Author Archives: Ian Randal Strock

NASA joins forces with the Boy Scouts of America to create a new Robotics merit badge

NASA and the Boy Scouts of America spent more than a year developing a new merit badge in robotics... Read more [...]

Nonstop Press offering lifetime subscriptions

Nonstop Press is, for a limited time, offering lifetime subscriptions to all their already- and yet-to-be published titles... Read more [...]

Trying to contact deceased sf authors’ estates

SFWA's project to identify the representatives of deceased sf authors needs your help. Do you know any of these people... Read more [...]

Asimov’s June 2011 Issue

The June 2011 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction features fiction by Colin P. Davies, Alan DeNiro, Carol Emshwiller, Mary Robinette Kowal, Ian R. MacLeod, Felicity Shoulders... Read more [...]

Analog’s June 2011 Issue

The June 2011 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact will feature fiction by Edward M. Lerner, David D. Levine, Alec Nevala-Lee, Alastair Mayer, Jamie Todd Rubin... Read more [...]

World Fantasy Convention 2013 returns to the UK

The 2013 World Fantasy Convention is returning to Brighton, England, 31 October-3 November 2013. The convention is headed up by the people responsible for the 1998 and 1997 WFCs and the 2007 and 2010 World Horror Conventions... Read more [...]

Dave Freer sells two steampunk novels to Pyr

Expanding his horizons (and his subgenres), Dave Freer has signed a two-book deal for his first steampunk novels, with Pyr... Read more [...]

Name a character in Brandon Sanderson’s next Stormlight Archive book to benefit LTUE

Brandon Sanderson's current charity auction, to benefit the sf symposium Life, the Universe, and Everything, offers naming rights to a character in his next Stormlight Archive book... Read more [...]

Ellen Kushner’s historical-shtetl-magic-realist-feminist-musical audio drama The Witches of Lublin airing this week

Ellen Kushner, along with Yale Strom and Elizabeth Schwartz, have written a historical-shtetl-magic-realist-feminist-musical audio drama called The Witches of Lublin, which stars Tovah Feldshuh. The program debuts tomorrow night on WBAI FM radio, with multiple rebroadcasts scheduled for the coming week around the country... Read more [...]

Arcane magazine launches, publishing horror, suspense, and pulp-tinged weird fiction

Arcane magazine, edited by Nathan Shumate and published by Sandy Peterson, debuts with fiction by Jeff Crook, Amanda C. Davis, Rob Errera, Stephen Hill, Jaelithe Ingold, William Knight, Michael Lutz, Justin Pollock, Jason V. Shayer, Donny Waagen, S.M. Williams, Tom Wortman... Read more [...]

Space Shuttles to be grounded in California, Florida, New York, and Washington DC

NASA has announced the final grounding places for the three remaining Space Shuttle orbiters, as well as a move for the flight-test vehicle Enterprise... Read more [...]

Hugo Ballot to be released 24 April

Rather than letting us wait and wonder, Renovation has announced that they'll announce this year's final Hugo ballot on the 24th... Read more [...]

Make a trailer for Robopocalypse, fast

Heralding the coming of our robot overlords is a book-trailer contest to publicize Robopocalypse... Read more [...]

Nicholas Cage’s stolen Superman comic recovered

A copy of Action Comic #1, reportedly stolen from Nicholas Cage a decade ago, has been found in a storage locked in southern California... Read more [...]

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