Naomi Novik provides news on the forthcoming fourth and fifth volumes of her Temeraire series, along with some about translations and awards for earlier books, and a promise...
Author Jeff Carlson has launched a new web site, coinciding with the upcoming publication of his first novel, Plague Year. He'll be adding information on a contest...
Amusing excerpts from a publicity interview with new author David Bilsborough, discussing the genesis of his novel, The Wanderer's Tale, and his opinion of the internet.
Adam and Zetta Golaski became the parents of Elizabeth Golaski the morning of 7 July 2007, during Readercon. All are well, and the birth is their explanation for their sudden absence from the convention...
Joe Haldeman will be talking at the Hemingway Museum in Oak Park, Illinois. His talk, honoring the 108th anniversary of Ernest Hemingway's birth, will discuss his famous 1935 article "Monologue to the Maestro: A High Seas Letter"....
Author Lewis Shiner has decided to embrace the spread of the internet and its effect on fiction magazines. Toward that end, he has announced the Fiction Liberation Front, and is uploading all his short fiction to his web site for free downloading...
Dinner with Joss Whedon during the San Diego Comic Con is the prize for five deep-pocketed donors who win the auction on Ebay. There are also items up for auction for fans who can't be in San Diego...
Editor Ian Randal Strock's appearance on Jim Freund's Hour of the Wolf was actually on another show on Monday 25 June. The program is archived and available online...
Quick reminder: SFScope Editor Ian Randal Strock is appearing on Cat Radio Cafe on New York City's WBAI 99.5 FM from 2 to 3PM today. Details on catching the online streamed version of the show are available in this article.
Author Greg Bear appeared on Comedy Central's The Daily Show Thursday 21 June. He talked about his new book, Quantico, his role advising the government on security matters, and terrorism in this 8-minute...
SFScope editor Ian Randal Strock was originally scheduled to appear on Jim Freund's Hour of the Wolf, but the program is being pre-empted. Instead, they'll both be appearing on Monday afternoon on Cat Radio Café...
Ellen Datlow's photos of last night's KGB Fantastic Fiction Series—readings from Interfictions—are now available on Flickr. The 52 photos include shots of...
Author Greg Bear will be appearing on Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart this Thursday, 21 June. The comedy news show show airs at 11PM. According to Bear's web site...
Author Michael A. Burstein, as president of the Society for the Preservation of Pluto as a Planet, is quoted extensively in the National Geographic article detailing the dwarf planet's demotion from king of the dwarfs...
Biographer Charles J. Shields continues work on And So It Goes, the biography of Kurt Vonnegut he was writing at the time of Vonnegut's death. He is looking for people who had memorable encounter with Vonnegut...
J.K. Rowling will visit three US cities in October, doing three reading/talk events for schoolchildren, and a fourth for any Harry Potter fan who wins a sweepstakes sponsored by Scholastic...
...not so much a joke as an unplanned gathering in the halls of publisher Tor Books. Editor Moshe Feder, authors Rudy Rucker and Gary K. Wolf, and archbishop and author John J. Myers (along with editor David Hartwell behind the camera).
