Sept. 27, 1999
Issue 128
Vol. 5, No. 39

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INTERVIEW

 Joss Whedon gets big, bad and grown-up with Angel. He also tells us what's in store for Buffy, why he's not happy with his movie career, and much more.

NEXT ISSUE: Anime and Sound Space return to our pages.

NEWS OF THE WEEK
 Mulder may be leaving The X-Files, Farscape is due for some surprises, Patrick Stewart may play Doctor Who, Whedon's X-Men rewrite is axed, and more.
ON SCREEN
 We preview three of this fall's hottest new SF series: Chris Carter's Harsh Realm, the Buffy spin-off Angel and Jonathan Frakes' latest show, Roswell.
OFF THE SHELF
 We review George Zebrowski's new novel Cave of Stars, and we look at Brian Stableford's futuristic mystery The Architects of Emortality.
CLASSICS
 In the 1920s E.E. "Doc" Smith invented space opera with his story The Skylark of Space, where men have square jaws and women are doughty damsels.
GAMES
 In Outcast, former Navy Seal Cutter Slade is called on to save the Earth from a black hole. But first he has to liberate the extra-dimensional world of Adelpha.
COOL STUFF
 In the video Phantom Quest: The Search for Extraterrestrials, National Geographic asks the age-old question, "Are we alone in the universe?"
SITE OF THE WEEK
 The Max Headroom site is devoted to everybody's favorite New Coke spokesperson...or should we say spokeshead? You know who we mean.
LETTERS
 Our readers are still talking about wrestlers on Voyager and the political correctness of First Wave, plus Kurt Vonnegut, books vs. other SF media, and more.

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