Author Archives: Kit Hawkins

Actor Ron Palillo Dies

Actor Ron Palillo (1949-2012) was Horshack on Welcome Back, Kotter, but also a stage actor, artist, and teacher... Read more [...]

Top Box Office Grossers: First Week in August 2012

The bat will not be dethroned, marking three weeks at the top of the charts... Read more [...]

Most Popular and Updated Articles: 5-11 August 2012

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

Special effects creator Carlo Rambaldi dies

Special effects genius Carlo Rambaldi won Oscars for his work on King Kong, Alien, and E.T.: The Extraterrestrial... Read more [...]

Director Mel Stuart Dies

Documentary film maker Mel Stuart (1928-2012) made very forays into fiction, but one of them was Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory... Read more [...]

All Rudy Rucker’s stories for free

Rudy Rucker has released his complete sf stories for free online... Read more [...]

Announcing Monsters & Martians Science Fiction Film Festival: November 22-25 in Toronto

Gareth McGorman announces a new film festival in Toronto, Ontario, focusing on sf films dedicated to the exploration of what is possible... Read more [...]

Liaden Universe Audiobook Blitz on September 4

Sharon Lee and Steve Miller's Liaden Universe series of books will be published in unabridged digital audio by Audible.com... Read more [...]

J.K. Rowling to appear in live global webcast hosted by Scholastic to launch new Harry Potter Reading Club for Young Readers

Scholastic is launching the Harry Potter Reading Club with a live interactive webcast starring author J.K. Rowling in October. Signups are now available for educators... Read more [...]

The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art Transfers Assets to the Society of Illustrators

New York City's Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art, which recently announced it was immediately closing its gallery, will now be housed in the Society of Illustrators... Read more [...]

Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch announce new anthology series

Authors/editors Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch have taken to Kickstarter to fund the launch of their new original anthology series, Fiction River... Read more [...]

Columbia University Libraries Acquires Ballantine Book Archive

Betty Ballantine has donated a nearly complete run of Penguin, Ballantine, and Bantam books to Columbia University... Read more [...]

Baltimore Science Fiction Society hosts roundtable talk by local female authors on Fantastic Heroines of Sci-Fi and Fantasy

BSFS's free panel discussion will feature Brenda Clough, Mindy Klasky, L. Jagi Lamplighter, and Jeri Smith-Ready, moderated by Colleen Cahill of the Library of Congress, on October 27th... Read more [...]

Actress Patricia Medina Dies

British-born actress Patricia Medina (1919-2012) co-starred to launch the Francis the Talking Mule franchise, and appeared in a dozen genre films... Read more [...]

Actor Jonathan Frid Dies

Canadian actor Jonathan Frid (1924-2012) broke ground for the modern vampire as Barnabas Collins in Dark shadows... Read more [...]