Author Archives: Ian Randal Strock

Launch Pad Productions options F.M. Busby novella

F.M. Busby's "First Person Plural", which was first published in 1980, has been optioned by independent production firm Launch Pad Productions... Read more [...]

Sookie Stackhouse breaks into even more markets

Charlaine Harris's Southern Vampire novels have racked up new translation sales in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Slovenia, and Viet Nam, and additional sales in Brazil, Czech, Portugal, and Romania, not to mention... Read more [...]

Albacon ’09: sometimes smaller is better

Albacon was another in a string of successful smaller conventions in New York's capital city. The weekend featured great conversations and wonderful connections... Read more [...]

“Jack Campbell” sells four new books following his Lost Fleet to Ace

John G. Hemry, writing as Jack Campbell, sold four more books set in his Lost Fleet universe to Ace. They include two more Jack Geary adventures and two which overlap and shadow... Read more [...]

Cost of a Realms of Fantasy subscription will be going up

Though they raised the cover price two issues back, Realms of Fantasy has not yet increased the cost of a subscription. This will change in November... Read more [...]

Wil Wheaton remembers ST: TNG’s first season in fun, snarky book

Wil Wheaton's Memories of the Future isn't a tell-all about Star Trek, it's "do you remember this? how could we do that? wasn't that a blast?" and more... Read more [...]

Forget LOLcats, Baen wants your best LOL-Kzin

Baen Books' newest contest is going LOLcats a little nastier: they're looking for LOL-Kzin, based on the covers illustrating Larry Niven's novels... Read more [...]

Tim Powers sells four books to Corvus

Tim Powers has sold UK rights to Declare, Three Days to Never, The Stress of Her Regard, and the forthcoming The Lights Along the Shore to Corvus... Read more [...]

Rod Rees sells German rights to The Demi-Monde

New author Rod Rees The Demi-Monde, due to be published in 2011, will also have a German edition via Goldmann Verlag... Read more [...]

Top Box Office Grossers: First Week of October 2009

An odd box-office week for sf/f/h movies, with our genres owning the top 4 spots on the charts, but not many more of the others... Read more [...]

Most Popular Articles: 4-10 October 2009

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

Early weekend departure

SFScope is turning Columbus Day weekend into a four-day weekend, to enable Editor Ian Randal Strock to be on the program at Albacon... Read more [...]

Juno’s Halloween gift is a short anthology of scary fairies

Juno Books is offering a free 54-page pdf anthology of scary fairy stories as a Halloween gift to readers... Read more [...]

See all of Charles Vess’s Drawing Down the Moon online

Dark Horse is publishing Drawing Down the Moon: The Art of Charles Vess in late December, but they're making the entire contents available online right now... Read more [...]

Scholastic will merge the ancient Greek gods with 21st Century media

Scholastic's new non-fiction line, Mythlopedia, will offer middle grades looks at ancient Greek mythology using the tropes from the lives of today's children... Read more [...]