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December 10, 2001
Issue 242
Vol. 7, No. 50

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COVER ART Featured Artist: Michael Wilby

INTERVIEW

 Since 1996, Michael T. Weiss has inhabited more than 90 different identities as The Pretender, the genius who can become almost anyone. Peer beneath the masks to learn the secrets of his roles in Tarzan, Bones and his new television movie, The Pretender: The Island of the Haunted.


EDITORIAL

Scott Edelman, Science Fiction Weekly's editor-in-chief, flies halfway around the planet to visit a Chinese SF magazine, where he discovers that "It Really Is a Small World After All."

NEWS OF THE WEEK
 Will Smith plans to portray the last man on Earth in I Am Legend, Betsy Mitchell takes charge as the new editor-in-chief of Del Rey Books, Eddie Murphy has big plans for the The Incredible Shrinking Man remake, and much more.
ON SCREEN
 Science and the supernatural blend when Michael T. Weiss returns with yet another new identity in The Pretender: The Island of the Haunted, while dinosaur-sized extras prove that the third time really is a charm in the Jurassic Park III DVD.
OFF THE SHELF
 Donald Kingsbury visits the 761st century to build a future worthy of Asimov in Psychohistorical Crisis, while William F. Nolan, creator of the Logan's Run, looks back on 50 years of short stories in Dark Universe.
GAMES
 Tolkien's rich world has done more than spawn a big-budget, big-screen incarnation—the trilogy has also inspired The Lord of the Rings Trading Card Game, a way for readers to live the fantasy.
CLASSICS
 Jack Finney's novel of small-town paranoia, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, was transformed by director Don Siegel into an alien-invasion flick that proved to be one of science fiction's most-parodied films.
COOL STUFF
 Matrix, AndrAIa, Commander Dot, Glitch Bob and Megabyte escape from the Web—and from one of TV's most popular animated SF series—as the latest round of Reboot Action Figures are released.
SITE OF THE WEEK
 The Chinese SF magazine Science Fiction World—the highest-circulation genre magazine in the world—proves that SF is more international than ever, with short stories, news, reviews of books, games, movies and more.
LETTERS
 Readers proclaim Stargate SG-1 to be the best of the best, shed some light on the Justice League's new Green Lantern, come to the defense of Invader Zim, demand that SF fans turn off their televisions and read, and much more.

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