Two Upcoming New York Readings
Reading events on 3 and 18 June include Thomas M. Disch, Howard Gayton, Karen Russell, and Terri Windling...
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Yearly Archives: 2008
Actor Robert Knox Murdered
Actor Robert Knox (1989-2008) has a small role in the forthcoming Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince...
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Janna Silverstein smashing coins for charity
Janna Silverstein has designed an elongated coin which she is offering for charitable donations, driven by the impetus of Jay Lake's recent medical scare...
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Jane Yolen’s “Life in Books” in Newsweek
Jane Yolen is the featured author in the 2 June 2008 Newsweek's "A Life in Books"...
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Halcyon Company acquires rights to Terminator and Philip K. Dick
Start-up production firm The Halcyon Company is producing three new Terminator films, and has acquired rights to all of Philip K. Dick's writing output...
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This week’s Tor goodies
Tor Books is offering C.T. Adams and Cathy Clamp's Touch of Evil and wallpaper by Kinuko Craft and Gregory Manchess for free this week...
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Postscripts’s Spring 2008 issue is now available
The fourteenth issue of Postscripts includes fiction by Sarah Monette, Robert Reed, Jeff VanderMeer...
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Baen’s entire Webscriptions catalog available for free… in low Earth orbit
Baen Books entire Webscriptions catalog is now available for free to astronauts aboard the International Space Station...
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Top Box Office Grossers: Third Week of May
Five genre pictures hold spots in the top ten, but one of them was open for one scant day...
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Director Sydney Pollack Dies
Director/producer/actor Sydney Pollack (1934-2008) won an Oscar for directing Out of Africa and had a few genre credits...
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Updates to Previously Published Articles (18-24 May 2008)
This is a list of previously published articles that were updated between 18 and 24 May 2008. And in honor of Memorial Day Weekend in the US, we're taking a couple of days off. SFScope will be back with the after the weekend.
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Author Robert Asprin Dies
Robert Asprin (1946-2008) will be remembered for his MythAdventures, Thieves' World, and Phule's Company series...
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Barbara Roden sells collection to Prime Books
Ash-Tree Press co-founder and multiple award-nominee Barbara Roden sold her first short story collection, Northwest Passages, to Prime Books...
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New POD/ebook publisher looking for fantasy
Bell Bridge Books is reading submissions of fantasy, dark fantasy, urban fantasy, and general Southern fiction...
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Fantasy Magazine buys seven short stories
Fantasy Magazine co-editor Sean Wallace reports the purchase of seven short stories...
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