Peter David suffers stroke; being evaluated
Earliest reports on Peter David indicate a stroke causing physical damage, but no apparent mental problems... Read more [...]
Author Archives: Ian Randal Strock
Top Box Office Grossers – fourth week in December 2012
For the end of the year, a LOT of movies were released, swamping the top of the charts. But none could oust the plucky hobbit... Read more [...]
Royal Mail to honor Doctor Who
Eleven 1st class Royal Mail stamps will depict all eleven doctors, with an additional sheet for the foes. Enter a contest now to win exclusive merchandise... Read more [...]
British television producer Gerry Anderson dies
British television producer Gerry Anderson (1929-2012) created supermarionation hit Thunderbirds, as well as live-action cult classic Space: 1999... Read more [...]
Actor Charles Durning Dies
Actor Charles Durning (1923-2012) won a Golden Gloe, and was nominated for three others, as well as two Oscars, and nine Emmys. He played nearly every type of supporting actor in a career spanning more than fifty years, including Kermit the Frog's nemesis and a Senator chasing a time-traveling aircraft carrier... Read more [...]
Actor Jack Klugman Dies
Actor Jack Klugman (1922-2012) will be remembered as grumpy sports writer Oscar Madison and insightful coroner Quincy M.E... Read more [...]
Would you like a little comedy with your impending doom?
The Coffee Table Book of Doom presents a full list of possible doomsday scenarios, threatening us all just out of sight in a comic manner to leaven the heavy message... Read more [...]
Top Box Office Grossers – third week in December 2012
Apparently, every studio knows to avoid the release of the next Peter Jackson/J.R.R. Tolkien collaboration, as fully 7 of the top 10 movies are sf/f/h (either fully or partially)... Read more [...]
The Apocalypse is free, this weekend only
Padwolf's anthology Apocalypse 13, edited by Diane Raetz, is free as a Kindle edition, this weekend only... Read more [...]
Daily Science Fiction’s January 2013 line-up
January's offerings from Daily Science Fiction will include stories by Ken Liu, Melissa Mead, Cat Rambo... Read more [...]
Books Received: first half of December 2012
Books received for review during the first half of December 2012… Read more [...]
Unexpectedly average
The first of the trilogy of movies Peter Jackson is making of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is a good movie. Not great, but good. Watchable, but not Middle Earth-shattering... Read more [...]
Analog’s April 2013 Issue
The April issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact will contain fiction by Brad Aiken, Carl Frederick, Sarah Frost, Kyle Kirkland, Edward M. Lerner, Jennifer R. Povey... Read more [...]
Asimov’s March 2013 Issue
The March 2013 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction will contain fiction by Garrett Ashley, Michael Cassutt, Alexander Jablokov, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Jason Sanford, Lavie Tidhar... Read more [...]
RosettaBooks releases Arthur C. Clarke ebook collection
RosettaBooks electronic Arthur C. Clarke collection includes the 2001 series, Odyssey, series, Rama series, Vanamonde series, and a dozen or more stand-alone n0ovels, plus short story collections... Read more [...]