Editor Ian Randal Strock’s New Place on the Web
SFScope Editor Ian Randal Strock has started a new blog, uspresidents.livejournal.com, supporting his forthcoming book...
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Tag Archives: US
Electric Velocipede subscription drive
The small press 'zine is offering a package deal that includes everything John Klima will edit/publish into the future...
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Devi Pillai promoted to Senior Editor at Orbit
Devi Pillair has been promoted to Senior Editor at Orbit Books, having been with the firm since the US office opened two years ago...
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Stephen Hunt’s The Rise of the Iron Moon moved to February publication
The sequel to The Kingdom Beyond the Waves will be published in hardcover in February. Waves, the sequel to The Court of the Air, was just re-released in paperback. And author Stephen Hunt has something to say about the new book...
Read more [...] Editor & Publisher Robert Giroux Dies
Editor and publisher Robert Giroux (1914-2008) had his name on a major US publisher, and his finger in the works of many major US and European authors...
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Books Received: September 2008
Books received for review during the month of September 2008. This page is updated throughout the month.
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Review of Plague War by Jeff Carlson
Excellent worldbuilding and extrapolation lead to unfortunately horrible, depressing thoughts. But it's a good story, worth the read...
Read more [...] Your final chances to win a copy of the Masters of Science Fiction DVD
This is it: SFScope has given away seven copies of the Masters of Science Fiction DVD, and has only three left, which will be awarded this week to...
Read more [...] Cover to Cover Day celebrating ten years of Harry Potter in the US
To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the first US publication of Harry Potter, publisher Scholastic is offering fans a chance to sit in author J.K. Rowling's throne and participate in a read-a-thon...
Read more [...] R. Scott Bakker sells dark thrillers to Tor, Penguin Canada, Orion UK, and elsewhere
Fantasy author R. Scott Bakker has sold Neuropath and an untitled sequel, both dark thrillers, to Tor in the US, Penguin Canada, Orion UK, and...
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New Riverworld tv option, and other PJFarmer news
Chris Lotts at the Ralph Vicinanza Agency reports selling "a major TV option" on Philip Jose Farmer's Riverworld series to Hallmark Productions via Vince Gerardis at Created By. Lotts also sold rights to Dare, and remarks on...
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Six chances to win a copy of the Masters of Science Fiction DVD
We've still got six copies of the Masters of Science Fiction DVD to give away, and you can get one of three this week. All you have to do is...
Read more [...] WorldCon 2010
WorldCon 2010 will be Aussiecon 4, the fourth World Science Fiction Convention to be held in Australia, and the 18th to be held outside the United States...
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Win a copy of the Masters of Science Fiction DVD
SFScope is still giving away copies of the new Masters of Science Fiction DVD, which contains all six episodes (includes the two which never aired)...
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Further to Lucasfilm/Ainsworth suit over Star Wars storm trooper helmets
Further to this article from April, about Lucasfilm's suit against Andrew Ainsworth of Shepperton Design Studios over copyright infringement for Ainsworth's sale of Star Wars storm trooper outfits, there is now a ruling. High Court judge anthony Mann has issued what is basically a split decision: he ruled that Ainsworth did violate Lucasfilm's US copyrights by selling the helmets to customers in the US. However, he also ruled that, in Britain, the English copyrights had expired. Further, Mann refused Read more [...]