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November 19, 2001
Issue 239
Vol. 7, No. 47

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COVER ART Featured Artist: Alice Ries
INTERVIEW

 Director Chris Columbus breaks box-office records without breaking the spirit of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, while Frank Spotnitz, executive producer of The X-Files, considers life after David Duchovny.


LAB NOTES

 In his latest column, "The American Strain: Bioterrorism Declawed," Wil McCarthy declares that science fiction offers the best defense against the horrors of biological warfare.

NEWS OF THE WEEK
 Wil Wheaton crushes the competition to return Wesley Crusher to the Star Trek universe, Marilyn Manson scores as Resident Evil is transformed from game into film, Sarah Michelle Gellar auctions her Golden Globes gown for charity to benefit victims of the Sept. 11 attacks, and much more.
ON SCREEN
 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone makes its theatrical competition disappear, Black Knight catapults modern-day Martin Lawrence back to the Dark Ages, Star Trek: The Motion Picture DVD restores a classic, and an alien intruder brings Earth to the brink of war in the SCI FI Channel's Epoch.
OFF THE SHELF
 C.J. Cherryh ignites interstellar intrigue aboard an alien space station in Defender, the latest installment in her Foreigner series, while F. Paul Wilson's Repairman Jack must stop an intelligent micro-organism from devouring the world in Hosts.
GAMES
 GURPS—the General Universal Role-Playing System—has been a gaming fixture for years, and now mixes cyberpunk, steampunk and H.P. Lovecraft for a genre-bending experience in Cthulupunk and Screampunk.
ANIME
 The arrival of the Angel of Death seems like just another urban legend to shy high-school sophomore Moto Tonomura, until she finds herself face to face with the Boogiepop Phantom.
SOUND SPACE
 In Legendary Hollywood: Music Composed by Hans J. Salter, a famed monster-movie maestro shows that his classic themes from the '30s and '40s still have the power to sway.
SITE OF THE WEEK
 Enterprise captain Scott Bakula traveled through time instead of space during his last foray into sci-fi, a four-season trek lovingly chronicled in Quantum Leap—The Accelerator Chamber.
LETTERS
 Readers howl over the cancellation of Wolf Lake, reinterpret the ambiguous ending of K-Pax, continue to disagree over Enterprise, and offer other passionate opinions.

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