Author Archives: Ian Randal Strock

Redstone Science Fiction now open for submissions

Redstone Science Fiction is now open for submissions, looking for sf up to 4000 words long and paying five cents per word... Read more [...]

Midtown Comics moving into FAO Schwarz

Fifteen-year-old New York City comic retailer Midtown Comics is scheduled to open its fourth location, inside iconic toy store FAO Schwarz... Read more [...]

Stanley Schmidt looks beyond the atmosphere

Dr. Stanley Schmidt's acceptance remarks upon receiving the Robert A. Heinlein Award include his view of the heavens, humanity's next great frontier... Read more [...]

Lightspeed Magazine’s June 2012 issue

The June 2012 issue of Lightspeed Magazine will feature fiction by Kelsey Ann Barrett, David Brin, Maggie Clark, Jeffrey Ford, Eileen Gunn, N.K. Jemisin, John Langan, George R.R. Martin, Simon McCaffery, Seanan McGuire, Tim Pratt... Read more [...]

Artist Leo Dillon Dies

Artist Leo Dillon (1933-2012) was half of the husband-and-wife artist team Leo & Diane Dillon, winners of Hugo, Caldecott, Balrog, Spectrum, and World Fantasy Awards... Read more [...]

Weird Tales is open for submissions

Weird Tales is once again open for submissions, and looking specifically to fill their Fairy Tales and Undead issues... Read more [...]

Daily Science Fiction’s June 2012 line-up

June's offerings from Daily Science Fiction will include stories by Lou Antonelli, Melissa Mead, Ruth Nestvold, Eric James Stone... Read more [...]

BFS Open Day to feature Stephen Jones & Les Edwards book launch

Stephen Jones and Les Edwards will be launching their new collection, Curious Warnings: The Great Ghost Stories of M.R. James, at the British Fantasy Society's Open Day on June 16... Read more [...]

Top Box Office Grossers: Third Week in May 2012

A new sf action flick opens with a boom, but it's not enough to defeat The Avengers in their third week at the top of the charts... Read more [...]

Most Popular and Updated Articles: 20-26 May 2012

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

Balticon weekend

Off to Balticon for the weekend. See y'all next week (unless we see some of you this weekend)... Read more [...]

Charlie Jane Anders and Brian Francis Slattery don their writer hats to read and answer questions at special NYRSF Reading

At a special NYRSF reading event, guest curator Liz Gorinsky introduced editor/musician/writer Brian Francis Slattery and editor/writer/reader Charlie Jane Anders for fascinating readings and an equally engrossing joint interview... Read more [...]

Audible buys audio rights to Cecilia Tan’s The Prince’s Boy

Author and publisher Cecilia Tan has sold the audio rights to her gay high fantasy adventure, The Prince's Boy, volumes 1 and 2, to acquiring editor Susie Bright at Audible.com. The books were originally published by Circlet Press last year. Read more [...]

2012 Mythopoeic Award Finalists Announced

The nominees for the 2012 Mythopoeic Awards for fantastical literature and studies thereof are... Read more [...]

2012 Campbell and Sturgeon Award Finalists

The finalists for this year's John W. Campbell Memorial Award (for best science fiction novel of 2011) and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (for best short science fiction story of 2011) have been announced. They are... Read more [...]