Yearly Archives: 2008

NYRSF Readings Series Turns 19; NYRSF Turns 20

The opening of a new season of readings celebrated a long history of its sponsoring review zine, in an evening of reminiscences and readings... Read more [...]

Review of Fringe’s pilot episode

The first episode of J.J. Abrams' new series was engrossing and tempting. We'll be back for more... (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.) Read more [...]

Cory Doctorow’s first essay collection available for free and to donate

Tachyon Books is publishing Cory Doctorow's essay collection Content. As with most Doctorow titles, the electronic version is available for free. He's also set up a donation program to get the book to libraries in need... Read more [...]

Kim Deitch to launch Pictorama with presentation at The Strand

Kim Deitch's newest book, a collaboration with his siblings, will be the subject of his Power Point presentation at New York City's The Strand on 18 September. The event will also be webcast... Read more [...]

Edward M. Lerner’s new blog

Author Edward M. Lerner's new blog discusses science, fiction, and science fiction from the point of view of a technologist and writer... Read more [...]

Byzarium’s September 2008 issue now available

The newest issue of the webzine "dedicated to fantasy, sci-fi, and horror fiction" has two stories, but there's also word of a new flash fiction contest... Read more [...]

Bride of Frankenstein—a review of Terminator: TSCC’s “Samson & Delilah”

Marginalizing a good character, changing the emotional focus to a knock-off, and forgetting their roots: the series premiere does not bode well... (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.) Read more [...]

Reviewers Wanted

SFScope is looking to expand our stable of reviewers, and the coming of the Fall television season is the perfect time to add a few new opinions to the mix... Read more [...]

Electric Velocipede subscription drive

The small press 'zine is offering a package deal that includes everything John Klima will edit/publish into the future... Read more [...]

Devi Pillai promoted to Senior Editor at Orbit

Devi Pillair has been promoted to Senior Editor at Orbit Books, having been with the firm since the US office opened two years ago... Read more [...]

Court rules for J.K. Rowling against Steven Vander Ark’s Harry Potter Lexicon

J.K. Rowling prevailed in her suit against fan web site-turned-book to be Harry Potter Lexicon, stopping publication of the largely derivative reference book... Read more [...]

Stephen Hunt’s The Rise of the Iron Moon moved to February publication

The sequel to The Kingdom Beyond the Waves will be published in hardcover in February. Waves, the sequel to The Court of the Air, was just re-released in paperback. And author Stephen Hunt has something to say about the new book... Read more [...]

The Chronic Rift reborn as a podcast

The Chronic Rift, a sf discussion show on television in the early 1990s, is returning this month as a monthly podcast... Read more [...]

Actress Anita Page Dies

Silent film star Anita Page (1910-2008) was a star in the 1920s and 1930s, retired for nearly 60 years, and then appeared in several genre films over the last decade... Read more [...]

Francesco Sedita moves from Scholastic to Grosset & Dunlap

Francesco Sedita, until recently the executive creative director at Scholastic, is the new vice president and publisher of Grosset & Dunlap... Read more [...]