Yearly Archives: 2008

Janis Ian to be Nebula Awards Toastmistress

Grammy winner and sf author Janis Ian will be the Toastmistress at next April's Nebula Awards Weekend... Read more [...]

Shark fisherman Frank Mundus dies

Shark fisherman Frank Mundus (1925-2008) was the inspiration for Captain Quint in Peter Benchley's Jaws, portrayed by Robert Shaw in the 1975 film... Read more [...]

Ian Randal Strock sells short-short to Nature

SFScope Editor Ian Randal Strock was a writer when he sold a short-short story to Nature magazine for their "Futures" section... Read more [...]

Upcoming Author Readings & Signings

Upcoming author (and other) readings and signings, list updated regularly. Read more [...]

Oddlands Magazine is dead after five issues

Small-press webzine Oddlands lasted five issues, and currently has all the content archived online, but following the editor's computer's massive crash... Read more [...]

Helix SF ending its publishing “experiment” after ten issues

Helix SF, the online sf 'zine that paid authors well based solely on donations, is closing down after the publication of the tenth issue. Editor William Sanders... Read more [...]

Norilana to republish Rosemary Hawley Jarman’s The Captain’s Witch

Rosemary Hawley Jarman's erotic dark epic fantasy, The Captain's Witch, which was first published in 2005 by Egerton House... Read more [...]

Robert Dunbar’s The Pines coming back into print, unabridged and unexpurgated

Robert Dunbar's 20-year-old horror novel explored the lore of the Leeds Devil. Now Leisure is reissuing the previously heavily edited book in its original form... Read more [...]

LucasBooks and Del Rey renew licensing agreement through 2013

LucasBooks and Del Rey have extended their 30+ year agreement for another five years, which should see the publication of 35 more novels... Read more [...]

Actor George Takei marries Brad Altman

Original Star Trek cast-member George Takei married his long-time partner, Brad Altman, in a ceremony this weekend in Los Angeles, California... Read more [...]

Space and Time to accept submissions for two months

Forty-year-old small press sf magazine Space and Time will reopen to submissions from 22 September to 30 November... Read more [...]

Additional Blood Ties airings

Tanya Huff's literary agent Joshua Bilmes reports that "Lifetime Real Women, one of the digital spin-off networks of Lifetime, is now re-running Blood Ties, the TV show based on Huff's 'Blood Books' novels." The show is airing at 10PM on Saturdays and Sunday, with reruns a few hours later, at 3AM... Read more [...]

Jeff Carlson sells feature film rights to Plague Year

Jeff Carlson's Plague Year, the first in a trilogy of near-future nanotech thriller books, has been optioned for a feature film in a "nice deal"... Read more [...]

Top Box Office Grossers: Second Week of September

The Dark Knight continues to amaze, even though there are only three genre films in the top 10, but in the top 25, we've got four films that have grossed more than $100 million... Read more [...]

Creative Arts Emmy Award Winners

The winners of the lesser-known Creative Arts Emmys were announced on Saturday, and those of interest are detailed here... Read more [...]