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Offworld Report: November 2002
The International Space Station gets a life boat, JK Rowling gets
accused of stealing Harry Potter from a Russian author (translated
from the original Klingon, surely), and Tom Doherty, the grand fromage
at Tor Books, chats about his beautiful life in science fiction.
 Stephen
Hunt looks at all science fiction content that pleases his eye offworld
the Nest for November 2002. Much science fiction does he discover
online. Good it is. Read you will.
Harry
Potter – in the Original Russian?
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling goes after a new Russian fictional
character, Tanya Grotter, claiming she’s a female hack of her money-spinning
boy wizard. The Russian publisher's reaction? Go fly a Nimbus-2000,
JK.
Walk
with Weis
Author Margaret Weis struck it big with Dragonlance. Now she’s interviewed
about her new "Dragonvaald" series. Hmmm. Sounds like a totally
new direction, Mags!
Space
station gets a 'lifeboat'
The International Space Station’s life-boat project is to be speeded
up, giving the astronauts a fighting chance of bailing out.
Orc
for a Day
Grab a sword and hang on to your sorcerous rod of power, because
the Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers game has landed for
the PC, PS2 and X-Box. Have you got what it takes to save Middle-earth?
The
Great Mirror Matter Mystery
Australian researchers reckon that an asteroid that recently had
a space probe fly-past has been splattered by a totally new form
of matter. They’re calling it mirror matter ... does it matter?
Doherty,
Doh
Tom Doherty, the grand fromage who runs the Tor empire, talks about
taking Tolkien to the United States, discovering author Robert Jordan,
and his beautiful life in the SF world.
Comics
Legend Stan Lee gets legal with Marvel
Crikes, It's like Colonel Sanders suing Kentucky Fried Chicken.
Cover
Art
James Patrick Kelly goes in search of book cover art on the internet.
He likes what he finds.
Attack
of the Clones get Cloned
An Irish college was not impressed that the last Star Wars' movie’s
Jedi Archives looked so similar to its own library. They wanted
to sue Lucasfilm. But there was a ‘Darth’ of evidence.
A
Misspent Life? by Gardner Dozois
Gardner D. on his special talent - enjoying reading. Wow, that’s
some super-power GD ... bitten by a radioactive book worm, perhaps?
Recycling
The Universe
Analog looks at the idea that the Universe is infinite, eternal,
and recycles itself from Big Bang to Big Crunch at regular intervals.
Paint
your Asteroids Red
NASA examines novel ways of diverting asteroids on a killer trajectory
for Earth.
Potter
Movie Pirate was a Fake
A pirated hack of the latest Harry Potter film on the web was nothing
but an empty decoy, claims the movie company.
Give
War a Chance
A line of SF authors sign a petition saying no to a US war on Iraq.
Hey guys, what if there was a war and both sides turned up?
UFO-ologists
Demand Respect
Worried about alien abductions? Good news … you’re not a nutter
anymore. Your going to get respect anytime now.
Beware,
Bujold Bites
Lois McMaster Bujold interviewed about surviving the slush pile
nightmare.
Black
Hole’s Scooby Snack
Astronomers clock a new black hole ripping through our galaxy, feeding
on an old star as it goes.
E-mail
From Gthulhu by Robert Silverberg
Our Rob compares using Windows with the dark forces of Gthulhu.
Surely some mistake?
M.
John Harrison Interviewed
MJH interviewed about his first new book – Light – to hit the streets
for a long, long time.
That
Flipping Di Filippo
A chronology and retrospective of genre-straddling author Paul Di
Filippo's fiction.
NASA
Landed on the Moon. True.
NASA prepares to launch a new book that proves its astronauts did
land on the Moon. Now, will those conspiracy theorists please go
away.
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OTHER CONTENT - December 2002
Eric Nylund Interviewed
Eric, the SF author of Crimson Skies, talks about his previous career getting paid to play PC games, about writing to a strict outline, and the art of giving good sharecrop game novels.
(AUTHOR INTERVIEWS)
Kiss me, Hardy
Science fiction illustrator David A. Hardy interviewed. Very few artists have
been able to tackle both comprehensively researched astronomical art and SF
art with equal success. But David is a triumphant exception.
(INTERVIEWS)
Offworld Report: November 2002
The International Space Station gets a life boat, JK Rowling accuses a Russian
author of cloning her Harry Potter books (translated from the original Klingon,
surely), and Tom Doherty, the grand fromage at Tor Books, chats about his beautiful
life in science fiction.
(NEWS)
The Prisoner - Confined!
Uncle Geoff takes a look at the classic TV series The Prisoner, and ponders why the heck did Number 6 resign from the British secret service?
(ARTICLES)
Position Wanted: The Next Spielberg?
The race is on across the UK for a new breed of science fiction film. The British
Film Council's Development Fund has created New Steps Beyond, a new scheme to
develop three original science fiction feature movies.
(NEWS)
Dead Stop (Star Trek Enterprise)
The Enterprise, in desperate need of repair, comes aboard an automated space station that works miracles for a terrible price. Sounds a little like the greasy spoon in our local motorway service station.
(TV REVIEWS)
A Night in Sickbay (Star Trek Enterprise)
Archer spends the night in sickbay when an away mission threatens Porthos' life. Our Tim discovers some okay cultural stuff for Phlox, far overshadowed by the truly horrific sludge in between.
(TV REVIEWS)
Marauders (Star Trek Enterprise)
The Enterprise helps teach a mining colony to protect itself from the repeated depredations of a Klingon raiding party. Well, we're still waiting for the damn Klingons to turn up in nylon uniforms and green grease paint.
(TV REVIEWS)
Oh-Oh Heaven?
Bond is back with Die Another Day. Is our Pierce the best thing since Sean put
on a bow-tie and gave Goldfinger a slapping? Or is this more so-so heaven, rather
than double 'O' heaven? Frank investigates.
(FILM REVIEWS)
Pottering About (Again)
Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts School for his sophomore year and finds a new mystery involving a missing secret room at the school and a struggle between purebred wizards and those who are interbred. This is not a perfect film, and it does drag in spots, but it is consistently inventive and rewarding.
(FILM REVIEWS)
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