Volume 73
Issue 4

FEATURES
Pixelated Heroes
By Resa Nelson
Writer-director Brad Bird reveals the story behind The Incredibles, the latest project from Pixar.

Twisting the Blade
By Joel Meadows
Blade: Trinity writer-director David Goyer stakes out territory among big-time publishers and studios.

The Amazing Stories Gift Guide
By Vic Wertz
You want some of this? I know you want some of this. Come get some of this!

It’s Good to Be the Queen!
By Dorman T. Shindler
Writer Laurell K. Hamilton takes some heat on her Anita Blake series.

FICTION
The Man from Breakneck
By Larry Tritten

Shadowboxer
By Paul Di Filippo

Release the Knot
By Patrick Weekes

Grafts on the Memory Tree
By Steve Carper

1,000 Words
Hostile Takeover
By Aaron Allston

DEPARTMENTS
The Observatory
Stories: objects or experiences?

Dispatches
You had us at “muscular arrogance.”

Things to Come
What’s coming soon to a theater—or TV, or shelf—near you.

Reviews
The stories you can’t afford to miss—or else must avoid at all costs.

Time Machine
We set the “Time Machine” to September 1939.

Q&A
Harry Turtledove
We chat with the master of historical fantasy and speculative history.

Reviewed in This Issue

Movies

Alien vs. Predator
Code 46
Exorcist: The Beginning
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Thunderbirds

DVDs

Dawn of the Dead
Kaena: The Prophecy
Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water
Night Stalker/Night Strangler
Singing Detective
Uzumaki
Van Helsing
Videodrome
Village of the Damned/Children of the Damned

Books

Banewreaker
Disappearing Act
Edenborn
Etched City
Gaudeamus
Gifts
In the Night Room
Kings of Infinite Space
Light
Medalon
Noise
Plot Against America
Prince of Christler-Coke
Runes of the Earth
Shadowmarch
Treason Keep
Treasured One

Comics

Battle Royale
Evil Eye
Transmetropolitan