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July 3, 2000
Issue 167
Vol. 6, No. 27

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COVER ART Featured Artist: Franco Brambilla

INTERVIEW

 Patrick Stewart talks about X-Men, speculates about the new Dune miniseries, tantalizes about a new Trek film and more.


LAB NOTES

 From a magnifying glass to a radio telescope with an aperture more than 8,000 kilometers wide, Wil McCarthy talks telescope in his new column "Super Scopes: The quiet revolution."

NEWS OF THE WEEK
 Episode II begins filming, Joss Whedon may work on Star Trek, the D&D movie wraps, SCI FI may produce new Battlestar Galactica, and more.
ON SCREEN
 The situations are silly and the puns are plentiful, but can The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle match the appeal of the fave '60s cartoon show?
OFF THE SHELF
 Hilari Bell serves up some light reading in Navohar, while an anthology of fantastic fiction from African American writers, Dark Matter, provides more serious fare.
GAMES
 Ever dream of being a Q and making inferior lifeforms perform for your amusement? Now Q can, in Star Trek: ConQuest Online, a strategy-rich, online "collectible" game.
ANIME
 The new interpretation of the Sol Bianca series features a visually stunning pirate ship, but would you want to spend time with its annoying, all-female crew?
SOUND SPACE
 Heavy Metal 2000 mingles science fiction with sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll, while its soundtrack assaults your ears with 18 hard-hitting metal selections.
SITE OF THE WEEK
 If you're dying to know about the recording careers of William Shatner and other Star Trek actors, beam aboard the ShatnerRocks.com site, where you can hear Leonard Nimoy tackle the "Ballad of Bilbo Baggins" and more.
LETTERS
 One of our readers is disappointed with modern religious films, another despises modern SF films altogether, one laments the state of the comics industry, another points out that B5 and DS9 rip off literature, and more.

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