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June 18, 2001
Issue 217
Vol. 7, No. 25

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COVER ART Featured Artist: Cathryn Chase

INTERVIEW

 Angelina Jolie and Simon West reveal how they turned a video vixen into a screen star with Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, the No. 1 movie in America, while award-winning author Samuel R. Delany celebrates the rerelease of his controversial masterpiece Dhalgren.


EXCESSIVE CANDOUR

 SF critic John Clute crosses swords with Robert E. Howard's brawling barbarian in The Conan Chronicles, where he discovers why "We Cannot Shake Him Loose."

NEWS OF THE WEEK
 Kate Mulgrew might make an appearance in Trek X, David Duchovny admits disappointment in the season finale of The X-Files, Lucasfilm warns fans to keep their digital paws off Star Wars: Episode I, and more.
ON SCREEN
 Angelina Jolie kicks butt as Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Ice from the Sun unleashes an independent fantasy vision, and Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade spells trouble for Tokyo with an alternate ending to World War II.
OFF THE SHELF
 Terry Pratchett must rebuild the timestream when a magical clock shatters history in Thief of Time, while John Clute, SF's premier critic, launches the space-opera subgenre into the new millennium in Appleseed.
GAMES
 A courageous lieutenant must do battle against the dastardly Velians on a colony world of the Galaxy Federation in Echelon, an SF flight simulator with plenty of eye candy created by Russia's Buka Entertainment.
ANIME
 Before Disney voyaged to the bottom of the sea to discover Atlantis, there were the 39 thrilling episodes of Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water, which delivered a world-spanning steampunk adventure.
SOUND SPACE
 Since exploding on the scene in 1990, Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time saga has spawned nine novels, a computer game, millions of fans--and now its own soundtrack to accompany the never-ending story.
SITE OF THE WEEK
 The OTR Plot Spot returns us to those thrilling days of yesteryear, when the greatest SF adventures came to life not with CGI or Dolby, but with only a radio and some imagination.
LETTERS
 Readers differ on the disappearance of David Duchovny, worry about the future of Narnia, defend the humor of Evolution, continue the debate over the Voyager season finale, and much more.

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