Author Archives: Ian Randal Strock

True Review #73 now available

The November issue of Andrew Andrews' review 'zine marks a return in a new form on the web, with feature reviews of eleven books plus brief reviews of another dozen, an editorial... Read more [...]

2009 ISFiC Writers Contest Winner

Illinois science fiction fan group ISFiC has been hosting a writers contest for two decades. This year's winner was announced at Windycon... Read more [...]

Win Bill Willingham’s new Fables novel, Peter & Max, or the whole series

Publisher Vertigo Comics and Library Journal are giving away prize packs including Bill Willingham's newest Fables novel, and complete sets of all of them... Read more [...]

Beth Bernobich sells YA novel to Viking

New-ish author Beth Bernobich's Fox and Phoenix will be her first YA novel, in addition to the three adult novels in the queue at Tor... Read more [...]

Norilana publishes Sword and Sorceress XXIV

Norilana latest installment of Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress anthology series features stories by Josepha Sherman, Dave Smeds, Cynthia Ward, K.D. Wentworth... Read more [...]

Nominations for the Nebula Awards are now open for SFWA members

Under the new Nebula Award rules, members of SFWA may nominate up to five works in each category between now and 15 February... Read more [...]

Renovation on-line registration now available

Renovation, the 2011 World Science Fiction Convention, is now accepting memberships online... Read more [...]

Win Cat Rambo’s collection Eyes Like Sky and Coal and Moonlight

Paper Golem, which published the collection, and Clarkesworld Magazine, online publisher of three of her stories, are giving away two copies of Cat Rambo's collection Eyes Like Sky and Coal and Moonlight... Read more [...]

Douglas Cohen promoted to Editor of Realms of Fantasy

Realms of Fantasy's Assistant Editor/Nonfiction Editor/Art Director Douglas Cohen is consolidating his titles under the new one, "Editor". Fiction Editor Shawna McCarthy keeps her role... Read more [...]

JABberwocky’s foriegn sales for Castro, Harris, Richardson, and Sanderson

JABberwocky Literary Agency reports foreign sales for Adam-Troy Castro (France), Charlaine Harris (Brazil), Kat Richardson (France), and Brandon Sanderson (Greece and Taiwan)... Read more [...]

F&SF’s January/February 2010 Issue

The January/February issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction will feature fiction by Robin Aurelian, Marc Laidlaw, John Langan, Charles Oberndorf, Paul Park, Steven Popkes, Robert Reed, Dean Whitlock, Kate Wilhelm... Read more [...]

Space and Time opens to poetry submissions

Space and Time Magazine is now open to poetry submissions, paying $5 per poem... Read more [...]

Dave Bara and Janci Patterson represented by JABberwocky

New authors Dave Bara (military sf) and Janci Patterson (YA) are now represented by the JABberwocky Literary Agency... Read more [...]

Top Box Office Grossers: Second Week of November 2009

Four new genre releases in the top ten, as we say goodbye to three falling off the bottom of the charts. SF/F/H films own the top of the charts (and they're expecting disaster-porn 2012 to join them next week), but they're weak in the mid-range... Read more [...]

Most Popular Articles: 8-14 November 2009

The most popular SFScope articles during the last week... Read more [...]