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News Archive
Current: November 2002
Ken
MacLeod interviewed
Scottish SF author Ken MacLeod may be a best buddy with Iain Banks,
but he's now been firmly established as a rising star in the science
fiction firmament in his right. He chats about why he's trying to
find time to read Perdido Street Station, his new book, Engine City,
and why most of the futures are capitalist … but they're terrifying!
(AUTHOR INTERVIEWS)
Hit
And Kismet
A time travel chestnut from the pen of our own dear editor. But
can you really send people into the past without upsetting the present?
Read on for some shocking short fiction …
(FICTION)
The
Jim Munroe Reviews
Jim Munroe is a Canadian author whose works are generally not marketed
as science fiction, even though all three of his books to date have
strong elements of the fantastic. In this appraisal of his works
by James Nicholl, the light side of anti-globalization ideology
comes under the microscope.
(ARTICLES)
The
Offworld Report
The chance of finding life on Jupiter's moon, Europa, goes up a
notch, the Washington-based editor of SciFi.com muses about living
life in the shadow of the sniper's crosshair, and author Jack Williamson
gets interviewed about his long brilliant life in the SF world.
All this and more in our round-up of the best SF offworld the 'Nest.
(NEWS SUMMARY)
Fare
thee well, Ron Walotsky
Ron Walotsky's death shattered many people in the fantasy art world.
Here, Paul Barnett, 'Nest columnist and editor of art book imprint
Paper Tiger fondly remembers his friend, and there's a posthumous
interview with Ron too.
(INTERVIEWS)
Walter
Jon Williams interviewed
Science fiction author WJW chats about bashing out a new Star Wars
novel, the impact of September 11th on his writing, and how he probably
left a few scribbles on his mother's womb.
(AUTHOR INTERVIEWS)
Shockwave
Part II (Trek)
As Archer attempts to make his way back from the 31st century, those
damn tricky Suliban takes the Enterprise crew captive. And even
their silly theme tune is growing on us!
(TV REVIEWS)
Carbon
Creek (Trek)
T'Pol tells Trip and Archer about her great-grandmother T'Mir, who
was part of an expedition to Earth that crashed in the 1950s. Vulcans
at Roswell; who would have thought?
(TV REVIEWS)
Minefield
(Trek)
When the Enterprise stumbles into a Romulan minefield, Reed finds
himself in a life-or-death situation. As good as excuse as any for
some more hammy acting, we suppose.
(TV REVIEWS)
Triple
XXX
Frank's latest movie review isn't porn - it's Bond-age. A fuelled-up
Vin Diesel inherits his very own explosive playground where he gets
to play secret agent in the banal and boisterous spy actioner "XXX".
(FILM REVIEWS)
Lost
on the way to see the Brontosaurus
Mark Leeper explores the BBC's miniseries adoption of the Lost World,
and finds it is the best of a not-very-good lot of adaptations of
Doyle's great adventure novel of a forgotten plateau with prehistoric
man and dinosaurs. The dinosaur re-creations are effective, but
there are major discrepancies from the novel.
(TV REVIEWS)
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