Author Archives: Ian Randal Strock

Top Box Office Grossers: Fourth Week of September 2009

A seemingly weak week for sf/f/h films, yet we still have 40% of the top 25, including the number one film in the box offices... Read more [...]

Most Popular and Updated Articles: 27 September-3 October 2009

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

Stargate: Voyager—Stargate: Universe’s “Pilot”

What happens when you know (to the nearest million light years) where you are, but the ship you're on is falling apart, and you can't get home too quickly... (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.) Read more [...]

Hugo Award (fiction) winners, by number of wins (updated)

Updating this Graphicle of "Hugo Award (fiction) winners, by number of wins" to reflect this year's winner of Hugo Awards... Read more [...]

Brooklyn Indie Market’s second Steampunk Day coming

Brooklyn Indie Market will focus its exhibits, fashion show, and more on Steampunk on 24 October... Read more [...]

Pyr buys Vampire Empire numbers 2 and 3 from Clay and Susan Griffith

Pyr SF, which only two weeks ago bought the first of the Vampire Empire trilogy by Clay and Susan Grifftih, has now bought the second and third books in the series as well... Read more [...]

Octavia Butler’s papers donated to The Huntington

Octavia Butler (1947-2006) donated her papers, amounting to 39 boxes and eight file drawers, to The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, in San Mateo, California... Read more [...]

Jon Sprunk’s forthcoming fantasy trilogy sells in Germany

Jon Sprunk's debut Shadow's fantasy trilogy, which will be published in the US by Pyr next summer, will now have an edition in Germany... Read more [...]

Publications Received: September 2009

Magazines and other publications received during September 2009. This page is updated throughout the month. Read more [...]

Ellen Kaye-Cheveldayoff Names Baen Books’ Vampire Anthology

Baen Books announced the winning "vile pun" in their "Name That Vampire Anthology" contest. The winning title will headline Esther Friesner's third humorous suburban dark fantasy anthology... Read more [...]

Laura Anne Gilman’s Flesh and Fire to be audio book

Laura Anne Gilman sold audio rights to Vineart War book 1, Flesh and Fire, to Tantor... Read more [...]

Bellletrista to celebrate women writers around the world

New bi-monthly webzine Belletrista will celebrate women writers and cross-cultural understanding... Read more [...]

Clarkesworld Magazine’s October 2009 issue

The newest issue of Clarkesworld features fiction by Kij Johnson and Gord Sellar, nonfiction by Jeremy L.C. Jones and G.A. Buchholz... Read more [...]

Most Popular Articles: September 2009

The most popular articles published on SFScope during the month of September 2009 were... Read more [...]

Fourth Lee & Miller manuscript auction features “Candlelight”

The fourth Sharon Lee and Steve Miller Liaden Universe manuscript auction is now running on eBay, featuring manuscripts and materials related to "Candlelight", which originally appeared in Pulphouse... Read more [...]