April 19, 1999
Issue 105
Vol. 5, No. 16

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EXCESSIVE CANDOUR

SF Critic John Clute takes a look at Brian Stableford's The Dictionary of Science Fiction Places in his latest column, "A calculus of critical discourse."

NEXT ISSUE: Games and Cool Stuff return to our pages.

NEWS OF THE WEEK
 Lucas may relent on Star Wars tickets, the Wachowskis pen a Matrix sequel, Fox orders another season of Futurama, and more.
ON SCREEN
 In David Cronenberg's eXistenZ, Jennifer Jason Leigh is a high-tech designer who's just invented a killer game...but will she live to play it?
OFF THE SHELF
 Don DeBrandt tells a tall tale of outer space in Timberjak, while Christopher Priest explores The Extremes of virtual reality.
CLASSICS
 Is René LaLoux's Fantastic Planet a masterpiece of animation, a political statement against Communism or something in between?
SOUND SPACE
 Attilio "Art" Mineo provides the soundtrack to the World of Tomorrow at the 1962 Seattle World's Fair with Man in Space with Sounds.
ANIME
 Take a whirlwind tour through the land of Gaea with high school student Hitomi Kanzaki in Vision of Escaflowne Best Collection.
SITE OF THE WEEK
 Find out how you can spend a night in France with Catherine "Maya" Schell--and learn other interesting Moonbase Alpha facts--at the Space: 1999 Cyber Museum.
LETTERS
 Our readers don't like George Lucas's rules but they do support Jeff Wayne, they also have reasons why you should--and shouldn't--see The Matrix, and more.

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