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February 5, 2001
Issue 198
Vol. 7, No. 6

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COVER ART Featured Artist: Andrea Caruso

INTERVIEW

 Roger Corman, the legendary king of the B movies, sits for a Science Fiction Weekly interview to explain why he decided to risk it all on the campy SCI FI heroine Black Scorpion.


EDITORIAL

Scott Edelman, Science Fiction Weekly's editor-in-chief, joins the raging battle between new media and old, and in doing so rips to shreds the big lie of "Paper and the Myth of Permanence."

NEWS OF THE WEEK
 Star Trek: Voyager's Neelix would rather not go home, Bruce Boxleitner doubts there'll be a Babylon 5 rebirth, SF legend Gordon R. Dickson dies, plus much more.
ON SCREEN
 The Battlefield Earth Special Edition DVD forces a box-office controversy to be reconsidered, and surviving the apocalypse is but the beginning for those who are Left Behind.
OFF THE SHELF
 Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann recombine the ABCs of DNA in the short-story anthology Genometry, while Katherine Kerr ends her Deverry trilogy with a cataclysmic battle in The Fire Dragon.
GAMES
 Four clans of crazed hillbillies use the Necronomicon to defend New England from creatures out of H.P. Lovecraft's worst nightmares in the out-of-the-ordinary board game The Hills Must Rise.
CLASSICS
 In Robert Silverberg's prescient novel Thorns, a vampiric talk-show host feeds on the raw emotions of his guests--until he makes the mistake of feasting on a starman.
COOL STUFF
 Science fiction's first monster--brain in a jar and all--comes to chilling life in the 1:6 scale Frankenstein's Monster Action Figure, which takes articulation to new limits.
SITE OF THE WEEK
 Cordwainer Smith, Science Fiction Writer celebrates the adventurous life and galaxy-spanning SF of one of the field's greatest writers with reminiscences, photos, story samples and more.
LETTERS
 Readers define SF, crusade for J. Michael Straczynski, defend Battlefield Earth, find some of the best fantasy and science fiction in comic books, beg for a better brand of music, and more.

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