Monthly Archives: January 2010

Liz Scheier coming back to publishing

Former Del Rey editor Liz Scheier, who most recently worked for iPhone app creator ScrollMotion, is joining Barnes & Noble.com as editorial director... Read more [...]

F&SF’s March/April 2010 Issue

The March/April issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction will feature fiction by Richard Bowes, Albert E. Cowdrey, Dennis Danvers, Alexandra Duncan, Rand B. Lee, Bruce McAllister, Michael Reaves, Benjamin Rosenbaum, Ramsey Shehadeh, Tim Sullivan... Read more [...]

Animator Art Clokey Dies

Animator Art Clokey (1921-2010) created Gumby... Read more [...]

ChiZine issue #43 now available

The January-March issue of ChiZine or Chiaroscuro has content by Claude Lalumiere, Joe L. Murr, Alexander Patterson, Nir Yaniv... Read more [...]

Market Maven #22 is out

Editor Cynthia Ward reports the release of Market Maven #22, providing writers' guidelines for speculative fiction writers... Read more [...]

ChiZine Publications now taking pre-orders for Cities of Night and The Thief of Broken Toys

Philip Nutman's collection Cities of Night and Tim Lebbon's The Thief of Broken Toys are part of CZP's new direction in collector's edition publishing, each containing exclusive content not available... Read more [...]

R.A. Salvatore sells six more D&D books to Wizards of the Coast

R.A. Salvatore has signed a deal with Wizards of the Coast to write six more Drizzt Do'Urden novels in their Dungeons & Dragons Forgotten Realms setting... Read more [...]

New production firm options Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn trilogy

Paloppa Pictures has optioned Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn trilogy for feature film production... Read more [...]

Apex Magazine’s anthology Descended from Darkness now available

Descended from Darkness collects all the original short stories published online in Apex Magazine, and includes the work of... Read more [...]

Actor Conard Fowkes Dies

Actor Conard Fowkes (1933-2009) was a staunch supporter of actors' rights, and appeared in Dark Shadows... Read more [...]

Neil Gaiman to narrate Peter and the Wolf in free NYC concert

Manhattan's World Financial Center will present a free concert this Saturday. The Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra will be performing Peter and the Wolf, with narration by Neil Gaiman... Read more [...]

Top Box Office Grossers: First Week in January 2010

Spec-fic flicks own the top of the charts, with the box-office pounding Avatar, Sherlock Holmes, and Alvin, but below the top three, things get a little sparse for sf/f/h films... Read more [...]

Most Popular Articles: 3-9 January 2010

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

Television producer David Gerber dies

Television producer David Gerber (1923-2010) won an Emmy and a Peabody, worked on The Ghost and Mrs. Muir and The Man Who Fell to Earth... Read more [...]

Ami Greko leaving Macmillan/Tor for tech firm AdaptativeBlue

Macmillan/Tor's Digital Marketing Manager Ami Greko is leaving the company for tech firm AdaptativeBlue, and its Glue... Read more [...]