Monthly Archives: December 2009

Holiday sale on MoCCA Festival 2010 tables

Exhibitor tables for the April 2010 Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art Festival are on sale at a 15% discount until the end of the year... Read more [...]

SFPA 2009 Dwarf Stars Nominees

The Science Fiction Poetry Association announces the nominees for this year's Dwarf Stars Award, for best short speculative poem... Read more [...]

Clockwork Phoenix 3 set

The third entry in editor Mike Allen's Clockwork Phoenix anthology of weird stories is set for publication next summer. Contributors include... Read more [...]

Realms of Fantasy launches new web site

Realms of Fantasy's new web site features some free content, access to free issues of the magazine, a forum, and more... Read more [...]

Random Access Memory—Fringe’s “Grey Matters”

A little less "ick" than last week, with a really neat science fictional twist that will just keep me coming back for more and more... (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.) Read more [...]

Spanish actor/writer/director Paul Naschy dies

Spanish film actor/writer/director Paul Naschy (1934-2009) was the king of Spanish horror films... Read more [...]

Top Box Office Grossers: First Week in December 2009

A fairly unremarkable week for new movies means only minor changes in rankings for the sf/f/h movies near the top of the charts, but a lot of slippage lower down... Read more [...]

Most Popular and Updated Articles: 6-12 December 2009

The most popular SFScope articles during the last week, as well as those which were updated... Read more [...]

Antipodean SF’s December 2009 Issue

Antipodean SF has posted its December 2009 issue. The online 'zine focuses on Australian short-short sf, and includes an announcement of the winner of this year's First National Republican Short Story Competition... Read more [...]

BOOM! Studios Open Holiday Party 2009

BOOM! Studios holiday party is once again open to all their fans and customers, and will be at Meltdown Comics & Collectibles in Los Angeles on 18 December... Read more [...]

Actor Gene Barry Dies

Actor Gene Barry (1919-2009) starred in the 1953 War of the Worlds before being typecast on television as Bat Masterson... Read more [...]

Ari Marmell sells novel to Pyr

Ari Marmell sold fantasy novel The Goblin Corps to Pyr SF... Read more [...]

Pyr buys US rights to Pierre Pevel novel, Paul McAuley novel, and Sam Sykes trilogy

Pyr SF has bought rights to The Cardinal's Blades by French writer Pierre Pevel, The Aeon's Gate trilogy by UK writer Sam Sykes, and Paul McAuley's Cowboy Angels... Read more [...]

NYRSF Readings’ Feature Tag Team of Delia Sherman & Ellen Kushner

Celebrating the holiday season with a couple of fantasy readings, and celebrating twenty years of readings with historical reminiscences... Read more [...]

Sherrilyn Kenyon and Dianna Love sell The Belador Code to Pocket

Sherrilyn Kenyon and Dianna Love are teaming up to write a new urban fantasy thriller series starting with The Belador Code, which Pocket has purchased... Read more [...]