Author Archives: Ian Randal Strock

Gabrielle Zevin sells dysptopian YA trilogy to FSG

Gabrielle Zevin sold the "Birthright Series", set in a future where chocolate and caffeine are contraband, to Farrar, Straus and Giroux's Books for Young Readers... Read more [...]

Harry Potter’s all published, but there’s more coming, including a contest to visit him

Heralding the imminent opening of Universal Orlando's The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, US publisher Scholastic is giving away four trips to the park, offering the books cheap, and running other contests and giveaways... Read more [...]

Death and rebirth, on individual and planetary scales, make Coyote Destiny a wonderful read

What began as flight from Earth concludes with a return to Earth, as the child takes care of the parent. Allen Steele's Coyote series is coming to an end, but you don't want to miss the explosive conclusions... Read more [...]

Mythic Delirium to close to submissions in May

Editor Mike Allen expects to have issue #24 filled by the time he closes to submissions on 23 May. He'll reopen in February... Read more [...]

S.N. Lewitt’s Cyberstealth back in print

S.N. Lewitt's story of fighter pilots flying stealthy spacecraft is back in print... Read more [...]

2010 Prometheus Award Finalists

The Libertarian Futurist Society has announced the nominees for this year's Prometheus Awards, for pro-freedom works... Read more [...]

Will Murray to write seven new Doc Savage novels

Will Murray, literary executor for Doc Savage creator Lester Dent, has acquired the rights to write seven more novels of the adventures of the Man of Bronze... Read more [...]

Virgin Galactic’s VSS Enterprise’s first (captive) flight

The first captive-carry test flight of Virgin Galactic's VSS Enterprise took place today. The spaceship is the first to be built to fly paying tourists into space... Read more [...]

ChiZine Publications creepy photo contest

To celebrate the release Philip Nutman's Cities of Night, publisher ChiZine Publications is running a photo contest, looking for subtle, creepy, evocative photos of cities at night... Read more [...]

SIGMA views the World’s Best Technologies

Science fiction writers cum government think-tank SIGMA recently attended the World's Best Technologies showcase in Dallas, Texas... Read more [...]

Suzanne McLeod sells Spellcrackers.com books 4, 5, and 6

After publishing the first two-third of the Spellcrackers.com trilogy, Gollancz has bought the rights to the fourth, fifth, and sixth books from Suzanne McLeod... Read more [...]

Top Box Office Grossers: Third Week in March 2010

Alice in Wonderland holds strong at #1, and Shutter Island and Avatar both show strength, but the rest of the sf/f/h films in the top 25 show more weakness... Read more [...]