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...according to the inventor. A former Navy combat pilot, Moshier has been working on his creation, at least in his mind, since he was a teenager in the 1960s, although officially his company, Millennium Jets, has been at it only six years. The look of his machine is pure sci-fi: an 8-ft. metal frame supports two gas-engine-powered fans, each 38 in. in diameter, that jut like oversize ears above the frame. The pilot stands on a pair of footrests, straps on a body belt and grabs a joy stick-like controller. Moshier says the Solotrek will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Inventions: Blue Sky: But Will They Fly? | 11/19/2001 | See Source »

...Each of the "acts" followed this reading-discussion pattern. After Tom Hart came James Romberger and Marguerite Van Cook, who collaborate on a sci-fi/urban nightmare series called "Ground Zero." Following them Megan Kelso ("Queen of the Black Black"), resembling the dark-haired Enid from Dan Clowes' "Ghost World," read from her up-coming graphic novel "Artichoke Tales." Lastly, the headliner, Charles Burns, whose work has appeared since the early 1980s, took the stage. A master of the color black (his pages are more ink than paper) Burns specializes in creepy stories filled with disease, freaks and teenagers. Reading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comix as Performace | 10/30/2001 | See Source »

Enter Morpheus, named for both the Greek god of change and Laurence Fishburne's rebellious guru in the blockbuster sci-fi film The Matrix. Launched in April by MusicCity.com Morpheus had attracted 10 million devout followers by the end of August. New believers were arriving at the rate of 1 million a week. According to CNet's Download.com it was by far the hottest piece of free software...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bear Share: The Next Napsters | 9/15/2001 | See Source »

Eddie Murphy will head to the moon this month for a serious rescue mission. He must save Pluto Nash, a movie in danger of collapsing under its own inertia. Nash, a sci-fi comedy featuring Murphy as a lunar-nightclub owner, wrapped a year ago, and was originally scheduled for an April 6 release by Warner Bros.' Castle Rock division. Then it was bumped to the fall. Now it's consigned to the wintry abyss of Jan. 18. Maybe. Producer Martin Bregman (The Bone Collector), who's had Nash in development for 20 years, blames the delay on getting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Space, No One Can Hear You Yawn | 9/3/2001 | See Source »

...producer R. Kelly, except to say that she didn't talk to him anymore and to imply that they weren't married anymore. She wouldn't talk about whom she was currently seeing. She wouldn't even talk much about the plot of the two upcoming sequels to the sci-fi movie "The Matrix" that she was signed to do, except to say that the name of her character was Zee. Aaliyah would have made a fine prisoner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Siren of Subtlety | 8/26/2001 | See Source »

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