March 8, 1999
Issue 99
Vol. 5, No. 10

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IN THIS ISSUE

Anime and Sound Space return to our pages while Games and Cool Stuff take the week off. Meanwhile, Vernor Vinge's new novel A Deepness in the Sky is finally here!

NEWS OF THE WEEK
 Stanley Kubrick is dead at 70, X-Files, 3rd Rock and Shrunk are renewed, Rowan Atkinson will star in a Dr. Who parody, and more.
ON SCREEN
 ABC launches its new series Strange World, which borrows a folder from the X-Files and a page from today's news headlines.
OFF THE SHELF
 Vernor Vinge's long-awaited prequel to A Fire Upon the Deep is finally out, and Constance Ash takes a look at the future of reproduction in Not of Woman Born.
CLASSICS
 Hal Clement was recently named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and his classic book Mission of Gravity shows why.
SOUND SPACE
 Listen to Gene Roddenberry, Nichelle Nichols and Jerry Goldsmith on Star Trek: The Motion Picture Original Soundtrack - 20th Anniversary Collectors' Edition.
Anime
 Competition is alive and well in 5000 A.D., where the characters of Battle Athlete: Victory are vying for the title of Cosmic Beauty.
SITE OF THE WEEK
 Trek Women operates on the premise that behind every good Star Trek project there is a cast of talented female characters.
LETTERS
 Our readers explain why Total Recall 2070 is crap, why SF fans aren't normal, why SF will never be considered "high" art, and more.

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