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Current: March 2004
Jensen
Intercepted
Author Jane Jensen on her near-future thriller, Dante's Equation.
With clever science, baffling Torah code, devious secret agents
and just a little bit of romance, what more could you want from
a book?
(AUTHOR INTERVIEWS)
Embracing
the Zahn Side
Author Timothy Zahn interviewed on creating alien characters and
races, his returning to the Star Wars universe, and his new young-adult
Dragonback series ... that's fantasy you know, if the title wasn't
a bit of a giveaway.
(AUTHOR INTERVIEWS)
The
Troubles of Time Travel
Anne Groell, senior editor at the Bantam Spectra publishing imprint,
ruminates on the time in every science fiction editor's life when
one has to edit the dread 'Time Travel' novel. Yikes, move over,
Terminator ...
(COMMENT)
Finding
Philcon
Evelyn drops by Philcon 2003, and finds the answers to some thorny
questions at the convention. Like why hasn't Lovecraft spawned a
good movie yet, and just why do conventional SFF publishers miss
so much of the good stuff?
(CONVENTION REPORTS)
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?
(NEWS)
The
Offworld Report March 04: Weird Science
Is Europa corrosive, Black hole found ripping a star apart, a prescription
for fixing NASA, the first robot Humvee (hello Mr Knight) and why
the Pentagon is preparing for a war in space.
(NEWS)
Re-thinking
Re-imagining (or B.S. Galactica)
Joseph Nanni on why re-imagining classic SFF television series is
enough to shrivel the soul of any true fan. Hmmm. Battlestar Galactica
anyone?
(COMMENT)
A
Problem with Fear
Mark sits down for this latest SF movie and discovers a quirky science
fiction film with some odd approaches, including a man-made 'fear
storm'.
(FILM REVIEWS)
Code
46
In this movie Mark finds a very odd piece of science fiction; it
is a film with some very nice material that tries some interesting
ideas, but ultimately Code 46 fails to capture the viewer.
(FILM REVIEWS)
Six
Lost Worlds: The Dramatic Adaptations of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's
Novel
Mark imagines a place so isolated from the world that it was beyond
the reach even of the forces of evolution ... where on one plateau
deep in the Amazon rain forest there is a land that has withstood
the ravages of time. Bring on those dinosaurs and prehistoric proto-humans.
(FILM REVIEWS)
Open
Letter to an Open Enemy
Scots SFF author Ken MacLeod has written science fiction novels
which make frequent passing reference to the Soviet Union, Lenin,
Trotsky, and communism. But he does not regard Lenin as a mass murderer,
any more than he regards Cromwell, Napoleon, Lincoln, Roosevelt
or Churchill as mass murderers. Read why here ...
(COMMENT)
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