Author Archives: Ian Randal Strock

The Clockwork Girl is coming back into print, and to the big screen

Sean O'Reilly and Kevin Hanna's The Clockwork Girl is coming back into print as a single volume hardcover, and later this year as a trade paperback and a motion picture... Read more [...]

James P. Blaylock sells YA novel to Subterranean

James P. Blaylock's YA Zeuglodon is the Zeno Literary Agency's first sale to Subterranean, but not the first time the publisher and author have worked together... Read more [...]

First Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Awards awarded

The first annual Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Awards were given out this weekend, to a collection of stories originally published in French, a short story first published in Finnish, and Brian Stableford... Read more [...]

The Galaxy Project Contest is offering a $1000 advance for the winning novella

The Galaxy Project Contest, run by Rosetta Books and judged by David Drake, Barry N. Malzberg, and Robert Silverberg, will offer a $1000 for an unpublished novella or novelette in the tradition of Galaxy Magazine... Read more [...]

Writer and editor Alan Ryan dies

Alan Ryan (1943-2011) was a writer, editor, anthologist, and critic. He was nominated for the John W. Campbell Best New Writer Award and the World Fantasy Award... Read more [...]

Heritage Auctions begins auctioning off Jerry Weist’s estate

Heritage Auction, in California, will be selling off major pieces of Jerry Weist's collection, including artwork, books, memorabilia, and more... Read more [...]

Hydra Competition for Brazilian Fantastic Literature

Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show and Christopher Kastensmidt's The Elephant and Macaw Banner are starting a competition to find the best Brazilian sf stories, choose a winner, and translate it into English to share it with the wider world... Read more [...]

OSC’s InterGalactic Medicine Show’s June 2011 Issue

The June 2011 issue of Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show includes fiction by Jeffrey Lyman, Lon Prater, Mike Rimar, Scott M. Roberts, and Eric James Stone, and is an unplanned WotF reunion issue... Read more [...]

Bram Stoker Award Winners

The Horror Writers Association handed out its Bram Stoker Awards last night. Winners include Ellen Datlow and Al Feldstein... Read more [...]

2010 Sidewise Award nominees announced

The nominees for this year's Sidewise Awards for Alternate History have been announced... Read more [...]

Top Box Office Grossers: Second Week in June 2011

Another new genre film tops the charts, but it's otherwise a poor week for sf/f/h movies, as four fall out of the top 25... Read more [...]

Most Popular and Updated Articles: 12-18 June 2011

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

Special Supernatural Noir reading 22 July

In addition to the regular Fantastic Fiction Readings at KGB series event next month, Ellen Datlow will be hosting a special reading celebrating the launch of her newest anthology, Supernatural Noir, on Friday 22 July... Read more [...]

Winner of Nonstop Press’ Why New Yorkers Smoke cover contest

The public has chosen which cover will grace Nonstop Press' forthcoming Why New Yorkers Smoke... Read more [...]

NASA offering space artifacts to museums and educational institutions

NASA is offering artifacts from the Space Shuttle, Hubble Space Telescope, Apollo, and International Space Station programs to educational institutions, museums, and... Read more [...]