Author Archives: Ian Randal Strock

We’re back! and most popular and updated articles: 30 January-5 February 2011 and the month of January 2011

Sorry for the week-long silence here; it was unplanned. But now we're back. Here are the most popular SFScope articles during the last week and month, as well as those which were updated... Read more [...]

2010 Bram Stoker Awards Preliminary Ballot

The Horror Writers Association (HWA) announced their preliminary ballot for this year's Bram Stoker Awards for Superior Achievement. From this ballot, the members of HWA will choose the nominees to appear on the final ballot... Read more [...]

Robert Silverberg sells Downward to the Earth to Tor Books

Robert Silverberg sold reprint rights to Downward to the Earth to Moshe Feder at Tor... Read more [...]

Dan Wells sells The Hollow City to Tor Books

Dan Wells sold The Hollow City to Moshe Feder at Tor Books. Read more [...]

2011 WorldCon membership rates increasing 1 March

Renovation, the 2011 WorldCon, will be increasing the cost of memberships on 1 March... Read more [...]

Ravenous Romance debuts monthly erotic reading series

E-erotica publisher Ravenous Romance will be hosting a monthly erotic reading series at the Happy Ending Lounge in New York City, starting Friday 4 February... Read more [...]

Analog’s April 2011 Issue

The April 2011 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact will feature fiction by Adam-Troy Castro, Dave Creek, Thomas R. Dulski, Paula S. Jordan, Edward M. Lerner, Paul Levinson, Alastair Mayer, Larry Niven, Jerry Oltion... Read more [...]

Asimov’s March 2011 Issue

The March 2011 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction features fiction by Neil Barrett, Jr., Steve Bein, Ian Creasey, Nancy Fulda, John Kessel, An Owomoyela, Robert Reed, Nick Wolven... Read more [...]

Clarkesworld Magazine’s February 2011 issue

The February issue of Clarkesworld Magazine has fiction by Rachel Swirsky and D. Elizabeth Wasden, and non-fiction by Kerry Tynan Fraser and Jeremy L.C. Jones... Read more [...]

Steven Erikson’s The Crippled God coming soon; excerpt available now

The Crippled God, the concluding volume of Steven Erikson's 'The Malazan Book of the Fallen', will be out in March. Chapter 1 is now available for free... Read more [...]

Dark Scribe Magazine’s 4th annual Black Quill Awards winners

Dark Scribe Magazine, the online publication about horror, announces the winners of its fourth annual Black Quill Awards... Read more [...]

Popular Mechanics looks at 65 years of predictions with the help of Gregory Benford

Gregory Benford has 'curated' The Wonderful Future That Never Was, a look at 65 years of predictions from the pages of Popular Mechanics... Read more [...]

Andy Duncan delivers collection to PS Publishing

Andy Duncan reports delivery of "the 118,000-word manuscript of The Pottawatomie Giant and Other Stories, including a new 13,000-word story, 'Close Encounters'," to Nick Gevers at PS Publishing. Read more [...]

Realms of Fantasy’s February 2011 Issue

The February 2011 issue of Realms of Fantasy will include fiction by Pauline J. Alama, Desirina Boskovich, Scott William Carter, Richard Parks, Mark Rigney... Read more [...]

Many updates from Haffner Press

Stephen Haffner provides news of books by Edmond Hamilton, Leigh Brackett, Henry Kuttner, Jakc Williamson, and many more... Read more [...]