Author Archives: Ian Randal Strock

James DeMaiolo replaces Matt Staggs as Tachyon’s Publicist

Tachyon Publications' Publicist Matt Staggs is leaving after three years with the company. James DeMaiolo is replacing him on an interim basis... Read more [...]

Clockwork Phoenix 3 giveaway

Book review blog Calico Reaction is giving away Clockwork Phoenix 3 for the cost of an e-mail... Read more [...]

Jon Sprunk delivers Shadow’s Lure to Pyr

Agent Eddie Schneider of JABberwocky reports that Jon Sprunk has delivered Shadow's Lure to Lou Anders at Pyr... Read more [...]

Agent Ralph Vicinanza Dies

Literary agent Ralph Vicinanza died at the age of 60. He represented some of the biggest names in science fiction... Read more [...]

Tobias Buckell sells “The Executioness” to Subterranean

Tobias Buckell's stand-alone novella The Executioness is already available for pre-order as both limited and trade editions... Read more [...]

Mark Waid and The Hero Initiative are seeking supermarket customers in CA, NV, IL, and IN

Shoppers with rewards cards from Ralphs, Food4Less, Cala Foods, and Bell Markets can register to have donations based on their purchases donated to The Hero Initiative... Read more [...]

2010 Sunburst Award Winners

A.M. Dellamonica and Hiromi Goto are the winners of this year's Sunburst Awards for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic... Read more [...]

Top Box Office Grossers: Third Week in September 2010

New films open, genre films make a fair showing, and horror tops the sf/f/h movies in release this week… Read more [...]

Most Popular and Updated Articles: 19-25 September 2010

The most popular SFScope articles during the last week, as well as those which were updated... Read more [...]

Appearances: January-March 2011

Author and artist readings and signings for the first quarter of 2011. This list is updated as we get more information, until the end of March 2011. Read more [...]

Gilman’s Weight of Stone feels a little heavy, but it still holds the attention

Weight of Stone may be the middle volume of a trilogy, but the world is still gripping and entertaining, and Jerzy is still growing into his magical birthright... Read more [...]

Harlan Ellison announces his impending departure

This weekend's Guest of Honor appearance at MadCon will be Harlan Ellison's last convention appearance. He has announced that he feels he is dying... Read more [...]

How not to contact us

Lately, we've been getting a spate of messages consisting of nothing but a link (or two or three). Sometimes the subject line seems descriptive, implying that the message might be legitimate. But as a fair warning to our correspondents, any message consisting of just a link will be deleted unclicked... Read more [...]

Radical Publishing asks its FB friends to “review and win”

Review Radical Publishing's Driver for the Dead on Facebook for a chance to win signed comics... Read more [...]

Roby James reading for Warrior Wisewoman 4

Editor Roby James is now reading for the fourth installment of her annual Warrior Wisewoman anthology series, published by Norilana Books... Read more [...]