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April 29, 2002
Issue 262
Vol. 8, No. 18

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INTERVIEW

 After a long career creating superior science-fiction TV, writer/producer David Kemper reflects on the finale of Farscape's current season and his startling plans for the next.


EDITORIAL

Scott Edelman, Science Fiction Weekly's editor-in-chief, attends the 2002 Nebula Awards ceremony and remembers Damon Knight, the Grand Master who only wanted "To Serve Science Fiction."

NEWS OF THE WEEK
 Jack Williamson and others win coveted Nebula Awards, Ira Steven Behr dampens dreams of a Deep Space Nine movie, Star Wars star Natalie Portman gets political, Ron Perlman is rumored for the lead in Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy flick, and more.
ON SCREEN
 Horror's hockey-masked serial killer is put on ice and then thawed out to slash his way through an unforgiving future in Jason X, while New Jersey's only superhero passes through a space-time rift in the gross-out sequel Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV.
OFF THE SHELF
 Sharon Shinn launches Jane Eyre into deep space in Jenna Starborn, while Lyda Morehouse unleashes a supernatural cyberpunk thriller in Fallen Host.
GAMES
 Declare war in the state-of-the-art environment of Dark Planet: Battle for Natrolis, a real-time-strategy game in which players can conquer a new world.
CLASSICS
 Emilio Estevez and Harry Dean Stanton hunt for alien corpses in director Alex Cox's Repo Man, in which a gritty mystery leads to the birth of cyberpunk.
COOL STUFF
 The technology of yesteryear adds depth to the cinema of tomorrow as View Master 3-D Reels spotlight SF such as Jimmy Neutron and Harry Potter.
SITE OF THE WEEK
 Marvel Comics, with its marauding mutants and radioactive spiders, has always been SF at heart, as illustrated by the cosmic art reproduced in the Silver Age Marvel Comics Cover Index.
LETTERS
 Readers insist that Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 will always be essential, blast the planned remake of Battlestar Galactica, want to believe in the future of the Lone Gunmen, and much more.

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