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July 15, 2002
Issue 273
Vol. 8, No. 29

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INTERVIEW

 Director Rob Bowman helps Christian Bale and Izabella Scorupco tackle sci-fi dragons in Reign of Fire, while producer Dean Devlin spins a tangled web around David Arquette and Kari Wuhrer in Eight Legged Freaks.


EXCESSIVE CANDOUR

 John Clute descends into the maze of Ted Chiang's long-awaited collection Stories of Your Life and Others, in which he finds himself "Caught Like Theseus."

NEWS OF THE WEEK
 Wolfgang Petersen teams up with classic superheroes in Batman vs. Superman, Patrick Stewart declares his Star Trek fame to be both a blessing and a curse, Frank Darabont reveals Indiana Jones sequel secrets, and much more.
ON SCREEN
 Dragons rule in Reign of Fire, Jamie Lee Curtis seeks revenge in Halloween: Resurrection, the Scoobys triumph in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Complete Second Season DVD, and a robot tackles grade school in Whatever Happened to ... Robot Jones?
OFF THE SHELF
 Stanley Schmidt fends off an invasion of Earth by alien bugs in Argonaut, while Kristine Kathryn Rusch sends space cops after cosmic criminals in The Disappeared.
GAMES
 A mad scientist's steampunk invaders must be shot down from alien orbits in the 3-D dogfighting game Sky Gunner, which features anime-inspired animation and the true feel of flight.
ANIME
 In Legend Of Himiko, based on a Japanese Playstation game, an apparently ordinary girl is snatched away from Earth to a magical fantasy world which only she can save.
SOUND SPACE
 The Science Fiction Album—Volume 1 presents 30 cosmic cuts from fan favorites such as Star Wars, Back to the Future, War of the Worlds and many others.
SITE OF THE WEEK
 Science-fiction films have predicted many different futures, and Projections, run by futurist Josh Calder, is the place to go to discover which ones got it right.
LETTERS
 Readers rally around Men in Black II, hope that Nemesis will reinvigorate Star Trek, demand that Hollywood begin taking bigger risks, and more.

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