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July 16, 2001
Issue 221
Vol. 7, No. 29

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COVER ART Featured Artist: Douglas Sturk

INTERVIEW

 Producer Kathleen Kennedy and stars Sam Neill and Tea Leoni embark on a road trip for a return visit to a deadly dinosaur dwelling in Jurassic Park III, while producers Dan Angel and Billy Brown are seeing terror in 20/20 in their dark anthology series Night Visions.


EXCESSIVE CANDOUR

 As Immodest Proposals brings the complete short fiction of William Tenn back into print, SF critic John Clute reveals why that author always played "The Aesop Trick."

NEWS OF THE WEEK
 LeVar Burton steps behind the Enterprise camera, Poul Anderson wins the John W. Campbell Memorial award, Spider-Man director Sam Raimi explains why he chose Mary Jane Watson over Gwen Stacy, and more.
ON SCREEN
 The chrome-domed crimefighter returns to deliver cyborg justice in the four-part miniseries RoboCop: Prime Directives, and Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon lets the women tell the truth about King Arthur's court.
OFF THE SHELF
 Simon Clarke continues a classic tale of alien invasion with The Night of the Triffids, while Stephen Brust sends his tortured hero Vlad Taltos to assassinate a goddess in Issola, the ninth book in his Jhereg universe.
GAMES
 Alien hordes continue their attack in Half-Life: Blue Shift, and now it's security guard Barney Calhoun's turn to save the Black Mesa research facility--if the overly macho soldiers and obstinate scientists will let him.
ANIME
 A new monster threat menaces old friends in Getter Robo: Armageddon, the latest and greatest incarnation of one of Japanese TV's earliest transforming-robot cartoon adventures.
SOUND SPACE
 The Haunted Palace and The Premature Burial, released in the '60s, were two of American International Pictures' spookiest offerings, and composer Ronald Stein's sinister soundtracks are equally eerie.
SITE OF THE WEEK
 Doctor Who--The Official Site provides facts, photographs, games and interviews on the eccentric Timelord, with a special treat this week--an all-new audiovisual adventure.
LETTERS
 Readers continue to come the the defense of Janeway, can't seem to agree about the I.Q. of A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, find no fault with the spirit of Final Fantasy, and much more.

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