Top Box Office Grossers: Third Week in May 2012

A new sf action flick opens with a boom, but it's not enough to defeat The Avengers in their third week at the top of the charts... Read more [...]

Most Popular and Updated Articles: 20-26 May 2012

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

Balticon weekend

Off to Balticon for the weekend. See y'all next week (unless we see some of you this weekend)... Read more [...]

Worldcon Announces Membership Sale for Memorial Day

This year's WorldCon is cutting the cost of attending memberships by $20, but only on Monday, May 28... Read more [...]

Fourth Progress Report for Chicon 7 Mailed

Chicon 7, this year's WorldCon, is now sending out Progress Report #4, which includes the Hugo and 2014 Sit Selection ballots... Read more [...]

T.C. McCarthy wins Compton Crook Award

Germline by T.C. McCarthy (published by Orbit) is the winner of this year's Compton Crook Award... Read more [...]

Charlie Jane Anders and Brian Francis Slattery don their writer hats to read and answer questions at special NYRSF Reading

At a special NYRSF reading event, guest curator Liz Gorinsky introduced editor/musician/writer Brian Francis Slattery and editor/writer/reader Charlie Jane Anders for fascinating readings and an equally engrossing joint interview... Read more [...]

Alchemy Press publishes limited edition Peter Atkins collection

Rumours of the Marvellous by Peter Atkins contains fourteen stories, including one original to this collection, and is limited to 250 signed and numbered copies... Read more [...]

At the Edge: Art of the Fantastic showing at Allentown Art Museum (June-September)

The Allentown Art Museum (Pennsylvania) will be hosting At the Edge: Art of the Fantastic from June to September. The show is guest curated by Patrick and Jeannie Wilshire, and features works by Paul Lehr, James Gurney... Read more [...]

Audible buys audio rights to Cecilia Tan’s The Prince’s Boy

Author and publisher Cecilia Tan has sold the audio rights to her gay high fantasy adventure, The Prince's Boy, volumes 1 and 2, to acquiring editor Susie Bright at Audible.com. The books were originally published by Circlet Press last year. Read more [...]

2012 Mythopoeic Award Finalists Announced

The nominees for the 2012 Mythopoeic Awards for fantastical literature and studies thereof are... Read more [...]

2012 Campbell and Sturgeon Award Finalists

The finalists for this year's John W. Campbell Memorial Award (for best science fiction novel of 2011) and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (for best short science fiction story of 2011) have been announced. They are... Read more [...]

2012 Hugo Voter Packet Released

This year's Hugo Voter Packet, containing electronic copies of nominated works, is now available to Supporting, Attending, and Young Adult members of WorldCon. The packet is available until voting closes, at the end of July... Read more [...]

The Journal of Unlikely Entomology’s third now available

The Journal of Unlikely Entomology's third issue is now available online, with seven illustrated stories by... Read more [...]

Kick Books presents Harlan Ellison juvenile delinquent fiction

Before his ground-breaking science fiction, Harlan Ellison wrote Juvenile Delinquent fiction (usually under pseudonyms). Kick Books is now republishing the first volume of that JD fiction, Pulling a Train... Read more [...]