May 1, 2000
Issue 158
Vol. 6, No. 18

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INTERVIEW

 Actor Andre Braugher discusses playing a detective in Frequency, the challenges of portraying the same character over a 30-year time span, his favorite SF movies and more.

NEXT ISSUE: We'll preview Battlefield Earth and we'll have an interview with Robert Leeshock and Richard Chevolleau of Earth: Final Conflict. 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
 Stephen Baxter wins the Philip K. Dick award, SCI FI announces a slate of new shows, Clive Barker is creating a computer game, Lucas says he's finally working on the Phantom Menace DVD, and much more.
ON SCREEN
 We review The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas. This "prehistory" of The Flintstones tells the story of how young Fred, Wilma, Barney and Betty all met and fell in love so many eons ago.
OFF THE SHELF
 We review Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's new collaboration, The Burning City, as well as Gardner Dozois' distant-future anthology The Furthest Horizon: SF Adventures to the Far Future.
GAMES
 In Jedi Power Battles you play one of five lightsaber-wielding Jedi Knights who must carve their way through 10 levels of droids and monsters before finally taking on that paragon of the dark side, Darth Maul.
CLASSICS
 In Frederik Pohl's Gateway, the brave and the foolhardy risk their lives testing alien spacecraft. They return from their missions either dead, insane or incredibly rich.
COOL STUFF
 Bill Plympton's new film, Mutant Aliens, is a story of space travel, revenge and giant noses. As a preview, he has released a detailed storyboard of the film as a graphic novel.
SITE OF THE WEEK
 For anyone who's dreamed of actually traveling to the stars, Marc Millis, leader of NASA's Breakthrough Propulsion Physics program, has created a Web site that tries to answer the question Warp Drive When?
LETTERS
 One reader calls for more tolerance among science fiction fans, another says that The X-Files has become a joke, someone else notes that many people can't tune in Star Trek at all, and much more.

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