2011 Sidewise Award Winners Announced
The winners of this year's Sidewise Awards for Alternate History were announced at WorldCon... Read more [...]
Author Archives: Ian Randal Strock
2012 Chesley Award Winners
The winners of the 2012 Chesley Awards for sf art are... Read more [...]
2012 Hugo Award Winners
The winners of the 2012 Hugo Awards were announced. They are... Read more [...]
Top Box Office Grossers: End of August
Back-to-school means the end of sf's domination of the box office... Read more [...]
Bookstore owner Alan Zimmerman’s death reported
Alan Zimmerman, owner of Science Fiction, Mysteries, and More, died in 2009... Read more [...]
WorldCon lull
Off to WorldCon... Read more [...]
Moonwalker Neil Armstrong Dies
Neil A. Armstrong (1930-2012) was the first person to step foot on the Moon... Read more [...]
Author Josepha Sherman Dies
Author and folklorist Josepha Sherman (1946-2012) won the Compton Crook Award, wrote dozens of original and tie-in novels, and will probably be remembered for her massive volume Storytelling: An Encyclopedia of Mythology and Folklore... Read more [...]
Actor Jerry Nelson Dies
Voice actor and puppeteer Jerry Nelson played a major role in nearly every Muppet project since the 1970s. He voiced Count von Count and Mr. Snuffleupagus... Read more [...]
Analog’s November 2012 Issue
The November 2012 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact will feature fiction by Sarah K. Castle, Robert R. Chase, Daniel Hatch, Patty Jensen, Richard A. Lovett, Alastair Mayer & Brad R. Torgersen, Larry Niven, and Gray Rinehart... Read more [...]
Asimov’s October/November 2012 Issue
The October/November 2012 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction will feaure fiction by Vylar Kaftan, Jay Lake, Will Ludwigsen, Paul McAuley, Eugene Mirabelli, Kit Reed, Gray Rinehart, Ekaterina Sedia, Alan Smale, John Alfred Taylor, and Steven Utley... Read more [...]
SFScope transfer hiccups
As you can see, we're still working on the transfer of SFScope. One of the newest hiccups is e-mail: if you used the "Contact Us" form or e-mailed editor [at] sfscope [dot] com in the last few days, your message has probably disappeared into the aether between the old and the new servers. Now the new one is working, so do please write again.
And, if you wrote any time in the last two weeks and didn't get an expected response, the transfer seems to have wiped out all the older messages in my in-box, Read more [...]
SFScope is moving to a new home. We’re hoping you won’t notice.
You've probably noticed some changes here at SFScope. There will be more coming in the next few days.
What's happening is that we're switching back-ends and servers. Co-founder Al Beecy is opting out after five wonderful years backstopping me on all the technical issues associated with running 'Scope. In his place, Glenn Haumann is stepping in, and we're moving the site to a new home, where we'll be (at least loosely) affiliated with his ComicMix.
From your point of view, the biggest change will Read more [...]
Science Fiction Trails publishes All Martian Spectacular
Science Fiction Trails is published an All Martian Spectacular issue, with stories by Lou Antonelli, Lyn McConchie, David Lee Summers... Read more [...]
Director Tony Scott Dies
Director Tony Scott (1944-2012) directed action hits such as Top Gun and Days of Thunder, and co-produced with his brother Ridley sf films such as Prometheus and The Andromeda Strain... Read more [...]