Tag Archives: Science Fiction

2011 Nebula Awards Nominees Announced

The final ballot, from which the members of SFWA will choose this year's Nebula Award winners, has been announced... Read more [...]

Con ribbon manufacturer Kathie M. Spiss dies

Kathie M. Spiss (1943-2012) created a company that creates the ribbons found hanging from badges at conventions... Read more [...]

SF web pilot Eden introduces viewers to a sexy new world of secrets and intrigue

Pugh & Bloom and NELA Films debut a new story about a mysterious utopian society… and the man who could undo it all... Read more [...]

Gollancz signs debut SF novel from Mitch Benn

British musician/comedian Mitch Benn sold Gollancz two sf novels after a Twitter exchange with editor Simon Spanton... Read more [...]

Win a copy of Jar Jar Binks Must Die from the Amazing Stories Project

The Amazing Stories Project is giving away a copy of Daniel M. Kimmel's Jar Jar Binks Must Die to someone with sufficient movie knowledge... Read more [...]

SF and Jazz: A Marriage Made in a (Virtual) Heaven

Melding music's ghetto (jazz) with literature's (science fiction) was the genesis for Rod Rees' new sf series, The Demi-Monde... Read more [...]

SFWA Names Connie Willis Recipient of the 2011 Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award

Connie Willis will receive SFWA's Grand Master award in May at the Nebula Award ceremony in Arlington, Virginia... Read more [...]

Now available: photos from the first sf convention: 1937 in Leeds

Rob Hansen has unearthed and posted photos and reports of what may have been the first sf convention, in Leeds, UK, in 1937. He's also posted Forry Ackerman's 1957 WorldCon report... Read more [...]

Shared Worlds SF/Fantasy Teen Writing Camp: 2012 Guests, Registration, Donations, SW Book

Shared Worlds teen sf writing camp has announced the line-up of guest-instructors for 2012, along with the opening of the application process, and the release of a book... Read more [...]

James Gunn’s Ad Astra seeking submissions

James Gunn's Ad Astra is a resource for authors scholars and everyone else interested in speculative fiction, and now it's seeking submissions for the premier issue, 'Communication and Information'... Read more [...]

Lovegrove signs up for ‘man vs. the gods’ military SF sequel

James Lovegrove has sold Age of Voodoo, the newest in his Pantheon Series, to Solaris Books... Read more [...]

Imaginarium 2012 seeking “the best fiction and poetry” of 2011

Editors Sandra Kasturi and Halli Villegas are reading for a Canadian year's best anthology, which will be published by ChiZine and Tightrope... Read more [...]

Most Popular and Updated Articles: 27 November-3 December, and month of November 2011

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

Orbit Short Fiction to Launch Internationally

Orbit Books' Orbit Short Fiction is expanding beyond its starting US borders, offering original short fiction in electronic form in the UK and elsewhere... Read more [...]

Michael Rowley appointed Editorial Director of SF and Fantasy at Ebury Press

Michael Rowley is moving from retailing (a buyer for Waterstone's) to publishing as the new Editorial Director for Ebury's sf line... Read more [...]