Author Archives: Ian Randal Strock

Top Box Office Grossers: Third Week in April 2011

Two new genre films took the top spots on the charts, and sf/f/h films held eight of the top ten spots, but lower down, our films fell hard and fast... Read more [...]

Most Popular and Updated Articles: 17-23 April 2011

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

2010 BSFA Award Winners Announced

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

2011 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 August... Read more [...]

2011 Philip K. Dick Award Winner

This year's Philip K. Dick Award for best original US paperback sf novel goes to The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack by Mark Hodder, with a special citation to Harmony by Project Itoh... Read more [...]

Leigh Grossman’s Sense of Wonder to be 900-page sf textbook

Leigh Grossman's massive textbook on the teaching of sf will include nearly 150 stories and more than 50 essays... Read more [...]

Teaching SF to be special program at WorldCon

Teaching SF will be a workshop for teachers, librarians, and parents on how to use science fiction as a teaching tool... Read more [...]

qo’mey poSmoH Hol—language opens worlds

The Klingon Language Institute's 18th annual summer conference will co-locate with the World Science Fiction Convention Read more [...]

Orbit Short Fiction debuts today with four offerings

Orbit Book's Orbit Short Fiction debuts today with works by Mira Grant, T.C. McCarthy, Jennifer Rardin, Jaye Wells... Read more [...]

Circlet Press partners with Nobilis Erotica to podcast erotic sf

Long-running erotic sf publisher Circlet Press has partnered with erotica podcast Nobilis Erotica... Read more [...]

Top Box Office Grossers: Second Week in April 2011

Genre films have started slipping down the charts, but there's still a nice chunk of them in the top 10... Read more [...]

Most Popular and Updated Articles: 10-16 April 2011

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

Books Received: April 2011

Books received for review during the month of April 2011. This page is updated throughout the month. Read more [...]

Terry Pratchett hosting documentary on assisted suicide

Author Sir Terry Pratchett, facing Alzheimer's disease, has become a proponent for assisted suicide, and is hosting a documentary on the subject... Read more [...]

2010 Shirley Jackson Award Nominees

The finalists for the fourth annual Shirley Jackson Awards—honoring the best in psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic—have been announced. The nominees are... Read more [...]