Author Archives: Ian Randal Strock

Drink up and read: Gilman’s Flesh and Fire plants a new magic

Laura Anne Gilman's Flesh and Fire lays out a new and fascinating form of magic, but it isn't complete: we'll have to wait for book 2 to see what happens... Read more [...]

Joe Haldeman update, from the man himself

Joe Haldeman is now improved enough to send out an update on his own condition, but still has much medical treatment ahead of him... Read more [...]

NASA reports LCROSS has discovered water on the Moon

Results of the planned crash into the lunar surface last month have been revealed: there is indeed water in the permanently shadowed crater at the Moon's south pole... Read more [...]

Quirk launches mash-up website for Quirk Classics

Flush with the success of their classic mash-ups, Quirk is launching the Quirk Classics web site to let fans interact and further enjoy such neo-classics as Pride and Prejudice and Zombies... Read more [...]

Del Rey reissuing first three Temeraires as a hardcover with a new story

Del Rey Books is republishing Naomi Novik's' first three Temeraire novels as a hardcover omnibus with an additional, original short story... Read more [...]

If we’re not here next week, we’ll be farming on Ganymede, with Heinlein’s Farmer in the Sky

I'm not a Boy Scout, nor suffering the privations of food rationing, but even so, Heinlein makes shipping out to a farming life around Jupiter seem really appealing... Read more [...]

Rocket launcher Thomas J. O’Malley dies

Thomas J. O'Malley (1915-2009) was the man who pushed the button to launch John Glenn into space... Read more [...]

Lemony Snicket’s Daniel Handler sells five new books to Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Daniel Handler is once again picking up the Lemony Snicket mantle, with a new four-book deal with Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, plus another, stand-along YA novel... Read more [...]

Roboticist Daniel H. Wilson sells Robopocalypse to Doubleday and DreamWorks

Daniel H. Wilson's Robopocalypse is a cautionary tale of man vs. machine, and is being fast-tracked to publication at Doubleday, and to film at DreamWorks... Read more [...]

Del Rey to serialize Stephen King & Peter Straub’s The Talisman as a comic book

Del Rey's comics imprint debuts with a 24-issue serialization of Stephen King and Peter Straub's The Talisman... Read more [...]

2009 New York City Horror Film Festival line-up announced

The New York City Horror Film Festivcal will feature 50 horror and science fiction films between 18 and 22 November... Read more [...]

Clarkesworld to close to fiction submissions for a year-end break

Publisher Neil Clarke of Clarkesworld Magazine has announced that the monthly on-line 'zine will be closed to short story submissions from 1 December 2009 through 15 January 2010, because "slush readers deserve a vacation."... Read more [...]

Top Box Office Grossers: First Week in November 2009

With only one new film, the only real movement is at the top of the charts, but sf/f/h films, by and large, hold steady. One horror film falls, and another reappears on the charts... Read more [...]

Most Popular and Updated Articles: 1-7 November 2009

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

Jedi Warriors on Earth, training Obi-Wan—The Men Who Stare at Goats

They don't claim it's speculative fiction, but The Men Who Stare at Goats is a wonderfully speculative—and funny—look at some outre military projects... (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.) Read more [...]