Jan. 25, 1999
Issue 93
Vol. 5, No. 4

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EXCESSIVE CANDOUR

SF Critic John Clute takes a look at Gardner Dozois' new anthology The Good New Stuff: Adventure SF in the Grand Tradition, in "Nonsense is what good adventure SF makes silk purses out of."

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NEWS OF THE WEEK
 The Sci-Fi Channel gets a new look to go along with three new series, ABC will try out Strange World in March, Eos gears up for its second annual online con, and more.
ON SCREEN
 Annette Bening plays a woman who has a psychic link to killer Robert Downey Jr. in Neil Jordan's In Dreams.
OFF THE SHELF
 Anne McCaffrey launches readers into space with Nimisha's Ship, while the University of Nebraska resurrects the Jules Verne novel The Chase of the Golden Meteor.
CLASSICS
 In 1971 Stanley Kubrick's movie A Clockwork Orange explored the relationship between violence and society and proved that Beethoven is the road to reform.
SOUND SPACE
 More than 20 years ago Wendy Carlos fused the sounds of electronic and classical music to create the haunting soundtrack to A Clockwork Orange.
ANIME
 In Birdy the Mighty: Double Trouble, Tsutomu Senkawa is as unlucky as he is whiny, and that's before he dies and finds he must share the body of his killer.
SITE OF THE WEEK
 If you want the lowdown on all those wonderful toys from the new Star Wars prequels, then you've got to see The Fandom Menace Web site.
LETTERS
 Some of our readers debate whether SF is on its way up or out, others wonder if the genre is a man's world, plus Babylon 5, Pokemon and more.

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