Author Archives: Ian Randal Strock

YA Author William Sleator Dies

YA author William Sleator (1945-2011) was a Caldecott honoree for his first book, The Angry Moon, and wrote 30 more books, including Interstellar Pig... Read more [...]

World SF Travel Fund

World SF Travel Fund established to bring one international person involved in sf to a major genre event. First recipient will be Charles Tan, traveling to the World Fantasy Con... Read more [...]

Destinies to feature Crazy 8s, Conan, and Avatar of the Futurians

Destinies, the science fiction radio program broadcasting from SUNY Stony Brook, will feature the founders of Crazy 8 Press, the classic Conan the Barbarian, and the talent behind Avatar of the Futurians... Read more [...]

Realms of Fantasy lowers price, and opens to electronic art submissions

Realms of Fantasy is cutting it's cover price 15%, and opening to electronic submissions from artists, effective immediately... Read more [...]

Kaleidotrope’s Summer 2011 issue now available

The twelfth issue of Kaleidotrope includes work by A.S. Moser, Jessey Nickelles, and Ted Jean... Read more [...]

Author L.A. Banks Dies

Author Leslie Esdaile Banks, aka L.A. Banks (1959-2011) wrote the paranormal Vampire Huntress Legend and Crimson Moon series, as well as several dozen other novels... Read more [...]

Star Trek theme park coming to Jordan

Jordan's royal Trekkie, King Abdullah II is one of the principle investors in a planned Star Trek theme park in Aqaba, set to open in 2014... Read more [...]

Antipodean SF’s August 2011 Issue

Antipodean SF has posted its August 2011 issue. The online 'zine focuses on Australian short-short sf... Read more [...]

Apex Magazine’s August 2011 issue, on a new website

Apex Magazine's August 2011 issue includes fiction by Zach Lynott, Rabbit Seagraves, and Lavie Tidhar... Read more [...]

Fantasy Magazine’s August 2011 issue

The August 2011 issue of Fantasy Magazine will feature fiction by Laura Anne Gilman, Nisi Shawl, Cory Skerry, and Michael Swanwick... Read more [...]

Mark Morris delivers game novelization Dead Island as the gobbling nears

Mark Morris's novelization and the zombie video game Dead Island are both scheduled to be released on the general public in early September... Read more [...]

Clarkesworld Magazine’s August 2011 issue

The August issue of Clarkesworld Magazine has fiction by Yoon Ha Lee and Chen Qiufan, and non-fiction by Karen Burnham, Jeremy L.C. Jones, and Neil Clarke... Read more [...]

Ben Macallan sells sequel to Desdaemona to Solaris

Pseudonymous urban fantasy author Ben Macallan sold Pandaemonium, a sequel to June's Desdaemona, to Jonathan Oliver at Solaris Books... Read more [...]

Top Box Office Grossers: Fourth Week in July 2011

After the box office run on the wizard (which is still continuing), there's a new hero on the block, but other than those two, a quiet week for sf/f/h films at the box office... Read more [...]

Most Popular and Updated Articles: 24-30 July, and month of July 2011

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