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December 30, 2002
Issue 297
Vol. 8, No. 53

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INTERVIEW

 Ben Browder brags about Farscape's return to SCI FI, while Elijah Wood, John Rhys-Davies, Sean Astin, Dominic Monaghan, Billy Boyd and Andy Serkis take moviegoers behind the scenes as the quest continues in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.


EXCESSIVE CANDOUR

 John Clute calls Michael Chabon safe at home when the author's amazing adventures in baseball net him a grand slam in Summerland.

NEWS OF THE WEEK
 Anna Paquin feels the burn as Rogue in the X-Men sequel X2, special-effects guru Stan Winston saddles up to destroy the world in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Anne Hathaway spoofs Cinderella in the funny fantasy Ella Enchanted, and much more.
ON SCREEN
 Roberto Benigni plays through the nose in Pinocchio, Anthony Michael Hall obsesses on the apocalypse in The Dead Zone season two premiere, and Patrick Stewart captains unforgettable episodes in the Star Trek: The Next Generation season five DVD.
OFF THE SHELF
 Lawrence Watt-Evans returns to Ethshar for another screwball fantasy in Ithanalin's Restoration, while Harry Harrison's Civil War leads to a world war in the alternate-history saga Stars & Stripes Triumphant.
GAMES
 Shields up! Federation, Klingon, Romulan and Borg vessels compete for control of the galaxy as Star Trek's finest space battles are recreated in the new PC game Starfleet Command III.
ANIME
 Masami Obari, the creative mastermind behind Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture, brings his titanic talents to bear on Virus Buster Serge, in which cyberpunk warriors patrol the Earth.
SOUND SPACE
 Super-spy Patrick McGoohan refused to be turned into a dehumanizing number in The Village, but no music fan could possibly refuse the 22 musical numbers on The Prisoner—File #1 CD.
SITE OF THE WEEK
 Thanks to the downloadable fonts at Tommy of Escondido's Alien Fonts Page, fans will know their ABCs in every language in the universe, including those from Star Wars, Babylon 5, and others.
LETTERS
 Readers celebrate the success of Star Trek: Nemesis, mourn the loss of Joss Whedon's Firefly, trash the cinematic changes of The Two Towers, rate the effect of the Neilsens on sci-fi TV, and much more.

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