Author Archives: Ian Randal Strock

SciFinal aims to be the TV Guide of sci-fi web series

StoryForge Labs has launched SciFinal, aiming to be a directory/website showcasing sci-fi web series online... Read more [...]

Top Box Office Grossers: Second Week of October 2009

A new comedy takes over the top of the charts, but sf/f/h films own the next five spots. Also, one we'd waved goodbye to returns with a US box office topping $300 million... Read more [...]

Most Popular and Updated Articles: 11-17 October 2009

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

Joe Haldeman update: out of the hospital, into rehab

Joe Haldeman has finally left the hospital, and is now in a rehabilitation center in Cincinnati... Read more [...]

Del Rey to publish Tolkien’s The Children of Hurin in paperback

Following Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's hardcover and trade paperback, Del Rey will publish the mass market edition of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Children of Hurin next summer... Read more [...]

Realms of Fantasy now open for fiction submissions

Realms of Fantasy is once again accepting fiction submissions, and remains open for art submissions... Read more [...]

Comic artist George Tuska dies

Comics artist George Tuska (1916-2009) worked on many titles from the 1940 to the 1990s, including The X-Men, Captain Marvel, and Superman... Read more [...]

Prime Books to launch Lightspeed Magazine

Prime Books is launching Lightspeed Magazine as an all-science fiction counterpart to their Fantasy Magazine. Lightspeed will debut with the new year, as a paying market for fiction, non-fiction, and art... Read more [...]

Jetse de Vries launches DayBreak Magazine, of near-term, upbeat sf

Complementing his forthcoming Solaris Books anthology Shine, Jetse de Vries is launching DayBreak Magazine as a free webzine of near-term, upbeat science fiction stories, planning to post a new story every two weeks... Read more [...]

Realms of Fantasy’s latest purchases; inventory announcement

Realms of Fantasy bought stories from Scott Dalrymple, Terry Edge, Sara Genge, Daniel Hood, and Alan Smale, and has finally cleared out all submitted stories from the time when Sovereign Media announced the cancellation... Read more [...]

Independent UK publisher Atlantic Books becoming more independent

Independent US publisher Grove/Atlantic is selling off some of its stake in Atlantic Books, making AB a self-standing independent... Read more [...]

Indy Comic Book Week to take over otherwise vacant December week

Indy Comic Book Week aims to take the new release slots in Comic Shops nationwide at the end of December, when Diamond Comic Distributors takes the week off for the mainstream titles... Read more [...]

Artist Edward Valigursky Dies

Artist Edward Valigursky (1926-2009) was most active in sf during the 1950s and 1960s... Read more [...]

Dean Koontz sells three new Frankenstein novels to Bantam

Dean Koontz sold the fourth, fifth, and sixth novels in his Frankenstein series to Bantam Books. The first, Lost Souls, will be the first in the series published in hardcover... Read more [...]

Odyssey Writing Workshop to offer online classes

In addition to their annual, six-week, in-person workshop, Odyssey is now offering on-line writing classes in specific, targeted subjects... Read more [...]