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Offworld
Report: Science Fiction and Fantasy, November 2004
Interviews with Stephen R. Donaldson, Clive Barker, Matt Stone and
Trey Parker, Clark Kent's foster father, and John Clute, Dell Magazines'
SF boat cruise, fiction by Peter Crowther, and getting laid at a
science-fiction convention.
11/2004
Offworld
Report: Science Fiction and Fantasy: October 2004
Interviews with Jack Dann, Ian R MacLeod, Larry Niven, China Mieville
and the stars of Stargate and Sky Captain, why fantasy novelists
are the new thing, Noreascon reports and The Andromeda Strain heads
for a remake.
10/2004
Offworld
Report: Science Fiction and Fantasy: September 2004
Interviews with Keith Brooke, Geoff Ryman, Gerry Anderson and the
co-producer of the new Sapphire and Steel series, short fiction
by John Grant and Walter Jon Williams, and Locus Magazine's excellent
primer on genre audiobooks.
09/2004
Offworld
Report: Science Fiction and Fantasy: August 2004
Interviews with Alan Moore, Geoffrey Landis, Steve Erikson and Robert
Silverberg, why elitism in the genre is good, and Kim Stanley Robinson
on the really dumb science of The Day After Tomorrow.
08/2004
Offworld
Report July 2004: Science Fiction and Fantasy
Interviews with authors Sean McMullen, John Crowley , Bruce Sterling,
Richard Morgan and Kim Stanley Robinson; a look at the Stepford
Wives and the sequel to Pitch Black, fiction by Gardner Dozois,
and a report from the first African-American science fiction festival.
07/2004
Offworld
Report June 2004: Science Fiction and Fantasy
Interviews with Peter Crowther, Steven Brust, John Jarrold, Neil
Gaiman and the stars of Van Helsing; JG Ballard considers disaster
movies, Stephen Baxter dishes the dirt on the writing secrets of
SF, and Octavia Butler ponders the nature of power.
06/2004
Offworld
Report: Science fiction - May 2004
Interviews with writers Stanislaw Lem, Thomas Harlan, and Neal Stephenson,
James Patrick Kelly examines FTL online, a look at the ten best
science fiction film directors of all time, and new trailer downloads
for Alien vs. Predator, Thunderbirds and I, Robot.
05/2004
The
Offworld Report April 04: Science Fiction
Interviews with authors Joe Haldeman, Octavia Butler, Ramsey Campbell
and Alan Dean Foster, Bruce Sterling on a solar Texas, David Brin
on the future of news, why the geek shall inherit the Earth, and
Locus ponders the way forward for print-on-demand ... aka POD.
04/2004
The
Offworld Report March 04: Science Fiction and Fantasy
Interviews with authors Spider Robinson, Jack McDevitt, Rob Grant,
Gene Wolfe, Robert Holdstock, is Asimov's magazine really full of
stories that make minors quake and parents faint, and Robert Silverberg
take a sophisticated look at Sophocles of Athens in, err, that old
razz mag Asimovs?
03/2004
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.
02/2004
The
Offworld Report: Science Fiction and Fantasy: January '04
Heinlein gets a new book, China Miéville's delves into the new 'weird
fiction', Canadian SF comes of age, and the all-new Battlestar Galactica
returns to the screens.
01/2003
Offworld
Report: December '03: Science Fiction and Fantasy
Robin Hobb, Iain Banks and Peter Crowther are interviewed, Robert
Silverberg muses over the contents of dinosaur intestines, while
John Jarrold visits the odd world of Korean science fiction.
12/2003
Offworld
Report - SF: November 2003
Interviews with author Wil McCarthy, the cast of Alias, and the
Director of Underworld. Plus criticism of this year's Worldcon in
Toronto, the return of Dr Who, and a short science fiction history
of the Middle East.
11/2003
October
2003 Offworld Report: Science Fiction and Fantasy
Spider Robinson blasts the genre and asks 'why are our imaginations
retreating from science and space, and into fantasy?', Kir Bulychov
dies, plus interviews with Jerry Pournelle, Kristine Kathryn Rusch,
Bob Eggleton, Robert J. Sawyer, Ben Bova and Vernor Vinge.
10/2003
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.
09/2003
July
2003 Offworld Report
SFF imprint Earthlight is axed, John Jarrold angrily speaks out
on this, Richard E Grant becomes the new Dr Who, why Clarion matters,
Eric Van Lustbader is interviewed, and a fab review of POD-based
SFF fiction (hint, it's really, really bad).
08/2003
The
Offworld Report: June 2003
Michael Swanwick and Tad Williams are interviewed, Berman, Braga
and Bakula on how they finished the third season of Enterprise,
and Michael Moorcock looks at the elements of science fiction that
just keep on coming true.
07/2003
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.
06/2003
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?).
06/2003
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.
05/2003
Paul
Barnett to Leave Paper Tiger
Paul Barnett, who has been Commissioning Editor of Paper Tiger since
1997, has decided to give up his role as of the end of March 2003.
04/2003
Offworld
Report: March 2003
This month's offworld report looks at the secret history of TV series
Red Dwarf, DNA computers, an interview with Betsy Mitchell of Del
Rey, has Robert Silverberg reflecting on the Columbia shuttle disaster,
and looks at the shocking real life of a Dalek.
04/2003
Offworld
report: February 2003
William Gibson makes a break from the world of science fiction with
his much lauded Pattern Recognition, Peter Jackson is interviewed
- about Lord of the Rings, what else - and Gary Westfahl stirs up
a storm over the space shuttle disaster.
03/2003
Fans
Will Battle(star)
Fans fed up with Farscape being cancelled are now up in arms about
the re-imagining of Battlestar Galactica. In fact, they're calling
for a boycott.
03/2003
Online
Science Fiction gets its own 'Oscars' … but they're made of wood!
Do you run a science fiction or fantasy web site? Then you could
be a winner in the first Wooden Rocket awards. At long last it's
an award like the Oscars, Nebulas and Hugos all rolled into one,
but only for online SFF!
02/2003
A
Wolfe at the Door
Odyssey, the summer creative writing workshop for science fiction,
fantasy, and horror authors, will feature award winning SF author
Gene Wolfe as the special writer-in-residence for its summer '03
session. How on Urth did they manage that?
02/2003
Offworld
report: December 2003
This month's offworld roundup features the shock hack of David Langford's
Ansible magazine, an interview with author David Zindell, the sudden
death of the TV series Firefly, while Roger MacBride Allen remembers
author Charles Sheffield.
01/2003
Position
Wanted: The Next Spielberg?
The race is on across the UK for a new breed of science fiction
films. The British Film Council's Development Fund has created New
Steps Beyond, a new film partnership, to develop three new science
fiction feature films.
12/2002
Offworld
Report: November 2002
The International Space Station gets a life boat, JK Rowling gets
accused of stealing Harry Potter from a Russian author (translated
from the original Klingon, surely), and Tom Doherty, the grand fromage
at Tor Books, chats about his shocking life in science fiction.
12/2002
Explorer's
findings
Short news snippets for September 2002. Including the sad death
of book-cover illustrator Ron Walotsky and the odd departure of
Science Fiction Chronicle's founder Andrew Porter from said publication,
followed by a trail of rumour and 'no comments'.
09/2002
Hitchiking
To Heaven - Douglas Adams Dies Unexpectedly
Comedy's last hope for science fiction novels shuffles off this
mortal coil. Goodbye Douglas Adams, we know you're already up there,
threatening to write a piss-take expose on that impressive-looking
chap with the long white beard. Read about DA's life and times here.
06/2001
SFX
Network Gets A Lightsaber Thrust Through Its Heart
It seems like the SF world is crashing down around our ears. First
we lose the glossy Science Fiction Age title in the States to the
accountant's slashing pen, now SFX in the UK is closing down their
web-based operation. At least SFX's print magazine is still going
strong. Read about the cruel fate of SFX Network and how it struck
us as a Network member too.
03/2001
Galaxy
Online Bloats Up Over Christmas
The USA's most ambitious SF web site has been on a special diet
this Christmas. Not content with trying to dominate the internet
airwaves, they're now tucking into the juicy print market with a
glossy new magazine based on a glossy old favourite.
01/2001
Pokemon
Really Did Steal His Identity
One of our brave users digs up the real dirt on the Pokemon pocket
monster that got TV magician Uri Gellar worked up into a frenzied
state of anger.
01/2001
Pokemon
Stole My Identity And Turned Me Into A Monster!
Uri Gellar takes on Pokemon for making him into a lousy gaming card.
Well, that's what the hacks in the British press say, anyway. We
have our doubts.
12/2000
Alas
Poor Sf World, Another Magazine Goes To The Wall
What was that sound? Why, another print science fiction magazine
going pop. Such a short life, too.
11/2000
What,
Sci-Fi? Now?
The Mekon-sized intelligence(s) at the US-based SCI-FI magazine
and Realms of Fantasy magazine have cobbled together their first
web site - only six years after we first launched. How impressed
are you now?
08/2000
Pssst.
Droid Going Cheap - You Want?
Amazon have been very generous of late. They've been selling the
Phantom Menace for 12 pence. What a kind fellow that Jeff Bozos
must be. Or is he? Read about the terror of SF e-commerce gone wrong.
06/2000
Last
Light Of The Old Republic
The Editor of the magazine Science Fiction Chronicle is becoming
the Victor Meldrew of the SF world. Just read about the ear-bashing
he gave us!
06/2000
Science
Fiction Magazine, SF Age, Hit By A Blaster Bolt Through The Heart
It's been on the sci-fi scene for 8 years. But the kitchen has just
run out of its steady diet of pap. US magazine, SF Age, is shutting
its doors at last. Can you feel our pain at the news?
04/2000
Spielberg
Makes A New Fantasy Movie
Birds do it, Xena does it, Tolkien does it, and now, even Steven
Spielberg does it. Fall in love? No! Makes a new fantasy movie,
dufus.
03/2000
Raise
The Jolly Roger Over The Science Fiction Web
A shocking true story of cyber piracy on the digital seas. It involves
one of the largest western SF publishers and those devil worshipers
at the alter of intellectual property, the Estonians.
02/2000
Sorry,
We're Forbidden (Planet) To Talk About It
Once there was one chain of Forbidden Planet sci-fi stores in Britain,
now there are two. By the twin moons of Tau Ceti, who - or what
- is
responsible for this bizarre act of corporate cloning?
12/1999
UFO
Fans Left Smoking After Insult - Will They Sue?
10/1999
British
SF Magazine Implodes - Oh Dear
09/1999
Mi5
Wants Q-You To Join
07/1999
Alien
Call Screening
06/1999
One
Of Our Forbidden Planet Stores Is Missing (Can You Guess Which One)
07/1999
Hair
Today, In An Alien Zoo Tomorrow
06/1999
Major
U.S Science Fiction Book Publisher Pooch-Screwed
05/1999
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