Monthly Archives: June 2012

Apex Magazine’s June 2012 issue

Apex Magazine's June 2012 issue includes fiction by Brit Mandelo, Ian Nichols, Geoff Ryman... Read more [...]

Author Ray Bradbury Dies

Writer Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) received all the lifetime achievement awards in our fields, and wrote the classics The Martian Chronicles, Fahrenheit 451, The Illustrated Man, The Golden Apples of the Sun, Something Wicked This Way Comes... Read more [...]

Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster To Continue Publishing Star Trek Novels

New titles covering Star Trek: The Next Generation's 25th Anniversary, construction of the Enterprise and notable quotables to hit retail this year... Read more [...]

Masked Mosaic: Canadian Super Stories Anthology Seeks Submissions

New anthology will feature Canadian superfiction. Open to Canadian authors, the submission period is June 1, 2012 through August 1, 2012... Read more [...]

Dying As No Redshirt Has Died Before—With Laughter

Michael Burstein enthusiastically recommends John Scalzi's Redshirts, but he won't tell you what it's about... Read more [...]

Odd week coming at SFScope

Expect updates to be only sporadic this week. But we'll be back in strength next week... Read more [...]

DUFF Will Hold Over Funds

Voters in this year's Down Under Fan Fund have opted to not send a fan overseas this year, instead holding the funds until next year... Read more [...]

Audible buys audio rights to 200 titles represented by Richard Curtis

Richard Curtis Associates has made a giant deal with Audible to produce over 200 back- and frontlist titles by agency authors including Greg Bear, Jeffrey Carver, William C. Dietz, Dave Duncan, R.A. MacAvoy, John Norman... Read more [...]

2012 MTV Movie Award winners

MTV's annual movie awards winners were announced tonight, and speculative fiction films were very much in evidence taking home the golden popcorns... Read more [...]

Top Box Office Grossers: Fourth Week in May 2012

A movie finally dethrones The Avengers, although it takes a Smith, a Jones, a Brolin, and time travel to do it... Read more [...]

Most Popular and Updated Articles: 27 May-2 June, and month of May 2012

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

Redstone Science Fiction now open for submissions

Redstone Science Fiction is now open for submissions, looking for sf up to 4000 words long and paying five cents per word... Read more [...]

Interstitial Arts Foundation Salons Reborn

A monthly gathering of artists working in a variety of media and genres will commence at the end of June... Read more [...]

Midtown Comics moving into FAO Schwarz

Fifteen-year-old New York City comic retailer Midtown Comics is scheduled to open its fourth location, inside iconic toy store FAO Schwarz... Read more [...]

Stanley Schmidt looks beyond the atmosphere

Dr. Stanley Schmidt's acceptance remarks upon receiving the Robert A. Heinlein Award include his view of the heavens, humanity's next great frontier... Read more [...]