Author Archives: Ian Randal Strock

Most Popular and Updated Articles: 15-21 April 2012

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

2012 SFRA Award Winners Announced

The winners of this year's Science Fiction Research Association's awards, which will be handed out at the conference this summer, are... Read more [...]

Destinies to feature music, readings, and movie reviewing

Destinies, the science fiction radio program broadcasting from SUNY Stony Brook, will feature composers Mark Isham, Bear McCreary, and Murray Gold, authors T.A. Barron, Peter David, Roy Maritsen, Patrick Thomas, a review show focusing on The Avengers... Read more [...]

Author K.D. Wentworth Dies

K.D. Wentworth (1951-2012) was an early Writers of the Future winner, and published nine novels and 50 shorter works... Read more [...]

Actor/playwright/novelist Tom Isbell sells YA fantasy trilogy for seven figures

HarperCollins Children's will publish Tom Isbell's YA fantasy trilogy, starting with The Hatchery, in 2013. They acquired the books in a seven figure deal via agent Victoria Sanders... Read more [...]

Tananarive Due to be Cosby Chair for Humanities at Spelman College

SF author Tananarive Due has been named Cosby Chair for the Humanities at Spelman College (Atlanta) for the 2012-13 academic year... Read more [...]

Analog’s June 2012 Issue

The June 2012 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact will feature fiction by Michael Alexander, Paul Carlson, N.M. Cedeno, Carl Frederick, Emily Mah, Jerry Oltion, Joe Pitkin, and Catherine Shaffer... Read more [...]

Asimov’s June 2012 Issue

The June 2012 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction will feature fiction by Megan Arkenberg, Alan DeNiro, Bruce McAllister, Jack McDevitt, Will McIntosh, Mercurio D. Rivera, Bud Sparhawk, and Kali Wallace... Read more [...]

Pottermore now open; Rowling generating more Potter material

After many delays, the Pottermore website is now open for people to sign up, though registrations may take a while to process in the crush. In other news, the Harry Potter encyclopedia is in the works... Read more [...]

Top Box Office Grossers: Second Week in April 2012

There was very little money running through the theatres this week, and very little movement on the charts for genre films, but The Hunger Games continues to chow down on the competition... Read more [...]

Most Popular and Updated Articles: 8-14 April 2012

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

2012 Prix Aurora Award Nominations

The final ballot for this year's Prix Aurora Awards, in English only (the French awards have been split out) has been released. The nominees are... Read more [...]

Adam-Troy Castro continuing Gustav Gloom series

Adam-Troy Castro sold World English rights to the fifth and sixth books in his forthcoming Gustav Gloom series to Jordan Hamessley at Grosset & Dunlap via agent Eddie Schneider... Read more [...]

Mark Hodder sells three new Burton and Swinburne books, plus foreign rights sales

Mark Hodder has sold three new Burton and Swinburne Adventures to Lou Anders at Pyr via Eddie Schneider at JABberwocky. Schneider also reports foreign rights sales for the series to the UK, Japan, and the Czech Republic... Read more [...]

Photographer Jay Kay Klein in hospice care

Photographer Jay Kay Klein, whose portraiture of science fiction personalities has been a mainstay of the field for decades, is in hospice treatment for oesophageal cancer... Read more [...]