The most-viewed SFScope articles during the past week (27 December 2009-2 January 2010) were:
1. Impending closure of The Internet Review of Science Fiction (New/Magazines, 31 December 2009)
2. Fourth annual Jim Baen Memorial Writing Contest (News/Contests, 29 December 2009)
3. Fantastic Books hires SFScope editor as new publisher (People/Publishing Personnel, 30 December 2009)
4. Gardner Dozois’s Year’s Best SF 27 Contents (News/Books, 31 December 2009)
5. Pill Hill Press’s dark fantasy “Flesh & Bone: Rise of the Necromancers” contest (News/Contests, 29 December 2009)
6. Forget the Sherlock Holmes you’ve read; this one’s more a Victorian James Bond, but a heck of a lot of fun (Opinion/Movie Reviews, 24 December 2009)

The most-viewed SFScope articles during the month of December 2009 were:
1. Robert A. Heinlein’s Colorado house is on the market (News/Other Stuff, 6 April 2009)
2. Comics artist Mark Sable detained for Unthinkable acts (People/Activities, 13 May 2009)
3. Circlet’s Erotic Sci-Fi Advent Calendar (Websites/Publishers, 1 December 2009)
4. Will Shetterly self-publishes a novel beloved by editors, but not publishers (News/Books, 7 December 2009)
5. Neal Stephenson sells Readme to William Morrow (People/Book & Novel Sales, 14 July 2009)
6. Odyssey 2010 details announced (News/Education, 15 December 2009)
7. Water, Water, Everywhere, But…—Doctor Who‘s “The Waters of Mars” (Opinion/Television Reviews, 18 December 2009)

The most-viewed SFScope articles during the year of 2009 were:
1. Comics artist Mark Sable detained for Unthinkable acts (People/Activities, 13 May 2009)
2. Realms of Fantasy closing (News/Magazines, 27 January 2009)
3. Robert A. Heinlein’s Colorado house is on the market (News/Other Stuff, 6 April 2009)
4. Sakura Matsuri—Japan comes to Brooklyn (Opinion/Event Reviews, 2 May 2009)
5. Realms of Fantasy is NOT closing; sold to Tir Na Nog Press (News/Magazines, 10 March 2009)
6. Characters in The Lord of the Rings and Miles Vorkosigan, by Height (Opinion/Graphicles, 23 June 2009)
7. BOOM!’s Unthinkable posits SIGMA-like group thinking the unthinkable (News/Manga & Graphic Novels, 24 March 2009)
8. Warren Lapine returns to sf with magazine, books, and checks (News/Publishers, 22 January 2009)
9. Sha’Daa is a group effort describing the recurring apocalypse (News/Books, 22 April 2009)
10. Book 12 of The Wheel of Time will be a trilogy (News/Books, 31 March 2009)
11. Michael & Nomi Burstein double their family size (People/Activities, 19 July 2009)