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October 22, 2001
Issue 235
Vol. 7, No. 43

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COVER ART Featured Artist: Chris Pappathan
INTERVIEW

 Johnny Depp, Heather Graham and The Hughes Brothers report back From Hell on how Jack the Ripper invented the 20th century, while award-winning author Robert J. Sawyer gives a tour of his past futures and explains why he isn't wild about Harry Potter.


LAB NOTES

 In his latest column, "Blood's Brothers," Wil McCarthy opens a rich vein to explore how science will come up with a replacement for the red fluid we cannot live without.

NEWS OF THE WEEK
 Dark City director Alex Proyas adapts a Harlan Ellison classic, Michael Jackson moonwalks for a Men In Black 2 cameo, Heather Graham sets her sights on a shagadelic Austin Powers sequel, and much more.
ON SCREEN
 Johnny Depp teams up with Heather Graham to hunt the first serial killer of the modern age in From Hell, and a supernatural specialist navigates a far-future world of magic users and shapeshifters in Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust.
OFF THE SHELF
 Ben Bova abandons Earth to begin a new trilogy in The Precipice: Book 1 of the Asteroid Wars, while Peter Watts pits an artificial intelligence against an unstoppable microbe in Maelstrom.
GAMES
 When the insect-like Mantis and the energy-based Celareons go to war in the real-time strategy game Conquest: Frontier Wars, humanity must master the space fleets that surf the wormholes in order to survive.
ANIME
 A poor, desperate college student joins with a hyperactive alien visitor in the heartwarming series NieA Under 7 to become one of the oddest anime couples ever.
SOUND SPACE
 Vangelis, who wrote the score that brought Blade Runner's gritty future to life and won an Academy Award for Chariots of Fire, now journeys to the Red Planet with Mythodea.
SITE OF THE WEEK
 SF's greatest writers, artists, magazines and heroes from those thrilling days of yesteryear come back to life at The Pulp Zone with essays, pictorials and classic reprints.
LETTERS
 Readers protest the rush to edit the past, eagerly await the end of X-Files, split on the new face of Star Trek, praise the prose of Harry Potter, and offer up other opinionated epistles.

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