Jan. 24, 2000
Issue 144
Vol. 6, No. 4

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INTERVIEW

 Rob Tapert, creator of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess, talks about life after Hercules, the genesis of his new show Cleopatra 2525, and his work with director Sam Raimi.

NEXT ISSUE: Anime and Sound Space return to our pages, and John Clute will have another installment of his column, Excessive Candour.

NEWS OF THE WEEK
 Leonardo DiCaprio confirms he's in the running to play Anakin Skywalker, one of the Rings producers quits, two new series are coming to SCI FI, Michael Jackson plans to play Edgar Allan Poe, and much more.
ON SCREEN
 What's it like to be the only normal kid in a family of superheroes? Find out in our review of the TV movie Up, Up and Away. We also review Fantasia 2000, the high-tech update to Walt Disney's 60-year-old classic.
OFF THE SHELF
 Iain M. Banks' Inversions is the story of two seemingly opposite people--a healer and a warrior--whose lives are intricately intertwined in subtle ways.
GAMES
 As Jim West and Artemus Gordon, you must save President Grant from assassination in the PC game Wild Wild West: The Steel Assassin.
CLASSICS
 The alien Overlords have imposed their rule over humanity for our own good, they say. Is it true? Find out in Arthur C. Clarke's novel Childhood's End.
COOL STUFF
 In The Book of End Times: Grappling With the Millennium, John Clute explores millennial hysteria by drawing on sources from the Bible to The X-Files.
SITE OF THE WEEK
 More than just a promotional page, author Orson Scott Card's Hatrack River is a full-fledged Web site with stories, advice for writers, book reviews and much more.
LETTERS
 Our readers decry censorship (especially of the naughty bits in Lexx). Also, they want to see Star Trek's dark side, they want to put Gambit in the X-Men movie, and much more.

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