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February 25, 2002
Issue 253
Vol. 8, No. 9

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INTERVIEW

 Award-winning legend Gene Wolfe, author of such acclaimed SF series as The Book of the New Sun and The Book of the Long Sun, shines light on the creative process behind his brilliant career.


EXCESSIVE CANDOUR

 Kim Stanley Robinson enters the alternate-history arena with The Years of Rice and Salt, a feat which has SF critic John Clute counting "The Years of Rice and a Grain of Salt."

NEWS OF THE WEEK
 David Duchovny dares to return for one final case on The X-Files, Xena's Kevin Smith dies in a freak accident in Beijing, Luke Perry loves the move to his new zip code on Jeremiah, Peter David ponders the last adventure of The Incredible Hulk, and more.
ON SCREEN
 Aaliyah meets Anne Rice in Queen of the Damned, Kevin Costner crosses over in Dragonfly, J. Michael Straczynski returns to series television with the post-apocalyptic Jeremiah, and Evan Dorkin lets fanboys run wild in Welcome to Eltingville.
OFF THE SHELF
 Tanya Huff pits starship troopers against a booby-trapped alien artifact in The Better Part of Valor, while Elizabeth Anne Scarborough brings the ancient dead back to life in Channeling Cleopatra.
GAMES
 Two gaming classics blend to form a new space fantasy in Fading Suns d20, an RPG that combines the questing knights and blasters of Star Wars with the scheming houses and emperor of Dune.
ANIME
 As the Boogiepop Phantom series concludes, the mysteries of the creation of the Angel of Death, the destruction of Manticore and the high-school cataclysm are at last solved—or are they?
SOUND SPACE
 In War of the World, composer Randy Grief reimagines H.G. Wells' alien invasion classic, creating an audio collage that includes futuristic music, industrial noise and snippets of Orson Welles' famed radio play.
SITE OF THE WEEK
 The hardest of hard sciences has a home at PhysicsWeb, which seeks to make clear laser technology, the movement of quarks and even the workings of Marvel Comics characters.
LETTERS
 Readers react to the sexuality of science fiction, hunger for more Babylon 5, say farewell to actor Kevin Smith, protest the publishing of too many SF series, and more.

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