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October 12, 2004
Issue 390
Vol. 10, No. 41

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INTERVIEW

 Director Shane Carruth won the Grand Jury prize at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival with Primer, a sci-fi film that cost about as much as a used car.


EDITORIAL

Scott Edelman, Science Fiction Weekly's editor-in-chief, tunes in to TV's newest series and discovers that "Sci-Fi Is in the Eye of the Beholder."

NEWS OF THE WEEK
 Tim Robbins sees stars in War of the Worlds, John Woo masters the universe of He-Man, Michael Eisner moves forward with two Toy Story sequels, Sarah Michelle Gellar joins with Donnie Darko's director in Southland Tales, and more.
ON SCREEN
 Shane Carruth travels through time in Primer, Scott Bakula weathers the ultimate identity crisis on the Quantum Leap season-one DVD, and Adrian Paul kills the ones he loves on the Highlander: The Series season-five DVD.
OFF THE SHELF
 John Varley revisits his greatest hits in The John Varley Reader, while Rosemary Kirstein reveals her fantasy series to be post-apocalyptic SF in The Language of Power.
GAMES
 An orphaned adventurer hacks and slashes his way through the fantasy world of Fable, a real-time role-playing game for the Xbox with unexpected consequences.
CLASSICS
 Fredric March won the first of his two Oscars portraying both Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in the best adaptation yet filmed of Robert Louis Stevenson's shocking thriller.
COOL STUFF
 Putting together the hundreds of pieces of the Enterprise NX-01 Plastic Model Kit will challenge anyone who isn't a serious modeler, but the result will have them seeing stars.
SITE OF THE WEEK
 Concrete Elephant parodies sci-fi with spoofs that are silly but never stupid, skewering Star Wars, Dr. Who, The X-Files and more.
LETTERS
 Readers find themselves in Lost, rip into George Lucas' political correctness, bash bad sci-fi on both sides of the Atlantic, and more.

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