Monthly Archives: January 2010

2009 Aurealis Award Winners

The winners of this year's Aurealis Awards, for Australian science fiction, fantasy, and horror, are... Read more [...]

Promotions at Weird Tales

Ann VanderMeer is now Weird Tales' Editor in Chief, Mary Robinette Kowal is the new Art Director, and Paula Guran is the new Nonfiction Editor. Stephen H. Segal is stepping away from the magazine's day-to-day operations... Read more [...]

Contents of Ellen Datlow’s The Best Horror of the Year #2

Editor Ellen Datlow announces the contents of The Best Horror of the Year #2, the second edition of her annual reprint anthology to be published by Night Shade Books... Read more [...]

Top Box Office Grossers: Third Week in January 2010

There's finally been some movement at the top of the charts, but Avatar is #1 for an incredible fifth straight week. Otherwise, the charts are a lonely place for sf/f/h films, with some movement in and out at the bottom... Read more [...]

Most Popular Articles: 17-23 January 2010

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

2010 SAG Award Winners

This year's Screen Actors Guild Awards, in terms of sf/f/h productions, reverted to form, only barely recognizing the genres... Read more [...]

Black Oil Redux—Fringe’s “What Lies Beneath”

A compelling episode, even if it was a weak story... (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.) Read more [...]

Fred Lerner’s The Story of Libraries has a new edition

Continuum Publishing has just issued the second edition of Fred Lerner's The Story of Libraries... Read more [...]

Charlaine Harris subsidiary rights: Sookie and Harper

Sookie Stackhouse coming in limited leatherbound edition, book club edition, and audio books, while Harper Connelly will be graphically adapted... Read more [...]

SRM Publisher office temporarily closed due to illness; hope to be back by Monday

Steve Miller, the one man behind the one-man office of SRM Publisher, is down with a severe cold, closing the office. He hopes/expects to be back on the job on Monday... Read more [...]

Book View Cafe now distributed by Smashwords

Book View Cafe has signed up with Smashwords to distribute its e-books... Read more [...]

ATCastro, SGreen, and KRichardson all turn in manuscripts

Adam-Troy Castro turned in the manuscript for War of the Marionettes, the newest Andrea Cort novel; Simon R. Green turned in A Hard Day's Knight, the 11th Nightside novel; and Kat Richardson turned in Labyrinth, the 5th Greywalker novel... Read more [...]

Jon Sprunk’s “Shadow Saga” sells in Czech

Fantom Print bought Czech rights to Jon Sprunk's "Shadow Saga" trilogy, which will debut in English in June... Read more [...]

2010 BAFTA Film Award Nominees

The BAFTA film award nominees have been announced, with a fair leavening of sf/f/h films in the mix... Read more [...]

Gary McMahon sells two horror novels to Angry Robot

Gary McMahon is expanding Angry Robot's horizons with horror: Pretty Little Dead Things and its sequel, Dead Bad Things, will tell the story of... Read more [...]