded Horizons launches, seeking “diversity”

New webzine Expanded Horizons will emphasize "under-represented voices in speculative fiction," and has stories by Joe Haldeman, Paul Levinson... Read more [...]

Byzarium’s October 2008 issue now available

The newest issue of the webzine "dedicated to fantasy, sci-fi, and horror fiction" has four stories and a new image for the flash fiction contest... Read more [...]

“I Am Become Death”, or at least, leaden—a review of Heroes’s chapter four

Too many confusing, or poorly plotted, futuristic storylines may be doing harm to the series... Read more [...]

NYRSF’s Readings of the Living Dead

A spooky evening of creepy zombie stories kicked off the Halloween month at the recent NYRSF reading... Read more [...]

A. Lee Martinez’s Monster sells German rights

German rights to A. Lee Martinez's Monster (which was formerly titled Animal Control) sold to Piper Verlag by agent Sally Harding of the Cooke Agency... Read more [...]

Top Box Office Grossers: First Week of October

If Summer was the season for sf/f/h movies, autumn is definitely the season for straight dramas, as our films make a poor showing... Read more [...]

Most Popular Articles: 5-11 October 2008

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

Holidays and Conventions

Thursday is Yom Kippur, and Albacon starts Friday, so SFScope will be quiet for a couple of days... Read more [...]

Review of Supernatural’s “In the Beginning”

A trip to the past might have been show-stopping tedium, but the rich characterizations it elicits are more than worth the time... (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.) Read more [...]

Audiobook Metatropolis to feature five wonderful writers read by tv and book actors

Audible.com's Metatropolis, edited by John Scalzi, will feature the work of Elizabeth Bear, Tobias Buckell, Jay Lake, Karl Schroeder, and Scalzi, read by... Read more [...]

Actress Irene Dailey Dies

Actress Irene Dailey (1920-2008) won a Daytime Emmy and appeared in many Broadway and Hollywood productions... Read more [...]

Nerd Love—a review of Chuck’s “Chuck vs. The Seduction”

Chuck is really hitting his stride as the nerd starts to grow, the secret agent starts to learn, and the showrunners wise up... (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.) Read more [...]

Scraps DeSelby suffers a hemorrhagic stroke

Editor and fan Soren "Scraps" DeSelby suffered a serious stroke on Monday. He is alert and in the intensive care unit... Read more [...]

Martyrs—a review of Terminator: TSCC’s “Goodbye to All That”

Finally, this is what the Terminator is supposed to be like! But waiting until the fifth episode of the season may have been too long... (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.) Read more [...]