Nov. 23, 1998
Issue 85
Vol. 4, No. 25

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EXCESSIVE CANDOUR
 SF critic John Clute reviews Gardner Dozois' retrospective anthology The Good Old Stuff: Adventure SF in the Grand Tradition in his column "We show aliens how to do better."

NEWS OF THE WEEK
 The Star Wars trailer makes headlines, "Bicentennial Man" is put on hold, Neuromancer has a director, and more.
ON SCREEN
 After five years the lights are going out on Babylon 5, and we have a preview of the final episode.
OFF THE SHELF
 In Noir, K.W. Jeter takes readers to a sleazy sexual subculture called "The Wedge," while The Reel Stuff looks at the stories behind SF movies.
CLASSICS
 In the last segment of a three-part review series, we look at John Varley's classic book Demon, the final novel in the Gaean trilogy.
SOUND SPACE
 Jean-Luc Hervé Berthelot takes listeners on a galactic journey aboard the starship Paradonka with Interstellar Memories.
ANIME
 In MAPS, the descendant of a space-gypsy tribe has a star map imbedded in his genes, and more than a few powerful aliens will stop at nothing to get it.
SITE OF THE WEEK
 Clams, ATACs and even the good old SDF-1 can be found on The Robotech Page, a site devoted to one of the best animated series of all time.
LETTERS
 One of our readers says SF no longer exists, another calls Babylon 5 a TV show with respect for the genre, and more.

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