Author Archives: Ian Randal Strock

Paula Guran reading (reprints) for The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror

Editor Paula Guran is reading for the second installment of her new series, The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror and looking for stories published in 2010... Read more [...]

Top Box Office Grossers: Second Week in June 2010

Two new films push everything down two spots, but otherwise, leave the rankings mostly unchanged. The box office receipts were really concentrated at the top of the charts, but we're watching for more Toys next week... Read more [...]

Most Popular and Updated Articles: 13-19 June 2010

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

London Bubble Theatre Company to present Kurt Vonnegut’s The Sirens of Titan

The London Bubble Theatre Company, presenting professional theatrical performances outdoors in the parks of London, will this summer be staging an adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's The Sirens of Titan... Read more [...]

Writers and Illustrators of the Future quarterly winners and new judges

The Writers and Illustrators of the Future announced the first quarterly winners of the contests' 27th year, and named three new judges to the writers' panel... Read more [...]

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter collaborating on Pratchett’s The Long Earth

Before Terry Pratchett's Discworld series became such a huge hit, he started work on The Long Earth, but he put it aside. Now, with the help of Stephen Baxter, it will be finished and published by Transworld... Read more [...]

Futures-Past republishing To Make a Hero and This Planet is Mine

Randall Garrett's To Make a Hero is the first of his rare Leland Hale stories, while C.H. Thames's This Planet is Mine follows extrahuman Johnny Mayhem... Read more [...]

JABberwocky reports foreign rights sales for Campbell, Green, Harris, Hines, Huff, and Richardson

JABberwocky Literary Agency's latest batch of foreign rights sales includes books by Jack Campbell, Simon R. Green, Charlaine Harris, Jim C. Hines, Tanya Huff, and Kat Richardson, in Czech, France, Germany, and Taiwan... Read more [...]

Tanya Huff sells werewolf novel and Enchantment Emporium sequel to DAW

Tanya Huff sold an as-yet untitled fantasy werewolf novel to Sheila Gilbert at DAW, for publication next year. Following that will be a sequel to her 2009 novel The Enchantment Emporium... Read more [...]

2010 British Fantasy Award Nominees

The British Fantasy Society announced the nominees for the twelve categories of British Fantasy Awards. The winners will be announced in September. The nominees are... Read more [...]

Patrick Lundrigan wins Jim Baen Memorial Writing Contest

The fourth annual Jim Baen Memorial Writing Contest winner is "Space Hero" by last year's runner up, Patrick Lundrigan... Read more [...]

Mythic Delirium’s new featured poems include a father-daughter translation effort

The newest featured poems on the Mythic Delirium web site include works by Susan Slaviero, Shweta Narayan, and Amal El-Mohtar, the last paired with its translation by the poet's father... Read more [...]

J.G. Ballard’s literary archives ceded to the British Library

Fifteen boxes of J.G. Ballard's literary archives have been given to the British Library, where the full contents should be available to the public starting next summer... Read more [...]

Win an authentic Vonda N. McIntyre “beaded sea creature”

The celebrate the e-book publication of Vonda N. McIntyre's The Moon and the Sun, BookViewCafe is offering photo captioneers a chance to win an authentic Vonda N. McIntyre Beaded Sea Creature' Read more [...]

Editor, bibliographer, and anthologist Everett F. Bleiler dies

Editor, anthologist, and bibliographer Everett F. Bleiler (1920-2010) co-edited some of the first "Year's Best" sf anthologies, and several career awards, including the World Fantasy, International Horror Guild... Read more [...]