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June 20, 2005
Issue 426
Vol. 11, No. 25

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INTERVIEWS

 Director Christopher Nolan drives Christian Bale batty in Batman Begins, Lindsay Lohan puts the pedal to the metal in Herbie: Fully Loaded, and William Forsythe needs a bigger boat in Hammerhead: Shark Frenzy.


EDITORIAL

Scott Edelman, Science Fiction Weekly's editor-in-chief, compares the films of two comic-book superheroes to tell "A Tale of Two Bruces."

NEWS OF THE WEEK
 George Romero returns to the Land of the Dead, James Cameron adds a third dimension to Battle Angel, Julianne Moore gives birth to Children of Men, Steven Spielberg keeps Indiana Jones IV secrets, Sam Raimi shakes hands with The Monkey's Paw, and more.
ON SCREEN
 Christian Bale does the Dark Knight right in Batman Begins, Scott Bakula gets the shock of his life on the Quantum Leap season-three DVD, and Stephen Jameson uses telepathy to take on David Prowse on the Tomorrow People Set-One DVD.
OFF THE SHELF
 Charles Stross fights time-traveling assassins in The Hidden Family, while Marc D. Giller reboots humanity with an experimental supercomputer in Hammerjack.
GAMES
 After a military base is overrun, it's up to David Duchovny to battle mutated humans, gray aliens and a complex corporate conspiracy in the first-person shooter Area 51.
CLASSICS
 Poul Anderson launches 50 colonists at nearly the speed of light to explore a potentially habitable planet out in deep space in Tau Zero.
COOL STUFF
 If just watching the birth of a Sith Lord isn't exciting enough, you can become one yourself, thanks to the Darth Vader Voice Changer.
SITE OF THE WEEK
 Fans traveling to Glasgow for the 63rd World Science Fiction Convention—also known as Interaction—should check out the final word on guests, programming and more.
LETTERS
 Readers take George Lucas to task, compare SCI FI's original flicks to Saturday Night Live, long to finally Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea on DVD, and more.

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