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December 9, 2002
Issue 294
Vol. 8, No. 50

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INTERVIEW

 Firefly stars Adam Baldwin, Ron Glass and Morena Baccarin join executive producer Tim Minear to take fans behind the scenes of their struggling show as they fight for its life.


EDITORIAL

Scott Edelman, Science Fiction Weekly's editor-in-chief, uses the passport of SF to cross borders and travel "90 Miles and a Million Light-Years From Home."

NEWS OF THE WEEK
 Will Smith gets jiggy with an Isaac Asimov classic as I, Robot finally heads to the big screen, Marina Sirtis makes her peace with the deadly events of Star Trek Nemesis, Keanu Reeves comes back as Neo to kick more A.I. butt in The Matrix Reloaded, Sam Gamgee slides over to sci-fi when Sean Astin joins the cast of Jeremiah, and more.
ON SCREEN
 Christian Bale defects from the drugged-out dystopia of Equilibrium, Peter Jackson makes Tolkien more titanic on the Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring extended-edition DVD, Robert Townsend runs with the devil in I Was a Teenage Faust and Robert Thompson kills like Carrie on the Patrick DVD.
OFF THE SHELF
 James D. Macdonald pits alien invaders against a secret Earth society in The Apocalypse Door, while Whitley Streiber returns to the vampiric world of The Hunger in Lilith's Dream.
GAMES
 Intergalactic settlers battle monsters on a recently discovered planet as a classic real-time combat franchise comes to the GameCube with Phantasy Star Online: Episode I and II.
CLASSICS
 Thanks to director Robert Zemeckis and star Michael J. Fox, SF's other classic trilogy starts off with a timeless trip to the fabulous '50s in Back to the Future.
COOL STUFF
 Stacy Keach takes over as host when Rod Serling's eerie masterpieces are reborn for a new generation on the Twilight Zone Radio Dramas CDs.
SITE OF THE WEEK
 Slawek Wojtowicz plays tour guide to the Web sites of more than 1,400 artists at The Ultimate Guide to SF Art on the Web, which includes enough galleries and reference sites to satisfy any art lover.
LETTERS
 Readers celebrate the emotional storyline of Solaris, take issue with the premise of Steven Spielberg Presents Taken, figure out the failings of Firefly, debate the genre of Braveheart, and more.

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