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Author Archives: Ian Randal Strock
Top Box Office Grossers: Third Week in April 2010
A new quasi-genre film opens at the top of the charts, dragons and aliens do well, but still, there are fewer sf/f/h films in the top 25 than last week...
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Most Popular and Updated Articles: 18-24 April 2010
The most popular SFScope articles during the last week, as well as those which were updated...
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Books Received: April 2010
Books received for review during the month of April 2010. This page is updated throughout the month.
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Shared Worlds to feature a Bestiary of Strange Beasts
South Carolina's Wofford College is running a two-week workshop/camp for students in grades 8 through 12, teaching sf/f worldbuilding and group creativity with teachers including...
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SFWA and SGDA to simulcast this year’s Nebula Awards banquet in New York City
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and the SoHo Gallery for Digital Art are simulcasting this year's Florida-based Nebula Awards banquet in New York City, with a reception, dinner, and more...
Read more [...] Lavie Tidhar’s wedding and a volcano lead to the free online serialization of Jesus and the Eightfold Path
Author Lavie Tidhar recently got married in Cyprus, and then he and his wife invited the guests back to Israel, where now ten of them are stranded in the new couple's one bedroom apartment. All this leads logically to the free online serialization of Tidhar's Jesus and the Eightfold Path...
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Comment on Highlander season two, win a trip to California
While the blu-ray edition of Highlander season two is in production, a contest which will see fan videos included will also win one of the commenting fans a trip to Los Angeles...
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Stephen King’s Blockade Billy to get wide release through Scribner and Simon Audio
Stephen King's short baseball novel Blockade Billy will see wide release through Scribner next month, and audio publication from Simon Audio at the same time...
Read more [...] Karen Marie Moning sells new “Fever” trilogy to Delacorte, and linking graphic novel to Del Rey
Karen Marie Moning sold a new three-novel "Fever" spin-off series to Delacorte Press, and a graphic novel linking the old and new series to Del Rey...
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“J.K. Beck” sells books 4-6 of the “Shadow Keepers” to Bantam Dell
Julie Kenner, aka J.K. Beck, sold the fourth, fifth, and sixth novels in the paranormal romance series that will debut this August...
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After 14 years of self-publishing, Carla Speed McNeil sells Finder to Dark Horse
Carla Speed McNeil has been self-publishing her Finder comic since 1994, in print and on the web. Now she's signed with Dark Horse to publish in full color with real distribution...
Read more [...] Editor/publisher/writer George H. Scithers dies
Editor/publisher/writer George H. Scithers (1929-2010) was the founding editor of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, the editor of Amazing Stories and of Weird Tales, the winner of four Hugos, two World Fantasy Awards...
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F&SF’s Carol Pinchefsky on Food Challenge
Carol Pinchefsky, the editor of F&SF's "Competitions", appeared on the Food Network's Food Challenge program, in an episode that forced competitors to build a "four foot tall science fiction scene in sugar"...
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Terry Goodkind moving back to Tor with three-book deal
After jumping from Tor to Putnam with three books, Terry Goodkind is moving back to the publisher that was his home for 15 years...
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