Featured Artist:
Nazmi Nici
INTERVIEW
Neil Gaiman, whose handling of DC Comics' dark-fantasy series The Sandman created a cult classic, explores a different approach to the fantastic with novels such as American Gods and the upcoming
The Wolves in the Walls.
EDITORIAL
Scott Edelman, Science
Fiction Weekly's editor-in-chief, confesses that he used to mistake words with the paper on which they're printed, and warns readers, to "Never Confuse the Bottle with the Wine."
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Willem Dafoe learns that it isn't easy being green—Spider-Man's Green Goblin, that is, Arthur C. Clarke decides to travel no more, screenwriter David Hayter keeps careful watch on The Watchmen, George Lucas clones his lawyers for an attack on adult entertainment, and much more.
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The Cartoon Network assembles Earth's greatest superheroes to form the Justice League, the Shrek DVD adds 11 hours of extras to a timeless tale of a not-so-jolly green giant, and an ancient mystic war between good and evil heats up when Billy Zane switches sides in Invincible.
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Ernest Hogan pits a reincarnated Aztec god against the denizens of future L.A. in Smoking Mirror Blues, while S.L. Viehl sends cloned surgeon Cherijo Torin on a hunt to save her unborn child in Shockball.
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Following up on the success of the 2-D real-time strategy game Z, the 3-D game Z: Steel Soldiers sends Captain Zod and his army of cantankerous robots to sow chaos on the other side of the galaxy.
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Robert R. McCammon started out aiming to be the next Stephen King, but with his career pinnacle novel Boy's Life, a story of magic and maturation in small-town America, he entered Ray Bradbury territory.
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As Doc Brown said to Marty McFly, if you're going to build a time machine, you might as well do it with style, which is why you needn't be a mad scientist to lust after the Back to the Future Delorean.
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Rising star China Miéville recently won the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award, and now numerous Web sites have sprung up to sing his praises, notably Runagate Rampant, which includes essays, reviews, interviews and more.
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Readers defend the taste of recent Hugo Awards voters, question the continued staying power of The X-Files, suggest solutions to the survival of comic books, come to the defense of an Enterprise-ing new Trek, and more.
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