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April 8, 2002
Issue 259
Vol. 8, No. 15

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COVER ART Featured Artist:
Franco Brambilla

INTERVIEW

 Eugene Roddenberry Jr. opens his heart about working on Earth: Final Conflict, almost working on Andromeda and the perils and pleasures of being the son of sci-fi legends Gene Roddenberry and Majel Barrett Roddenberry.


LAB NOTES

 In his latest column, scientist Wil McCarthy explains how we'll be able to build a brave new world by breeding "Nanotech Wonder Plants."

NEWS OF THE WEEK
 Ray Bradbury gets starry-eyed on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Kevin Smith cameos as Jack Kirby in Marvel Comics' Daredevil, Terry Gilliam goes medieval on Tomb Raider, SCI FI announces miniseries for Myst, Battlestar Galactica and Amber, and more.
ON SCREEN
 Sci-fi's most famous franchise shines in the Star Trek: The Next Generation—Season One DVD, undead extras revitalize a classic in the Night of the Living Dead: Millennium Edition DVD, and new footage attempts to clarify an ambiguous alien in the K-Pax DVD.
OFF THE SHELF
 John Wright builds men into supermen in his debut novel The Golden Age, while Sheri S. Tepper blends science and fantasy to populate a dark future with technologically advanced demons in The Visitor.
GAMES
 A visit from Halley's Comet brings Earth an infinite power source in the anime-inspired action game Gunvalkyrie, in which super-powered beings battle their way through three-dimensional mazes.
ANIME
 For the three typical Japanese teenagers forced to fight space aliens in Z-Mind, big robots mean big laughs, thanks to Hajime Yatate, the ubiquitous creator of The Big O.
SOUND SPACE
 In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the seminal CGI film classic Tron, pioneering synthesist Wendy Carlos' ingenious soundtrack is finally released on CD for the first time.
SITE OF THE WEEK
 With the long-awaited sequel still a year away, the best place to Believe the Unbelievable about The Matrix is this site, packed with news, photos, spoilers, gossip and more.
LETTERS
 Readers fear for the future of the Tron remake, prefer the film of The Fellowship to the original novel, run out of time for Clockstoppers, and offer other passionate opinions.

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