Farscape #1 sells out in less than a week
The distributor sold out of the first of the comic-book follow-on to the television series in five days, but copies are still available in retail stores...
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Yearly Archives: 2008
Elastic Press is shutting down in an orderly fashion
Small UK publisher Elastic Press, which has focused on single-author collections by virtual unkowns, is closing down after six years...
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NYRSF Readings moving around the corner
The New York Review of Science Fiction Reading Series, starting with the 6 January Edgar Allan Poe event, will move to a different space within the South Street Seaport Museum...
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Artist Edd Cartier Dies
Golden age sf illustrator Edd Cartier (1914-2008) won the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1992. He was most closely...
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The Left Hand of Darkness optioned
Screenwriter/director Will Phillips has optioned Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness for feature film rights, via agent Bill Contardi of the Virginia Kidd Agency. Le Guin's 1969 classic takes place on "the world of Winter, introducing us to its inhabitants, the Gethenians-whose society is not based on gender roles."
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Top Box Office Grossers: Fourth Week in December
It's holiday time, it's genre movie time. Lots of films for the sf/f/h fan taking in lots of money this week...
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Review of Agent to the Stars by John Scalzi
John Scalzi's first novel, now in a widely available format, is a good story, and will hold your interest to the end...
Read more [...] Most Popular Articles: 21-27 December 2008
The most popular SFScope articles during the last week...
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Singer/Actress Eartha Kitt Dies
Singer/actress/performer Eartha Kitt (1927-2008) was Catwoman on the 1960s' Batman and had a dozen other sf/f/h roles, but was known world-wide as a sex-symbol, singer...
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Playwright Harold Pinter Dies
Playwright Harold Pinter (1930-2008) won the Nobel Prize for Literature and a Tony Award for best play. He was also a director, actor, and producer, and involved in...
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Editor Thomas B. Congdon, Jr., Dies
Editor Thomas Boss Congdon, Jr. (1931-2008) edited many best-sellers and honored books, including Peter Benchley's Jaws...
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Author Leo Frankowski Dies
Author Leo Frankowski (1943-2008) was the author of the "Adventures of Conrad Stargard" series and another eight novels...
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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..."
Read more [...] Matthew Sturges sells sequel to Midwinter to Pyr
Matthew Sturges sold The Office of Shadow to Lou Anders at Pyr. The espionage meets epic fantasy story is the sequel to Midwinter...
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