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May 14, 2001
Issue 212
Vol. 7, No. 20

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COVER ART Featured Artist: Dan Raub

THE CASSUTT FILES

 In "Bullets Dodged," Michael Cassutt feels a sense of relief that a Hollywood strike has been averted, but worries that Buffy fans will feel no such relief next season.


INTERVIEWS

 Robert Picardo, Roxann Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill, Tim Russ and Ethan Phillips share final thoughts on the end of Star Trek: Voyager, while Richard Dean Anderson looks to the future of Stargate SG-1.

NEWS OF THE WEEK
 Douglas Adams, creator of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, dies at 49, Scott Bakula goes public as the new captain of the Enterprise, Chris Carter and Gillian Anderson are both unsure about a new X-Files season, and much more.
ON SCREEN
 A rock 'n' roll knight for the MTV generation dances his way into legend--with a little help from Queen--in A Knight's Tale, and Kurt Russell battles a 2,000-year-old sorcerer in John Carpenter's Big Trouble in Little China Special Edition DVD.
OFF THE SHELF
 Pamela Sargent's terraforming trilogy comes to a thrilling conclusion in Child of Venus, while Kristine Kathryn Rusch gathers the best of her award-winning short fiction in Stories for an Enchanted Afternoon.
GAMES
 Three alien races vie for ownership of a drifting meteor that has been transformed into a verdant jungle in Planet Moon Studios' Giants: Citizen Kabuto, a seamless action/strategy experience with lush graphics.
CLASSICS
 Harry Harrison turns SF's cliches upside down when two college students use the power of cheese to discover faster-than-light travel in Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers.
COOL STUFF
 In 1926, Metropolis was science fiction's first epic, and Maria was film's first believable robot. In 2001, Mezco reinvents her as part of its Silent Screamers line of action figures.
SITE OF THE WEEK
 Bloop, the alien monkey sidekick from the daily Web comic strip Astounding Space Thrills, has escaped to star in a series of animated shorts at Bloop.tv.
LETTERS
 Readers believe that
J. Michael Straczynski had it right about cute kids and robots, critique The Mummy Returns and A Knight's Tale, and more.

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