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News Archive
Current: September 2003
Blake's
7 Revival On Track For A Rebellion Reborn
Paul Darrow inks a rights deal with the estate of the late Terry
Nation to bring back Blake's 7 to the TV screens.
(NEWS)
Todd
Lockwood: Wizard Of The Brush
Wizards of the Coast's most talented fantasy artist is interviewed.
His canvases can literally take your breath away. Typically large
and imposing, beautifully composed and superbly painted, they bring
to vivid life all the classic tropes of heroic fantasy.
(ARTIST INTERVIEWS)
India's
Hollywood Takeaway
Billed (inaccurately) as the first Indian science fiction film,
Koi ... Mil Gaya mixes elements of many films, especially E.T. and
Charly. Mark finds a movie which, while groundbreaking as a Bollywood
film, rarely transcends American cable fare.
(FILM REVIEWS)
Spy
Kids 3-D: Game Over
The third installment of the immensely popular kiddie secret agent
series. While the previous two editions were joyful enough to behold,
our Frank reckons Game Over feels mightily labored and lean.
(FILM REVIEWS)
Sept
'03 Offworld Report: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Interviews with Dan Simmons, Larry Niven, Orson Scott Card and Stan
Nicholls; the roots of space opera are explored, Robert Silverberg
looks at the Cleve Cartmill Affair, and the great Farscape rescue
gathers pace.
(NEWS)
Sept
'03 Offworld Report: Weird Science
The Loch Ness Monster is dead, the pulse-engine gets ready to replace
the jet engine, DNA computing evolves, the Pentagon plans their
nanotech warrior, and Russian scientists announce their plans to
construct a nuclear power station on Mars.
(NEWS)
Sept
'03 Offworld Report: RPGs and Gaming
Krynn returns as a Dragonlance campaign setting for roleplayers,
why Everquest now has a GNP somewhere between Bulgaria and Russia,
and Two Fisted Tales arrives - the RPG pulp that can handle everything
from Flash Gordon to Sam Spade, Tarzan and the Shadow.
(NEWS)
Sept
'03 Offworld Report: Anime, Manga and Comics
Illustrator Bryan Talbot is interviewed, the Punisher movie picks
up pace, and the re-release of the classic original Flash Gordon
Volume I strips by Alex Raymond gets a well deserved review. We
also make time for Cowboy Bebop and the Dirty Pair.
(NEWS)
The
Word from Readercon
Evelyn reports back from the world's finest purely literary science
fiction con, Readercon 15 and discovers the Golden Age of science
fiction is .. well, now.
(CONVENTIONS)
The
Long and Wyndham Road
Sue looks at John Wyndham's recent centenary, and finds that thanks
in no small part to the additional medium of television and film,
the Triffids at least still haunt us.
(ARTICLES)
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