Most Popular and Updated Articles: 15-21 July 2012
The most-viewed SFScope articles during the past week (15-21 July 2012) were: 1. Fredric Brown is this year’s Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award honoree (News/Awards, 14 July 2012) 2. Adventuring in...
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My apologies for the silence here the last two weeks. Family needs pulled me away from the keyboard. At the same time, there are some changes going on back here, behind the scenes, the results of which...
View ArticleMost Popular and Updated Articles: 5-11 August 2012
The most-viewed SFScope articles during the past week (5-11 August 2012) were: 1. Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch announce new anthology series (News/Books, 6 August 2012) 2. 2012 World...
View ArticleMost Popular and Updated Articles: 12-18 August 2012
The most-viewed SFScope articles during the past week (12-18 August 2012) were: 1. Actor Ron Palillo Dies (People/Obituaries, 14 August 2012) 2. Harry Potter lengths: books vs. films...
View ArticleSFScope is moving to a new home. We’re hoping you won’t notice.
You’ve probably noticed some changes here at SFScope. There will be more coming in the next few days. What’s happening is that we’re switching back-ends and servers. Co-founder Al Beecy is opting out...
View ArticleSFScope transfer hiccups
As you can see, we’re still working on the transfer of SFScope. One of the newest hiccups is e-mail: if you used the “Contact Us” form or e-mailed editor [at] sfscope [dot] com in the last few days,...
View ArticleWorldCon lull
Just as SFScope is finishing up the move to a new server and a new back office, we’re going into our WorldCon lull. As you read this, we’re on the way to Chicago for WorldCon, and won’t be back until...
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My view of Chicon 7
I’ve been trying to write a review of this year’s World Science Fiction Convention, but I’ve finally realized there’s no way for one person to review a convention that had 12 or more tracks of...
View ArticleThe American Apocalypse
© 2012 by Sarah Stegall. We are fascinated by the breakdown of the old order, and the rise of the new. It’s in America’s DNA: the first European colonists moved from the high point of what the current...
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Tricks and Treats: NYRSF Readings Series’ Night in Haunted October
On the evening of Tuesday, 23 October (the fourth Tuesday of the month), after rescheduling the date twice and making changes in the lineup of readers (one on-site!), the New York Review of Science...
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A multi-time, multi-dimensional, multi-star movie with very few clouds and no...
Cloud Atlas Directed and Screenplay by Tom Tykwer, Andy Wachowski, and Lana Wachowski Based on the novel by David Mitchell Starring: Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, Hugo Weaving, Jim Sturgess,...
View ArticleHere comes the rain…
The massive SFScope corporate offices are located in Brooklyn, New York. We’re not in one of the lowest-lying areas, which have already been ordered to evacuate, and we expect to be just fine, but we...
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Flight of Fancy: The Family Forge by Ariel Cinii
Fiction –literature and cinema – has, over the years, given us a wealth of floating and flying cities – Gulliver’s levitating Laputa, the floating Hawkmen city of Flash Gordon, hovering Mt. Flatten of...
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Argo turns history into excitement, without messing up the history
Argo Directed by Ben Affleck Written by Joshuah Bearman and Chris Terrio Based on the book by Tony Mendez Starring Ben Affleck, Alan Arkin, Victor Garber, and John Goodman 120 minutes Argo is one of...
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Ivan takes center stage to continue the Vorkosigan Saga, and he does it with...
Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance by Lois McMaster Bujold. Baen, $25.00, 428pp, hc, 9781451638455. Science fiction. What do you do when your quasi-cousin the ImpSec spy shows up at your door in the middle...
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Before, During and After: NYRSF Readings Presents Visions of Catastrophe
On the evening of Tuesday, 20 November 2012, the New York Review of Science Fiction Readings Series showcased After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia, the latest original anthology from...
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Sometimes you have to travel to the Moon to grow up
Apollo’s Outcasts by Allen Steele. Pyr, $16.95, 311pp, hc, 9781616146863. YA science fiction. In the 1940s and 1950s, Robert A. Heinlein wrote a series of twelve “juvenile” novels that were hits, and...
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Family Reunion: NYRSF Readings’“Family Night” Again Features Ellen Kushner &...
On the evening of Tuesday, 4 December 2012, at its current venue, the SoHo Gallery for Digital Art, the New York Review of Science Fiction Readings Series celebrated the December Holidays Season with...
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Unexpectedly average
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Directed by Peter Jackson Written by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, and Guillermo del Toro. Based on the novel The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien Starring Ian...
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Would you like a little comedy with your impending doom?
The Coffee Table Book of Doom by Steven Appleby & Art Lester. Plume, $20.00, 200pp, hc, 9780452298668. Comedy. Y2K didn’t get us. The Mayan end-of-time apparently wasn’t. So what do you have to...
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