Featured Artist:
Rik Laubach
INTERVIEW
Actor Vin Diesel discusses the challenges of playing a sociopath in his latest film, Pitch Black. He also explains what scares him the most in the dark.
LAB NOTES
Wil McCarthy explores how our brains use facial recognition abilities to help us become experts at just about anything in "The faces (and brains) of knowledge."
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Lucasfilm denies Episode II rumors, SFWA names Daniel Keyes Author Emeritus for 2000, Bruce Campbell will voice the computer game Tachyon, the Hammer film studio will be reborn, and much more.
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We preview the new film Pitch Black, in which the survivors of a spaceship crash must deal with an escaped serial killer and other, worse, monsters. We also preview the upcoming TV adaptation of Daniel Keyes's Flowers for Algernon.
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After he dies, Jonathan Wilde wakes in the deserts of New Mars to resume the feud that got him killed in the first place in Ken MacLeod's The Stone Canal.
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In the Toy Story 2 action game, Buzz Lightyear must fend off the evil Emperor Zurg and his robot minions in order to rescue the kidnapped Woody.
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This week we feature two collections of classic, and not-so-classic, anime: the Gundam Movie Trilogy box set and Spaced-Out Japanimation.
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Whenever Frank Parker of the TV show Seven Days hops backward in time, he's accompanied by the dramatic compositions of Scott Gilman, now collected on the Seven Days soundtrack album.
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Despots scheme, robots maraud and heroes save the day as Golden Age science fiction is reborn for the 21st century in Steve Conley's online comic Astounding Space Thrills.
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Some readers were disappointed with the Sliders finale, another feels that Leonardo DiCaprio is definitely evil enough to play Anakin Skywalker, one feels that Voyager steals from Dr. Who, and much more.
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