Monthly Archives: February 2012

Computer Scientist Signs Two-Book Deal with Angry Robot

Computer scientist Ramez Naam, who was part of the develop team for Internet Explorer, Outlook, and Bing, has sold his first two novels to Angry Robot... Read more [...]

Arc Magazine debuts

The debut issue of New Scientist's fiction magazine Arc has contributions from Margaret Atwood, Stephen Baxter, M. John Harrison, Simon Ings, China Mieville, JHannu Rajaniemi, Alastair Reynolds, Bruce Sterling... Read more [...]

Elaine Isaak Kickstarting An Author’s Grimoire

Elaine Isaak's Kickstarter campaign will fund a writer's manual designed specifically for fantasy writers... Read more [...]

Hudson Horror Show V presents a day of horror films in the Hudson Valley

Poughkeepsie's Hudson Horror Show V will showcase five feature films, plus shorts, trailers, and more on May 19... Read more [...]

Edward Willett’s Magebane shortlisted for Regina Book Award

Edward Willett's Magebane (under his pseudonym Lee Arthur Chane), is a finalist for the Regina Book Award, an award he won in 2002... Read more [...]

The End of The Wheel of Time: the release date for A Memory of Light has been set

The final volume in Robert Jordan's 14-volume, 20-year epic The Wheel of Time will be published next January... Read more [...]

IDW Unleashes Zombies vs. Robots Prose ePub Program

IDW's 8x8 Plan offers one new Zombie vs. Robots plan story each week for eight weeks... Read more [...]

Orange Pulp: The Pulp Magazine and Contemporary Culture exhibition, now at SU’s Pallitz Gallery

Syracuse University's New York City gallery is showing Orange Pulp: The Pulp Magazine and Contemporary Culture, free to the public, through April 12... Read more [...]

2012 Audie Awards nominees

The Audio Publishers Association's 17th annual Audie Awards will be given out in June. The nominees in 28 categories include several of interest... Read more [...]

2011 Bram Stoker Award Nominees

The Horror Writers Association (HWA) has announced the final ballot for this year's Stoker Awards, from which the winners will be chosen. The nominees are... Read more [...]

2011 Nebula Awards Nominees Announced

The final ballot, from which the members of SFWA will choose this year's Nebula Award winners, has been announced... Read more [...]

Top Box Office Grossers: Second Week in February 2012

Two new genre releases (well, one new, one new version) near the top of the charts help force three off the bottom... Read more [...]

Most Popular and Updated Articles: 12-18 February 2012

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

Shatner’s World is a good one to visit

William Shatner's one-man Broadway show is a verbal autobiography, but a lot more amusing... Read more [...]

Thunder Peak Publishing Unveils Latest Supernatural Mystery: Fu Man Chu’s Vampire

Fu Man Chu's Vampire marks the latest installment in the supernatural mystery series featuring Victorian-era occult detective Jason Dark... Read more [...]