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News Archive
Current: March 2003
Discworld
Divinity
An interview with the man with a trademark floppy hat. No, not Indiana
Jones (or even Dr Who), but ... Terry Pratchett. He talks about
his latest works, Discworld and, well, the art of being Terry.
(AUTHOR INTERVIEWS)
Noreascon
Four News
This year's world science fiction convention is about to put up
its prices before opening its doors, so jump in quick.
(CONVENTIONS)
Fans
Will Battle(star)
Fans fed up with Farscape being cancelled are now up in arms about
the re-imagining of Battlestar Galactica. In fact, they're calling
for a boycott.
(NEWS)
Darkness
Falls
Darkness Falls is the latest slight and extraneous scarefest to
hit the big screen in dull, meaningless fashion. Director Jonathan
Liebesman helms a ridiculously familiar and arbitrary cheesy horror
tale that doesn't effectively challenge the simple conventions of
the fright genre.
(FILM REVIEWS)
Daredevil
There were elements of grandeur thrust upon writer-director Mark
Steven Johnson’s dark superhero flick Daredevil. Despite the anticipation
of the famed stoic blind crime-fighter’s arrival on the big screen,
Johnson’s sensationalistic fantasy is, surprisingly, another arbitrary
stunt-infested movie that has plenty of kinetic movement yet never
really goes anywhere with its energizing format.
(FILM REVIEWS)
McMullen'ing
it Over
One of the brightest new voices in science fiction writing to hit
the genre for a long, long time. And struth cobber, he's Australian.
Author Sean McMullen is most definitely interviewed.
(AUTHOR INTERVIEWS)
Hart
to Hart
Publishing guru David Hartwell, currently filling the hotseat as
a senior editor at Tor, chats with Stephen Hunt about why only one
per cent of the SFF slush pile is of publishable quality, the joys
of owning The New York Review of Science Fiction, and the contribution
made by the Philip K. Dick Awards to the field.
(PUBLISHING SPOTLIGHT)
Windy
Miller
Frankly, what science fiction and fantasy illustrator Ron Miller
doesn't know about fine painting could be etched onto a pinhead
using nanotechnology. And he's not really windy … we made that bit
up because it sounded good as a title. Paul Barnett of Paper Tiger
interviews Ron for the Nest.
(ARTIST INTERVIEWS)
Dawn
After Trip's shuttlepod is attacked, he finds himself stranded on
a rapidly heating moon with an already inflammatory enemy. More
Star Trek Enterprise deconstructionalism from the pen of Timothy
W. Lynch.
(TV REVIEWS)
Eulogy
for a Dream
Marianne Plumridge asks, with the Columbia shuttle disaster, just
what happened to our dreams of space? And will we ever dare dream
them again?
(ARTICLES)
Offworld
report: February 2003
William Gibson makes a break from the world of science fiction with
his much lauded Pattern Recognition, Peter Jackson is interviewed
- about Lord of the Rings, what else - and Gary Westfahl stirs up
a storm over the space shuttle disaster.
(NEWS)
Wooden
Rocket update
The 'Oscars' of the online science fiction world have opened with
over 3,000 votes for 632 different web sites in the first month.
Jessica takes a look at some of the early nominations in the Wooden
Rocket Awards.
(AWARDS)
Arthur
C Clarke Shortlist
The Arthur C Clarke Awards shortlist has been announced and includes
M. John Harrison's 'Light' and China Miéville's masterpiece 'The
Scar'.
(AWARDS)
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