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August 20, 2001
Issue 226
Vol. 7, No. 34

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COVER ART Featured Artist: Brice Parker

INTERVIEW

 As a new Star Trek hovers on the horizon, Enterprise captain Scott Bakula and producer Rick Berman beam aboard to explain how they plan to depict humanity's first tentative steps into space.


EDITORIAL

Scott Edelman, Science Fiction Weekly's editor-in-chief, visits the Internet graveyard to consider the brief life spans of many Web sites, and is pleased to proclaim about this particular site that "Now We Are Six."

HUGO AWARDS POLL
It's time once again for Science Fiction Weekly's annual unofficial Hugo Awards poll! What were the best SF books, movies and stories of 2000?
NEWS OF THE WEEK
 Kevin Smith decides not to invade Planet of the Apes after all, Majel Roddenberry resolves her conflicts about Earth: Final Conflict, Jeffrey Combs guest-stars as an Andorian on Enterprise, Robert Englund is at last ready to play Freddy again, plus more.
ON SCREEN
 H.P. Lovecraft's maddest scientist is headed for a fall in the Re-Animator Special Widescreen Edition DVD, Mervyn Peake's fantasy classic is given new life in the Gormenghast DVD, and the Cartoon Network rewards fans with Grim & Evil.
OFF THE SHELF
 Jack Dann mixes cyberpunk gamblers, alien Jews and Marilyn Monroe for a powerful Jubilee, while editors Martin H. Greenberg and John Helfers collect tales of people with X-tra powers in The Mutant Files.
GAMES
 First-person shooters have become one of the most popular subgenres of SF games, and now Steve Jackson Games goes one step beyond with Frag!, a new FPS that allows players to destroy their own computers.
CLASSICS
 Giant ants ravage New Mexico and head for the big city, where only James Whitmore and James Arness can stop their attack, in Them!, the big-bug movie that set the insect standard.
COOL STUFF
 The film Forbidden Planet changed more than just the face of SF cinema—it also changed the way we think of spaceships, as the C-57D Starcruiser Model Kit easily proves.
SITE OF THE WEEK
 Star Trek fans busted their butts to petition (successfully) for the first space shuttle to be named Enterprise, and now B5 fans can work their own brand of magic at I.S.S. Babylon 5.
LETTERS
 Readers demand respect for Deep Space Nine, use their intelligence to defend Steven Spielberg, fondly remember an encounter with Harlan Ellison, and more.

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