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News Archive
Current: May 2003
Do
Bear's Write in The Woods?
An interview with Greg Bear about some of the fascinating ideas
contained in his SF novel, Darwin's Children. Human Endogenous Retrovirus
anyone?
(AUTHOR INTERVIEWS)
Of
Clockwork Men
Artist Tom Abba on winning both the the Ken McIntyre Award and the
Paper Tiger Art Award at the UK's Eastercon, plus how he has never
considered himself to be a real science fiction artist. Crikes,
how did we resist slipping some Nordic pop group jokes into this
interview?
(INTERVIEWS)
The
Slow Death of Science Fiction Art
The 'Nest's readers respond to Stephen Hunt's plea for decent cover
art on SFF novels. Bad covers get named and shamed.
(COMMENT)
Making
Merry SF in Melbourne
Australian SFF came under the spotlight, with the recent close of
the 2002 Aurealis Awards. Damien Broderick got best novel for 'Transcension'
(Tor), which rather begs the question, why's the most popular Ozzie
SF coming out of the USA?
(AWARDS NEWS)
The
Core: Mark's Thoughts
A spectacular set of disasters and a heroic expedition to save mankind.
Some real science and some nonsense mix. If the film does not quite
click, it is probably because we have higher standards than we had
for science fiction films in their heyday of the 1950s and 1960s.
(FILM REVIEWS)
The
Core: Frank's Thoughts
The Core definitely had the making for fascinating sci-fi stimulation.
The attempt to turn the scientific discipline of electromagnetism
into a robust and cheeky mainstream entertainment seemed quite challenging
in concept.
(FILM REVIEWS)
Teknolust
This SF film plays like a throwback to 1960s mod film making. It
is every bit as colorful as intended, but not nearly as intelligent.
It plays like a college skit but for the digital special effects
that allow four Tilda Swintons on the screen at one time.
(FILM REVIEWS)
Sold
Down the Riverworld
Philip Jose Farmer's interesting premise of adventures set on a
strange life-after-death-world is squandered on a fairly commonplace
barbarian-planet story that appears to be the pilot for a most uninteresting
and humdrum TV series.
(TV REVIEWS)
Agent
Cody Banks
So the likable Malcolm in the Middle pint-sized TV star Frankie
Muniz is at it again on the big screen? This time, the movie handlers
are trying to package him as a junior James Bond for the kiddie
crowd.
(FILM REVIEWS)
Offworld
Report for April 2003
Interviews with authors Larry Niven, Whitley Strieber, Christopher
Priest, Ted Chiang, Robert Sheckley, Stephen Baxter, as well as
the owners of Golden Gryphon Press, not to mention the cast of the
movie Bulletproof Monk; plus Christopher Reeve guest stars on Smallville.
Nice.
(SITE REVIEWS)
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