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September 30, 2002
Issue 284
Vol. 8, No. 40

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THE CASSUTT FILES

 Michael Cassutt fondly recalls the greatest prose, television and films of his youth, while insisting that it's time we all started "Acknowledging the New Classics."


INTERVIEWS

 Grand Master Jack Williamson—who sold his first short story in 1928, coined the phrase "terraforming" and is still going strong at 94—shares the secrets of his science-fictional life.

NEWS OF THE WEEK
 Stephen King gives up the ghosts, Arthur C. Clarke watches the skies and finds our space odysseys lacking, Tom Hanks climbs aboard Chris Van Allsburg's Polar Express, executive producer Marti Noxon mulls over an eighth season for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and more.
ON SCREEN
 Jackie Chan dons a high-tech super-suit in The Tuxedo, David Boreanaz gets all wet in Angel, Kevin Sorbo destroys a dimensional gateway in Andromeda, John Shea leads the gang against a new villain in Mutant X, and Bob Hoskins walks with dinosaurs in The Lost World.
OFF THE SHELF
 John Gregory Betancourt returns to Roger Zelazny's beloved multiverse in The Dawn of Amber, while award-winning editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling visit a spooky forest primeval in The Green Man.
GAMES
 Hugo and Nebula award-winning author George R.R. Martin's epic fantasy series A Game of Thrones comes to life in a new collectible card game in which barbarians battle and dragons are reborn.
CLASSICS
 Cordwainer Smith's millennia-spanning "Instrumentality of Mankind" future-history universe spawned the writer's only novel, a tense tale of those who farm the elixir of immortality on the planet Norstrilia.
COOL STUFF
 Hold a Star Trek starship crew in the palm of your hand with the first set of six new Enterprise action figures created by Art Asylum, based on characters from the series' premiere episode, "Broken Bow."
SITE OF THE WEEK
 Galaxy Quest playfully poked at the subculture of science-fiction fandom, and now the fanaticism featured in that film takes a new form at the zany site The Questarian.
LETTERS
 Readers insist that the politics of Star Trek has always leaned to the left, continue to bemoan the ends of Witchblade and Farscape, search for Buffy's premiere in vain, and more.

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