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September 17, 2001
Issue 230
Vol. 7, No. 38

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INTERVIEW

 Warwick Davis, who has appeared in such genre blockbusters as Labyrinth and Star Wars: Episode VI—Return of the Jedi, looks back on his relationship with director George Lucas as Willow debuts on DVD.


EDITORIAL

Scott Edelman, Science Fiction Weekly's editor-in-chief, searches for a few brief moments of peace in the midst of chaos by "Looking at the World with Alien Eyes."

NEWS OF THE WEEK
 The entertainment community responds to Tuesday's terrorist attacks by changing movies, TV shows and games, James Cameron considers a Dark Angel feature film, director Peter Jackson weighs the difficulty of creating three Lord of the Rings films at once, and much more.
ON SCREEN
 Science Fiction Weekly welcomes back the new season's returning shows in Part II of our 2001 Fall SF TV Preview, a psychic detective climbs inside the mind of a serial killer in SCI FI's Mindstorm, and Michael Moorcock's cult hero Jerry Cornelius lives on in The Final Programme DVD.
OFF THE SHELF
 Allen Steele changes Earth's history when he travels back from the future to unravel an ancient mystery in Chronospace, while Ursula K. Le Guin bids farewell to her beloved Earthsea universe in The Other Wind.
GAMES
 Devilish railway conductors spend eternity delivering the souls of the damned to their just rewards in Hellrail, a competitive card game that forges diabolical fun out of Dante's Inferno.
CLASSICS
 Harlan Ellison wove together the robotic tales of Isaac Asimov into the screenplay for I, Robot, transmuting a series of short stories into an SF treasure that fans never got a chance to see.
COOL STUFF
 The Japanese television series Mobile Suit Gundam helped invent anime, and Bandai continues to keep the genre alive with a master-grade model of more than 450 colorful pieces.
SITE OF THE WEEK
 Fans of the undead avenger known as The Crow—who have supported the franchise in films, a TV show and novels—can flock to celebrate James O'Barr's creation at A Boy and His Bird.
LETTERS
 Readers continue to come to the defense of Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski, beg for the return of the original cast of Battlestar Galactica, find the fantasy of Crouching Tiger acceptable, and more.

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