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May 21, 2001
Issue 213
Vol. 7, No. 21

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COVER ART Featured Artist: Kevin Cappis

INTERVIEW

 Co-executive Producer Marti Noxon raises the stakes as Buffy the Vampire Slayer moves from The WB to UPN, and French Stewart finds that saying farewell to 3rd Rock From the Sun is no laughing matter.


EXCESSIVE CANDOUR

 SF critic John Clute delves deeply into the secrets and revelations of Alastair Reynolds' Chasm City, where he discovers that "This Book is Full of Onions."

NEWS OF THE WEEK
 Robert Patrick longs to go wild on The X-Files, China Miéville wins the Arthur C. Clarke Award for his novel Perdido Street Station, Brannan Braga is modest about the long journey of Star Trek: Voyager, and more.
ON SCREEN
 Star Trek: Voyager ends its seven-year journey when two Janeways go to war, 3rd Rock From the Sun receives its final transmission from the Big Giant Head, and Shrek uses state-of-the-art CGI to tell a timeless fairy tale.
OFF THE SHELF
 Mark W. Tiedemann revisits a Grand Master's beloved universe in Isaac Asimov's Robot Mystery: Chimera, while William R. Eakin mixes aliens, unicorns, mummies and dragons in Redgunk Tales.
GAMES
 Earth's Jupiter colony Antilla is under attack by ruthless mechanized mercenaries in Zone of the Enders, an interactive movie that changes the rules of gaming by being as much fun to watch as it is to play.
ANIME
 In the traveling city of Valhiss, which rides on the back of a gigantic, turtle-like creature, a pretty-boy swordsman seeks vengeance against a despotic, masked emperor in Amon Saga.
SOUND SPACE
 Robert A. Heinlein's classic novel Destination Moon became the basis for a groundbreaking movie. Composer Leith Stevens used it to take a giant leap forward for SF movie music as well.
SITE OF THE WEEK
 The Flintstones and the original Star Trek breed to produce bizarre mutant offspring at Stone Trek, a Web site with animated SF parodies that rock.
LETTERS
 Readers remember the wacky world of Douglas Adams, insist that Buffy is incomparable, plead for the survival of Earth: Final Conflict, and much more.

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