Author Archives: Ian Randal Strock

Top Box Office Grossers: Third Week in January 2011

Another comic book superhero comes to the big screen and the top of the charts, and the rest of the genre films in the theaters show surprising strength, with several moving up the charts... Read more [...]

Most Popular and Updated Articles: 16-22 January 2011

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

2010 BSFA Award Shortlists Announced

The shortlists for this year's British Science Fiction Association Awards are now available, and voting is open until mid-April. The nominees are... Read more [...]

A new hotel provides ample room for an even bigger, better Arisia

Big hotel, big convention, lots of fascinating conversations and wonderful people to interact with. If you weren't there, you missed a great time... Read more [...]

Don D’Auria lands at Samhain

Don D'Auria, who had been at Dorchester until the company dropped its print publishing line, has been hired to oversee Samhain's new horror line... Read more [...]

All ChiZine Publications books available through GoodReads

Collectible edition publisher ChiZine Publications, as part of its efforts to expand its audience, has made all of their books available as eBooks via GoodReads... Read more [...]

SF Canada to add cash prizes to the Aurora and Aurora-Boreal Awards

Canada's professional science fiction writers' association will henceforth be funding $500 prizes to accompany thej Aurora and Aurora-Boreal Awards for best sf novels in English and French... Read more [...]

Graham Edwards is following up his Dragoncharm saga

Graham Edwards is writing a successor series to his Dragoncharm saga, to be called The Last Dragon Cycle, and blogging about it as he goes... Read more [...]

JABberwocky reports foreign rights sales for SRGreen, CHarris, THuff, and BSanderson

JABberwocky Literary Agency's latest batch of foreign rights sales includes books by Simon R. Green, Charlaine Harris, Tanya Huff, and Brandon Sanderson in Czech, Hungary, Poland, Spain, Taiwan, and Turkey... Read more [...]

Simon R. Green completes Nightside series

Agent Joshua Bilmes reports that Simon R. Green turned in The Bride Wore Black Leathers to Ginjer Buchanan at Ace Books. The book is the twelfth, and final, Nightside novel. Read more [...]

Appearances: April-June 2011

Author and artist readings and signings for the second quarter of 2011. This list is updated as we get more information, until the end of June 2011. Read more [...]

2010 Philip K. Dick Award Nominees

The nominees for the 2010 Philip K. Dick Award, for best science fiction novel published in paperback original in the US, have been announced... Read more [...]