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November 25, 2002
Issue 292
Vol. 8, No. 48

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THE CASSUTT FILES

 Nothing gets lost in the translation when Michael Cassutt attempts to understand "The Lost Language of Cartoons."


INTERVIEWS

 Kevin Sorbo turns away from the dark side in this season of Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda, while directors Ron Clements and John Musker set sail for Treasure Planet with voice artists Joseph Gordon-Levitt and David Hyde Pierce.

NEWS OF THE WEEK
 Claire Danes kicks robot butt in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Joss Whedon struggles to save his ailing Firefly, Steven Soderbergh explores the mixed metaphors of Solaris, Catherine Dent gets real after coming face to face with the alien in Steven Spielberg Presents Taken, and much more.
ON SCREEN
 Pierce Brosnan takes James Bond back to basics in Die Another Day, Shiloh Strong and Erik von Detten are marooned brothers in the Dinotopia series premiere, Nick Stabile isn't so jolly about being St. Nick's son in Santa Jr., and Olivier Gruner must thwart a new alien invasion in IF2: Interceptor Force 2.
OFF THE SHELF
 Timothy Zahn turns a twentysomething into something alien in Manta's Gift, while Brian Stableford sleeps for 1,000 years in The Omega Expedition, the final volume of his emortality saga.
GAMES
 Spiders and zombies and vampires, oh my! Suck the blood out of an endless army of opponents through 40 hack-and-slash levels of the third-person fighter BloodRayne on the PS2.
CLASSICS
 Madeleine L'Engle transformed generations of children into science-fiction fans with her Newbery Medal-winning novel A Wrinkle in Time.
COOL STUFF
 Lights flash and impulse engines roar as Jonathan Archer takes the helm and Earth's first starship soars thanks to the interactive replica of the Enterprise NX-01.
SITE OF THE WEEK
 The people behind the movies can sometimes be as fascinating as the movies themselves, as is ably proven by Gary Westfahl's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Film.
LETTERS
 Readers question the way that Star Trek deals with death, worry over the battle for Battlestar Galactica, predict a bloody end for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and much more.

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