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July 8, 2002
Issue 272
Vol. 8, No. 28

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THE CASSUTT FILES

 Michael Cassutt dishes the dirt about "What I Did on My Sci-Fi Summer Vacation," and explains how a classic SF novel changed his life.


INTERVIEW

 Producer/director Dan Curtis—who merged scares with soap opera in Dark Shadows—explains how he earned the name of "television's king of horror."

NEWS OF THE WEEK
 Stan Lee sells off part of his personal comic-book collection, Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich draw inspiration for Independence Day II from 9/11, screenwriter David Self sinks beneath the sea for Marvel's Sub-Mariner, and much more.
ON SCREEN
 Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones save the world all over again in Men in Black II; Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup make a bang on the big screen in The Powerpuff Girls Movie; and SCI FI's miniseries is spiced up with extras in Frank Herbert's Dune Director's Cut DVD.
OFF THE SHELF
 China Miéville revisits the world of his acclaimed Perdido Street Station in The Scar, while Douglas Adams hitchhikes one last time in the posthumous collection The Salmon of Doubt.
GAMES
 When hungry ghosts go on the prowl in the chilling new game Fatal Frame, a young woman discovers that she must defend herself armed with nothing but a common camera.
CLASSICS
 In James Tiptree Jr.'s first novel, Up the Walls of the World, the short-story superstar brought to life the Tyree, one of science fiction's most convincing alien races.
COOL STUFF
 Two classic episodes of the cult 1960s TV series The Outer Limits inspired the sculptors at Sideshow Toy to create a pair of eerie and accurate 12-inch action figures.
SITE OF THE WEEK
 Some may call it parody, but mad scientists, despots and supervillains all know that Villian Supply is the Web's best source for the over-the-top tools of their trade.
LETTERS
 Readers wish that Star Trek would return to its roots, look back at the Hulk's many comic-book changes, believe that Minority Report should win a major Oscar, and more.

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