As Tartary Burns: adventure fantasy set in the days of Russian empire building

Riley Hogan's As Tartary Burns adds a magical element to Slavic myth when the Cossacks try to survive as they are desperately outnumbered by the Turks... Read more [...]

Sam Ston’e Jinx and Darkness snapped up by Telos

Sam Stone resold rights to her short science fiction novel The Darkness Within, and sold new horror trilogy The Jinx Chronicles, to Telos Publishing... Read more [...]

Nightmare Magazine’s February 2014 Issue

The seventeenth issue of John Joseph Adams’ online horror ‘zine Nightmare includes fiction by Gary Braunback, Adam-Troy Castro, Kat Howard, Tanith Lee... Read more [...]

World Fantasy Awards 2014 Judges Names

The judges for the 2014 World Fantasy Awards (for works published in 2013) have been empanelled, and are receiving material for consideration for the awards… Read more [...]

Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman Dies

Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman (1967-2014) won an Oscar and Golden Globe for portraying Truman Capote, was nominated for two Tony Awards for his stage work, and was appearing as a key character in the Hunger Games films... Read more [...]

Actor Maximilian Schell Dies

Austrian actor Maximilian Schell (1930-2014) won an Oscar and a Golden Globe for his role in Judgment at Nuremberg, and starred in The Black Hole... Read more [...]

Most Popular Articles: January 2014

The most popular SFScope articles during the last month... Read more [...]

Animation producer Arthur Rankin, Jr. Dies

Arthur Rankin, Jr. (1924-2014) was one-half of Rankin/Bass Productions, which was responsible for a slew of iconic animated specials, including Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Frosty the Snowman. He also earned a Hugo nomination for 1978's The Hobbit... Read more [...]

Daily Science Fiction’s February 2014 line-up

February’s offerings from Daily Science Fiction will include stories by G.O. Clark, Ken Liu, Jonathan Vos Post, Sylvia Spruck Wrigley... Read more [...]

Simon451: Novel-Writing Contest for Students

Simon451, the new sf imprint at Simon & Schuster, is running a novel writing contest open to students aged 18 and up, with a grand prize of a publishing contract and a $3,000 advance... Read more [...]

Film option deal for Adam nevill’s award-winning horror novel Last Days

Actor/screenwriter Adam Storke has optioned Adam Nevill's Last Days, Richard Lange's This Wicked World, and April Henry's The Night She Disappeared... Read more [...]

Back to the Future coming to the stage

Back to the Future's writer Bob Gale and director Robert Zemeckis have been in talks with London-based director Jamie Lloyd and producer Colin Ingram to bring the 30-year-old time-traveling film franchise to the stage in London, and are aiming to open next year... Read more [...]

Ira Nayman’s new book warns that You Can’t Kill the Multiverse

Elsewhen Press is releasing the sequel to Ira Nayman's Welcome to the Multiverse, with his newest comic look at reality... Read more [...]

Phoenix Pick’s Free Ebook for February: Kress’ The Body Human

Pick up a free copy of Nancy Kress’ The Body Human, for the month of February only, from Arc Manor Publishing. Also, check out their new bundle, including works by Anderson, Sawyer, Smith, Torgersen, Rusch, Herbert, Resnick, and Bracket... Read more [...]

Read Steven Erikson’s entire Malazan series in one ebook

Tor is releasing Steven Erikson's entire ten-volume Malazan series as one ebook bundle, with new cover art by Kekai Kotaki... Read more [...]