Ian Randal Strock is the President of LRC Publications, Inc., the editor of Artemis Magazine, and the Vice President (Publications) of The Lunar Resources Company. The Lunar Resources Company, in conjunction with the Artemis Society International, is sponsoring the Artemis Project--a private venture to build a commercial manned moon base, with the first flight planned in the next ten years.
LRC Publications, Inc., was spun off from The Lunar Resources Company in order to publish Artemis Magazine, and, eventually, other magazines, books, and other publications. LRC Publications is currently putting together funding to make a public stock offering, the proceeds of which will fund the magazine, and the company, for approximately four years (until the anticipated break-even point of the magazine). An announcement will be made here as soon as the public offering is available.
Artemis Magazine is planned to debut in late 1997. It will be a general interest, bi-monthly magazine of science and science fiction. See the Artemis Magazine web site for more information.
Ian is also very involved in the non-profit side of the project (see http://www.asi.org/bios/strock.ian.html).
Prior to joining the professional side of the Artemis Project, Ian was the Associate Editor of Analog Science Fiction and Fact and Asimov's Science Fiction magazines for six years, and an editor at Boston's Daily Free Press. He is one of the three final round judges in the New England Science Fiction Association's 1998 Science Fiction & Fantasy Short Story Contest.
Ian is an Active Member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and recently won two readers' awards from Analog (for Best Short Story and Best Fact Article). His writing has appeared in many publications, including Analog, The New York Times, Absolute Magnitude, Science News, and The Sterling Web.
He has spoken at more than 30 science fiction, Mensa, and astronomy conferences, and a Biolog of Ian appeared in the February 1996 issue of Analog. He received a BA in Political Science from Boston University, and currently lives in New York City. His personal web page is available at http://www.erols.com/irs0.
The Artemis Project is a trademark of The Lunar Resources Company. Artemis Magazine is a trademark of The Lunar Resources Company under exclusive license to LRC Publications, Inc.