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October 8, 2001
Issue 233
Vol. 7, No. 41

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COVER ART Featured Artist: Dale Shumate

INTERVIEW

 Virginia Hey, the talented actress hidden beneath the bald blue dome of Farscape's Pa'U Zotoh Zhaan, discusses life after death for science fiction's sentient plant.


EXCESSIVE CANDOUR

 Stephen King and Peter Straub return to the eerie mirror universe of their earlier collaboration, The Talisman, to inhabit Black House, which SF critic John Clute happily discovers "It is a Joy to Read."

NEWS OF THE WEEK
 Joss Whedon finds new freedoms for Buffy the Vampire Slayer at UPN, SCI FI announces that it will go further with Farscape, Leonard Nimoy once more melds minds with William Shatner, Demi Moore plans to adapt Asimov's classic "The Ugly Little Boy" for the big screen, and more.
ON SCREEN
 Roswell finds life to be less alien on UPN, SCI FI's Soulkeeper opens a portal to the land of the undead, a new enemy invades the season premiere of Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict, and Patrick McGoohan breaks loose in The Prisoner: Boxed Set 5.
OFF THE SHELF
 Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson continue the tale of the birth of the Arrakis messiah in Dune: House Corrino, while Ray Bradbury revisits the first family of fantasy in From the Dust Returned.
GAMES
 Claire Redfield, zombie-bashing action heroine from the first of game designer Shinji Mikami's thrill rides, is back in the sequel Resident Evil: Code Veronica X, ready once again to destroy the undead to save the world.
ANIME
 College freshman Keiichi Morisato doesn't realize that the attractive young woman before him is actually a powerful diety, so he makes an idle joke that binds them together forever in the romantic comedy Oh My Goddess.
SOUND SPACE
 Fantastic Voyage told the story of humans shrinking to minuscule size for a trip through the body of a dying scientist, but composer Leonard Rosenman's evocative film score did not shrink away from the dramatic.
SITE OF THE WEEK
 Creating science fiction doesn't make writers and artists immortal, so George Willik created Spacelight in order that our brightest minds—from Douglas Adams to Roger Zelazny—would be remembered forever.
LETTERS
 Readers debate whether Enterprise is worthy of Trek's tradition, acclaim the classic status of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, ponder the color of science fiction's future, hope to see another season of Invisible Man, and much more.

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