Featured Artist:
Frank Berger
THE CASSUTT FILES
 According to Michael Cassutt, the reason bringing superlative SF to series television has been so difficult is the endless battle of "Competing Visions."
INTERVIEW
Actor John Shea sings about his long swim upstream from The Man From Atlantis to Mutant X, while director and gaming fanboy Paul W.S. Anderson puts down the joystick and picks up a camera to bring Resident Evil to the big screen.
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Stan Lee gets caught up in Spider-Man's web, Arnold Schwarzenegger straps on the six-guns as the villain in Westworld, Wesley Snipes marvels at portraying the Black Panther, James Cameron directs Dark Angel's second-season finale, and much more.
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A hugely popular video-game series spawns an undead live-action prequel in Resident Evil, while mammoths and bison and sloths, oh my!—voiced by Ray Romano, John Leguizamo and others—deal with their coming deep freeze in Ice Age.
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Robert Metzger unleashes a new energy source—and unlocks other dimensions— in Picoverse, while
Harry Turtledove travels through time to find new pasts and futures in Counting Up, Counting Down.
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After a trip to ancient Egypt to whup monsters, the hero of Serious Sam: The Second Encounter seizes an alien starship for a trip to their homeworld and some serious first-person shooter mayhem.
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In the 1940s, William Tenn built a sterling reputation on satiric short stories, but Of Man and Monsters, his novel of alien invasion, also deserves attention.
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Roleplayers no longer have to roll dice in silence, thanks to The Game Masters Collection CDs, which provide sounds that add gaming excitement.
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The Harry Turtledove Web Site delivers book covers, author photos, a bibliography, news of upcoming releases and more on the current king of the alternate-history sub-genre.
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Readers view Sept. 11 through the lens of Babylon 5, call for a time out on The Time Machine, defend the dollars spent in Trek DVDs, insist that censorship is not the answer, and more.
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