Destroyer of Worlds—Fringe’s “6:02AM EST”
The world's on the brink of destruction, and Walter's walking around naked because it's Tuesday... (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.)
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Monthly Archives: April 2011
Top Box Office Grossers: Third Week in April 2011
Two new genre films took the top spots on the charts, and sf/f/h films held eight of the top ten spots, but lower down, our films fell hard and fast...
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Most Popular and Updated Articles: 17-23 April 2011
The most popular SFScope articles during the last week, as well as those which were updated...
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2010 BSFA Award Winners Announced
The winners of this year's British Science Fiction Association Awards are...
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2011 Hugo Award Final Ballot
This year's Hugo Award ballot is here. Members of this year's WorldCon will choose the winners, who will be announced in August...
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2011 Philip K. Dick Award Winner
This year's Philip K. Dick Award for best original US paperback sf novel goes to The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack by Mark Hodder, with a special citation to Harmony by Project Itoh...
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Television pilot writer Sol Saks dies
Sol Saks (1910-2011) wrote pilots for television series, including Bewitched and Out of the Blue...
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Leigh Grossman’s Sense of Wonder to be 900-page sf textbook
Leigh Grossman's massive textbook on the teaching of sf will include nearly 150 stories and more than 50 essays...
Read more [...] Teaching SF to be special program at WorldCon
Teaching SF will be a workshop for teachers, librarians, and parents on how to use science fiction as a teaching tool...
Read more [...] qo’mey poSmoH Hol—language opens worlds
The Klingon Language Institute's 18th annual summer conference will co-locate with the World Science Fiction Convention
Read more [...] Fake It ‘Til You Make It—Chuck’s “Chuck vs. the Wedding Planner”
A great episode with some interesting father storylines resolving and blowing up, but can the series survive?... (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.)
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Actress Elisabeth Sladen Dies
Actress Elisabeth Sladen (1948-2011) was Doctor Who's companion Sarah Jane Smith, and then starred in her own spin-off television series...
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Swords and Sex—Game of Thrones’s “Winter Is Coming”
The producers may have tried to cram too much backstory—and too much sex without any love—into the premier episode, but the source material is rich enough, and there are hints of a wonderful tapestry... (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.)
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Mind Altering—Fringe’s “Lysergic Acid Diethylamide”
A quirky, oddball nature of this episode, which was brilliant, risky, fascinating, and dangerous. It's not a tack this show can afford to take very often, but I like it when it does... (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.)
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Orbit Short Fiction debuts today with four offerings
Orbit Book's Orbit Short Fiction debuts today with works by Mira Grant, T.C. McCarthy, Jennifer Rardin, Jaye Wells...
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