Lightspeed Magazine’s May 2012 issue

The May 2012 issue of Lightspeed Magazine will feature fiction by Paolo Bacigalupi, Kage Baker, C.C. Finlay, Jeffrey Ford, Nicola Griffith, David Langford, Linda Nagata, Melanie Rawn, Kim Stanley Robinson, Catherynne M. Valente... Read more [...]

Dark Hall Press launches horror fiction line with Lorne Patterson’s debut novel Witch

New small-press publisher Dark Hall Press is launching its horror fiction line with Lorne Patterson's debut novel Witch... Read more [...]

Four guys walk into a deli…

Did you hear the one about Andrew Porter, Moshe Feder, David Hartwell, and John-Henri Holmberg at Katz's Deli... Read more [...]

HWA to host World Horror Convention 2013 in New Orleans

After shifting their annual Bram Stoker Awards weekend away from the World Horror Convention in odd-numbered years, the Horror Writers Association will be hosting the WHC in 2013... Read more [...]

Sigils & Signs: A Group Art Show

The art show Sigils & Signs, in Brooklyn, New York, features art evoking the mystical, magical, and other-worldly... Read more [...]

GSHW’s 18th Annual Writing Contest now on

The Garden State Horror Writers 18th Annual Writing Contest, including the Graversen Award, is now open. This year's theme is The Terror of Technology... Read more [...]

Author Michael Louis Calvillo Dies

Author Michael Louis Calvillo (1974-2012) was a two-time Stoker nominee, and wrote half a dozen other books in his brief career... Read more [...]

Sarah Zettel starts new series with a trilogy sale to Hougton Mifflin

Sarah Zettel sold the first three books in The Palace Intrigue Diaries to Houghton Mifflin... Read more [...]

Top Box Office Grossers: Fourth Week in April 2012

After four weeks at the top of the charts, a comedy and a drama push The Hunger Games out of the number one spot. But are they just clearing the path for The Avengers?... Read more [...]

Most Popular and Updated Articles: 22-28 April 2012

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

Enterprise is coming to town

In which SFScope Editor Ian Randal Strock takes the morning off to greet the arrival of Space Shuttle Test Vehicle Enterprise in New York City... Read more [...]

Author/Environmentalist Ernest “Chick” Callenbach Dies

Author/environmentalist Ernest Callenbach (1929-2012) was best known for his 1975 novel Ecotopia... Read more [...]

Radio Theatre presents H.P. Lovecraft and more horrors

New York City's Radio Theatre, an interactive theatrical event featuring classical story-telling techniques, is running overlapping showings of classic H.P. Lovecraft stories... Read more [...]

Short film from Zack Parson’s Liminal States now available online

A 13-minute live-action short film based on Zack Parson's novel Liminal States, directed by Dan Sollis, is now available online... Read more [...]

Asylum Press announces Zombie Terrors as a digital comic series

Asylum Press is reissuing its Zombie Terrors in multiple electronic forms as an ongoing series, and will introduce new content starting with issue 6... Read more [...]