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April 11, 2005
Issue 416
Vol. 10, No. 15

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THE CASSUTT FILES

 Columnist Michael Cassutt observes that the great performances of science-fiction film and television have all been about "Squaring Circles."


INTERVIEWS

 Award-winning author Lisa Tuttle unravels The Mysteries of faerie, while writer, director and martial-arts star Stephen Chow dances to the rhythm of Kung Fu Hustle.

NEWS OF THE WEEK
 David Fury departs Lost, Michael Bay reassembles The Transformers, Frank Langella signs on with Superman Returns, David Goyer crosses the Threshold, Orlando Bloom sails with the Pirates of the Caribbean, and more.
ON SCREEN
 Stephen Chow battles unstoppable killers in Kung Fu Hustle, Bill Pullman struggles with satanists in Revelations, Marina Sirtis sees ghosts in Spectres, and Werner Herzog directs a sea serpent on the Incident at Loch Ness DVD.
OFF THE SHELF
 Andre Norton befriends a trio of powerful witches in Three Hands for Scorpio, while Ramsey Campbell haunts a bookstore of horror in The Overnight.
GAMES
 Ten years after the debut of the original Sony PlayStation, Wipeout Pure reinvents futuristic racing as the new PlayStation Portable system is unleashed.
CLASSICS
 Thanks to Charly, Cliff Robertson became one of the very few actors ever to win an Oscar for a role in a sci-fi film—but the true star was Daniel Keyes' classic story "Flowers for Algernon."
COOL STUFF
 The 1970s Battlestar Galactica did more than inspire SCI FI's newly reimagined hit—it also gave us two of the most beautiful spaceships ever in the original Colonial Viper and Cylon Raider.
SITE OF THE WEEK
 Trash Film Orgy, the official site for Sacramento's Trash Film Festival, celebrates the best of sci-fi's worst with irreverent reviews, parody posters and more.
LETTERS
 Readers defend yesterday's sci-fi, pitch plots for a new Star Trek, demand that Joss Whedon pick Charisma Carpenter as Wonder Woman, and much more.

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