Author Archives: Ian Randal Strock

Clarkesworld Magazine’s February 2010 issue

The newest issue of Clarkesworld features fiction by Jay Lake and Lavie Tidhar, nonfiction by Jason S. Ridler and Russ Colson... Read more [...]

SFWA Vice President resigns, and is replaced

SFWA Vice President Elizabeth Moon has resigned for personal reasons. Former President Michael Capobianco has been appointed Vice President to serve out the remainder of the term... Read more [...]

Amazon admits publishers should price ebooks

Following up yesterday's story, Amazon seems to have yielded in the battle over pricing and selling Macmillan's books... Read more [...]

Author Kage Baker Dies

Author Kage Baker (1952-2010) had been battling cancer. She was the 2004 winner of the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award... Read more [...]

Top Box Office Grossers: Fourth Week in January 2010

Avatar, Avatar, Avatar, still the top of the charts. But new films opened this week, and while sf/f/h is still making a strong showing at the top of the charts, things always change... Read more [...]

Most Popular and Updated Articles: 24-30 January 2010

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

Amazon stops selling Macmillan’s books in argument over ebook pricing

Amazon.com has removed the buy buttons from all Macmillan books, and also removed all Macmillan titles from Kindle sales, in response to the publisher's proposed "agency model" for ebooks... Read more [...]

Books Received: January 2010

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

Kage Baker’s cancer appears to be winning

Author Kage Baker's aggressive cancer appears to be winning, and her sister reports the end may be near... Read more [...]

Chuck Gannon joins Steve White to continue Starfire Universe

Chuck Gannon is taking over writing the Starfire Universe novels from founding team Steve White and David Weber. Baen will publish... Read more [...]

St. Martin’s Press hires agent Brendan Deneen

After two and a half years as an agent at Fineprint Literary, Brendan Deneen is leaving to be an editor at St. Martin's... Read more [...]

Mark Charan Newton’s Legends of the Run Sun series to continue

Mark Charan Newton sold the third and fourth books in his Legends of the Red Sun series to Tor UK... Read more [...]

Jim Baen’s Universe’s February 2010 Issue

The February 2010 issue of Jim Baen's Universe has fiction by Gregory Benford, David Gerrold, Denise McCune, Sandra M. Odell, Shauna Roberts, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Manly Wade Wellman... Read more [...]

Screenwriter Scott Milam writing comic for Arcada

Screenwriter Scott Milam is developing a new comic book for Arcana Studios. Killing Machine takes pieces from The Six Million Dollar Man and Taken... Read more [...]

The Knight Agency reports foreign rights sales for Caine and Hunter

The Knight Agency's latest batch of foreign rights sales includes books by Rachel Caine and Faith Hunter in France and Germany... Read more [...]