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December 8, 2003
Issue 346
Vol. 9, No. 49

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INTERVIEWS

 While continuing to keep the spirit of Buffy alive on Angel, Joss Whedon makes sure that Firefly blazes on DVD.


EDITORIAL

Scott Edelman, Science Fiction Weekly's editor-in-chief, cleans out the hard drive of his mind by coming up with "Five Things I Won't Have to Think About in 2004."

NEWS OF THE WEEK
 Ben Affleck defends Paycheck's script, Charisma Carpenter returns to celebrate Angel's 100th episode, J. Michael Straczynski teases about the return of Babylon 5, F. Murray Abraham dies for the law in SCI FI's new pilot, and more.
ON SCREEN
 Nathan Fillion captains a renegade crew of mercenaries on the Firefly—The Complete Series DVD, while Adam West, Weird Al Yankovic and other celebrities go into orbit on the Space Ghost Coast to Coast volume one DVD.
OFF THE SHELF
 Alan Dean Foster must stop a self-aware void bent on the total destruction of all life in Flinx's Folly, while Orson Scott Card teams up with artist Doug Chiang to tour tomorrow in Robota.
GAMES
 For 25 years, humans, mutants and monstrosities have warred in a post-apocalyptic future, and now that universe has been reborn in the Gamma World Player's Handbook.
CLASSICS
 Roy Scheider ships off for outer space when signs of life are spotted on one of Jupiter's moons in 2010, an optimistic sequel to the Clarke/Kubrick classic.
COOL STUFF
 A blank slate of a mechanical man demonstrates a surprising amount of personality in the Mechana—Segmented Robot Action Figure.
SITE OF THE WEEK
 A musical instrument that could have been born in outer space is celebrated at Theremin World with audio excerpts, construction tips and more.
LETTERS
 Readers run off to join the Carnivàle, recommend Matt Damon as a big-screen Smurf, slam Peter Jackson's Saruman cuts, and much more.

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