Aug. 23, 1999
Issue 123
Vol. 5, No. 34

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 Science Fiction Weekly's resident scientist, Wil McCarthy, explains why some falling rocks are harmless while others could wipe out humanity in "Asteroid collisions--how do they rate?"

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NEWS OF THE WEEK
 Richard Hatch and Todd Moyer continue their separate plans for a Battlestar Galactica revival, Mel may do Mad Max 4, Straczynski is at work on a new series, and more.
ON SCREEN
 Jean-Claude Van Damme dukes it out with professional wrestler Bill Goldberg in Universal Soldier: The Return, the only "real" sequel to Universal Soldier.
OFF THE SHELF
 First-time author Peter Watts looks at the undersea world of the future in Starfish, while Tor has reissued Gordon R. Dickson's classic novel Way of the Pilgrim.
CLASSICS
 Smokin' rockets! It's high adventure in the wild, vast reaches of space with "Giants of Pluto No. 3," a three-part story from the 1954 series Space Patrol.
ANIME
 Lain Iwakura is an emotionally and intellectually disconnected child whose world changes overnight when she receives e-mail from a dead girl in Serial Experiments Lain.
SOUND SPACE
 Join The Evil Genius Orchestra for some laid back Mos Eisley martini music on the retro-jazz Star Wars CD Cocktails in the Cantina.
SITE OF THE WEEK
 Free Sci-Fi Classics presents 14 science fiction stories from the public domain by master wordsmiths such as Jules Verne, H.G. Wells and Mark Twain.
LETTERS
 One reader explains why Voyager might be signalling the apocalypse, another thinks Sliders needs more episodes, the Blair Witch debate continues, and more.

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