The Offworld Report March 04: Science Fiction and Fantasy

This month's content roundup of all that is good and wholesome offworld the 'Nest.

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?

That Filthy Asimov
Asimov magazine's response to the all too laughable broadcast on Wood TV's 24 Hour News 8 that Asimov's is brim-full of naughty child wrecking filth and porn. Gee, must have missed that issue!

INTERVIEWS

Spider Spider
Spider Robinson interviewed about his Callahan's Place time travel stories as well as his other works.

Jack's Back
Author Jack McDevitt yacks about his new novel 'Omega'.

Full Grant
Red Dwarf creator Rob Grant interviewed about his TV scripts and SF novels.

Cry Wolfe
Gene Wolfe interviewed about making his novels more accessible to new readers.

Greer Gilman
Interview with Greer Gilman about her work.

Holding Holdstock
Creator of Mythago Wood, Robert Holdstock interviewed about his new Arthurian series.

The Saga of Seven Suns: Veiled Alliances,
Kevin J. Anderson on his new graphic novel published by Wildstorm.

Clarke and the Onion
Arthur C. Clarke talks about his fiction, the possibility of life on Mars and having a dinosaur named after him.

Finding the Pattern
Author William Gibson chats about his novel Pattern Recognition.

Being Bradbury
Ray Bradbury on his fiction and … what else, Mars.

The End of Angel
Joss Whedon, David Boreanaz, James Marsters, Alexis Denisof and Christian Kane interviewed about the Buffy spinoff Angel.

Ashton Returns
Ashton Kutcher interviewed about his part in the time-travel thriller The Butterfly Effect.

George Clayton Johnson
Interviewed about his work on the Twilight Zone and Logan's Run.

ARTICLES

FeBlueberry 2004
This month's latest musings from fantasy author Piers Anthony.

A Look at Origins
Article looking at early science fiction works … or should that be mythology.

Fragments Out of Time
SF author Robert Silverberg goes back in time to examine Sophocles of Athens, perhaps the greatest of all playwrights.

Meeting ET
Authors Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart look at what intelligent alien life might be like.

MEDIA

SF Steals Sundance
How science fiction movies won big at this year's Sundance Film Festival.

The Doctor Will See You Now
Enterprise actor John Billingsley (Dr Phlox) on his Trek character.

Eragon The Movie
Apparently a movie version of Eragon (teen Christopher Paolini's fantasy novel) is now on the cards.

Staked through the Heart
Hugh Jackman on his role as Van Helsing in Universal's new vampire movie of the same name.

Robot Emotions
Looks at the new movie Robot Stories.

Robot From the Heart
More on Greg Pak’s Robot Stories movie.

Rudraksh Rules
Why Sunil Shetty’s movie 'Rudraksh' could be India’s first mythological science fiction film.

Battlestar Returns
Galactica miniseries stretched to a full TV outing.

Women Love Farscape
How the female demographic are doing their bit to save the TV series Farscape.

Getting Butterflies
Looks at the SF suspense movie 'Butterfly Effect'.

Smart Effects
Why the film Butterfly Effect qualifies as intelligent science fiction.

LITERARY

No Futurist, Me
William Gibson argues that he's no futurist. No? Here's why …

Best SFF of 2003
Locus's Cynthia Ward looks at her top SFF reads of 2003.

Best SFF of 2003 II
Locus's Claude Lalumière looks at his top SFF reads of 2003.

Best SFF of 2003 III
Locus's consensus view recommended reading list for 2003.

Ellison Versus AOL
News about SF author's Ellison’s legal battle against AOL for copyright infringement. We'd crack a joke about this, but then he might sue us!

SF – it's a Spanish Thing
Review of Cosmos Latinos: An Anthology of Science Fiction from Latin America and Spain. SF gets spicy.

Science. Fiction
A look at literature that focus on the science in the fiction.

FICTION

Articles of a Personal Nature
Deborah Coates' tale of the mysterious reappearance of someone thought killed in an accident.

The Dark Side
Novella from the steady hand of Guy Hasson.

Century to Starboard
Liz Williams' ticklingly tortuous tale of typhoons and terror.

Queuing Behind Crazy People
DF Lewis's brings us more of the new weird, or with Dez's long history of penning the bizarre, maybe that should be 'old weird'?

Doctor Mighty and the Case of Ennui
Paul Melko's tale of superpowered caped frolics.

Telling Stories in the Dark
Short fiction from the flashing pencil of one William P. Simmons. We didn't ask what the P. was for.

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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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