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November 26, 2001
Issue 240
Vol. 7, No. 48

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COVER ART Featured Artist: Dan Raub

THE CASSUTT FILES

 Michael Cassutt has assumed an attitude of gratitude, now that he's looked around and realized that he's lucky enough to work at "The Best Job on the Planet."


INTERVIEWS

 SF Grand Master Frederik Pohl takes a nostalgic look back on a 65-year career in science fiction, comparing the futures of yesterday and tomorrow.

NEWS OF THE WEEK
 Kate Mulgrew confirms her role in the big-screen Star Trek: Nemesis, George Clooney teams with Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh to remake the classic Russian film Solaris, Frank Spotnitz fights for the future of The X-Files, and more.
ON SCREEN
 When a fairy tale turns out to have been true, a modern-day mogul is haunted by memories of Jack and the Beanstalk, and a classic series continues its conspiracy as Mulder and Scully seek the Truth in The X-Files Season 4 DVD Collection.
OFF THE SHELF
 Nalo Hopkinson's first short-story collection, Skin Folk, lives up to the promise of her novels, while Pat Murphy invites readers to watch her alter egos duke it out in Adventures in Time and Space with Max Merriwell.
GAMES
 Melding Microsoft's popular Age of Empires II gaming engine with a galaxy far, far away yields Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds, a solid, old-style real-time strategy experience where six civilizations can go to war.
CLASSICS
 Some writers see the end of the world as an opportunity for mankind to make a new beginning, but in George R. Stewart's Earth Abides, the end of the world was the whole point.
COOL STUFF
 Middle-earth suddenly seems a little bit more real, thanks to the craftsmen at Sideshow Toy, who dipped into Lord of the Rings to dream up a series of 1/4 Scale Orc Helmets.
SITE OF THE WEEK
 Not only can SF be read and watched, it can also be hummed—as proven by Themesonline, a digital encyclopedia of TV's greatest theme songs, including The Invaders, The Prisoner and many more.
LETTERS
 Readers take issue with the color of The Phantom Menace, bust a gut laughing at the antics of The Tick, are wild about Harry Potter, beg the powers that be to continue revival plans for Battlestar Galactica, and more.

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