April 3, 2000
Issue 154
Vol. 6, No. 14

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INTERVIEW

 Ahmed Best, the actor who played Jar Jar Binks in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, discusses his feelings about the negative reaction to Jar Jar, as well as what it was like to play a completely digital role.

NEXT ISSUE: We'll review TNT's Don Quixote as well as Kathleen Ann Goonan's new novel Crescent City Rhapsody. Also, Anime and Sound Space return to our pages, and Wil McCarthy brings us another installment of his science column, Lab Notes.

NEWS OF THE WEEK
 Two new Terminator films are in the works, Harry Potter is banned, God, the Devil and Bob is canceled, an animated X-Men is coming to the WB, the Bram Stoker nominees are announced, and much more.
ON SCREEN
 Although only recently born and quite small, Kirikou is smart enough to save his village in Kirikou and the Sorceress, a feature length animated film inspired by a West African folk tale.
OFF THE SHELF
 In Fritz Leiber's The Big Time, soldiers fighting in a time war take refuge outside time and space, while in Heart of Gold by Sharon Shinn, a woman must choose between love and loyalty to her people.
GAMES
 As the Federation, Romulans, Klingons or the Borg, you must research technologies, build ships and go forward to conquer the galaxy in Activision's real-time strategy game Star Trek: Armada.
CLASSICS
 In David Brin's space-opera epic Startide Rising, humanity is the underdog of the galaxy, disrespected by every other species. But now some humans have found a secret that calls into doubt everything the aliens hold dear.
COOL STUFF
 Show off your pictures of you, your friends, and--Jar Jar Binks? It's possible with the Star Wars Picture Plus Image Camera, a real 35mm camera that can put five different Phantom Menace characters right in the shot.
SITE OF THE WEEK
 Few characters have inspired more ridicule than Jar Jar Binks of The Phantom Menace, and his detractors hold nothing back at the scathing site Jar Jar Sucks.com.
LETTERS
 Our readers decry the Wheel of Time as a knock-off, one says the worst thing about Mission to Mars is its music, another will miss God, the Devil and Bob while another disparages it, and much more.

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