This issue includes the following: an interview with composer Hans J. Salter; on location of The Fury; reviews of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Hobbit, Man from Atlantis, and The Manitou; Dan O'Bannon on Alien; a full-cover preview of Planet of Dinosaurs; the preproduction of The Primevals; and more. Cover painting of Salter by Roger Stine.