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News Archive
Current: April 2004
An
Altered Author
Richard Morgan, author of Altered Carbon, on giving up the day job,
his movie deal with Warner Brothers, and making a big splash in
the hard boiled science fiction genre.
(INTERVIEWS)
Cyberpunks
in White Nylon
Now for something completely different. The, err, heroine of Marianne
de Pierres' debut cyberpunk novel Nylon Angel, interviewed about
her bust up face and life in a down and dirty future.
(INTERVIEWS)
Holt
Right There
Fantasy author Tom Holt on whether it's really possible to write
a SFF novel about office life, his first job as a porter in an auction-house,
and the funniest thing he's ever heard.
(INTERVIEWS)
Robot
Stories
Mark finds a film of five Twilight Zone-ish stories involving robots
in some way. They are simple stories - most with a strong insightful
element. All but one really says more about humanity than about
droids.
(FILM REVIEWS)
The
hitch-hiker's guide to French Science-Fiction
French SF has a glorious past - remember Jules Verne? - and, hopefully,
a bright future. But Jean-Claude finds the present situation a little
more difficult to decode. Especially when you try to evaluate it
on the same scale as Anglo-American SF.
(ARTICLES)
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.
(NEWS)
The
Offworld Report April 04: Weird Science
Hello planet Sedna, Hong Kong gets a robot cop, why Yellowstone
National Park may be about to exterminate all life in North America,
the Rosetta probe heads for its comet and the Pentagon's new stealth
bomber-like submarine. The Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea's flying
sub, anyone?
(NEWS)
The
Tears of an Angel
The Buffy the Vampire Slayer spin-off, Angel, has reached the end
of it's bloodsucking run. But we know at least one fan who is seeing
red over the decision to cancel the series. Taste her red rage here
...
(ARTICLES)
Time
And The Terminator
Uncle Geoff ponders the paradox implicit in the statement: 'The
future is not set. 'There is no fate but what we make for ourselves.'
Time travel? Altering the past? What the heck is that all about.
(ARTICLES)
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