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The
Man Who Sold the Moon
Scots SF author Ken Macleod reckons that watching George W. Bush's recent speech
at NASA felt like science fiction coming true. But reservations ... well, he's
got a few.
(COMMENT)
Human
Stories of Mars
The successful landing of the NASA rover Spirit in Gusev Crater on Mars has
caught the world's imagination, but England's favourite hard SF author, Stephen
Baxter, thinks that our attention will soon move on.
(ARTICLES)
Sixty-Two
And A Half Miles High
Scottish SF writer Rod MacDonald on the X Prize Foundation and the strange British
dreams of a privately funded space race.
(ARTICLES)
Starfleet
In Motion
There's rather a lot of crew on a Federation starship. So apart from jogging
around a lot during a red alert, what the heck do they all do? Uncle Geoff muses
on the unlucky blue shirts who draw the Enterprise's toilet duty.
(ARTICLES)
Offworld
Report: Science Fiction & Fantasy - Feb '04
Authors Brian Aldiss, Lucius Shepard, Robert Sheckley, Stephen Baxter and Gene
Wolfe are interviewed, as is Kim Stanley Robinson, whose latest novel is somewhat
... wet. There's also new articles by Isaac Asimov, James Patrick Kelly and
John Clute.
(NEWS)
Offworld
Report: Weird Science - Feb '04
Plenty of articles on Mars missions and moon bases, a look back at the top scientific
advances of 2003, a new supersolid state of matter is discovered, and why the
Earth's magnetic field is fading fast.
(NEWS)
Offworld
Report: Comics, Manga and Anime - Feb '04
An Alan Moore retrospective, another look at Tank Girl, and why poor old Captain
America is now awakening in a parallel reality where the Nazis won WWII and
control the USA ... hmmm, a bit of politics, anyone?
(NEWS)
Offworld
Report: Roleplaying Games - Feb '04
Why presenting an RPG player with impossible choices helps makes for a great
game, a look at the secret lives of Wood Elves, and a free PDF rules download
for the 28mm figures wargame Cobalt-2 from Westwind.
(NEWS)
Paycheck
Sadly, our Frank discovers this film is one Paycheck not worth necessarily cashing
or depositing as Woo waters down his boisterously banal and generic thriller
all too convincingly.
(FILM REVIEWS)
Peter
Pan
Visually vibrant and mystical in its charming presentation, Franks happily discovers
Hogan's live action take on Peter Pan is an exquisite and sparkling celluloid
fable that just pops into life.
(FILM REVIEWS)
The
Return of the King
Inherently grand, vibrant, inviting and whimsically overwhelming, Jackson packs
an urgent sense of vitality into this third installment that will certainly
amaze those who were attentive to the previous colorful two TLoTR epics.
(FILM REVIEWS)
Peter
Pan
In this new movie, Mark discovers a feast for the eyes that he can recommend
with more conviction for parents than he can for the children who might see
it.
(FILM REVIEWS)
Sea
of Souls
Interviews with actors Bill Paterson and Archie Panjabi, stars of the BBC's
shortly-to-be-released new X Files-style television series, 'Sea of Souls'.
(INTERVIEWS)
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