Author Archives: Ian Randal Strock

Matthew Sturges sends Midwinter to Germany

Matthew Sturges sold German rights to his Midwinter and The Office of Shadow to Verlagsgruppe Lubbe... Read more [...]

Simon & Schuster realigns Pocket and other imprints

Simon & Schuster is removing hardcovers from Pocket Books' mandate, merging them into a new division, and turning Pocket into a catch-all for all the other imprints' mass-market publishing... Read more [...]

Norilana signs seven more Tanith Lee books for its TaLeKa imprint

Norilana's Tanith Lee-only imprint TaLeKa has added the Birthgrave Trilogy and the Wars of Vis sequence (along with a new, unpublished Vis book) to its upcoming schedule... Read more [...]

Author Mary Hunter Schaub Dies

Fantasy author Mary Hunter Schaub (1943-2009) was best known for her works in Andre Norton's Witch World, which included co-author one novel with Norton... Read more [...]

Goblin Fruit and Mythic Delirium swapping editors

The editors of sf poetry journals Goblin Fruit and Mythic Delirium will be reading for each others' magazines for one month, perhaps opening the door to regulars from one to get into the other... Read more [...]

Paul Kearney sells two new Ten Thousand books to Solaris

Paul Kearney has sold two more novels set in his The Ten Thousand universe to Solarbis Books under their new owner, Rebellion... Read more [...]

Kalayna Price sells fantasy threesome to Penguin

Kalayna price's Grave Witch and two other books sold at auction to Penguin, via agent Lucienne Diver. The books follow PI Alex Craft who raises shades, talks to ghosts, and flirts with soul collectors... Read more [...]

Joseph D’Lacey now represented by John Jarrold Literary Agency

Joseph D'Lacey, who writes ecological horror novels, is now represented by John Jarrold of the John Jarrold Literary Agency... Read more [...]

2009 Sunburst Award Winners

Andrew Davidson and Cory Doctorow are the winners of this year's Sunburst Awards for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic... Read more [...]

Realms of Fantasy’s December 2009 content

The fiction line-up for the December 2009 issue of Realms of Fantasy includes work by Sharon Mock, Richard Parks, Cat Rambo, Ken Scholes, Dirk Strasser... Read more [...]

Top Box Office Grossers: Third Week of September 2009

For the second week in a row, three genre films fell out of the top 25, and there was only one new entry on the list (admittedly, at #1), meaning it's currently more of a non-sf/f/h line-up in the box offices... Read more [...]

Most Popular and Updated Articles: 20-26 September 2009

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

No news on Monday

It's the weekend. And for some of us, there's a holiday looming on Monday. And for a very few of us, there's another celebration that this year happens to be calendrically coincident. In other words, SFScope is taking off Monday 28 September 2009. We'll be back, just as always, on Tuesday the 29th. Read more [...]

Be an individual! Rely on yourself! Heinlein’s The Puppet Masters is back

It's dark, and the story doesn't translate very well over 58 years, but Heinlein's paean to individualism and self-reliance still rings those notes loud and clear... Read more [...]

Katherine Kerr joins Book View Cafe

Katharine Kerr is the newest member of the BookViewCafé author collective, and her first offering is the story "The Bargain"... Read more [...]