Author Archives: Ian Randal Strock

Fantastic Stories of the Imagination paying 10 cents a word

Warren Lapine is launching a new annual anthology, a mix of new and reprint stories, and paying up to 10 cents per word... Read more [...]

Author Diana Wynne Jones Dies

British fantasy author Diana Wynne Jones (1934-2011) was a World Fantasy Award Lifetime Achievement honoree, and the author of Howl's Moving Castle, The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, and many others... Read more [...]

Top Box Office Grossers: Third Week in March 2011

Genre films have an incredible 8 of the top 10 spots, including numbers 1, 2, and 3... Read more [...]

Most Popular and Updated Articles: 20-26 March 2011

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

2010 Aurealis Award Nominees

The nominees for this year's Aurealis Awards, for Australian science fiction, fantasy, and horror, are... Read more [...]

JABberwocky reports foreign rights sales for A-TCastro, PVBrett, SRGreen, CHarris, Hemry/Campbell, and THuff

JABberwocky Literary Agency's latest batch of foreign rights sales includes books by Adam-Troy Castro, Peter V. Brett, Simon R. Green, Charlaine Harris, John G. Hemry/Jack Campbell, and Tanya Huff, in Czech, Finland, France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Poland, and Thailand... Read more [...]

TAkers, THuff, and JSprunk all turn in manuscripts

Tim Akers turned in the manuscript for Dead of Veridon; Tanya Huff turned in The Wild Ways; and Jon Sprunk turned in Shadow's Lure... Read more [...]

Michael A. Burstein’s “I Remember the Future” now being filmed

Michael A. Burstein's "I Remember the Future" is being adapted into a short film by German director Christian Offner... Read more [...]

Charlaine Harris & Toni L.P. Kelner sell two more anthologies to Ace

Charlaine Harris and Toni L.P. Kelner will be editing two more paranormal anthologies for Ginjer Buchanan at Ace Books... Read more [...]

Adam-Troy Castro starts new middle grade fantasy series with Grosset and Dunlap

Adam-Troy Castro sold the first four books in his new Gustav Gloom middle grade fantasy series to Jordan Hamessley at Grosset & Dunlap... Read more [...]

HWA names Ellen Datlow and Al Feldstein 2011 LIfetime Achievement Award winners

Ellen Datlow and Al Feldstein are the recipients of this year's Lifetime Achievement Award from the Horror Writers Association... Read more [...]

Publisher April R. Derleth Dies

April R. Derleth (1954-2011) was the daughter of Arkham House founder August Derleth, and the President and CEO of Arkham House... Read more [...]

4 Star Stories debuts with four stories

New e-zine 4 Star Stories debuts with stories by Lou Antonelli, Rhonda Eudaly, David L. Gray, and William Ledbetter, and art by Vincent Villafranca... Read more [...]

F&SF’s May/June 2011 Issue

The May/June issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction will feature fiction by Scott Bradfield, Albert E. Cowdrey, Alexandra Duncan, S.L. Gilbow, Ken Liu, Steven Popkes, Robert Reed, Carter Scholz, Don Webb, Robert Reed, Kate Wilhelm, Chet Williamson... Read more [...]

Paul Kearney to conclude Sea Beggars series with Solaris

Paul Kearney resold the first two Sea Beggars novels, plus a new, third book, to Solaris, which will publish them as a one-volume omnibus... Read more [...]