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May 13, 2002
Issue 264
Vol. 8, No. 20

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THE CASSUTT FILES

 For Michael Cassutt, the business of calculating ratings points, box office dollars and audience share turns the art of science-fiction television into "A Game of Numbers."


INTERVIEW

 Best-selling author Peter Straub, whose novels embrace horror, mystery and more, spooks readers with news about his next Ghost Story.

NEWS OF THE WEEK
 Tom Cruise travels to Mars to declare a new War of the Worlds, Nicolas Brendon prepares to bid farewell to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angelina Jolie continues to kick big-screen butt as Lara Croft, Anne Rice bewitches NBC into producing a haunted miniseries, and more.
ON SCREEN
 Alien teens and their friends reach their ends in the Roswell series finale, Dylan Hunt's dreams come true in the Andromeda season finale, the super -powered grow even more powerful in the Mutant X season finale, and an old friend returns for Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict series finale.
OFF THE SHELF
 To honor the 30th anniversary of the founding of DAW Books, editors Elizabeth R. Wollheim and Sheila E. Gilbert have invited Andre Norton, Frederik Pohl and others to two scintillating celebrations.
GAMES
 With just a few more days to go before Clones attacks theaters, the thrilling first-person shooter Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast for the PC offers gamers the best-realized lightsaber combat ever.
CLASSICS
 A dangerous intergalactic fugitive assumes human form in SFWA Grand Master Hal Clement's Needle, so it's up to a Terran boy—aided by an alien detective—to protect planet Earth.
COOL STUFF
 Award-winning cinema maven Stephen Jones slices and dices the flicks of fright's most famous author in Creepshows: The Illustrated Stephen King Movie Guide .
SITE OF THE WEEK
 The Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database is a massive Internet encyclopedia offering more than 55,000 critical commentaries, obituaries, news reports and more.
LETTERS
 Readers weigh in on the big-screen success of Marvel's amazing Spider-Man, remind us all that Frank Oz was more than just Yoda, seek out the spiritual side of Star Trek, and more.

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