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September 24, 2001
Issue 231
Vol. 7, No. 39

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COVER ART Featured Artist: Andrea Caruso
INTERVIEW

 Howard Chaykin, head writer and executive consultant on the new syndicated series Mutant X, uses the script-writing skills he picked up working on The Flash and Earth: Final Conflict to bring to life a new breed of genetically altered superheroes.


LAB NOTES

 Guest columnist Gregory Benford makes visible the unseen universe beyond our senses when he chooses to inhabit "The New Fourth-Dimensional World."

NEWS OF THE WEEK
 Steven Spielberg stands willing to direct a possible Harry Potter sequel, Michelle Trachtenberg eyes a lead role as a Buffy the Vampire Slayer spinoff series dawns, Brannon Braga lets slip some Enterprise spoilers, and much more.
ON SCREEN
 Scott Bakula captains a brand-new Star Trek in Enterprise, the galaxy's first independent noir science-fiction Western musical art film launches into orbit with The American Astronaut, and a killer pine is on the loose in the Jaws parody, Trees.
OFF THE SHELF
 Timothy Zahn discovers an alien particle that prevents future worlds from doing evil in Angelmass, while William Tenn mixes time travel, space opera and satire in the career-spanning collection Here Comes Civilization.
GAMES
 When a scientific research base at the South Pole comes under attack in Extermination, it's up to one young Marine to stop Antarctica from being overrun by zombies before he becomes one himself.
ANIME
 In Crest of the Stars, the Abh rule thousands of star systems, and a teen-ager gets caught in the middle when a fleet from the Four Nations Alliance attempts to prevent them from conquering any more.
SOUND SPACE
 Before Gerald Fried was tapped to score Star Trek's most exciting fight scenes, the composer created outstanding music for such obscure films as The Return of Dracula and I Bury the Living.
SITE OF THE WEEK
 Gone & Forgotten: The Worst Comics Ever unmasks comic-book heroes lost in the attic of history by looking back at such losers as Skateman and the Dingbats of Danger Street.
LETTERS
 Readers hurl potshots and valentines at Harry Potter, find solace in science fiction in the wake of recent tragedy, offer advice to the creators of Enterprise, and share other insightful opinions.

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