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Science Fiction Weekly
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Feb. 9, 1998
Vol. 4, No. 3
Issue 63
Next issue: Feb. 23, 1998
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News of the Week
Wizards of the Coast is reviving Amazing Stories, Arthur C. Clarke denies allegations that he is a pedophile, Rudy Rucker's Software film boots up, 3rd Rock earns phenomenal ratings, and more.
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Off the Shelf
In Michael Kanaly's novel Virus Clans, a new threat to humanity is arising...from within our own bodies. And Susan Matthews continues her disturbing look at the life of torturer Andrej Koscuisko in Prisoner of Conscience.
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On Screen
In Deep Rising, a band of pirates think they're about to rip off the most luxurious ocean liner afloat. But they're wrong. Dead wrong.
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Classic Sci-Fi
C.S. Lewis is perhaps best known to SF fans for his groundbreaking Narnia books, but he also wrote an equally compelling SF series called The Space Trilogy.
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Excessive Candour
SF scholar and critic John Clute takes a look at Mary Doria Russell's powerful first-contact book The Sparrow and its sequel Children of God in "The engine of our dreams can still haul freight."
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Sci-Fi Site of the Week
Babylon 5 fans won't want to miss Turner Network Television's awesome site devoted to one of the hottest cable SF shows around.
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Anime
In Key: The Metal Idol, Tokiko doesn't just want to be loved, she needs to be loved, and by 30,000 people, or her robot body will die.
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Cool Sci-Fi Stuff
Did you ever want to own your own Narn ambassador or an aged Centauri who will one day be Emperor? Now you can, with these Babylon 5 action figures.
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Games
Two years ago Capcom created the genre of "survival horror" with its mega-hit game Resident Evil. Now the evil is back, and it's twice as bad!
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