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September 10, 2001
Issue 229
Vol. 7, No. 37

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COVER ART Featured Artist: Neil Riddler

INTERVIEW

 China Miéville, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award for his novel Perdido Street Station, mixes together the ingredients of science fiction and fantasy to erase genre boundaries.


EXCESSIVE CANDOUR

 Maureen F. McHugh's Nekropolis introduces readers to a struggling underclass that inhabits the cracks of the future, where SF critic John Clute discovers "The Cost of Living."

NEWS OF THE WEEK
 Ewan McGregor apologizes for his attack on The Attack of the Clones, Chris Klein promises that Rollerball will be a blast, Tim Roth longs to monkey around once more with his villainous Planet of the Apes role, and more.
ON SCREEN
 Science Fiction Weekly spotlights television's future with Part 1 of our 2001 Fall SF TV Preview, Soul Survivors hits theaters D.O.A., First Wave bids fans farewell, Wolf Lake bares its fangs, and R.L. Stine breeds bad dreams in The Nightmare Room.
OFF THE SHELF
 Howard V. Hendrix lets readers visit another dimension to inhabit Empty Cities of the Full Moon, while Jim Munroe sends a debt-ridden twenty-something into space to teach octopoid aliens in Angry Young Spaceman.
GAMES
 Starfarers of Catan, imported from Germany and now available in English for the first time, sends competing colonists on missions to explore distant stars, contact alien civilizations and colonize new worlds.
ANIME
 The only way that future Terra can defend itself in Starship Girl Yamamoto Yohko—a franchise that has so far spawned books, a TV series, DVDs and more—is to hunt down fighter pilots from the distant past.
SOUND SPACE
 The composers of such genre favorites as Kronos, Return of the Fly and It! The Terror From Beyond Space sunk to new lows when they went underwater on a Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
SITE OF THE WEEK
 Anthropomorphized animals go to war with the Sith lords in The Furry Conflict, a site that blends role-playing and fan fiction to put a new slant on the Star Wars universe.
LETTERS
 Readers are not so wild about Harry's Hugo win, send a mixed message to Scott Bakula, come to the defense of J. Michael Straczynski, demand respect for SF, and much more.

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