Author Archives: Ian Randal Strock

The Making of Harry Potter studio tour to open in London next year

Warner Bros Studios in Leavesden (outside of London, England) will be opening the sets, props, costumes, and more from the eight Harry Potter movies for a studio tour starting in Spring 2012... Read more [...]

Rod Rees’ Demi-Monde sells in France

Rod Rees' Demi-Monde series, which has just debuted in the UK, has now sold to J'ai Lu in France... Read more [...]

2011 Philip K. Dick Award Judges Named

The five judges of the 2011 Philip K. Dick Award for best original paperback science fiction novel have been named... Read more [...]

Top Box Office Grossers: Fourth Week in February 2011

A bad week for genre films in the box office, but with nothing new opening, we kind of expected our pictures to slip down the charts... Read more [...]

Most Popular and Updated Articles: 27 February-5 March, and month of February 2011

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

2011 Arthur C. Clarke Award Short-List

The nominees for 2011 Arthur C. Clarke Award, for best science fiction novel published in the UK, are... Read more [...]

Weightless Books debuts electronic serialization with Ginn Hale’s The Rifter

Weightless Books is serializing Ginn Hale's The Rifter, in ten monthly installments, starting with 'The Shattered Gates', which will appear Monday... Read more [...]

Edge’s new Gaslight anthology to feature an Oscar winner’s cover art

Dave Elsey, who recently won the Academy Award for Best Makeup, is the cover artist on the forthcoming Uncanny Tales of Sherlock Holmes... Read more [...]

Top Shelf acquires graphic novels on hackers and God

Top Shelf will publish Ed Piskor's webcomic Wizzywig as a complete graphic novel, and also bring into print Mark Russell and Shannon Wheeler's God is Disappointed in You... Read more [...]

R.A. Lafferty’s literary estate for sale

Exclusive publications rights to R.A. Lafferty's (1914-2002) literary estate are currently being offered... Read more [...]

James Patrick Kelly catches up with the final Nebula ballot

James Patrick Kelly posts his portion of the final Nebula Award ballot... Read more [...]

George R.R. Martin announces firm release date for A Dance with Dragons

The long-awaited fifth volume of George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Fire and Ice", titled A Dance with Dragons, well appear on 12 July... Read more [...]

Orbit launches electronic doubles

Orbit is launching electronic doubles with a special promotion of Daniel Abraham's The Dragon's Path and James S.A. Corey's Leviathan Wakes... Read more [...]

Rob Thurman sells new thriller to Pocket

Rob Thurman sold thriller All-Seeing Eye to Jennifer Heddle at Pocket Books, via agent Lucienne Diver of The Knight Agency. The book involves... Read more [...]

AHWA’s Midnight Echo #5 now available

The fifth issue of the Australian Horror Writers Association's Midnight Echo has fiction and poetry by Terry Dowling, Jason Fischer, John Goodrich, Christopher Green... Read more [...]