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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, but only for online SFF!
(NEWS)
The
Anderson Tapes
Science fiction Author Kevin J Anderson on his Dune prequel novels,
the Saga of Seven Suns, and why we've come a long way from bug-eyed
monsters slavering over scantily clad women on the garish covers
of old magazines.
(INTERVIEWS)
Vanishing
Point (Star Trek Enterprise)
After using the transporter to beam down for the first time, Hoshi
fears that she hasn't been put together quite properly.
(TV REVIEWS)
Precious
Cargo (Star Trek Enterprise)
When a repair mission turns into a trap, Trip finds himself stuck
protecting a high-and-mighty princess who was being held hostage.
(TV REVIEWS)
The
Catwalk (Star Trek Enterprise)
With the approach of a neutronic storm, the Enterprise crew is forced
to take refuge in a maintenance shaft running along one nacelle.
(TV REVIEWS)
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?
(NEWS)
For
a Few Dollars Moore
Science fiction illustrator Chris Moore, the master of hi-tech,
hi-sheen SF illustration talks about the joy of the airbrush, as
well as using a computer to paint starships like a madman.
(ARTIST INTERVIEWS)
Lord
of the Rings: The Two Towers
Jackson proudly pounds his chest, and rightly so, as he ushers in
the second instalment of Tolkien's universe in the masterful sequel
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. Frank finds a film that is
intriguingly breathtaking and sensually stimulating, The Two Towers
is even more cinematically sound than the first outing.
(FILM REVIEWS)
Star
Trek Nemeis
Frank asks will diehard and casual Trekkers come out the woodwork
to check out the tenth Star Trek feature at the local box office?
Does a Klingon need a facelift? Somehow there's a sense of urgency
for trekkies to revel in the experience that is the legendary Star
Trek franchise.
(FILM REVIEWS)
The
Tuxedo
Frank reckons he would prefer a lobotomy to the punishing and mirthless
antics of the new Jackie Chan lame chop-and-sock action-packed fantasy
spy comedy The Tuxedo. That can't be good!
(FILM REVIEWS)
Solaris
Franks plonks himself down for another movie, and discovers the
Soderbergh-Clooney collaboration continues to roll along, as they
serve up an ambitious but intermittently uneven science fiction
love story in the visually stimulating space opera Solaris.
(FILM REVIEWS)
What
Merry Jeapes we Played
Ben Jeapes, founder of science fiction book publisher Big Engine
and the great new 3SF magazine, interviewed on the tricky act of
keeping the drool from running down his gibbering physiognomy while
running a burgeoning SF empire.
(INTERVIEWS)
Hengie
A short story from the pen of Jonathan Day. What on - or off - Earth
can happen when a robot artist shaped like a dragon starts collaborating
with the space programme? Read on to find out.
(FICTION)
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