Tag Archives: Science Fiction

Dell Magazines Award for Undergraduate Excellence in SF/F Writing

Josh Eure of North Carolina State University won this year's Dell Magazines Award for his short story "We Were Real"... Read more [...]

Sharon Lee and Steve Miller selling pre-publication subscriptions to Double Vision

The authors will be publishing Double Vision, a collection of more than 25 stories, poems, and more, in late June, but it will only be available to those who pre-subscribe... Read more [...]

Second Shirley Jackson Award Nominees Announced

The finalists for the second annual Shirley Jackson Awards—honoring the best in psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic—have been announced. The nominees are... Read more [...]

2009’s Science Fiction Hall of Fame Inductees

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame at the Science Fiction Museum (Seattle, Washington), has announced this year's inductees, who will be... Read more [...]

SF collector Chester D. Cuthbert dies

Canadian fan and sometime-writer Chester D. Cuthbert donated a library of more than 60,000 books and magazines to the University of Alberta... Read more [...]

2009 SFRA Award Winners Announced

The winners of this year's Science Fiction Research Association's awards, which will be handed out at the conference in June, are... Read more [...]

Wiley publishing three studies of science fiction

Wiley-Blackwell is releasing Philosophy in the Twilight Zone, The Science Fiction Handbook, and Science Fiction and Philosophy in the coming months, focusing on sf's connections with and relations to the real world... Read more [...]

2008 Compton Crook Award Finalists

The Compton Crook Award, for new sf author who wrote the best sf novel of 2008, is given by the Baltimore Science Fiction Society. The nominees are... Read more [...]

35th Annual Saturn Award Nominees

The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror Films has announced the nominees for its 35th Annual Saturn Awards (in 30 categories)... Read more [...]

Why does Oscar hate SF?

SFScope reviewer Sarah Stegall takes the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to task for an 81-year history of slighting science fiction, fantasy, and horror movies... Read more [...]

We Can Forget it for You Wholesale—a review of Dollhouse’s “Ghost”

A less-than-thrilling pilot is not the way to start the new Joss Whedon series, but let's see if he can wrench it around to the quality we know he can produce... (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.) Read more [...]

Joss Whedon to receive Bradbury Award from SFWA

Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America President Russell Davis is giving the organization's Bradbury Award to Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy, Firefly, Dollhouse... Read more [...]

Books Received: February 2009

Books received for review during the month of February 2009. This page is updated throughout the month. Read more [...]

Interview with SFWA President Russell Davis about the changes to the Nebula Award rules

SFWA President Russell Davis discusses some of the reasoning behind the recent overhaul of the Nebula Award rules, and what the Board of Directors hopes the changes will do to the entire awards process... Read more [...]

Lee Gimenez sells short story to Nature Physics

Lee Gimenez's "A Safe or Hopeful Future" appeared in the November 2008 issue of Nature Physics... Read more [...]