Author Archives: Ian Randal Strock

Amelia Beamer’s first zombie novel available as a free pre-publication serial

Amelia Beamer's first novel, The Loving Dead, is a novel of sexy zombies. Night Shade will publish it in July, but it's being serialized for free on her web site now... Read more [...]

Josephine Angelini sells “Percy Jackson for girls” YA series to Harper

Josephine Angelini's debut trilogy will open with Starcrossed, when a modern American high school girl discovers her connection to Helen of Troy... Read more [...]

Top Box Office Grossers: First Week in March 2010

Not much relative movement this week among sf/f/h films, and nothing really new in the theatres, but some of those totals are really adding up... Read more [...]

Most Popular and Updated Articles: 28 February-6 March 2010

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

Kevin D. Anderson sells zombie/trekkie mash-up to Quirk

Publishers Lunch is reporting that ~~Kevin J. Anderson~~ Kevin David Anderson has signed to write Night of the Living Trekkies for Quirk Books. Agent Scott Miller at Trident Media Group handled the deal with Quirk Associate Publisher Jason Rekulak. The book will be "a mash up mixing a zombie apocalypse with the enduring mythology of Star Trek."... Read more [...]

They won’t be visiting any time soon, but we’re doing business with them in Edward M. Lerner’s InterstellarNet: Origins

Interesting aliens, wonderful extrapolation, read this book, and then start planning where to put your money for the coming of the InterstellarNet... Read more [...]

10th AMNH Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate will ask: Moon or Mars?

The 10th annual Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate at the Hayden Planetarium (New York City) will discuss what's next in manned space, and include Kenneth Ford, Lester Lyles, Paul Spudis, Steven Squyres, and Robert Zubrin... Read more [...]

British author David Storr Unwin, aka David Severn, dies

British author David Storr Unwin (1918-2010) was a son of Allen & Unwin's Sir Stanley Unwin, and found his own fame as the children's author David Severn... Read more [...]

Spectrum 17 Art Award Winners

The seventeenth annual Spectrum art award winners have been announced. They will be appearing in the annual anthology, which will be published in October... Read more [...]

Jonathan Strahan putting together reprint cyberpunk anthology for Night Shade

Jonathan Strahan is looking for recommendations to include in his forthcoming cyberpunk anthology for Night Shade Books... Read more [...]

Jay Lake has his hair removed; wonderful photos accompany

Unlike most people getting their hair cut, Jay Lake got to try our several famous and infamous dos while having his cut... Read more [...]

Lewis Carroll’s complete Alice available as audiobook, and free download, from Tantor

Tantor Audio is publishing Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass as a compete six-disc CD set, and also offering it as a free download for a limited time... Read more [...]

PS’s Tomorrow Revisited: The Complete Frank Hampson Story showcases Dan Dare’s creator

PS Publishing is inaugurating its new PS ArtBooks imprint by publishing Tomorrow Revisited: The Complete Frank Hampson Story, about the creator of the 1950s comic/radio hero Dan Dare... Read more [...]

Terry Brooks sells three more Shannara novels to Del Rey

Betsy Mitchell bought three new Shannara novels from Terry Brooks, continuing the series in the era following High Druid... Read more [...]

Analog’s May 2010 Issue

The May 2010 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact features fiction by Rick Cook, Bond Elam, David W. Goldman, Lee Goodloe, Walter L. Kleine, David D. Levine, H.G. Stratmann, Rajnar Vajra... Read more [...]