Sept. 7, 1999
Issue 125
Vol. 5, No. 36

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EXCESSIVE CANDOUR

SF critic John Clute takes a look at Hal Clement's book Half Life in his latest column, "A machine for making thought work."

HUGO POLL RESULTS: See the results of our 1999 Hugo Award Poll.

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NEWS OF THE WEEK
 The Hugo Awards are announced, Robocop and The Dragonriders of Pern head to TV but Doctor Who might not make it, The Blair Witch Project is coming home, and much more.
ON SCREEN
 Join Treat Williams on his Journey to the Center of the Earth, and save the world (or at least a pretty sizable chunk of it) with Skeet Ulrich and Cuba Gooding Jr. in Chill Factor.
OFF THE SHELF
 Kim Stanley Robinson returns to the Red Planet with his collection The Martians, while Tess Gerritsen sends a plague of microbes to the International Space Station in Gravity.
CLASSICS
 Shevek is a stranger from a strange land in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia, a classic SF novel about philosophy and society.
SOUND SPACE
 Babylon 5 may be over, but for Mira Furlan, Peter Jurasik, Andreas Katsulas, Claudia Christian and Bill Mumy, their group The Be Five is just getting started...
ANIME
 Akari Kanzaki is the insecure daughter of the most famous athlete in history, but she'll have to learn how to become a leader if she wants to win in Battle Athletes: Victory.
SITE OF THE WEEK
 Want the latest news about the new Dragonriders of Pern TV series? Then you'll want to bookmark Pern.com, but you may want to install the Flash plug-in first.
LETTERS
 Wow, do our readers have a lot to say about the new Battlestar Galactica movie(s)! They also talk about The Blair Witch Project, cloning, and much more.

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