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News Archive
Current: June 2003
Going
to Jael
At last, the queen of SFF illustration, Jael, comes under the interviewer's
spotlight. She explains how she put her personal and inner ambition
on hold through most of her extremely busy child-rearing years,
and why she just loves Batman, Green Hornet, Captain Marvel and
Superman.
(INTERVIEWS)
An
Allen Key for Science Fiction?
Why philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen has announced
plans for a new cultural project dedicated to science fiction and
the ways it captures our imagination.
(NEWS)
Adamantium
or cement? Shall I count the ways for the Hugo.
The World SF con - Noreascon Four - would like your creative insights
and other-worldly engineering proposals for the perfect base on
which to mount their treasured silver rocket denoting excellence
in SFF ... the Hugo awards. How about moon rock, guys?
(NEWS)
Who
will arrange my Separation from this troublesome Priest?
Christopher Priest scoops the 2003 Arthur C Clarke Award for his
novel 'The Separation', featuring a parallel reality where Britain
made peace with Hitler in 1941. Pulp SF it ain't ... but it's a
rather good read all the same.
(NEWS)
A little Huth and Puff
Interview with the author Joe Huth - co-editor of the non-fiction
work the 'Knight Rider Legacy'. Joe talks about why, with society's
ongoing love affair with the automobile, you can make that car indestructible,
sentient and able to perform incredible feats and you've got every
young boy's (and many man's) dream.
(AUTHOR INTERVIEWS)
The
Offworld Report: May 2003
Jeff VanderMeer looks at Robert Freeman Wexler, just about everyone
looks at The Matrix Reloaded, the Andromeda season three finale
slaps into the small screen, Ted Chiang is interviewed, and President
Bush cites the film 'The Last Starfighter' as his inspiration for
entering politics (or does he?).
(NEW ROUNDUP)
Riverworld:
The TV Series
A frank apprisial of the TV series of the Riverworld by Shelby Peck,
who finds a hodge-podge of things that can and can't be found in
the books.
(TV REVIEWS)
The
Matrix Reloaded: Frank's Take
Frank finds the whimsical Wachowski tandem are at it again with
the second installment of this frothy film series in the form of
the visually vigorous and devoutly exhilarating The Matrix Reloaded.
(FILM REVIEWS)
The
Matrix Reloaded: Mark's Take
The war to release humanity from computer-generated non-reality
continues in a pretentious and violent film that nonetheless has
a lot of style.
(FILM REVIEWS)
More
Priestly Mischief
Is there no stopping the man? The winners of the British Science
Fiction Association Awards were announced on Easter Sunday, at he
54th UK National Science Fiction Convention. The Winner for Best
Novel of 2002? None other than Christopher Priest for his 'The Separation',
published by Scribner.
(NEWS)
Canamar
(Star Trek Enterprise)
Archer and Trip, falsely accused of smuggling, find themselves on
an Enolian prison ship headed for the dreaded penal colony of Canamar.
(TV REVIEWS)
Future
Tense (Star Trek Enterprise)
The discovery of a wrecked ship, apparently from the future, thrusts
Archer and the Enterprise right in the middle of the Temporal Cold
War.
(TV REVIEWS)
Horizon
(Star Trek Enterprise)
Travis Mayweather returns home to his parents' ship, the Horizon,
only to find that things have changed in his absence.
(TV REVIEWS)
Judgement
(Star Trek Enterprise)
Archer is accused of crimes against the Klingon Empire and brought
before a tribunal.
(TV REVIEWS)
X2:
Frank's Thoughts
Is everybody ready for a second helping of a particular mutant recipe
known as the X-Men? Apparently so since the first taste of this
action-packed delicacy mustered up an incredible $157 million at
the U.S. box office.
(FILM REVIEWS)
X2:
Mark's Thoughts
This second film based on the X-Men comic book is a better story
and a more atmospheric production. I am told it is a better adaptation
of the comic book. One does not come to this sort of film for a
deep statement of the human condition, but for a summer action film,
it is not too bad.
(FILM REVIEWS)
2001
and All That
Scottish SF author Ken MacLeod argues that much history, including
the End of it, has happened since 2001, and he thinks it is rather
important that they should not be remembered.
(COMMENT)
Why
Some Things Don't Need To Be Resurrected
Geoff asks can, indeed should, Battlestar Galactica be revived in
the same way Star Trek was resurrected with the Next Generation?
(COMMENT)
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