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August 5, 2002
Issue 276
Vol. 8, No. 32

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THE CASSUTT FILES

 Michael Cassutt takes a long, hard look at today's science-fiction tomorrows and realizes that "The Future Isn't What It Used to Be."


INTERVIEW

 Director M. Night Shyamalan and screen star Mel Gibson spell out the ABCs of UFOs in Signs, while Robert Silverberg looks back on nearly 50 years of writing superlative science fiction.

HUGO AWARDS POLL
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NEWS OF THE WEEK
 Ricardo Montalban remembers his passionate performance in The Wrath of Khan, Peter Jackson previews the ringing storyline of The Two Towers, Paul Anderson prepares to both write and direct Alien vs. Predator, and much more.
ON SCREEN
 M. Night Shyamalan abducts Mel Gibson for an eerie alien encounter in Signs, Patrick Stewart stars in the greatest season of any Star Trek in Star Trek: The Next Generation—Season Three DVD, and Dana Carvey unmasks in The Master of Disguise.
OFF THE SHELF
 Harry Turtledove's American Empire alternate-history series continues in The Center Cannot Hold, while a Grand Master's greatest hits shine in Spider Island: The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson.
GAMES
 A newly designed engine improves a classic real-time gaming franchise as the dead rise to battle the living and two new races join the fray in Blizzard Entertainment's Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos.
CLASSICS
 The dark denizens of a traveling carnival come between two young friends in Ray Bradbury's small-town fantasy Something Wicked This Way Comes.
COOL STUFF
 Army of Darkness aficionados will see double when Bruce Campbell is transformed into the one-man dynamic duo of the Ash and Evil Ash Action Figures.
SITE OF THE WEEK
 Michael Whelan has won 14 Hugo Awards and been voted Best Professional Artist by readers of Locus 21 years in a row, and The Art of Michael Whelan shows why.
LETTERS
 Readers lash out at the liberties taken by Spider-Man, defend Star Trek's Prime Directive, hope that Hollywood will discover the Foundation trilogy, and more.

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