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News Archive
Current: October 2002
The
Big Bam Boom
John Aegard takes a bemused look at the Orion Project, where NASA
and its chums were planning to hurl a spaceship into orbit and beyond
by riding the blast generated by a series of atomic explosions.
(ARTICLES)
Pluto
Nash
Frank puts his feet up for the space-aged spoof 'The Adventures
of Pluto Nash', only to discover this film is about as funny as
an asteroid stuck up one's rectum.
(FILM REVIEWS)
Lilo
and Stitch
More SF movie action for Frank. 'Alien'-ation from another planet
takes a Hawaiian vacation in the cute but thinly breezy sci-fi animation
flick "Lilo & Stitch".
(FILM REVIEWS)
DiFate
Smiles Kindly
It's hard not to use superlatives when talking about Vincent Di
Fate. Just when you've been staggered by this artist's work, you
realize he's also the man responsible for the ground-breaking survey
of 20th-century SF art, Infinite Worlds.
(INTERVIEWS)
The
King of Shannara
Fantasy author Terry Brooks on why he didn't think he would still
be writing books in his Shannara universe after all this time, on
why less is more, and why, like science in our own world, magic
is neither good nor bad.
(AUTHOR INTERVIEWS)
The
Offworld Report
A bumper crop of offworld goodies, including an interview with Nancy
Kress, short fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin, and the godfather of
US science fiction, Charles N. Brown, speaking out about a life
serving in the trenches of the fantastic.
(ARTICLES)
The
way from ConJose is … Scotland?
Brush the dust off your sporran and boil the water for the haggis,
because the World Science Fiction Convention for 2005 has been awarded
to Glasgow. We may fail to land the Olympics, but who cares, because
science fiction is coming home at last.
(CONVENTION NEWS)
Sites
for Sore Eyes
Our Rod brings you the latest in science fiction and fantasy web
site reviews from the comfort of his warm den in the Highlands.
(SITE REVIEWS)
Dragonfly
won't Fly
There's a sound reason for swatting away the preposterous "Dragonfly",
Kevin Costner's latest sappy supernatural romantic thriller. Frank's
just the man to tell you what it is.
(FILM REVIEWS)
The
China Syndrome
Author China Mieville on his passion for Gormenghast, the smug utopianism
of Cambridge, why David Cronenberg should make the film version
of Perdido Street Station, and on being a Dr Who man through and
through.
(AUTHOR INTERVIEWS)
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