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<body background="images/sfrbkg.jpg"> <table border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td width="19%"><strong><img src="sfr3d.gif" alt="sfr3d.gif (19860 bytes)" align="left" border="0" width="168" height="77"> </strong></td> <td width="81%" colspan="2"> <p align="right"><strong>Subscribe to SFRevu </strong><a href="http://www.listbot.com/cgi-bin/subscriber?Act=subscribe_list&list_id=SFRevu" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.listbot.com/subscribe_button.gif" width="85" height="30" border="0" alt="Click here to join our mailing list!" align="center" hspace="1" vspace="5"></a><strong> <a href="Amazon.htm" target="_blank"><img src="images/amazon.gif" alt="amazon.gif (2091 bytes)" align="middle" border="0" width="126" height="32"></a></strong></p> <p align="center"><font face="Arial"><strong><small><a href="frontpage.htm">Top Page</a>     </small><small><a HREF="/sys-cgi/ews/search.cgi">Search SFRevu</a>      </small></strong></font><a href="#SFRevu 2000 Article Lisiting"><font face="Arial"><small><strong>Article Index</strong></small></font></a><strong><font face="Arial"><small> <a href="b42k/default.htm">B4Y2K</a><small>      </small></small></font></strong><font face="Arial"><small><a href="mailto:editor@sfrevu.com"><strong>Contact SFRevu</strong></a></small></font></p> <hr> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="15%" valign="top"><font face="Arial"><small><small><strong>©Ernest Lilley 2000</strong></small></small></font> <p align="center"><font face="Arial"><a href="http://www.sfsite.com" target="_top"><img src="b42k/issues/03-03/sfsite.jpg" width="98" height="39" alt="SFRevu is an SF Site Affiliate" align="center" hspace="3" vspace="5" border="0"></a><br> <small><a href="http://backinthe.ussr.net/sfzines" target="_blank"><img src="b42k/sfzines.gif" align="center" alt="SF Zines" border="0" WIDTH="81" HEIGHT="48" hspace="1" vspace="5"></a></small></font></p> <p> </td> <td width="42%" valign="top"> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="3"><b><img border="0" src="articles/0312873964.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" align="left" width="150" height="222" hspace="3" vspace="3"><a name="First Contract">First Contract</a></b> by Greg Costikyan </font><br> Review by Ernest Lilley</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Highly recommended, regardless of whether you like SF or not. In retrospect, the crash of the e-economy seemed inevitable. One day the world would wake up and ask what value was really being created amid the high-flying tech stocks and like any cartoon character that suddenly realizes they are standing in thin air, a free fall ensues. Long before the current e-stumble, Greg Costikyan was putting together this tale of technology and cultural clashing. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="verdana,arial,helvetica" size="2"><b><br> Hardcover</b> - 288 pages (July 2000)<br> </font><font face="Arial,Helvetica" size="-2">Tor Books; ISBN: 0312873964 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.99 x 8.55 x 5.82</font></p> <p class="MsoNormal">The stand in for calamity is a classic SF trope - an alien invasion - but the aliens haven't come for slaves, or food, or breathing space...they've come to sell. Evidentially Costikyan's aliens haven't watched enough Star Trek, or maybe they've seen too much, but either way, there's no Prime Directive slowing them down. The first thing they do is sell us the alien equivalent of the Encyclopedia Britannica...and then, while we're reeling from the sudden obsolescence of our entire technological base...they start delivering on the promises of the future you used to have to read Sci-Fi pulps in the 1930s to see. Flying cars, trips to Mars, full sensory VR, the whole works. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">The central character, Johnson ????, starts out at the beginning of the book as presdent of a booming tech company in Silicon Valley with the President of the US's ear and the ultimate California trophy wife to come home to. WHen the aliens unleash their fearsome technology, he loses everything (I haven't seen anyone lose this much since Bujold made Miles cash in his chips in Memory) and quickly becomes a bum on the streets. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">But humans have been doing the same thing to each other for thousands of years...and nothing gets our attention like being kicked in the teeth. If you can't sell high tech toys, why not sell them ashtrays and cheap plastic gizmos...all stamped "made on Earth". The cosmos is, after all, a really big market. If you can figure out how to sell to it.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"><b><a name="Readercon 12">Readercon 12</a></b></font></p> <p> </td> <td width="34%" valign="top"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt"><b><font face="Arial"><a name="Womack Weds">Womack Weds</a></font></b></span><a href="articles/20000721/20000721.jpg"><img border="0" src="articles/20000721/20000721_tn.jpg" width="300" height="252" align="right" hspace="3" vspace="3"> </a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3">SF Author Jack Womack looks smugly into the camera moments before saying his vows at the NYC Municipal Chapel with fiancée Valeria ?????. Will marriage spoil Manhattan's <b>archivist of apocrypha</b>? Will Jack share the fate of re-gooded NYC, prophesied chillingly in Elvissey (). Stay tuned, Womack Watchers...</font> (<font size="3">Before tying the knot, the author finished his next book:   </font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><img border="0" src="articles/20000718/wolverine.jpg" align="left" width="300" height="211" hspace="5" vspace="5"></b><font face="Arial"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.5pt">X-Men</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.5pt"> (</span>Twentieth Century Fox) PG-13 1 hr. 33 min., Science Fiction/Comics<br> Review by Ernest Lilley</font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>Cast:</b> <span style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.5pt">Hugh Jackman (Wolverine), </span>Patrick Stewart <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>(Xavier), Ian McKellen <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>(Magneto), Halle Berry <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>(Storm), James Marsden (Cyclops), Famke Janssen (Dr. Jane Gray), Anna Paquin (Rogue), Bruce Davison (Senator Robert Kelly), Rebecca Romijn-Stamos (Mystique)</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>Director:</b> Bryan Singer . Producers: Richard Donner , Lauren Shuler Donner and Ralph Winter . <b>Writers:</b> Christopher McQuarrie , Ed Solomon , Laeta Kalogridis , Blanche McDermaid , Josh Whedon and David Hayt .</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>X-Men</b> emerged from its opening weekend as a welcome surprise in a slow movie summer, after movie audiences dropped 54 million dollars on it, making it the 4rth highest grossing three day film opening. While I wasn't <b>X</b>-actly blown away by theses <b>Marvel</b>ous Mutants, it was a relief to finally see a Marvel comic come to life on the screen without needing to be put out of its misery.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><img border="0" src="articles/20000718/storm.jpg" align="right" hspace="5" vspace="5" width="400" height="169">X-Men</b> is a cross between I Was A Teenage Mutant and The Wild Bunch, reprising the paranoia of 1950s atomic age science fiction. The comic book originated in 1963, and chronicles the arrival of a sudden wave of powerful mutants in society. The timing for a revival of this deal is pretty good, but they should have considered reworking it to fit in with today’s biotechnology.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">The plot revolves around the need to introduce the characters and show off the sets. In the near future a wave of mutated humans with super talents springs up and for some reason, non-mutants, or at least the conservative Senator Kelly from Kansas, fears them and wants to register them…like firearms. Magneto, a powerful mutant who discovered his powers a few seconds too late to save his parents during the holocaust, wants to create a new world order with himself and mutant-kind at the top. Patrick Stewart, playing Prof. Xavier, just wants everyone to get along, and to give peace a chance, he's created his band of mutant superheroes - the X-Men.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Meanwhile Wolverine, the new mutant on the block, has been feeling like a pawn ever since he woke up 15 years ago fully grown and with a metal skeleton grafted onto his own in a series of operations he only glimpses in nightmares. Now he has to choose sides and save the movie.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">In fact<b> X-Men</b> owes most of the credit for its success to Wolverine, played by Australian newcomer Hugh Jackman. Without his character’s wisecracking reaction to the wonders of the X-Men’s secret labs and superhero mission, and Jackman’s own very real charisma, the audience would have been left high and dry with a cast of boy scout superheroes out of time and out of place. Between Wolverine and the X-men the movie manages a decent balance, aided by the resonant tones of Patrick Steward, even though he has little more that a wheel-on performance as crippled Headmaster and Mastermind behind the X-Men.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><img border="0" src="articles/20000718/cerebro.jpg" align="left" hspace="5" vspace="5" width="372" height="165">I always felt Stewart was too professorial for his own good as Jean Luc Picard, always ready to lecture the enemy to boredom. Here that weakness turns to strength and he provides some excellent grounding for the cast.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">The rest of the cast fills in the pieces nicely, as well as their outfits, though it.s not actually clear that the curvaceous blue skinned bad girl Mystique (Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Covergirl and actress Rebecca Romijn-Stamos ) is actually wearing one. The movie wisely trades in Marvel's traditional yellow togs for black leather, giving quipping tribute to them in passing, while Magnetos helmet is faithfully rendered...making him look a bit like he wandered off the Gladiator set by mistake.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Going in I had misgivings about the film. More than that they would botch the feel or believability of the X-Men, the trailers insisted on setting up a WASPy Midwest senator as an unreasonable bigot, demanding that all mutants be registered for the protection of society, while a cast of ethnically diverse senators cried out against the injustice. Fortunately they managed to make the Senator come across as not quite a zealot, allowing him a few rational lines and telling points, and even moments of near courage and compassion. Everybody's afraid of someone, the movie points out, and the script is more intelligent than I would have imagined.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><img border="0" src="articles/20000718/mystique.jpg" align="right" hspace="5" vspace="5" width="400" height="275">The bad guys come off as much more effective than our heroes, which is par for the course, but then, we never get the feeling that the X-Men actually train for this sort of thing, despite living in a school with a subterranean complex of labs. Wolverine keeps providing us with one liners worthy of MST3K, which is rare for a character actually in the movie.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">The women of the cast don’t get to do a whole lot in a proactive role. Halle Berry provides a certain amount of electricity with her Storm persona, but naturally it’s the bad girl who gets the good parts and Mystique gets to do the most martial arts.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Cyclops manages to be perfectly annoying, and is set up to be a bit pompous in his own right. He is a bit of a boy scout, but again, but he does get to sleep with Jane Grey. Famke Jensen. Famke is set up to be the love interest in the cast, and she’s appealing, it’s true, but as often happens, she’s upstaged by a girl from the second string.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Rouge, a curvaceous kitten with the ability to suck the life-force out of anyone through skin contact has a future as the sexually transmitted disease poster girl, and balances her sexuality on the knife edge of adolescence, looking innocent in one scene and sexually potent in the next. It would not hurt the franchise at all, or her attraction for Wolverine, if she traded in the leather X-togs for some black spandex and some really heavy duty lip gloss. No tongue though, there are<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA"><img border="0" src="articles/20000718/xmen.jpg" align="right" hspace="5" vspace="5" width="100" height="150"></span> limits to safe sex, even with latex..</p> <p class="MsoNormal">OK, so it’s not just Wolverine that makes the film. X-Men has assembled an ensemble that is fun to watch and works pretty well together. That’s good because the movie is clearly intended as the origin episode in a series and the cast is already signed for sequels.</p> <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">Despite the strength of the audience response, X-Men isn’t all that strong a film. That’s ok though, to just produce a comic adaptation that comes across as reasonable rather than ludicrous is a heroic feat.</span> <p> </td> </tr> </table> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"><b><a href="#First Contract">First Contract (review) </a></b></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"><b><a href="#Womack Weds">SF Scene - Womack Weds</a></b></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"><b><a href="#Readercon 12">Readercon 12</a> </b></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><a href="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0312870647.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg"><img border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0312870647.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg" align="left" hspace="3" vspace="3" width="93" height="140"></a>The Doors of Death and Life</b> by Brenda Clough <o:p></o:p>(review by Ernest Lilley) - Sequels face the challenge of undoing and they lived happily ever after., and showing that though the sun does indeed come up tomorrow, it brings with it the harsh light of day. As does <b>Doors Of Death And Life</b>, the sequel to Brenda Cloughs acclaimed novel, <b>How Like a God</b>, which came out in 1997. Having wrested the powers of a Mesopotamian god away from him, Rob Lewis has come home to his wife and family, settled into a new career as a freelance carpenter and given his best friend the gift of immortality. 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