Author Archives: Ian Randal Strock

Publisher/author Nick Webb dies

Nick Webb was Managing Director at Orbit and at Simon & Schuster. He was also the author of Douglas Adams' biography... Read more [...]

Books Received: April 2012

Books received for review during the month of April 2012. This page is updated throughout the month. Read more [...]

2011 BSFA Award Winners Announced

The winners of this year's British Science Fiction Association Awards are... Read more [...]

2012 Philip K. Dick Award Winner

This year's Philip K. Dick Award for best original US paperback sf novel goes to The Samuil Petrovitch Trilogy by Simon Morden, with a special citation to The Company Man by Robert Jackson Bennett... Read more [...]

Top Box Office Grossers: First Week in April 2012

Two new genre films open near the top of the charts, but can't dethrone The Hunger Games... Read more [...]

Most Popular and Updated Articles: 1-7 April 2012

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

2012 Hugo Award Final Ballot

This year's Hugo Award ballot is here. Members of this year's WorldCon will choose the winners, who will be announced in September... Read more [...]

2012 Eisner Comic Award Nominees Announced

The nominees for this year's Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards have been announced. Voting opens to the community soon, and the winners will be announced at this summer's San Diego Comic-Con... Read more [...]

President Obama meets Uhura

President Obama met Nichelle NIcholas a month ago, and now we have photographic proof... Read more [...]

Flurb #13 now available

Rudy Rucker's "webzine of astonishing tales" includes work by Andy Albrecht, Madeline Ashby, Wongoon Cha, Seth Kallan Deitch, Rudy Ch. Garcia, Brian Garrison, Martin Hayes, William Highsmith, Rudy Rucker, A.S. Salinas, Ian Watson & Roberto Quaglia, Leslie What, and James Worrad... Read more [...]

2012 Prometheus Award Finalists

The Libertarian Futurist Society has announced the nominees for this year's Prometheus Awards, for pro-freedom works... Read more [...]

Comics writer Brian Michael Bendis to write book on graphic novels for Random House

Comics writer Brian Michael Bendis is writing a not-really-how-to book for Random House, to be called Words for Pictures: The Art and Business of Graphic Novels... Read more [...]

Apex Magazine’s April 2012 issue

Apex Magazine's April 2012 issue includes fiction by Thoraiya Dyer, Rochita Loenen-Ruiz, and Lavie Tidhar... Read more [...]

Lightspeed Magazine’s April 2012 issue

The April 2012 issue of Lightspeed Magazine will feature fiction by Eric Gregory, M.K. Hobson, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Marc Laidlaw, Karin Lowachee, Kim Stanley Robinson, Vandana Singh, Caroline M. Yoachim... Read more [...]

Enter to win the entire Tor Books John Scalzi Collection

Tor Books is giving away a copy of every John Scalzi book they've published, in exchange for your name and address to receive their monthly newsletter... Read more [...]