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December 23, 2002
Issue 296
Vol. 8, No. 52

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THE CASSUTT FILES

 Michael Cassutt deciphers the many differences between writing novels and screenplays when he contrasts the two worlds of "Prose and Script."


INTERVIEWS

 Director Peter Jackson plays tour guide to Middle-earth by taking us behind the scenes of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.

NEWS OF THE WEEK
 Steven Spielberg credits Harrison Ford with reviving the Indiana Jones franchise, Lisa Loeb voices an animated Mary Jane, Tom Hanks boards The Polar Express with director Robert Zemeckis, Pierce Brosnan bonds again with the world's greatest superspy, and much more.
ON SCREEN
 Elijah Wood and Viggo Mortensen fight on as the splintered Fellowship continues its quest in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, while David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson's search for the Truth collides with comedy on the X-Files Season Six DVD Collection.
OFF THE SHELF
 Joe Haldeman time-travels to 19th-century America to change the past and future in Guardian, while Mick Farren sends a nosferatu to take on the Nazis in Underland.
GAMES
 The sword-and-sorcery multiplayer online game Asheron's Call is reborn—intriguing storyline, gorgeous graphics and all—in Asheron's Call 2: Fallen Kings for the PC.
CLASSICS
 As the captain of the starship Skipstone struggles to escape the deadly gravity of a neutron galaxy, author Barry N. Malzberg struggles with his soul in Galaxies.
COOL STUFF
 Time Traveler, Space Glider, Acroyear and Membros—visitors from the Microverse—return as Palisades Toys reissues the original Micronauts Action Figures.
SITE OF THE WEEK
 Blue Oyster Cult, Metallica and King Crimson are just a few of the bands who've made SF References in Music, a rich history explored in Rich Kulawiec's encyclopedic site.
LETTERS
 Readers embrace the fellowship of The Two Towers, lament the latest Star Trek voyage, debate the reality of alien invasions, long for a new Golden Age of SF, and much more.

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