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August 19, 2002
Issue 278
Vol. 8, No. 34

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INTERVIEW

 Fantasy favorite Storm Constantine, magical creator of The Wraeththu Trilogy and other weird worlds, takes readers behind the scenes of her many fictional universes.


EDITORIAL

Scott Edelman, Science Fiction Weekly's editor-in-chief, looks back at a lifetime of convention-going, and considers "Worldcons Future, Worldcons Past."

HUGO AWARDS POLL
It's time once again for Science Fiction Weekly's annual unofficial Hugo Awards poll! What were the best SF books, movies and stories of 2001?

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NEWS OF THE WEEK
 Ian McKellen relishes the mutant action of X2, Susan Sarandon channels Snow White's wicked witch in Children of Dune, Wesley Snipes hopes to slice and dice behind the scenes of TV's Blade, Wil Wheaton treks away from Nemesis, and more.
ON SCREEN
 Eddie Murphy moons SF audiences in The Adventures of Pluto Nash, Peter Jackson delivers an even grander quest in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring DVD, and Stuart Gordon reanimates H.P. Lovecraft in Dagon.
OFF THE SHELF
 Bud Sparhawk's alien negotiator Sam Boone mines laughter in space in Front to Back, while Alex Irvine populates 19th-century America with Aztec gods in A Scattering of Jades.
GAMES
 Fly the deadly skies of future Earth in Playstation 2's Dropship: United Peace Force, a superb flight simulator that's also part strategy game and part ground-vehicle action-fest.
CLASSICS
 The Rocky Horror Picture Show is more than just a cult midnight movie—this musical is also an SF tale of a mad scientist, his freaky Frankenstein's monster and an alien invasion.
COOL STUFF
 The greatest SF editor of all time—who helped birth Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics—is profiled in the DVD documentary John W. Campbell's Golden Age of Science Fiction.
SITE OF THE WEEK
 Turnabout is fair play as SF criticism is subjected to criticism of its own at Science Fiction Studies, which features synopses, timelines and an exhaustive bibliography.
LETTERS
 Readers rally for an Unbreakable sequel, fear that Friday-night scheduling sabotages sci-fi shows, appeal for a revision to Star Trek's Prime Directive, and much more.

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