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News Archive
Current: July 2004
Tricia
Sullivan Interview
On why her SF novel Maul was a twisted response to Sheri S. Tepper's
'The Gate to Women's Country', her regard for authors Justina Robson
and John Courtenay Grimwood, and imagining an extremely disturbing
future.
(AUTHOR INTERVIEWS)
Offworld
Report July 2004: Science Fiction and Fantasy
Interviews with authors Sean McMullen, John Crowley , Bruce Sterling,
Richard Morgan and Kim Stanley Robinson; a look at the Stepford
Wives and the sequel to Pitch Black, fiction by Gardner Dozois,
and a report from the first African-American science fiction festival.
(NEWS)
Offworld
Report July 2004: Weird Science
Sir Arthur C. Clarke on terraforming, the Cassini probe closes in
on a weird moon, scientists teleport atoms, the invisible Nordic
warship, has Atlantis finally been discovered, and more SpaceShipOne
and X-prize coverage than you'll know what to do with.
(NEWS)
Looking
Upward
Scots SF author Ken MacLeod muses on all our imagined societies
of common ownership, and wonders if poor old human nature just keeps
on getting in the way of utopia.
(NEWS)
The
Day After Tomorrow: Mark's Take
In this new movie Mark finds global warming launches a quick-freeze
ice age, killing billions of people. Roland Emmerich brings us a
special-effects-laden look at the human race reeling under the havoc
caused by the worst natural disaster in 10,000 years, a super-cold
cyclonic storm that covers the face of the planet. The story is
compelling and plausible enough for non-experts.
(FILM REVIEWS)
Harry
Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: Mark's Take
Harry Potter is back at Hogwarts and this year he has a crack at
the man who betrayed and murdered his parents. But Mark discovers
this is a family film, not a children's film. The adults may like
it as much as any of the children in the audience, but the series
is reaching a point of diminishing returns.
(FILM REVIEWS)
Harry
Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: Frank's Take
Author J.K. Rowling’s bespectacled boy wizard wonder is back and
better than ever. In fact, he’s matured and the subsequent growth
of this sorcery student is evident in the burden of angst good old
Harry carries around as his magic-in-training mode continues to
dominate his colorful yet chaotic existence.
(FILM REVIEWS)
The
Day After Tomorrow: Frank's Take
Frank reckons 'The Day After Tomorrow' will most likely be viewed
as a long-winded and loopy meteorology mishap for weather forecast
freaks. Justifiably so, Emmerich’s furious yet flimsy convention
of cartoonish catastrophe gives a whole new meaning to the classic
movie title Gone with the Wind. It’s too bad that this global gloom
session couldn’t sweep away any sooner than its two-hour running
time.
(FILM REVIEWS)
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