THE MATRIX SCIENCE FICTION FILMS*TV*VIDEO Indiana Carrie-Anne 4 Jones' wild iss & the death JANUARY #318 r women * of Trinity Exploit terrain to gain tactical advantages. 'Welcome to Middle-earth* The journey begins this fall. OFFICIAL GAME BASED OS ''HE I.l'l't'.RAKY WORKS Of J.R.R. 'I'OI.KIKN www.lordoftherings.com * f> Sunita ft* NUMBER 318 • JANUARY 2004 THE SCIENCE FICTION UNIVERSE ^^^^ INSIDEiRicinE THISti 111* ISSUEicri ir 23 NEIL CAIMAN'S DREAMS The fantasist weaves new tales of endless nights 28 RICHARD DONNER SPEAKS i v iu tuuay jfck--- 32 FLIGHT OF THE FIREFLY Creator is \ 1 *-^J^ Joss Whedon glad to see his saga out on DVD 36 INDY'S WOMEN L/UUUy ICLdll IMC dLLIUII 40 GALACTICA 2.0 Ron Moore defends his plans for the brand-new Battlestar 46 THE WARRIOR KING Heroic Viggo Mortensen fights to save Middle-Earth 50 FRODO LIVES Atop Mount Doom, Elijah Wood faces a final test 54 OF GOOD FELLOWSHIP Merry turns grim as Dominic Monaghan joins the Riders 58 THAT SEXY CYLON! 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In A drawing will be held Janu- New York, Bruce Almighty or something not pictured here on DVD. The Twilight Zone, he was one of "Two" to ary 6. Prizes will be sent out survive WWIII. His mainstream work shortly thereafter. Employees (and their family members) of STARLOG, 20th Century includes The Magnificent Seven, The Dirty Fox, MGM/UA, Universal, Fox Network, the SCI FI Channel, any sister companies and Dozen, The Great Escape, Once Upon a Time their publicity firms are ineligible. No purchase necessary to enter. Void where prohibit- in the West and the Death Wish flicks. ed by law. Decisions of the judges are final. Good luck! John Ritter (September) The comedic actor who made a surprising number of most- Paul Feval's ly serious genre forays: Stephen King's It, trilogy Bride of Chucky, The Night That Panicked THE VAMPIRE COUNTESS offers America, The Dreamer of Oz: The L. Frank vampires of Baum Story (as Oz creator Baum), The Bare- a very foot Executive, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (as different, the deadly robot/potential stepdad "Ted") pre-Bram and Stay Tuned. (STARLOG #181) Stoker kind. Hal Clement (October) A Grandmaster of science fiction. He was actually high school teacher (and WWII bomber pilot) Harry Clement Stubbs, but was known to all in SF for 60 years by the Clement pen name. His first sale came in 1942 with the short story "Proof to Astounding. Among his later beloved novels: Mission of Gravity, Close to Critical, Star Light, Needle, Ice World, Still tions of classic French genre works. They've Water, Half Life and the recent Noise. A fre- rescued a vampire trilogy by 19th-century quent SF con guest, he also painted astro- French writer Paul Feval from out-of-print FILM FANTASY CALENDAR nomical art under the name "George obscurity: The Vampire Countess (1856, Release dates are extremely subject to Richard." (STARLOG #161) $22.95), Knightshade (1860, $16.95) and change. Vampire City (1867, published 1875, Christmas: Big Fish (12/10), The Return of BY OUR CONTRIBUTORS $19.95), all now in Black Coat tpb format. the King (12/17), Peter Pan (12/25), Pay- |^ebora Hill's novels A Ghost Among Us British SF writer Brian M. Stableford trans- check (12/25). #and Jerome 's Quest are published by Fire lated and extensively annotated (from a his- January 2004: The Butterfly Effect (1/23). Mountain Press, not Fine Mountain Press (as torical and literary perspective) all three March: Dawn of the Dead (3/26), Scooby- we had it last issue). We got the website right, novels, also providing informative introduc- Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (3/26). though (www.firemountainpress.com). tions and afterwords. For info and ordering April: Hellboy (4/2), Ella Enchanted (4/9), STARLOG's Jean-Marc & Randy Lof- details, see the website (www.blackcoat- The Punisher (4/16), A Sound of Thunder ficier's Black Coat Press is issuing transla- press.com).