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November 4, 2002
Issue 289
Vol. 8, No. 45

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INTERVIEW

 Tom Doherty, the big brain behind the Tor Books publishing empire, helped launch J.R.R. Tolkien in the United States, built the career of bestselling author Robert Jordan, and more.


EXCESSIVE CANDOUR

 John Clute encounters the characters collected in the massive volume The Hard SF Renaissance, and realizes that they spend their lives "Beating Holes to a Pulp."

NEWS OF THE WEEK
 Joss Whedon hints that Buffy the Vampire Slayer might not die after all, Faye Dunaway finds her inner spy as a crooked agent on Alias, screenwriter Doug Petrie alters the origins of the Fantastic Four, and much more.
ON SCREEN
 Tim Allen takes a mate to the North Pole in The Santa Clause 2, Al Gore's head campaigns for comedy in the Futurama season five premiere, and Angela Bettis attempts to fill Sissy Spacek's psychic shoes in a TV remake of Carrie.
OFF THE SHELF
 Susan R. Matthews tortures the future in The Devil and Deep Space, while Adam-Troy Castro comically conquers the universe in Vossoff and Nimmitz: Just a Couple of Idiots Reupholstering Space and Time.
GAMES
 Film fans may never see a sequel to John Carpenter's 1982 flick, The Thing—but gamers will be able to hunt aliens in Antarctica when the sci-fi thriller continues as a third-person shooter for the PS2.
ANIME
 The popular manga series X/1999 already spawned a feature film back in 1996, but it took the more leisurely pace of a TV series to get the tale of clashing dragons right.
SOUND SPACE
 Aliens, The Matrix and many more sci-fi soundtracks soar on the Great Science Fiction Blockbusters CD, a compilation of the very best from the Varèse Sarabande backlist.
SITE OF THE WEEK
 After abandoning its former print incarnation, The Zone reinvented itself as a lively Webzine featuring interviews, reviews, contests, numerous top 10 lists, and more.
LETTERS
 Readers come to the defense of William Shatner, praise the mysterious personality of John Doe, beg for more Birds of Prey, debate the political leanings of SF writers, and more.

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