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June 19, 2000
Issue 165
Vol. 6, No. 25

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COVER ART Featured Artist: Neil Riddle

INTERVIEW

 Vincent Ventresca, star of the SCI FI Channel's new hit series The Invisible Man, discusses his role, its context in science and science fiction, and more.


EXCESSIVE CANDOUR

 SF critic John Clute rides the tsunami that is Mary Gentle's immense novel Ash in his latest column, "The astonishing clamour of combat."

NEWS OF THE WEEK
 Mad Max IV is on the way, Crow: Stairway to Heaven may live again, DC Comics go online, Industrial Light & Magic will produce its own films, Invisible Man sets a record, Joe Mayhew dies, and much more.
ON SCREEN
 Launch into a new era of space exploration with Desination Space, a special episode of National Geographic Explorer that investigates new spacecraft, lunar colonies, asteroid mining and more.
OFF THE SHELF
 A naive hero returns from lunar exile to help war orphans fight for freedom in James Alan Gardner's Hunted, while a scientist confronts aliens and other fundamentalists in Robert Sawyer's Calculating God.
GAMES
 Robert Jordan fans--and those who like first-person action games--can bring meteoric fireballs on-line in the spectacular-looking Wheel of Time PC game, based on Jordan's top-selling series of fantasy novels.
ANIME
 A team of women protects the remnants of the human race in the first two volumes of Silent Mobius; and the arrogant hero of the action series Outlaw Star takes his arm-wrestling ship on an interstellar tour.
SOUND SPACE
 Forget William Shatner's tortured "Mr. Tambourine Man." Tim Russ (Tuvok on Star Trek: Voyager) shows off his many talents--as lead vocalist, as songwriter, as rhythm guitarist--on his new CD, Tim Russ.
SITE OF THE WEEK
 Mars aficionados will discover kindred spirits at the Mars Society Web site, where the Society reveals its plans, projects and the latest in Red Planet news.
LETTERS
 One reader wishes L. Ron Hubbard knew how to make a long story short, another mourns the Borg, one feeds the Star Trek series rumor mill, and more.

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