Author Archives: Ian Randal Strock

Robert J. Sawyer’s WWW trilogy optioned for television

Original Pictures licensed Robert J. Sawyer's recently completed WWW trilogy for development as a television series, with Sawyer writing the pilot... Read more [...]

Author J.K. Rowling fires literary agent Christopher Little

After 16 years and half a billion dollars, author J.K. Rowling has fired her literary agent Christopher Little in favor of his former partner and lawyer Neil Blair, who is starting his own agency... Read more [...]

J.G. Ballard’s UK home for sale

Following his death in 2009, J.G. Ballard's home in Shepperton, UK, is now on the market for just under £320,000... Read more [...]

PS Publishing featuring 10 authors with free stories and discount coupons this summer

PS Publishing's first featured author of the week is Lavie Tidhar. They're giving away two of his stories and offering coupons for other books... Read more [...]

Top Box Office Grossers: First Week in July 2011

Not a lot of jockeying on the charts this week, even with two new movies opening. It feels like everyone's holding their breath waiting for the final installment of the Harry Potter franchise... Read more [...]

Most Popular and Updated Articles: 3-9 July 2011

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

Theodore Sturgeon’s papers to be united at the University of Kansas

Theodore Sturgeon's papers, previously held in two parts, are to be united at the University of Kansas's Center for the Study of Science Fiction... Read more [...]

2011 Campbell and Sturgeon Award Winners

Ian McDonald wins the Sturgeon Award; Geoffrey A. Landis wins the Campbell Award... Read more [...]

Third edition of the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction to be released free online

The third edition of the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, edited by John Clute and David Langford, with Peter Nicholls and Graham Sleight, will soon be released as a free online publication... Read more [...]

Spotlight Publishing jumps into sf publishing with books by Edmund R. Schubert, James Maxey, and Jason Sanford

Spotlight Books is issuing its first sf titles this year: collections by Edmund R. Schubert, James Maxey, and Jason Sanford, as well as anthologies from IGMS... Read more [...]

2011 Endeavour Award Finalists

The finalists for this year's Endeavour Award, given to a sf/fanasy novel by a Pacific Northwest writer, are... Read more [...]

Michael Bocaccino sells Charlotte Markham and the House of Darkling to Harper Perennial

Michael Boccacino sold Victorian gothic Charlotte Markham and the House of Darkling to Maya Ziv at Harper Perennial via Sandy Lu of the L. Perkins Agency. The book is described as... Read more [...]

New adaption of Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother coming to San Francisco stage

Cory Doctorow's award-winning YA novel Little Brother has been adapted as a new stage play, currently in preparation for performance at San Francisco's The Custom Made Theatre Co. early next year... Read more [...]

Fantasy Magazine’s July 2011 issue

The July 2011 issue of Fantasy Magazine will feature fiction by J.S. Breukelaar, Kelly Link, M. Rickert, and Catherynne M. Valente... Read more [...]

Prequel to Juliet E. McKenna’s new trilogy available as a free eBook

The Wizard's Coming, the prequel story to Juliet E. McKenna's forthcoming Hadrumal Crisis fantasy trilogy, is now available as a free eBook from publisher Solaris... Read more [...]