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November 18, 2002
Issue 291
Vol. 8, No. 47

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COVER ART Featured Artist:
Bob Orsillo

INTERVIEW

 Producer David Heyman, director Chris Columbus and actor Jason Isaacs help put the magic in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, while Lois McMaster Bujold brings readers behind the scenes of her award-winning Miles Vorkosigan universe.


LAB NOTES

 In his latest column, Wil McCarthy hitchhikes aboard a Suliban spaceship to study how the technology of "Cloak and (Glass) Dagger" makes Enterprise enemies invisible.

NEWS OF THE WEEK
 Ben Affleck cashes Philip K. Dick's Paycheck, Robert Englund slices and dices in Freddy vs. Jason, Stanley Mouse sues the makers of Monsters, Inc., Anthony Stewart Head believes that the end of Buffy is near, and much more.
ON SCREEN
 Daniel Radcliffe goes back to school as the pint-sized sorcerer in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, and J. Michael Straczynski's little show that could begins in the Babylon 5: The Complete First Season DVD box set.
OFF THE SHELF
 George Zebrowski embraces the alien in his new collection In the Distance, and Ahead in Time, while Lynn Abbey reassembles the field's top fantasy talent for the long-awaited new Thieves' World anthology, Turning Points.
GAMES
 After an anti-technology cult shuts down Earth's planetary defenses, yesterday's heroes must save the world of the future in Danger Quest: Pulp Adventures in the 24th Century RPG.
ANIME
 The discovery of a new Martian element changes the balance of power between Earth and the Red Planet in Zone of the Enders: Idolo, an unusual adventure starring a set of unlikely heroes.
SOUND SPACE
 Margaret Atwood's controversial novel The Handmaid's Tale has already been adapted to film, but it took Danish opera composer Poul Ruders to set her dystopic future to music.
SITE OF THE WEEK
 Before space travel became a reality, the only way dreamers could see the future was through science fiction—and through the children's science books celebrated in Dreams of Space.
LETTERS
 Readers rise to the defense of C.J. Cherryh's Foreigner series, translate the meaning of Enterprise's new languages, rally around Joss Whedon's Firefly, and much more.

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