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Current: November 2003
Chris
Moriarty: All in a Spin
The science fiction author behind the amazing novel Spin State braves
our interviewer's chair.
(AUTHOR INTERVIEWS)
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.
(NEWS)
Offworld
Report - Weird Science: November 2003
Martial arts robots hit Asia, the day a meteorite crashed through
my roof, China sparks a new space race, and life across the stars:
they're now betting on the system 37 Gem .
(NEWS)
Offworld
Report - Comics & Anime: November 2003
X-Men scribe Mark Millar interviewed, the return of the Micronauts,
more flipping anthropomorphic animals, plus new G-Saviour, Cowboy
Bebop and Melty Lancer. Don't you just love those odd anime titles?
(NEWS)
Offworld
Report - RPGs and Games: November 2003
A look at The 1920s Investigator's Companion, Werewolf: the Dark
Ages, Viking Age, and Stargate SG-1 the role-playing game, plus
the question is posed: is live roleplaying on its last legs? Perish
the thought.
(NEWS)
Cold
Creek Manor
The creepy contrivance that takes the form of director Mike Figgis's
haunted house hokum Cold Creek Manor definitely wants to develop
the goose bump response for its anticipating audience. Unfortunately,
this stillborn by-the-numbers movie of terror is reductive and just
plods along.
(FILM REVIEWS)
Kill
Bill (Volume One)
In the intentionally overwrought and gloriously violent-drenched
B-movie actioner Kill Bill Tarantino pours it on thick as he chaotically
pays homage to the movie genres that he reveres so deeply - creating
a concoction of ubiquitous escapist Asian kung-fu flicks along with
a dash of redemptive foreign spaghetti westerns.
(FILM REVIEWS)
Underworld
If a vampire loves a werewolf, where can they set up housekeeping
together? Nowhere. At least not in a world where werewolves and
vampires have fought for a thousand years. Mark discovers a film
of non-stop action and non-start intelligence, with lots of gunplay
and the look of The Matrix.
(FILM REVIEWS)
The
Torrid Movies of Torcon
Mark brings you his impressions of some interesting upcoming movies
based on attending the various trailer shows at Torcon 3, aka 2003's
World Science Fiction Convention.
(FILM REVIEWS)
Does
Science Fiction Have to be About the Present?
SF author Ken MacLeod has a theory that SF can be more illuminating
about the time of its writing than about that of its imagined future.
(ARTICLES)
Star
Trek Enterprise: Anomaly
Seeing the episode title "Anomaly" set off a few dozen alarms for
our Evan. The title is reminiscent of the lowest form of storytelling
we all saw so commonly on Voyager. Did it disappoint? Read on ...
(TV REVIEWS)
Star
Trek Enterprise: Exile
This is the first episode of the season that is utterly devoid of
any Trip/T'Pol scenes, at least in the romantic sense. Maybe that's
one of the reasons our Evan loved it so much. What, no sensual T'Pol
scenes? Forgetaboutit.
(TV REVIEWS)
Star
Trek Enterprise: Extinction
In "Extinction," a sterile alien race, which is now extinct, creates
a metagenic virus that has the effect of changing all other humanoid
lifeforms into their own species. As far as originality goes, Evan
reckons this episode gets a fairly average grade.
(TV REVIEWS)
Star
Trek Enterprise: Impulse
Evan ponders whether this episode indicates that the show's reached
a point where a continuing storyline can only go so far before involving
the main characters in interesting and personal ways. Why? Well,
poor old T'Pol is carted into sickbay, and she's obviously pushed
way past the edge of sanity and into the realm of the truly psychotic.
(TV REVIEWS)
Star
Trek Enterprise: Rajiin
This ep's premise appeared to be that the Enterprise was to take
on a beautiful woman, who would use erotic and hypnotic powers to
entice the crew. Evan thought we were in for another variation on
"Precious Cargo," but he was pleasantly surprised.
(TV REVIEWS)
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