Author Archives: Ian Randal Strock

Antipodean SF’s January 2010 Issue

Antipodean SF has posted its January 2010 issue. The online 'zine focuses on Australian short-short sf... Read more [...]

Clarkesworld Magazine’s January 2010 issue, and some impending changes

The newest issue of Clarkesworld features fiction by Peter Watts and Megan Arkenberg, nonfiction by Jason S. Ridler and Brian Trent... Read more [...]

John Joseph Adams now represented by Joe Monti

Writer/editor/anthologist John Joseph Adams is now represented by Joe Monti of the Barry Goldblatt Literary Agency... Read more [...]

SF/F/H films own the US box office in 2009

Seventeen of the top 25 grossing movies of 2009 were science fiction, fantasy, or horror... Read more [...]

Top Box Office Grossers: Fourth Week in December 2009

Genre pictures own the top of the charts. Lower down, not so much, but the charts are topped by sf/f/h pics... Read more [...]

Most Popular Articles: Last Week, Month, and Year

The most popular SFScope articles during the last week of December, the month of December, and the entirety of 2009... Read more [...]

Gardner Dozois’s Year’s Best SF 27 Contents

Gardner Dozois has announced the table of contents for his Year's Best Science Fiction, the granddaddy of them all. Volume 27 will cover 2009. Stories in this volume will include... Read more [...]

Filmmaker Peter Jackson to be knighted

Filmmaker Peter Jackson will all receive an honorary knighthood on this year's New Zealand's New Year's Honours list... Read more [...]

The Queen’s New Year’s Honours list includes Patrick Stewart, Maud Tyzack, Anthea Bell, and Dick King-Smith

Actors Patrick Stewart and Margaret Maud Tyzack, and writers Anthea Bell and Ronald Gordon King-Smith, will all receive honorary knighthoods on this year's Queen's New Year's Honours list... Read more [...]

Impending closure of The Internet Review of Science Fiction

Publisher L. Blunt Jackson has announced the the Internet Review of Science Fiction will cease operations after the February 2010 issue... Read more [...]

Fourth annual Jim Baen Memorial Writing Contest

Baen Books and the National Space Society are sponsoring the fourth annual Jim Baen Memorial Writing Contest, looking for stories up to 8,000 words... Read more [...]

Pill Hill Press’s dark fantasy “Flesh & Bone: Rise of the Necromancers” contest

Small press dark fantasy publisher Pill Hill Press is running its second short story writing contest, with cash prizes... Read more [...]

Jaime Lee Moyer to edit 2010 Rhysling Anthology

The Science Fiction Poetry Association's 2010 Rhysling Anthology will be edited by member Jaime Lee Moyer. Nominations will open on 1 January 2010... Read more [...]

Norilana publishes Sky Whales and Other Wonders

Norilana's newest anthology, Sky Whales and Other Wonders, has stories by John Grant, Tanith Lee, Mary A. Turzillo, JoSelle Vanderhooft... Read more [...]

Katie Mattie is now represented by Pinder Lane & Garon-Brooke’s Robert Thixton

17-year-old Michigan author Katie Mattie's first YA fantasy novel should be ready for submission next month... Read more [...]