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May 31, 2005
Issue 423
Vol. 11, No. 22

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COVER ART Featured Artist:
John Grant

INTERVIEW

 Award-winning author Robert Charles Wilson builds a wall around the Earth and puts a mind-bending Spin on our planet's future.


LAB NOTES

 A massive redecorating project orbits above our heads, which causes scientist Wil McCarthy to ask, "Why Crush the Moon?"

NEWS OF THE WEEK
 George Lucas eyes Matthew Newton for a possible Star Wars television series, Michael Bay fesses up to trouble on The Island, Orson Scott Card gets his game on with Advent Rising, Nicolas Cage adds laughs to the Ghost Rider adaptation, and more.
ON SCREEN
 Ben Stiller prides himself on being the mane man of Madagascar, Lynda Carter twirls a mean magic lasso on the Wonder Woman season-two DVD, and Sir John Mills saves tomorrow's teens from aliens on the Quatermass DVD.
OFF THE SHELF
 James P. Hogan steps into an alternate universe in Mission to Minerva, while Linnea Sinclair crash-lands in the midst of a space war in Finders Keepers.
GAMES
 Sharpen your sword-slinging skills while bashing monsters in the RPG experience Ys: The Ark of Napishtim for the PlayStation 2.
ANIME
 After a pastry chef wanders into a raging gun battle and his moped is destroyed, he goes to work for four sexy mercenaries in Burst Angel.
SOUND SPACE
 Richard Burton narrates a rock-opera invasion of the Martians in Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of the War of the Worlds.
SITE OF THE WEEK
 Fantastica Daily goes beyond the standard news, reviews and blogs to celebrate sci-fi with crossword puzzles and trivia as well.
LETTERS
 Readers defend Star Wars' PG-13 rating, defend Mel Brooks' Spaceballs, rally around Joan of Arcadia, rip into the Enterprise finale, and more.

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