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News of the Week
Claudia Christian leaves Babylon 5 amid contradictory reports, The X-Files earns 12 Emmy nominations, Pocket Books plans 10th anniversary book for Star Trek: The Next Generation, and more.
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Off the Shelf
We take a look at Greg Bear's anxiously awaited new novel Slant, plus we review part 2 of The Reality Dysfunction and the new James Patrick Kelly collection Think Like a Dinosaur and Other Stories.
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On Screen
We look at Tetsuo II: Body Hammer, the sequel to the underground hit Tetsuo. It ranges from innovative to violent to just plain weird...just what you'd expect from a new Tetsuo movie.
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Classic Sci-Fi
John W. Campbell Jr.'s short story "Who Goes There?" inspired both the 1952 and 1982 versions of the popular movie The Thing. Not bad for a story few people heard of when it first appeared in 1938.
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Excessive Candour
SF scholar and critic John Clute takes a look at two new books by Michael Swanwick in "The scherzo turns into delirium."
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Sci-Fi Site of the Week
It may not be the Web's darkest hour just yet, but nevertheless a hero has arrived to save the day, and her name is WhirlGirl.
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Anime
If anime were a video game, then Grey: Digital Target would be the granddaddy of all shoot-'em-ups. We're talking lots of battle scenes.
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Cool Sci-Fi Stuff
Dozens of classic (and not-so-classic) SF scores from a rather unusual source: The City of Prague Philharmonic.
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Games
A collectible card game that has everything you've come to expect in a card game and more...except the cards.
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