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October 14, 2002
Issue 286
Vol. 8, No. 42

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INTERVIEW

 Director David Twohy—who made a star out of Vin Diesel in Pitch Black—takes fans on a haunted tour under the sea in Below, while fantasy writer Terry Brooks plays tour guide to his acclaimed Shannara universe.


EDITORIAL

Agitated by the nightly news, Scott Edelman, Science Fiction Weekly's editor-in-chief, is comforted by "Finding Solace in Science Fiction."

NEWS OF THE WEEK
 Samuel L. Jackson faces death as Mace Windu in Star Wars: Episode III, Dennis Hopper takes an easy ride to the planet of The Groovians, William B. Davis lights up his cancer sticks on the set of Smallville, Neil Gaiman prevails in his Spawn lawsuit, and much more.
ON SCREEN
 The Gilmore Girls' Alexis Bledel finds the fountain of youth in Tuck Everlasting, Bruce Greenwood takes a deadly dive in the WWII ghost story Below, and Kevin Sorbo kicks off a new universe on Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda season 1 DVD.
OFF THE SHELF
 Jonathan Carroll believes in life—and love—after death in White Apples, while James Alan Gardner uses psionic powers to solve a murder in his newest Expendables novel, Trapped.
GAMES
 The Battletech universe gets a bold new look in the collectible tabletop experience of Mechwarrior: Dark Age, thanks to WizKids and their new Clix gaming engine.
CLASSICS
 Director Steven Spielberg showed that we were not alone by sending Richard Dreyfuss to embrace the alien in Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
COOL STUFF
 To Serve Man turns out to be more than just a cookbook when Rod Serling's spookiest creations come to life with four Twilight Zone 12" figures.
SITE OF THE WEEK
 Orson Welles proved that he was one of SF's greatest genre geniuses with his radio plays for The Mercury Theater On the Air, celebrated here with a detailed history, audio downloads and more.
LETTERS
 Readers regret the sorry state of fall sci-fi TV, remind us that politics has always been a part of the genre, beg Stephen King to hang in there, worry about the future of the Man of Steel, and much more.

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