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Current: January 2002
Brian Aldiss: the Master of Glacial Helliconia
Brian Aldiss, one of Britain's greatest authors, interviewed. He holds forth on why he was glad Michael Moorcock appeared in the sixties, why his Helliconia trilogy is just about a change in the weather, and the terrible unwisdom of terraforming Mars.
(AUTHOR INTERVIEWS)
Hunt
vs Hunt
SFF author Walter Hunt interviewed by SFF author Stephen Hunt. Crikes,
that's a whole lot of Hunt-ing going on for Christmas. The author of the crackingly good military SF epic The Dark Wing tells us how the idea of an implacable alien enemy that won't make peace with us, with a religion that teaches that humanity shouldn't exist, comes disturbingly close to home given the events of the past year.
(AUTHOR INTERVIEWS)
Offworld
report: December 2003
This month's offworld roundup features the shock hack of David Langford's
Ansible magazine, an interview with author David Zindell, the sudden
death of the TV series Firefly, while Roger MacBride Allen remembers
author Charles Sheffield.
(NEWS)
The
Two Towers Inferno
The latest big screen instalment of the Lord of the Rings trilogy
could be your last movie of 2002, or your first of 2003; but you're
going to see it. Right?
(FILM REVIEWS)
Solaris
An alien planet gives George Clooney a perfect facsimile of the
wife he lost on earth in SOLARIS. The philosophical film has some
engaging ideas, but viewers expecting romantic sci-fi will probably
be disappointed and perhaps even bored. This is dense, introspective,
and intelligent science fiction as distinguished from entertainment.
(FILM REVIEWS)
Star
Trek: Nemesis
As the "Star Trek" series seems slowly to lose steam, Mark finds
the movie contains one late - uncharacteristic - burst of life and
energy, a science-fictional examination of the nature-nurture question.
Picard and Data each meet physically identical copies of their former
selves and each must deal with the similarities and differences.
The question faced is, what makes a person who he is?
(FILM REVIEWS)
James
Bond Is An Alien
It's true, Uncle Geoff, our esteemed editor has definitive proof.
The British secret service's most deadly human weapon turns out
not to be so human after all.
(ARTICLES)
Peanut
Butter & Magic
Just in time for Christmas, a short fantasy story from the oft-enchanted
pen of Elizabeth Burton.
(FICTION)
Here
comes the 'Egg' man
With four Hugos and a Chesley, Bob Eggleton is one of the most renowned
SF and fantasy artists in the world. And he has a really amazing
haircut too!
(ARTIST INTERVIEWS)
Star
Trek Enterprise: The Seventh
T'Pol asks Archer along on a classified mission which threatens
to reveal an incident she has long hidden from herself.
(TV REVIEWS)
Star
Trek Enterprise: The Communicator
When Lieutenant Reed loses his communicator on a landing mission,
he and Archer return to retrieve it before it contaminates that
planet's culture.
(TV REVIEWS)
Star
Trek Enterprise: Singularity
Radiation from a nearby black hole affects the Trek crew's behaviour
in some unexpected ways.
(TV REVIEWS)
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