Chip Kidd will be talking about Bat-Manga! at New York's Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art, Paul Levitz will be teaching a master class in writing, and space is still available at MoCCA Fest...
https://www.sfscope.com/2012/01/chip-kidd-paul-levitz-and-more-upcoming-at-mocca/
Membership rates for Chicon 7, the 2012 World Science Fiction Convention, will increase on Saturday...
https://www.sfscope.com/2011/09/chicon-7-membership-rates-increase-oct-1st/
Toshiaki Iwashiro's Psyren follows a teenager and his friends as they embark on a dangerous adventure to alter the future and save the world...
A race of genetically modified humans battles genocide and extinction in The Cage of Zeus by Sayuri Ueda, new from Viz Media's Haikasoru imprint...
https://www.sfscope.com/2011/09/the-cage-of-zeus-combines-gender-politics-and-hard-sf/
Japanese author Sakyo Komatsu (1931-2011) was best known for his 1973 novel Japan Sinks, brought to public awareness again following the earthquake/tsunami that struck his homeland earlier this y...
https://www.sfscope.com/2011/08/japanese-author-sakyo-komatsu-dies/
Japanese filmmaker and artist Satoshi Kon (1963-2010) started in manga and moved into film, using sf elements in his literary films...
https://www.sfscope.com/2010/08/japanese-filmmaker-satoshi-kon-dies/
JABberwocky Literary Agency's latest batch of foreign rights sales includes books by Jack Campbell, Simon R. Green, Charlaine Harris, and Tanya Huff, in Czech, France, Japan, the Netherlands, Pol...
Books received for review during the month of May 2010. This page is updated throughout the month.
Who says it won't be a sixteen-year-old girl who makes first contact with a nonhuman intelligence? Do you know what we'll do if she does? Once again, Robert J. Sawyer presents an engrossing novel...
JABberwocky Literary Agency's latest batch of foreign rights sales includes books by Peter V. Brett, Jack Campbell, Adam-Troy Castro, Jim C. Hines, and Tanya Huff in France, Japan, Poland, Russia...
Takumi Shibano (1926-2010) was one of the founders of Japanese fandom, an author, and a translator, who was twice a Guest of Honor at the World Science Fiction Convention...
https://www.sfscope.com/2010/01/japanese-authortranslatorfan-takumi-shibano-dies/
Lucasfilm has signed a partnership deal with Reed Exhibitions to commence with next year's Star Wars Celebration V, in August in Orlando, Florida...
Back to basics: focusing on the people and how the Flashforward affects them turns in a much better episode... (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.)
https://www.sfscope.com/2009/11/flash-lightflashforwards-believe/
Books received for review during the month of September 2009. This page is updated throughout the month.
https://www.sfscope.com/2009/09/books-received-september-2009/
JABberwocky Literary Agency keeps up its steady flow of foreign rights sales. This time, they're reporting sales for Peter V. Brett, Tobias Buckell, Jack Campbell, Tanya Huff, Katherine Kurtz & D...
Not a great week for sf/f/h films, but then again, not a great week for the movies overall (back to school probably had something to do with shrinking box-office revenues)...
https://www.sfscope.com/2009/09/top-box-office-grossers-second-week-of-september-3/
No movement at the top of the charts, but the recently released 9 worked its way into a respectable slot after a scant two days in the theatres...
https://www.sfscope.com/2009/09/top-box-office-grossers-first-week-of-september-3/
A very strong week for sf/f/h movies, with none falling out of the top 25, but two new opening at the top of the charts, and one climbing back up into the rankings...
https://www.sfscope.com/2009/09/top-box-office-grossers-fifth-week-of-august/
VIZ Media will publish Horoyuki Asada's Tegami Bachi: Letter Bee in North America. In the steampunk/action manga storyline, messenger risk their lives crossing a pitch-black wilderness infested w...
Author, poet, and editor Gene Van Troyer (1950-2009) was born in the US, but lived in Japan, and was the driving force behind Speculative Japan...
https://www.sfscope.com/2009/08/author-gene-van-troyer-dies/