Monthly Archives: February 2012

Top Box Office Grossers: First Week in February 2012

Two non-blockbusting genre films top the charts in an otherwise weak week for both sf/f/h movies and the box office in general... Read more [...]

Most Popular and Updated Articles: 5-11 February 2012

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

Author Kevin J. Anderson joins forces with Canadian rockers Rush

Combining prose fiction and high-concept album music may make for a fascinating result... Read more [...]

Osombie: The Axis of Evil Dead

Osombie is the film you knew had to be coming: Osama bin Laden comes back as a zombie. An indie film production team has it nearly complete, and is Kickstarting it to get over the financial hump... Read more [...]

Semper Paratus! NYRSF Readings’ U.S. Coast Guard Special Mission

Two Coast Guardsmen and another fantasy writer walk into a digital art gallery... Read more [...]

Announcing Ravenous Shadows, a new “movie-sized” e-press with teeth

Ravenous Romance owner Literary Partners Group is starting a sibling publisher for horror, edited by John Skipp. Ravenous Shadows debuts with four e-titles this week... Read more [...]

Screenwriter Tony Puryear Creates Concrete Park, Edgy Graphic Novel, for Dark Horse Comics

New sci-fi epic, written and drawn by Hollywood multitasker, appears in legendary anthology magazine Dark Horse Presents... Read more [...]

Apex Magazine’s February 2012 issue

Apex Magazine's February 2012 issue includes fiction by David J. Schwartz, A.C. Wise, Maureen McHugh... Read more [...]

Top authors contribute to the Shared Worlds Critter Map

Shared Worlds SF/Fantasy Teen Writing Camp Launches 2012 Registration and Donation Drive... Read more [...]

Kickstarting Ian Randal Strock’s Ranking the Powers Behind the Oval Office

SFScope editor Ian Randal Strock is also a Presidential historian, and looking for help to get his next book out to the public... Read more [...]

Comics artist and author Lou Cameron is dead

Cartoon artist and author Lou Cameron (1924-2010) illustrated titles for Classic Illustrated, and worked on many projects over a long career... Read more [...]

Boom! Studios launches Fanbooys vs. Zombies this April with the first full issue at $1

Fanboys Vs. Zombies, created by Jimmy Fox and Ben Silverman, launches this April with a variety of covers and the first full issue priced at $1... Read more [...]

Locus goes Weightless, making electronic subscriptions available

Gavin Grant's Weightless Books is now offering electronic copies and subscriptions to Locus... Read more [...]

Brookline Library Trustee (and sf author) Michael A. Burstein announces Congressional Exploratory Committee

SF author and local elected official Michael A. Burstein announces first step in a possible run for Congress... Read more [...]

Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination coming to Tennessee

Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination is an exhibition of humanlike, animal, and hybrid creatures symbolizing life's mysteries, desires, and fears. Opening in Tennessee, it will move to... Read more [...]