Do Bear's Write in The Woods?
An interview with Greg Bear about some of the fascinating ideas contained in his SF novel, Darwin's Children. Human Endogenous Retrovirus anyone?
(AUTHOR INTERVIEWS)
Of Clockwork Men
Artist Tom Abba on winning both the the Ken McIntyre Award and the Paper Tiger Art Award at the UK's Eastercon, plus how he has never considered himself to be a real science fiction artist. Crikes, how did we resist slipping some Nordic pop group jokes into this interview?
(INTERVIEWS)
The Slow Death of Science Fiction Art
The 'Nest's readers respond to Stephen Hunt's plea for decent cover art on SFF novels. Bad covers get named and shamed.
(COMMENT)
Making Merry SF in Melbourne
Australian SFF came under the spotlight, with the recent close of the 2002 Aurealis Awards. Damien Broderick got best novel for 'Transcension' (Tor), which rather begs the question, why's the most popular Ozzie SF coming out of the USA?
(AWARDS NEWS)
The Core: Mark's Thoughts
A spectacular set of disasters and a heroic expedition to save mankind. Some real science and some nonsense mix. If the film does not quite click, it is probably because we have higher standards than we had for science fiction films in their heyday of the 1950s and 1960s.
(FILM REVIEWS)
The Core: Frank's Thoughts
The Core definitely had the making for fascinating sci-fi stimulation. The attempt to turn the scientific discipline of electromagnetism into a robust and cheeky mainstream entertainment seemed quite challenging in concept.
(FILM REVIEWS)
Teknolust
This SF film plays like a throwback to 1960s mod film making. It is every bit as colorful as intended, but not nearly as intelligent. It plays like a college skit but for the digital special effects that allow four Tilda Swintons on the screen at one time.
(FILM REVIEWS)
Sold Down the Riverworld
Philip Jose Farmer's interesting premise of adventures set on a strange life-after-death-world is squandered on a fairly commonplace barbarian-planet story that appears to be the pilot for a most uninteresting and humdrum TV series.
(TV REVIEWS)
Agent Cody Banks
So the likable Malcolm in the Middle pint-sized TV star Frankie Muniz is at it again on the big screen? This time, the movie handlers are trying to package him as a junior James Bond for the kiddie crowd.
(FILM REVIEWS)
Offworld
Report for April 2003
Interviews with authors Larry Niven, Whitley Strieber, Christopher Priest, Ted
Chiang, Robert Sheckley, Stephen Baxter, as well as the owners of Golden Gryphon
Press, not to mention the cast of the movie Bulletproof Monk; plus Christopher
Reeve guest stars on Smallville. Nice.
(SITE REVIEWS)
Big
Engine is going down
Sad news has reached us at the 'Nest that innovative British SFF publisher Big
Engine is shutting up shop, taking the relatively new 3SF magazine with it.
(PUBLISHING NEWS)
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The
2002 Aurealis Awards were presented last month at a special ceremony
in Melbourne.
Short
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