April 17, 2000
Issue 156
Vol. 6, No. 16

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THE CASSUTT FILES

 Television writer, producer and author Michael Cassutt looks at the myriad SF and fantasy TV shows currently airing and wonders, is there "Too Much Sci-Fi"?


INTERVIEW

 Author Terry Pratchett talks about his new novel The Fifth Elephant, how he stays away from becoming too commercial, his plans for future books, what he thinks of Trekkies and more.

NEWS OF THE WEEK
 Will Smith will return for MiB2, Episode II will be rewritten, Gillian Anderson wants an eighth season of The X-Files, Catherine Crook de Camp dies, MST3K vets start an online magazine, and much more.
ON SCREEN
 We preview the UPN movie Alien Fury, starring WWF Intercontinental Champion Chyna. We also review Last Night, a quiet film that examines the end of the world on a personal level.
OFF THE SHELF
 In Terry Pratchett's 24th Discworld novel, The Fifth Elephant, Commander Samuel Vimes is pressed into service as an ambassador to Überwald, while in Frank M. Robinson's The Power, a professor must ferret out a superhuman murderer.
GAMES
 Wipe out those Rebel scum and rise through the ranks of the Galactic Empire as you command planetary invasions (including the Battle of Hoth) in the new game from LucasArts, Star Wars: Force Commander.
CLASSICS
 Unknown to most, the Earth is hollow and its inner core is warmed by a miniature sun. There, dinosaurs and primitive peoples vie for survival in Edgar Rice Burroughs' At the Earth's Core.
COOL STUFF
 In, Wyrd Sisters, an animated adaptation of Terry Pratchett's novel of the same name, witches, fools and dukes fight a comic yet magical battle for control of a kingdom.
SITE OF THE WEEK
 With news, reviews, columns, forums, fan art, interviews and a retailer database, Psycomic is striving to be "The Final Word on comics."
LETTERS
 One of our readers despised Gillian Anderson's X-Files episode, another defends J.R.R. Tolkien's writing methods, one takes issue with John Clute, and more.

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