Yearly Archives: 2008

Clarkesworld still staffing up, but chapbooks now appearing

Neil Clarke is taking longer than expected to replace editor Nick Mamatas, but for good reasons. On the other hand, his planned chapbook reprints of the online 'zine are now reality... Read more [...]

Weird Tales spam fiction contest

Weird Tales invites writers to turn spam into spam-ade, by writing a short-short story based on... Read more [...]

Branson and Rutan unveil WhiteKnightTwo

Virgin Galactic's Richard Branson and Scaled Composites' Burt Rutan unveiled the carrier airplane which will be the backbone of VG's planned space tourism venture... Read more [...]

Sword and Sorceress cover photo contest

Norilana Books is looking for a cover image for their forthcoming Sword and Sorceress #23, and accepting entries... Read more [...]

Rockne S. O’Bannon turning Farscape into Boom! comic book

Series creator Rockne S. O'Bannon will be writing Boom! Studios' Farscape comic book... Read more [...]

Cartoon Network turning three comic titles into feature films

Cartoon Network is turning Firebreather, Mice Templar, and The Vanishers into feature films... Read more [...]

Editor Eleanor Friede Dies

Editor Eleanor Friede will forever be known as the editor who published Richard Bach's Jonathan Livingston Seagull... Read more [...]

Brenda Cooper discusses futurist issues raised in her novel

Author Brenda Cooper is initiating conversations on her web site relating to the future and her new novel... Read more [...]

North American Discworld Con adds staff; giving away advance copy of Pratchett novel

The 2009 North American Discworld Convention is offering an advance reading copy of Terry Pratchett's Nation... Read more [...]

Stephen King’s “N” being serialized as a mobile phone download series

Stephen King's new short story "N" is being released as a series of 25 two-minute episodes for mobile phone subscribers... Read more [...]

Charles Kochman to get comics imprint at Harry N. Abrams

Charles Kochman's new Abrams imprint, Abrams ComicArts, will specialize in comics and comic related books. The first four titles... Read more [...]

Top Box Office Grossers: Third Week of July

Once again, genre films own the top of the charts (with only one non-genre title in the top ten). And The Dark Knight is doing to the foreign box office what he's doing at home... Read more [...]

Most Popular Articles: 20-26 July 2008

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

Updates to Previously Published Articles (20-26 July 2008)

This is a list of previously published articles that were updated between 20 and 26 July 2008. Read more [...]

X-Philia—a review of The X-Files: I Want to Believe

This is the movie X-Files fans have been waiting for: not the flash of a summer blockbuster, but the spookiness of The X-Files... (There is a spoiler marker about half-way through this review.) Read more [...]