Gardner Dozois’s Year’s Best SF 27 Contents
Gardner Dozois has announced the table of contents for his Year's Best Science Fiction, the granddaddy of them all. Volume 27 will cover 2009. Stories in this volume will include...
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Monthly Archives: December 2009
Filmmaker Peter Jackson to be knighted
Filmmaker Peter Jackson will all receive an honorary knighthood on this year's New Zealand's New Year's Honours list...
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The Queen’s New Year’s Honours list includes Patrick Stewart, Maud Tyzack, Anthea Bell, and Dick King-Smith
Actors Patrick Stewart and Margaret Maud Tyzack, and writers Anthea Bell and Ronald Gordon King-Smith, will all receive honorary knighthoods on this year's Queen's New Year's Honours list...
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Impending closure of The Internet Review of Science Fiction
Publisher L. Blunt Jackson has announced the the Internet Review of Science Fiction will cease operations after the February 2010 issue...
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Fantastic Books hires SFScope editor as new publisher
SFScope Editor Ian Randal Strock is expanding his responsibilities by taking over the job of publisher for Fantastic Books...
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Fourth annual Jim Baen Memorial Writing Contest
Baen Books and the National Space Society are sponsoring the fourth annual Jim Baen Memorial Writing Contest, looking for stories up to 8,000 words...
Read more [...] Pill Hill Press’s dark fantasy “Flesh & Bone: Rise of the Necromancers” contest
Small press dark fantasy publisher Pill Hill Press is running its second short story writing contest, with cash prizes...
Read more [...] Jaime Lee Moyer to edit 2010 Rhysling Anthology
The Science Fiction Poetry Association's 2010 Rhysling Anthology will be edited by member Jaime Lee Moyer. Nominations will open on 1 January 2010...
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Norilana publishes Sky Whales and Other Wonders
Norilana's newest anthology, Sky Whales and Other Wonders, has stories by John Grant, Tanith Lee, Mary A. Turzillo, JoSelle Vanderhooft...
Read more [...] Katie Mattie is now represented by Pinder Lane & Garon-Brooke’s Robert Thixton
17-year-old Michigan author Katie Mattie's first YA fantasy novel should be ready for submission next month...
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Top Box Office Grossers: Third Week in December 2009
This week's 800-pound gorilla was James Cameron's Avatar, but will it have the legs next week to stand up to Sherlock Holmes...
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Most Popular Articles: 20-26 December 2009
The most popular SFScope articles during the last week...
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Forget the Sherlock Holmes you’ve read; this one’s more a Victorian James Bond, but a heck of a lot of fun
It's not (quite) steampunk, but this Victorian Sherlock Holmes is far beyond what Conan Doyle dreamed, and a heck of a lot of fun... (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.)
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World Fantasy Awards 2010 Judges Named
The judges for the 2010 World Fantasy Awards (for works published in 2009) have been empanelled, and are receiving material for consideration for the awards...
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Analog’s March 2010 Issue
The March 2010 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact features fiction by Brad Aiken, Christopher L. Bennett, Carl Frederick, Tocho Ligon, David A. Simons, Bud Sparhawk, Shane Tourtellotte...
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