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News Archive
Current: September 2004
Steve
Cockayne Interview
Steve talks about his novel Wanderers and Islanders, being influenced
by C.S. Lewis and Herman Hesse, and working as a TV cameraman, a
puppeteer, and dabbling in hypnotherapy
(AUTHOR INTERVIEWS)
Tanith
Lee Interview
Author Tanith speaks with SFF literary agent John Jarrold about
how people are the starting point for her fiction, tackling pirates
with Piratica, and being influenced by Rider Haggard, Viereck and
Eldridge.
(AUTHOR INTERVIEWS)
Eurocon
2004
Radi Radev reports from this year's European Science Fiction Convention.
While the convention was first created in 1972 in Triest, Italy,
this was the first year it's been hosted in Bulgaria.
(CON REPORTS)
Westercon
2004
Mark reports on the movies at Westercon. The trailers seemed to
be better accepted by the audience than they have been at recent
Worldcons, while the presentation was a little more polished - and
the films seemed of a higher quality.
(CON REPORTS)
Code
46
Mark discovers that Code 46 is a very odd piece of science fiction.
It is a film with some very nice material that tries some interesting
ideas, but it fails to capture the viewer. Its flaws outweigh its
virtues.
(FILM REVIEWS)
The
Bourne Supremacy
Robert Ludlum's mysterious United States government assassin again
returns to the big screen from what some assumed and hoped was death.
Again we have a complex plot with twists and doublecrosses. Again
the infallible and deadly assassin is pitted against the agency
that made him what he is.
(FILM REVIEWS)
Offworld
Report: Science Fiction and Fantasy: September 2004
Interviews with Keith Brooke, Geoff Ryman, Gerry Anderson and the
co-producer of the new Sapphire and Steel series, short fiction
by John Grant and Walter Jon Williams, and Locus Magazine's excellent
primer on genre audiobooks.
(NEWS)
Offworld
Report: Weird Science: September 2004
The latest tiny flying robot, why Martian astronauts may need replacement
body tissue, harvesting helium-3 from the Moon, the threat to humanity
from giant tsunamis and super volcanoes, and the possibility of
life on Venus.
(NEWS)
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