Author Archives: Ian Randal Strock

Kage Baker battling metastasized cancer

Sturgeon Award-winning author Kage Baker is battling metastasized cancer in her brain and lungs... Read more [...]

Tim Akers sells sequel to Heart of Veridon

Tim Akers sold Dead of Veridon to Jon Oliver at Solaris via agent Joshua Bilmes at JABberwocky. The book is a sequel to Heart of Veridon, which was published in October. Read more [...]

Mythic Delirium #21 is now available

Mythic Delirium's delayed 21st, or "Trickster", issue, is now available, with poetry by Theodora Goss, Deborah P. Kolodji, Darrell Schweitzer, Sonya Taaffe, Catherynne M. Valente, JoSelle Vanderhooft... Read more [...]

Goblin Fruit’s Winter 2010 issue

The Winter 2010 issue of Goblin Fruit, guest edited by Mythic Delirium's Mike Allen, is now available, with poetry by Geoffrey Landis, W. Gregory Stewart, Sonya Taaffe, Mary Turzillo... Read more [...]

Top Shelf Comix sells minority stake in itself

Co-publishers Chris Staros and Brett Warnock have sold a one-third interest in the graphic novel publishing company Top Shelf to new media entrepreneur John S. Johnson and film producer Anthony Bregman... Read more [...]

2009 Philip K. Dick Award Nominees

The nominees for the 2009 Philip K. Dick Award, for best science fiction novel published in paperback original in the US, have been announced... Read more [...]

Top Box Office Grossers: Second Week in January 2010

With sf/f/h films owning the top three spots on the charts for the third straight week, it's impressive for the big boys. But farther down, things thin our real fast for our genre... Read more [...]

Most Popular and Updated Articles: 10-16 January 2010

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

Off to Arisia

We're at Arisia. Hoping you are the same. Back on Tuesday. Read more [...]

Dozois and Martin’s Songs of Love and Death now populated

Co-editors Gardner Dozois and George R.R. Martin have finalized the contents of their forthcoming anthology, Songs of Love Death. Contributors include Peter S. Beagle, Jim Butcher, Neil Gaiman, Tanith Lee, Marjorie M. Liu, Melinda M. Snodgrass... Read more [...]

Bruce Holland Rogers sells more than 1,000 words to Realms of Fantasy

Fiction Editor Shawna McCarthy announces a purchase outside of her normal schedule, to accommodate Bruce Holland Rogers impending voyage overseas... Read more [...]

Quirk is now mashing Russian classics. Next up: Android Karenina

Ben H. Winters, co-author of Sense and Sensibilities and Sea Monsters, is returning to the Quirk Books fold with his forthcoming posthumous collaboration with Leo Tolstoy... Read more [...]

World Literature Today’s special science fiction issue

The University of Oklahoma's World Literature Today is planning a special science fiction issue, and paying $200-$300 for short stories... Read more [...]

Cornelia Funke’s Reckless to debut with million+ printing

Cornelia Funke's new series debut, Reckless, will publish on 14 September, with a one-million copy US printing and simultaneous releases... Read more [...]

Editor and agent Knox Burger dies

Editor and agent Knox Burger (1922-2010) bought Kurt Vonnegut's first published fiction for Collier's, then moved to book publishing, and then agenting... Read more [...]