Author Archives: Ian Randal Strock

MIT’s Tech Review publishes original anthology inspired by today’s new technologies

MIT Technology Review's Twelve Tomorrow's features stories by Brian W. Aldiss, David Brin, Greg Egan, Nancy Kress, Ian McDonald, Allen M. Steele... Read more [...]

Alan Lee caught up in The Desolation of Smaug

This year's World Fantasy Convention's Artist Guest of Honor Alan Lee's work on the second Hobbit movie is running over schedule, preventing him from attending the convention... Read more [...]

Artist Ian Schoenherr looking for paintings of Dune

Artist Ian Schoenherr is trying to track down the original art his father, artist John Schoenherr, created to illustrate Frank Herbert's Dune series... Read more [...]

Books Received: first half of October 2013

Books received for review during the first half of October 2013… Read more [...]

Multiple sales for Kelly Link

Kelly Link sold rights to her new collection in the US and the UK, as well as a new novel in the US, and reprint rights to an earlier collection... Read more [...]

Convention weekend

New York ComicCon and Capclave this weekend... Read more [...]

Harper Voyager to Host a Digital Book Signing at NY ComicCon (powered by Autography)

HarperVoyager is giving away personally signed e-books via Autography Friday evening at New York ComicCon, and the technology behind it looks pretty darn cool... Read more [...]

2013 Prix Aurora Award Winners

This winners of this year's Prix Aurora Awards, for Canadian speculative fiction, are... Read more [...]

Author Philip Nutman Dies

Horror author Philip Nutman (1963-2013) wrote one Bram Stoker-nominated novel, co-wrote a feature film, and worked in shorter forms... Read more [...]

Agent Dot Lumley Dies

British literary agent Dorothy "Dot" Lumley has died... Read more [...]

Author Tom Clancy Dies

Author Tom Clancy (1947-2013) created the Jack Ryan series of near-future technothrillers... Read more [...]

Apex Magazine’s October 2013 Issue

Apex Magazine’s 53rd issue includes fiction by Shira Lipkin, Kelly McCullough, Mari Ness, Damien Angelica Walters... Read more [...]

Destinies to focus on The Shining, comics, Cthulhu, and Poe

Destinies, the science fiction radio program broadcasting from SUNY Stony Brook, will feature programs on alternative interpretations of The Shining, New York Comic Con, Patrick Thomas, and Edgar Allan Poe... Read more [...]

Nightmare Magazine’s October 2013 Issue

The thirteenth issue of John Joseph Adams’ online horror ‘zine Nightmare includes fiction by Norman Partridge, Kaaron Warren, Megan Arkenberg, and Alaya Dawn Johnson... Read more [...]

Fan Elliot Kay Shorter Dies

Elliot Kay Shorter (1939-2013) was the 1970 TAFF representative to Europe, and owned rare sf bookstore Merlin's Closet in Providence, Rhode Island... Read more [...]

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