Featured Artist:
Andrew Woolf
INTERVIEW
Director Sam Raimi and swinging couple Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst surf the web in Spider-Man, a film that has broken box-office records its very first weekend.
LAB NOTES
In his latest column, scientist Wil McCarthy examines the real-life consequences of getting bitten by a radioactive arachnid when he tackles "The Physics of Spider-Man."
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Joss Whedon promises to bring Buffy the Vampire Slayer back to basics, Frank Oz prefers voicing the computer-generated Yoda, award-winning cyberpunk author George Alec Effinger dies, Frank Darabont heats up to the Fahrenheit 451 remake, and more. |
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Marvel Comics' webbed wonder soars in Spider-Man, James Gurney's dinosaurs live and breathe in Dinotopia, Judd Nelson is adrift in the Bermuda Triangle in Lost Voyage, and Paul Levinson's Analog adventure is adapted in The Chronology Protection Case.
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Greg Egan destroys the universe in Schild's Ladder, while Ian Watson thrusts nanotech robots inside a beautiful mind in his stunning collection The Great Escape.
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Humans meld with machines to form a new weapon in the first-person shooter Eve of Extinction, in which metal from ancient Atlantis fuses with a young woman's nervous system.
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Astro Boy—the robot from the year 2030 with the soul of a little boy—was there at the beginning of anime, and its old-fashioned fun can still deliver plenty of thrills to audiences today.
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Composer John Williams teams up with the London Symphony Orchestra and London Voices to score the future for the Star Wars: Episode II—Attack of the Clones soundtrack CD.
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Fans of tabletop starship battle simulation games know that fight makes right, and
Starship Combat News is there to provide tips on how best to wage interstellar war.
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Readers rate Spider-Man against other comic-book movies, complain about the untrustworthy end of The X-Files, disagree on the origins of cyberpunk,
and more.
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