Science Fiction Weekly

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT The next issue of Science Fiction Weekly will appear Tuesday, May 28, so that our staff may take time off to commemorate the Memorial Day holiday.

May 20, 2002
Issue 265
Vol. 8, No. 21

Now More Than
276,000
Registered Readers!

Featured Artist:
Micky R. Goins

INTERVIEW

Star Wars creator George Lucas joins with actors Samuel L. Jackson and Hayden Christensen to take fans behind the scenes on Episode II—Attack of the Clones, while executive producer Frank Spotnitz looks back at the end of The X-Files.

EXCESSIVE CANDOUR

John Clute crashes a family reunion between the covers of Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril, where he becomes immersed in "A Seethe of Stuff."

NEWS OF THE WEEK

George Lucas looks ahead to Star Wars: Episode III, special FX guru Stan Winston invents new movie magic for Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Francis Ford Coppola plays godfather to his son's upcoming sci-fi flick, Joss Whedon stakes his future on the Buffy season finale, and more.

ON SCREEN

The Force moves in a dark direction in Star Wars: Episode II—Attack of the Clones, Phantom Menace fans strike back in Starwoids, a '60s TV series sings and dances in Space Family Robinson—A Sci-Fi Musical, and Mulder and Scully are replaced by a new team of Phantom Investigators.

OFF THE SHELF

SFWA Grand Master Poul Anderson's brilliant career is spotlighted in Going for Infinity, while Phyllis Gotlieb ends her cosmic trilogy with intergalactic warfare in Mindworlds.

GAMES

Dungeon crawls were starting to seem a little dated, until the beautifully rendered Dungeon Siege came along to raise the stakes for good ol' monster-bashing fun on the PC.

ANIME

The nearly human, third-generation robot Naomi Armitage is back in Armitage: Dual-Matrix, and this time she's a mother, she's on Mars, and she's on a deadly mission.

SOUND SPACE

Gene Roddenberry's musical legacy lives on, thanks to the over two dozen compositions by Matthew McCauley and Alex Lifeson collected on the Andromeda soundtrack CD.

SITE OF THE WEEK

The devices of everyday life are so complex they should come with a manual, and thanks to How Stuff Works—which explains everything from holograms to DVDs—they finally do.

LETTERS

Readers dump on the social dynamics of Dinotopia, defend against the Attack of the Clones attackers, demand a reunion for the teen aliens of Roswell, and more.