Author Archives: Ian Randal Strock

Karen A. Romanko’s Retro Spec offers tales of fantasy and nostalgia

Karen A. Romanko's newest anthology is Retro Spec: Tale of Fantasy and Nostalgia offers speculative looks at fads of the recently finished century... Read more [...]

Gill Ainsworth’s The Blackness Within: Stories of the Pagan God Moccus now available, at a discount

Gill Ainsworth's latest anthology is the dark The Blackness Within: Stories of the Pagan God Moccus, from Apex Publications, and there's a 20%-off coupon for one week... Read more [...]

Analog’s November 2010 issue

The November 2010 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact will feature fiction by Michael A. Armstrong, Carl Frederick, Richard A. Lovett & Mark Niemann-Ross, Allen M. Steele, Brad R. Torgersen, and Jay Werkheiser... Read more [...]

Leah Hultenschmidt lands at Sourcebooks’ Casablanca

Former Dorchester editorial director Leah Hultenschmidt has been hired by Sourcebooks as a senior editor for their Casablanca romance imprint... Read more [...]

John Joseph Adams’ The Living Dead 2 now has its own web site with free offerings

Editor John Joseph Adams launches a web site for his newest zombie anthology, The Living Dead 2, and offers eight of the 44 stories for free on the site... Read more [...]

Everybody’s got Saltation now

Copies of Sharon Lee and Steve Miller's Saltation, for those who pre-supported with a donation of $25 or more, should all have been received by now. If you haven't received one you were due... Read more [...]

The Washington Shakespeare Company goes back to the original, Klingon, for a special performance

As a special fundraising event celebrating 20 years of cutting-edge Shakespearean performances, the Washington Shakespeare Ccompany presents "By Any Other Name: An Evening of Shakespeare in Klingon" with special guest George Takei, on 25 September... Read more [...]

Top Box Office Grossers: Fourth Week in August 2010

A pretty poor week for sf/f/h films, with everything slipping down the charts except sucking vampires and a toothy nanny... Read more [...]

Most Popular and Updated Articles: 22-28 August 2010

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

Black Library to publish new download-only magazine

Black Library's Hammer and Bolter will be a combination of tie-ins to BL's novels, serialized novels, and other fiction. The debut issue features an unpublished John Brunner story... Read more [...]

Mark Charan Newton’s first two fantasy novels sell in Germany

VGS Egmont will publish Mark Charan Newton's Nights of Villjamur and City of Ruin under their Lyx imprint... Read more [...]

Pinocchio: Vampire Slayer returning from SLG Publishing

Writer Van Jensen and artist Dustin Higgins continue the tale of Pinocchio: Vampire Slayer in this October's The Great Puppet Theater... Read more [...]

Orbit Books and sister imprint Sphere are hiring editorial assistants

SF publisher Orbit Books and thriller publisher Sphere Fiction are both hiring editorial assistants to work in London... Read more [...]

Tor Books hiring two paid interns for Fall 2010

Tor Books is taking applications to fill two slots for paid editorial interns for the Fall 2010 semester... Read more [...]

DailyScienceFiction.com launches 1 September with e-mailed and posted stories

DailyScienceFiction.com will e-mail a new story every weekday to subscribers, and then post the story a week later on the web. For writers, they're paying eight cents a word... Read more [...]