HarperCollinsPublishers to Publish Official Tie-ins to The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and The Hobbit: There and Back Again Films

HarperCollins has acquired worldwide publishing rights to the books attached to the forthcoming two-movie series of The Hobbit, and plans a whole slew of novel editions, tie-ins, and more... Read more [...]

Analog’s June 2012 Issue

The June 2012 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact will feature fiction by Michael Alexander, Paul Carlson, N.M. Cedeno, Carl Frederick, Emily Mah, Jerry Oltion, Joe Pitkin, and Catherine Shaffer... Read more [...]

Asimov’s June 2012 Issue

The June 2012 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction will feature fiction by Megan Arkenberg, Alan DeNiro, Bruce McAllister, Jack McDevitt, Will McIntosh, Mercurio D. Rivera, Bud Sparhawk, and Kali Wallace... Read more [...]

Pottermore now open; Rowling generating more Potter material

After many delays, the Pottermore website is now open for people to sign up, though registrations may take a while to process in the crush. In other news, the Harry Potter encyclopedia is in the works... Read more [...]

Top Box Office Grossers: Second Week in April 2012

There was very little money running through the theatres this week, and very little movement on the charts for genre films, but The Hunger Games continues to chow down on the competition... Read more [...]

Most Popular and Updated Articles: 8-14 April 2012

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

2012 Prix Aurora Award Nominations

The final ballot for this year's Prix Aurora Awards, in English only (the French awards have been split out) has been released. The nominees are... Read more [...]

Adam-Troy Castro continuing Gustav Gloom series

Adam-Troy Castro sold World English rights to the fifth and sixth books in his forthcoming Gustav Gloom series to Jordan Hamessley at Grosset & Dunlap via agent Eddie Schneider... Read more [...]

Mark Hodder sells three new Burton and Swinburne books, plus foreign rights sales

Mark Hodder has sold three new Burton and Swinburne Adventures to Lou Anders at Pyr via Eddie Schneider at JABberwocky. Schneider also reports foreign rights sales for the series to the UK, Japan, and the Czech Republic... Read more [...]

Rusty Hevelin collection donated to the University of Iowa

Rusty Hevelin's century-spanning collection of pulp magazines, fanzines, and hardcover and paperback science fiction books has been donated to the University of Iowa Libraries... Read more [...]

Anthony DP Mann’s Terror of Dracula, coming soon to a festival near you

Canadian filmmaker Anthony DP Mann has decided to take the Dracula legend back to its roots in his newest film imagining of Bram Stoker's original bloodsucker in Terror of Dracula... Read more [...]

Choc Lit Signs Sarah Tranter’s Vampire Trilogy

Debut novelist Sarah Tranter sells a vampire trilogy to independent British publisher Choc Lit, which focuses on women's fiction with romantic content... Read more [...]

Journalist Hermione Eyre sells first novel to Jonathan Cape

Hermione Eyre writes for several British newspapers. Her first novel, Viper Wine, is set in the 1600s' court of King Charles I, with a potion that reverses aging... Read more [...]

Photographer Jay Kay Klein in hospice care

Photographer Jay Kay Klein, whose portraiture of science fiction personalities has been a mainstay of the field for decades, is in hospice treatment for oesophageal cancer... Read more [...]

Middle East Film and Comic Con and New York Comic Con Announce Strategic Relationship

The Middle East Film and Comic Con, which debuts this month in Abu Dhabi, is now a business partner of the New York Comic Con... Read more [...]