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Sept. 22, 1997
Vol. 3, No. 18
Issue 54




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 News of the Week
Gillian Anderson and John Lithgow bring home the Emmys for SF, legendary anthologist Judith Merril dies, Gattaca causes trouble with a controversial ad, 4 million tribbles are about to be released in the U.S., and much more.
Off the Shelf
J.R. Dunn asks hard questions about Auschwitz and offers some surprising answers in his time travel book Days of Cain, while Allen Steele returns to his future history universe in a novel about death and revival in A King of Infinite Space.
 On Screen
We preview NBC's upcoming movie Cloned starring Elizabeth Perkins, where strange things are going on at the Northwest Bio clinic.
Classic Sci-Fi
Now that the cloning movies are upon us, we decided to take a look at one of the creepiest clone movies of all time, The Boys from Brazil starring Gergory Peck and Laurence Olivier.
 
 Excessive Candour
SF scholar and critic John Clute takes a look James Alan Gardner's Expendable in "An empty bottle. An empty mind. An empty book."
 
 Sci-Fi Site of the Week
NASA hasn't been telling the whole truth about what's been happening on Mars, but this site devoted to Little Green Martians will fill you in on what you've been missing.
Anime
Manga Video has taken Shoji Kawamori's Macross Plus and trimmed off nearly an hour of original material while adding in 15 minutes that have never been seen before. The result is a whole new movie.
 Cool Sci-Fi Stuff
Planetary Traveler is sort of like a really long science fiction music video that includes eight breathtaking animation sequences and lots of really cool tunes.
Games
There are 40 weird and wacky aliens packed into the down-and-out space bar called The Thirsty Tentacle, and it's your job to figure out which one is the murderous technology thief.