Most Popular Articles: 22-28 March 2009
The most popular SFScope articles during the last week...
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Tag Archives: US
2009 North American Discworld Convention updates
Membership rates will soon be increasing; the convention has already sold nearly half of the memberships available; and the convention hotel is filling up...
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Naruto Shippuden Episode 101 to stream live in the US simultaneously with Japanese release
Naruto Shippuden, the newest chapter in the Naruto anime series, will release simultaneously in Japan and the US on 26 March. Streaming live for free on the web site...
Read more [...] Fantagraphics to bring French graphic novelist Tardi to the US in a big way
French graphic novelist Jacques Tardi, who's original and adaptation works have garnered numerous awards in France, will be published in an ongoing English-language hardcover series by Fantagraphics Books...
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2008 Aeon Award Winners Announced
Albedo One has announced the €1000 winner of this year's Aeon Award, as well as the runners up...
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Anderson News may be forced into bankruptcy by publishers
Four major publishers have filed court papers to force magazine distributor Anderson News into bankruptcy...
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2009 Philip K. Dick Award Judges Named
The five judges of the 2009 Philip K. Dick Award for best original paperback science fiction novel have been named...
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Rocket scientist Konrad Dannenberg dies
German-born US rocket scientist Konrad Dannenberg (1912-2009) worked on the V-2 during World War II, and then played a role in the development of the US spaceflight program...
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Top Box Office Grossers for 2008
Variety has added up all the tickets sold to show us which movies made the most money in 2008, both in North America and worldwide. SF/F/H genre films own the top 10 at home, and only one non-genre film squeezed into the top 10 worldwide...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt confirms publication of “new” J.R.R. Tolkien book
Written before he wrote The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien's The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrùn is an English narrative retelling of old Norse epics...
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Steven Vander Ark’s The Lexicon published larger than planned
After losing their suit to publish the Harry Potter Lexicon, author Steve Vander Ark and publisher RDR Books have modified the work and released it as The Lexicon, with a much larger first printing...
Read more [...] Off to Arisia
This a long weekend here in the US, and also the weekend of Arisia, a major multi-tracked sf convention in Cambridge, Massachusetts. So we're out of here for the weekend. If you're coming to the con, I've posted my schedule here (in case you want to meet up to say hi). Or you can find me trying to be everywhere, enjoying myself at the con when I'm not on panels.
If you're not going to the convention, but do live here in the northeast, stay inside and stay warm.
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Asylum Press offering free comics for newsletter subscribers
Asylum Press is offering three free comic books to readers who sign up for their newsletter...
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Pyr buys US rights to James Barclay’s “Chronicles of the Raven” trilogy
James Barclay sold US rights to the gritty epic fantasy trilogy "Chronicles of the Raven" to Lou Anders at Pyr...
Read more [...] Joel Shepherd’s epic fantasy quartet coming to US via Pyr
Australian author Joel Shepherd sold US rights to Sasha: A Trial of Blood & Steel to Lou Anders at Pyr. Anders calls it "very politically savvy stuff..."
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