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October 7, 2002
Issue 285
Vol. 8, No. 41

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INTERVIEW

 Dina Meyer, Ashley Scott and Rachel Skarsten band together to take on Gotham City's supervillains as the bodacious Birds of Prey.


EXCESSIVE CANDOUR

 John Clute considers the publishing career of Christopher Priest while "Trying to Find The Separation in This World."

NEWS OF THE WEEK
 Brad Pitt sails the seven seas as Sinbad, Clive Barker conjures up a new supernatural series with Enterprise star Scott Bakula, Robert De Niro clones around in the stem-cell research thriller Godsend, and much more.
ON SCREEN
 Smallville's creators relocate to Gotham City in Birds of Prey, Patrick Stewart embraces "The Best of Both Worlds" in the Star Trek: The Next Generation—Season Four DVD, and William Shatner emotes in Esperanto in the long-lost Incubus.
OFF THE SHELF
 James Patrick Kelly collects his wildest short stories in Strange But Not a Stranger, while a hard-SF master looks back on his award-winning career in The Collected Stories of Greg Bear.
GAMES
 An ambitious young lawyer embarks on a Myst-ical experience with mysterious robots in the new PC adventure game Syberia, an interactive movie with stunning graphics and riveting puzzles.
ANIME
 Isao Takahata's classic Grave of the Fireflies—digitally remastered by Central Park Media—is not only a moving fantasy, but also one of the greatest war movies ever made.
SOUND SPACE
 Speed-metal musicians pay tribute to the visionary prose of Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Bradbury and others on the headbanging CD Necrotic Bibliophilia.
SITE OF THE WEEK
 The Traveller Web Portal features extensive guides, tools, tips and more on the science-fiction role-playing game Traveller, which has been entertaining fans since 1977.
LETTERS
 Readers debate the political leanings of Star Trek, decipher the mysteries of the Starhunter TV series, beg Warner Brothers not to step on Superman's cape, and more.

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