Media: Earthsea by Robert Lieberman (dir) - LeGuin's fantasy masterwork comes to life in a Sci-Fi Channel mini series this December. Shawn Ashmore ("Iceman" X Men 2) plays Ged, the young wizard from Gont.
Fast Forward November 2004 - Episode #172 - Susanna Clarke, author of the novel Jonathan strange & Mr Norrell, interviewed on November episode of fast forward: contemporary SF.
Gaming: Halo 2 by Bungie Software - If you're a gamer, you already know that Halo 2, released 11/09/04 at 12:01 am is breaking records for initial sales and reports are coming in of geek workers kept home with "Halo Flu". Dan Spisak joins us after spending the last four days killing Covenant Scum trying to take over the Earth.
Nonfiction: H.G. Wells: Traversing Time by W. Warren Wagar - As Edward Carmien points out; Wells, we hardly knew ye. This excellent and very readable work sheds much needed light on Wells and his time.
New Moon Rising: The Making Of America's New Space Vision And The Remaking Of NASA by Frank Sietzen Jr., Keith L. Cowing - Could George W. Bush's vision for the return to the moon and the exploration of Mars be more than just a bait and switch to take attention away from shutting down the shuttle and the International Space Station?