Film and Book Reviews for 2002
Films released in 2002
The boy wizard begins his second term at Hogwarts.
Anakin and Amidala: the other use for lightsabers explained.
In the future human emotions are considered the root of all evil, so they have been banned.
In this adaptation of a short story by Philip K. Dick, criminals are caught before they even have a chance to break the law.
A 20th century dragon movie.
Jean-Luc Picard faces an ambitious captain with a troubled past. Can he overcome this to bring peace to the Romulan Empire, or will it all end in flames?
A scientist builds a devastating weapon to use against aliens, but he is accused of being a replicant assassin in this adaptation of a Philip K. Dick story.
An adaptation of the novel by H.G. Wells.
A team of academics find horrors waiting for them in the Florida Everglades when they search for a lost tribe.
Other vampires turn in their graves as Lestat becomes a rock star.
A psychiatrist is summoned to a space station whose occupants are losing their sanity.
Books published in 2002
The second book in the Black Magician Trilogy.
Coraline Jones is bored when she moves into a creepy old house full of odd old people, until she finds a hidden passage leading to a place where she can get all the attention she wants, if only she will pay the price.
This is the epic story of the primates, as they evolve from tiny mammals into the humans who would shape and dominate the world, and beyond.
FitzChivalry Farseer has a lot of secrets to keep in the second volume of The Tawny Man trilogy.
In the second book in the Tir Alainn trilogy, who will save the witches?
Sookie is in the middle of investigating a murder when she is sent to Dallas to help a group of vampires find one of their own. The second novel in the Sookie Stackhouse series.
Literary detective Thursday has to work out why the world is about to end in a blob of pink goo, and rescue her new husband, who has been eradicated from time.The second in the Thursday Next series.
A young aristocrat learns the truth about his society as he attempts to get home.
In the near future, someone has invented a cure for autism. But is this really a good thing for the last autistics?
The facts behind the fantasy world of the boy wizard.
Disposable bodies: what every smart, fashionable professional should have.
After the people of his village are slaughtered, a young man escapes with the help of a mysterious lord. He learns that he has strange gifts, but he will need lots of tricks to navigate his new world of assassins and revenge.
Taking place in the future and at the turn of the millennium, this novel features aliens, spacecraft and cats of many colours.
In the first episode of the Inheritance series a farm boy discovers an egg that will change his future.
The second novel in the Isavalta series is a prequel which takes the daughter of a fishing family into a realm of magic, treachery and scheming royals.
An outcast lighthouse keeper takes on a new role in a different world in Sarah Zettel's first fantasy novel.
Who wouldn't want to live forever?
What if you could clone the DNA of Jesus?
In this historical fantasy a boy tries to discover more about his mysterious race of childlike people, the Meq.
Armageddon has come and gone, but has it left Earth with magic and demons?
