Offworld Report: November 2002
01/12/2002 . Source: Stephen Hunt 
The International Space Station gets a life boat, JK Rowling gets accused of stealing Harry Potter from a Russian author (translated from the original Klingon, surely), and Tom Doherty, the grand fromage at Tor Books, chats about his beautiful life in science fiction. Stephen Hunt looks at all science fiction content that pleases his eye offworld the Nest for November 2002. Much science fiction does he discover online. Good it is. Read you will. Harry Potter – in the Original Russian?
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling goes after a new Russian fictional character, Tanya Grotter, claiming she’s a female hack of her money-spinning boy wizard. The Russian publisher's reaction? Go fly a Nimbus-2000, JK. Walk with Weis
Author Margaret Weis struck it big with Dragonlance. Now she’s interviewed about her new "Dragonvaald" series. Hmmm. Sounds like a totally new direction, Mags! Space station gets a 'lifeboat'
The International Space Station’s life-boat project is to be speeded up, giving the astronauts a fighting chance of bailing out. Orc for a Day
Grab a sword and hang on to your sorcerous rod of power, because the Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers game has landed for the PC, PS2 and X-Box. Have you got what it takes to save Middle-earth? The Great Mirror Matter Mystery
Australian researchers reckon that an asteroid that recently had a space probe fly-past has been splattered by a totally new form of matter. They’re calling it mirror matter ... does it matter? Doherty, Doh
Tom Doherty, the grand fromage who runs the Tor empire, talks about taking Tolkien to the United States, discovering author Robert Jordan, and his beautiful life in the SF world. Comics Legend Stan Lee gets legal with Marvel
Crikes, It's like Colonel Sanders suing Kentucky Fried Chicken. Cover Art
James Patrick Kelly goes in search of book cover art on the internet. He likes what he finds. Attack of the Clones get Cloned
An Irish college was not impressed that the last Star Wars' movie’s Jedi Archives looked so similar to its own library. They wanted to sue Lucasfilm. But there was a ‘Darth’ of evidence. A Misspent Life? by Gardner Dozois
Gardner D. on his special talent - enjoying reading. Wow, that’s some super-power GD ... bitten by a radioactive book worm, perhaps? Recycling The Universe
Analog looks at the idea that the Universe is infinite, eternal, and recycles itself from Big Bang to Big Crunch at regular intervals. Paint your Asteroids Red
NASA examines novel ways of diverting asteroids on a killer trajectory for Earth. Potter Movie Pirate was a Fake
A pirated hack of the latest Harry Potter film on the web was nothing but an empty decoy, claims the movie company. Give War a Chance
A line of SF authors sign a petition saying no to a US war on Iraq. Hey guys, what if there was a war and both sides turned up? UFO-ologists Demand Respect
Worried about alien abductions? Good news … you’re not a nutter anymore. Your going to get respect anytime now. Beware, Bujold Bites
Lois McMaster Bujold interviewed about surviving the slush pile nightmare. Black Hole’s Scooby Snack
Astronomers clock a new black hole ripping through our galaxy, feeding on an old star as it goes. E-mail From Gthulhu by Robert Silverberg
Our Rob compares using Windows with the dark forces of Gthulhu. Surely some mistake? M. John Harrison Interviewed
MJH interviewed about his first new book – Light – to hit the streets for a long, long time. That Flipping Di Filippo
A chronology and retrospective of genre-straddling author Paul Di Filippo's fiction. NASA Landed on the Moon. True.
NASA prepares to launch a new book that proves its astronauts did land on the Moon. Now, will those conspiracy theorists please go away. 
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