Author Archives: Ian Randal Strock

Conversations with Octavia Butler now available

Editor and professor Conseula Francis has collected Conversations with Octavia Buler, interviews the ground-breaking author gave between 1980 and 2004... Read more [...]

Author Readings and Signings: April-June 2010

Author and artist readings and signings for the second quarter of 2010. This list is updated as we get more information, until the end of June 2010. Read more [...]

Author Readings and Signings: February-March 2010

Author and artist readings and signings for the first three months of 2010. This list is updated as we get more information, until the end of March 2010. Read more [...]

The third Hunger Games novel has a cover; due 24 August

The concluding volume of Suzanne Collins's YA Hunger Games trilogy will be published this August... Read more [...]

Books Received: February 2010

Books received for review during the month of February 2010. This page is updated throughout the month. Read more [...]

E-books: how much, or how many?

Determining the pricing e-books will be important, but keeping an accurate count of the number of sales will be a far bigger issue... Read more [...]

Dark Scribe Magazine’s 3rd annual Black Quill Awards winners

Dark Scribe Magazine, the online publication about horror, announces the winners of its third annual Black Quill Awards... Read more [...]

2010 Philip K. Dick Award Judges Named

The five judges of the 2010 Philip K. Dick Award for best original paperback science fiction novel have been named... Read more [...]

Last Man Anthology seeking sf stories of “catastrophic literature”

Anthology honoring Mary Shelley's The Last Man is seeking stories of "catastrophic literature"... Read more [...]

BenBella hires Debbie Harmsen as editor-in-chief

Travel editor Debbie Harmsen is the new editor-in-chief at BenBella Books, focusing on their general nonfiction line... Read more [...]

Realms of Fantasy now Kindle-available

The February 2010 issue of Realms of Fantasy is the first to be available in a Kindle edition... Read more [...]

SFPA 2009 Dwarf Stars Winners

The Science Fiction Poetry Association announces the winners of its 2009 Dwarf Stars awards for short speculative poems... Read more [...]

Top Box Office Grossers: First Week in February 2010

Avatar, again. And very little movement among the sf/f/h films on the charts: a bunch near the top, none in the middle, and a few at the bottom... Read more [...]

Most Popular and Updated Articles: 31 January-6 February 2010

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

Phillip Klass, aka sf author William Tenn, dies

Phillip Klass (1920-2010) who wrote sf as William Tenn, was SFWA's Author Emeritus in 1999 and a WorldCon Guest of Honor in 2004... Read more [...]