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Rants & Raves
→ Loved Cobweb – thought it was an instant Halloween classic! → Why was Halloween movie Haunted Mansion released in the height of summer? → Not many scares in Insidious: The Red Door. Thank goodness for Dalton’s enviable hair! → What on consecrated e
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First Contact
The Llama God, email I think the biggest indictment of Marvel’s Secret Invasion is the fact that somehow it manages to make Kingsley Ben-Adir appear much less convincing as a reactionary anarchist revolutionary as Gravik than he does as one of the Ke
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Little Grey Men
LOOK AT SCREENWRITER Brian Duffield’s last decade of work and you’ll see that he’s carved out a particular niche writing witty, emotional sci-fi and horror screenplays. The Babysitter (2017), the underrated Underwater (2020) and most recently Netflix
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Ghoul Power
SHE STARTED HER CAREER AT Universal’s theme park performing as the Bride of Frankenstein – except she had to watch her first horror film for research, as she wasn’t a fan of the genre at the time. Now Lora Sauls is the queen of Halloween, working as
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Captain’s Log
The irony isn’t lost on me when I say that I don’t understand fans who moan about fandom. I’m doing it now! But if I had a glass of oaky Chardonnay for every time some joker said “Is The Walking Dead/insert other show name still going?” you wouldn’t
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News Warp
→ Warner Bros chasing directors for big-screen version of Mattel’s Hot Wheels, produced by JJ Abrams. → Euphoria’s Sydney Sweeney confirmed to playJulia Carpenter, aka Spider-Woman, in Sony’s Madame Web. → Aussie horror Talk To Me gets a sequel, dire
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Puppet Mastery
“WHENEVER I TELL people I have been working with my friend who’s got Down Syndrome, helping him write and direct a film about his life, they all give me this sort of sad, condescending look,” says Peter Beard. “But when I say it’s a horror/comedy/mus
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Resistance Is Futile
HAVING SPENT TWO decades of his career writing and producing genre films around other people’s characters, from the X-Men to Sherlock Holmes, Simon Kinberg made a monumental shift in 2021. With Apple TV+, Kinberg and David Weil (Citadel) created thei
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SFX SPACE AND TIME Celebrating 60 years of DOCTOR WHO
◆ Because one sonic screwdriver just isn’t enough, Rubbertoe Replicas is releasing a limited edition version of the recently revealed Fourteenth Doctor’s device. Made from over 60 parts, including a hand-stitched leather sleeve, the prop comes with a
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Sting In Her Tale
AFTER SCRIPTING THE Wasp miniseries earlier this year, Al Ewing is now spinning Janet Van Dyne out into her own ensemble title, although with the rest of its ranks being made up solely by the mysterious Victor Shade, Avengers Inc. could have the most
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Monster Fun
COINCIDING WITH Ahoy Comics’ fifth anniversary, six-issue anthology Project: Cryptid highlights the mythical creatures that lurk in the shadows, beginning with issue one’s “Wormy And Me” by Paul Cornell and PJ Holden, and “Ballroom Of Death” from Mar
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War Games
THIS YEAR’S landmark prog of 2000 AD follows a “What if?” theme, conceived by writer Kenneth Niemand as follows: “What if an ailing Battle Action merged with 2000 AD in the early ’80s, and its strips that survived had to be 2000 AD’ed-up to match the
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Body Snatchers
AFTER RECENTLY being adapted for TV by Disney+, 2008 comics storyline Secret Invasion has now been turned into a novel by Paul Cornell. Stating that “I loved the original event, and I was delighted to say yes” after he was approached by Titan Books,
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Mariely Lares
When is the book set? ➝16th century New Spain, present-day Mexico. It’s 30 years of colonisation following the Spanish invasion of Hernán Cortés and his men. Tell us about your protagonist. ➝Leonora doubles as the masked vigilante Pantera, a sorceres
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William Friedkin 1935-2023
AT THE FOREFRONT OF Hollywood’s incendiary 1970s, William Friedkin believed “All of filmmaking is a kind of a game between the filmmaker and the audience.” As his provocative and revolutionary horror film The Exorcist proved, it was a game he quickly
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True Brit
VISITING AN OLD warehouse might not sound like a fun day out… but what if if transports you to fifth century Britain, to hang out chez Merlin, hold Excalibur, and chat with Arthur (son of Uther) about, er, coprophagic horses? All three are on the sch
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Man Vs Machine
IN 2010, GARETH EDWARDS entered the feature filmmaking arena with Monsters – one hell of a mic-drop debut. It was an original sci-fi film that he wrote, directed, lit as the cinematographer, production-designed and created the visual effects for, on
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Roll Call!
● Lizze Broadway plays Emma Meyer, also known as Little Cricket due to her ability to get super-small. Though insecure and naïve – which often leaves her in compromising positions – she becomes close friends with her freshman roommate Marie, and toge
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Ensign Of The Times
THERE’S SO MUCH MORE TO RUNNING a starship than simply making it so on the bridge. Like its namesake The Next Generation episode, Lower Decks shifts the focus away from the Picards, Siskos and Janeways of this world to concentrate on the junior offic
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Lost In France
FOR 11 YEARS, ACROSS 177 episodes, AMC’s TV adaptation of Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard’s The Walking Dead comic books told just about every kind of post-apocalyptic story you could imagine, while showing the progression of its eclectic set of ch
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Back To School
WELCOME TO Godolkin University! Pay attention, students – class is in session… The shared universe of The Boys continues, following the animated spin-off Diabolical, with a second live-action series based on the Dynamite comic books. This time viewer
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Uss Egg-terprise
“At every stage of the show we find new ideas for Easter eggs,” Lower Decks director Barry J Kelly tells SFX. “The script plants the ideas for characters, locations and gags, and a description like ‘a room of space anomalies and items we’ve seen in S
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Saw That Coming
WHEN SAW 3D, THE SEVENTH Saw, released in cinemas, the tagline promised “The Final Chapter” in the ongoing saga. But the game was far from over. Despite having died in Saw III, John Kramer aka Jigsaw returns in Saw X, and his comeback shouldn’t surpr
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Undead Reckoning
“I WAS TOLD VERY CLEARLY, ‘Don’t talk about vampires!’” says Joe Ahearne, creator of Ultraviolet, a series that drove a sleek modern stake through the heart of the undead. “They said, ‘You’re not going to get this show off the ground if you talk abou
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Hitch Craft
An unforgettable set-piece in episode five, “Terra Incognita”, finds Idris Elba trapped in a warehouse with four high-tech coffins, set to unleash their vampiric cargo as the clocks tick down to sunset… “You really think he’s going to die because he’
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Designing The Last Of Us
“IF I WAS GOING TO DO A PERIOD PIECE, I would accumulate a lot of reference and then I would sit with the showrunner and the director and we would say, ‘This is really great, let’s do something like this,’” production designer of The Last Of Us John
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The Sounds Of Summerisle
THE WICKER MAN TURNED 50 this year. The greatest folk horror film of all time is remarkable for many reasons. Edward Woodward and Christopher Lee gave career-best performances as hardline cop Sergeant Howie and the mercurial Lord Summerisle. It has a
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Melissa Navia
Playing a new Star Trek character in an established timeline, as well as piloting possibly the most iconic ship in sci-fi, Melissa Navia has her work cut out for her. “As a storyteller, I keep saying that Erica Ortegas is a dream role,” she says. “It
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John Connolly
ONCE UPON A TIME, JOHN CONNOLLY SAID he would never write a sequel to The Book Of Lost Things. He thought he had nothing to add to his 2006 novel filled with dark takes on fairy tales, which has sold 250,000 copies since. But sometimes things change,
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Everybody's Talking About Jamie
SIX OF THE SEVEN EPISODES of the 1967 Doctor Who adventure “The Evil Of The Daleks” were destroyed during the television archive purge of the ’70s. Despite that, the story has enjoyed a remarkably healthy afterlife, boasting a plethora of releases in
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Reviews
CINEMA 88 TV 92 HOME ENTERTAINMENT 96 BOOKS 102 COMICS 108 GAMES & STUFF 110 RATINGS EXPLAINED SUPERB GOOD AVERAGE POOR TERRIBLE ■
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Blue Beetle
▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! 12A | 127 minutes ▸ Director Angel Manuel Soto ▸ Cast Xolo Maridueña, Bruna Marquezine, Susan Sarandon, George Lopez, Elpidia Carrillo, Harvey Guillén → It’s been a troubling decade for the DCEU, a painful combination of global pa
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Xolo Maridueña
This is DC’s first major Latino superhero. Does it feel like a big moment? → I hope that it is momentous. We set out to make this movie because, as kids, the director and the writer and myself would have loved to have seen a family like this kicking
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Meg 2: The Trench
▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! 12A | 116 minutes ▸ Director Ben Wheatley ▸ Cast Jason Statham, Jing Wu, Cliff Curtis, Sienna Guillory → Big-screen sharks have come in all shapes and sizes since Steven Spielberg’s original Jaws, from the brainiac (Deep Blue Sea)
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Otto Baxter: Not A F***ing Horror Story
▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! (Also on Sky Documentaries/NOW from 23 September) 15 | 84 minutes ▸ Directors Bruce Fletcher, Peter Beard → If your sense of wellbeing has taken a beating after a torrent of scary headlines about AI, climate change and the rise of
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The Canterville Ghost
▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! PG | 89 minutes ▸ Directors Kim Burdon, Robert Chandler ▸ Cast Stephen Fry, Emily Carey, David Harewood, Freddie Highmore → Having haunted endless film, TV and radio productions since Oscar Wilde’s 1887 short story, is another out
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It Lives Inside
▸ RELEASED 22 SEPTEMBER 15 | 99 minutes ▸ Director Bishal Dutta ▸ Cast Megan Suri, Mohana Krishnan, Neeru Bajwa, Betty Gabriel → Micro-aggressions become extremely macro in this Indian-American teen scream horror. Samidha (Never Have I Ever’s Megan S
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Mercy Falls
▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! 15 | 104 minutes ▸ Director Ryan Hendrick ▸ Cast Lauren Lyle, Nicolette McKeown, James Watterson, Layla Kirk → Grief can make people do stupid things, but even so at times it’s hard to empathise with Rhona, the protagonist of this
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THE CHANGELING Season One
UK/US Apple+, Fridays from 8 September ▸ Creator Kelly Marcel ▸ Cast LaKeith Stanfield, Clark Backo, Adina Porter, Alexis Louder, Samuel T Herring, Malcolm Barrett EPISODES 1.01-1.08 If anyone ever gets around to updating The Meaning Of Liff for the
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Drinking Game
Apollo says, “I am the God Apollo!” You see a copy of (fictional book) To The Waters And The Wild. Somebody quotes from To The Waters And The Wild. You see some footage you’ve seen previously. Somebody says, “It’s not a baby!” Somebody is fully or pa
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THE CHOSEN ONE Season One
UK/US Netflix, streaming now ▸ Showrunners Everardo Gout, Leopoldo Gout ▸ Cast Bobby Luhnow, Dianna Agron, Lilith Curiel, Juanito Anguamea EPISODES 1.01-1.06 This Mexican adaptation of Mark Millar and Peter Gross’s Chosen miniseries (the first instal
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STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS Season Two
▸ UK/US Paramount+, streaming now ▸ Showrunners Akiva Goldsman, Henry Alonso Myers ▸ Cast Anson Mount, Ethan Peck, Jess Bush, Christina Chong EPISODES 2.01-2.10 If there’s one thing the latest live-action Trek show has in spades, it’s variety, to the
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MECH CADETS Season One
▸ UK/US Netflix, streaming now ▸ Creator Aaron Lam ▸ Cast Brandon Soo Hoo, Anairis Quiñones, Daniel Dae Kim, Victoria Grace EPISODES 1.01-1.10 This is a junior “big robot” CG animated series, where youngsters pilot giant bipedal machines to defend Ea
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STRANGE PLANET Season One
UK/US Apple TV+, Wednesdays ▸ Creators Nathan W Pyle, Dan Harmon ▸ Cast Hannah Einbinder, Danny Pudi, Lori Tan Chinn, Tunde Adebimpe EPISODES 1.01-1.10 There’s a lot to love about this quirky animated series about a planet that feels similar to Earth
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Drinking Game
A returning villain/monster makes an appearance. Peter Davison’s sideburns get aggressively pointy. Turlough cradles a glowing piece of Perspex. Tegan’s wearing inappropriate clothing for what’s clearly a bonerattlingly cold location shoot. The horn
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DOCTOR WHO Season 20
EXTRAS ▸ RELEASED 18 SEPTEMBER 1983 | PG | Blu-ray ▸ Producer John Nathan-Turner ▸ Cast Peter Davison, Janet Fielding, Sarah Sutton, Mark Strickson BLU-RAY DEBUT For a series realising the power of its past and increasingly playing to a canon-minded
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The Knocking
▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! 2023 | TBC | VOD ▸ Directors Max Seeck, Joonas Pajunen ▸ Cast Inka Kallén, Saana Koivisto, Pekka Strang, Janina Berman → Buried family secrets come to the surface in this gloomy Finnish chiller, in which three siblings must deal w
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(4k X Four)
A young boy travels through history with a band of pilfering dwarves in Terry Gilliam’s TIME BANDITS (OUT NOW). We said: “Dollops of fever-dream surrealism and more executions than you might expect… Proof that the ’80s were the decade for big screen
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Andrzej Żuławski
EXTRAS ▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! 1971-1989 | 18 | Blu-ray ▸ Cast Małgorzata Braunek, Leszek Teleszyn'ski, Andrzej Seweryn, Jerzy Trela BLU-RAY DEBUT Polish filmmaker Andrzej Żuławski is best known for 1981’s Possession, whose tentacle-sex weirdness earned
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Scream And Scream Again
EXTRAS ▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! 1970 | 15 | Blu-ray ▸ Director Gordon Hessler ▸ Cast Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Alfred Marks BLU-RAY DEBUT It’s a measure of this British sci-fi-horror’s success that while the chief selling point – a te
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The Antichrist
EXTRAS ▸ RELEASED 11 SEPTEMBER 1974 | 18| Blu-ray/DVD/download ▸ Director Alberto De Martino ▸ Cast Carla Gravina, Mel Ferrer, Arthur Kennedy, George Coulouris BLU-RAY DEBUT This shameless Exorcist cash-in (director Alberto De Martino was flown to Ne
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Babylon 5: The Road Home
EXTRAS ▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! 2023 | 12 | Blu-ray (4K/standard)/download ▸ Director Matt Peters ▸ Cast Bruce Boxleitner, Claudia Christian, Peter Jurasik, Patricia Tallman → With many of the original cast having sadly left us and new actors now voicing
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Zom 100
▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! 2023 | 15 | SVOD NETFLIX Subtitled Bucket List Of The Dead, this live-action manga adaptation sees miserably burned-out office worker Akira using the end of the world as an opportunity to do everything he’s ever wanted to do. Afte
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Good Boy
▸ RELEASED 11 SEPTEMBER 2023 | TBC | Download → What are your dating red lines? This Norwegian thriller’s heroine swipes left on finding that her Tinder hook-up lives with a man who identifies as a dog 24/7 – then reconsiders on discovering he’s mint
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Outpost
▸ RELEASED 11 SEPTEMBER 2022 | 15 | Download/VOD → Escaping a traumatic past, a woman heads to the Idaho wilderness, taking up a job as a fire watcher on a lonely mountaintop outpost. Soon the hallucinations start, and a darker truth is revealed… For
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Black Magic Rites
EXTRAS ▸ RELEASED 18 SEPTEMBER 1973 | 18 | Blu-ray ▸ Directors Renato Polselli ▸ Cast Mickey Hargitay, Rita Calderoni, Raoul Lovecchio, Krysta Barrymore BLU-RAY DEBUT → Thick with non sequiturs, sinister glaring and groovy threads, light on narrative
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Bad Things
▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! 2023 | TBC | SVOD SHUDDER If Jack Torrance had brought a chainsaw to the Overlook, things might have ended very differently for him and his family, as Bad Things demonstrates. When Ruthie inherits a rundown ’80s hotel, she and her
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Jean Rollin
▸ RELEASED 18 SEPTEMBER 1968/1980 | 18 | Blu-ray ▸ Director Jean Rollin ▸ Cast Solange Pradel, Bernard Letrou, Brigitte Lahaie, Vincent Gardère → “It will soon be dark,” declares one of the undead in Jean Rollin’s debut feature, her words dripping wi
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(round Up)
SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE (11 September) sees Miles Morales sucked into multi-world shenanigans again when Gwen Stacey returns to his reality, pursuing a villain called The Spot. Blu-ray bonuses weren’t made available for review but include
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Desert Creatures
▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! 288 pages | Paperback/ebook ▸ Author Kay Chronister ▸ Publisher Titan Books → In the wake of a deadly plague, things get… weird. (As most of us can attest.) When poison rain renders most of the United States uninhabitable, a handf
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It Follows
EXTRAS ▸ RELEASED 11 SEPTEMBER 2014 | 15 | Blu-ray (4K/standard) ▸ Director David Robert Mitchell ▸ Cast Maika Monroe, Keir Gilchrist, Olivia Luccardi, Lili Sepe → David Robert Mitchell’s supernatural stalker horror remains potent and enigmatic almos
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Starter Villain
▸ RELEASED 21 SEPTEMBER 272 pages | Hardback/ebook/audiobook ▸ Author John Scalzi ▸ Publisher Tor → Comic novelists don’t often get treated with that much respect. After all, how can you be taken seriously if you’re busy telling gags? The rejoinder i
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The Blue, Beautiful World
▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! 235 pages | Hardback/ebook ▸ Author Karen Lord ▸ Publisher Gollancz → What will it be like if and when alien entities make contact with humanity? The Independence Day strand of SF portrays this scenario in apocalyptic terms: we ei
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A Second Chance For Yesterday
▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! 250 pages | Hardback/ebook/audiobook ▸ Author RA Sinn ▸ Publisher Solaris → At first, hotshot programmer Nev Bourne thinks she’s hit Groundhog Day when she wakes up one morning and relives the day she’s just been through. But it’s
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Edge Of Here
▸ RELEASED 14 SEPTEMBER 256 pages | Hardback/ebook ▸ Author Kelechi Okafor ▸ Publisher Trapeze → A future impacted in unpredictable ways by what seem to be innocuous technological advantages is familiar sci-fi terrain. But Kelechi Okafor’s short stor
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Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan the Making Of The Classic Film
▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! 192 pages | Hardback ▸ Authors John Tenuto, Maria Jose Tenuto ▸ Publisher Titan Books → Forty-one years on, The Wrath Of Khan remains the Trek movie franchise’s high point. This coffee-table book does it justice. Though authors Jo
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▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! 298 pages | Hardback ▸ Editor Kevin Jon Davies ▸ Publisher Unbound → What will be left of us after we shuffle off this mortal coil? For most of us, a skipload for landfill. When you’re someone of Douglas Adams’s stature, however,
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The Death I Gave Him
▸ RELEASED 12 SEPTEMBER 432 pages | Hardback/ebook/audiobook ▸ Author Em X Liu ▸ Publisher Solaris → Can The Death I Gave Him do for Hamlet what Forbidden Planet did for The Tempest? This is a sci-fi retelling of Shakespeare’s play about murder, betr
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Assistant To The Villain
▸ RELEASED 14 SEPTEMBER 352 pages | Paperback/ebook ▸ Author Hannah Nicole Maehrer ▸ Publisher Penguin Books → Evie is a great office assistant. She makes sure the filing is alphabetised, keeps an eye on the interns, and makes sure her boss always ge
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Forged By Blood
▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! 400 pages | Hardback/ebook/audiobook ▸ Author Ehigbor Okosun ▸ Publisher HarperVoyager → Ehigbor Okosun’s debut is positioned as an epic fantasy novel, but reads like a Young Adult book. The story touches on themes of colonialism,
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Reissues
Pick of the paperbacks this month: Alan Moore’s first collection ILLUMINATIONS ( , 14 September, Bloomsbury), which brings together eight short stories (dating back as far as 1987) and a new short novel centred on the comics industry – a world the wr
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Worlds Beyond Time
▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! 224 pages | Hardback ▸ Author Adam Rowe ▸ Publisher Abrams • Subtitle: Sci-Fi Art Of The ’70s. Though a fair amount of it dates from the ’80s, and there’s even some from the ’90s. • Basic thesis: ’70s sci-fi art was “the peak of a
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The Land Of lost Things
▸ RELEASED 7 SEPTEMBER 416 pages | Hardback/ebook/audiobook ▸ Author John Connolly ▸ Publisher Hodder & Stoughton → As a parent, it’s one of your greatest fears: that your child will become lost to this world, unreachable. Which is what happens to Ce
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Pull To Open
▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! 424 pages | Paperback ▸ Author Paul Hayes ▸ Publisher Ten Acre Films → Few television shows – few things in life – have had their histories dissected in as forensic a level of detail as Doctor Who. As Toby Hadoke mischievously ask
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Also Out
There’s plenty more titles that we couldn’t quite fit in. Fans of American Horror Story might want to pick up DELICATE CONDITION (out now, Profile), as it provided the inspiration for the forthcoming season 12. An actress undergoing IVF is told that
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Rick Riordan
What is your daily writing routine like? ◗ It varies widely depending on what part of the writing process I am in. When I’m initially brainstorming, it might be a few hours a day. First drafts are slow, drip-percolating line by line. In revision mode
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The Avengers
▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! ▸ Publisher Marvel Comics ▸ Writer Jed MacKay ▸ Artist CF Villa ISSUES 1-4 There’s an art to making big superhero team-up stories work, and tackling a group of characters like the Avengers has its own set of intimidating issues on
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Timequake
▸ RELEASED Late September ▸ Publisher Hibernia Books ▸ Writers Chris Lowder, Ian Mennell ▸ Artists Ian Kennedy, John Cooper, Magallanes Salinas COLLECTION While best known for Strontium Dog and Ro-Busters, 2000 AD’s short-lived sister title Starlord
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W0rldtr33
▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! ▸ Publisher Image Comics ▸ Writer James Tynion IV ▸ Artist Fernando Blanco ISSUES 1-4 The internet connects us all, for better and for worse. W0rldtr33 probes at the anxieties that underpin our always-on age. The series opens when
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ORDER & OUTRAGE
▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! ▸ Publisher Dark Horse Comics ▸ Writer Jim Starlin ▸ Artist Rags Morales ISSUES 1-4 Jim Starlin may be the creator of Thanos and Gamora, but the evil galactic empire at the heart of his latest series owes more to Star Wars than it
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The Tomorrow People
▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! ▸ Publisher Chinbeard Books ▸ Writers Angus Allan, Roger Price ▸ Artist John M Burns COLLECTION Through the ’70s and ’80s, “Junior TV Times” Look-In featured interviews, pin-ups and also comic strips – including their take on ITV’
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Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew
▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! ▸ Reviewed on PlayStation 5 ▸ Also available on Xbox Series X|S, PC ▸ Publisher Mimimi Games VIDEOGAME Pirates! Magic! A monkey that understands spoken English! A game can’t go far wrong with all three of those things. And if the
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Baldur’s Gate 3
▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! ▸ Reviewed on PC ▸ Also available on PlayStation 5 ▸ Publisher Larian Studios VIDEOGAME In its 50-year history, Dungeons & Dragons has arguably never shone as brightly as it does in the current moment. Yet for all the success of h
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Space Marine: The Board Game
▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! ▸ Number of players Two ▸ Publisher Games Workshop BOARD GAME Games Workshop recently released Warhammer 40,000’s 10th edition. As well as the huge Leviathan box there are three starter sets available. There’s also this odd little
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! ▸ Reviewed on PC ▸ Also available on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S ▸ Publisher Gun Media VIDEOGAME This asymmetrical multiplayer horror game excels in recreating the sunset-hued atmosphere and feeling of
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In The Next Issue
SFX 371 ON SALE 4 OCTOBER DARE YOU FACE… THE LEGENDARY SFX HALLOWEEN HORROR SPECIAL! THE EXORCIST: BELIEVER • FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S PET SEMATARY: BLOODLINES • THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER CHUCKY • CREEPSHOW… and much, much more! PLUS! DOCTOR WHO!
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The X-Files: “X-Cops”
From the black and white film noir tribute of Moonlighting’s “The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice” to Buffy The Vampire Slayer’s all-singing, all-dancing “Once More, With Feeling”, format-busting episodes of popular shows have made for some legenda
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Flowers
In the musical version of Little Shop Of Horrors, what’s the name of the singing killer plant? Which flower (well, a plastic version…) was used as a deadly weapon in the Doctor Who story “Terror Of The Autons”? Which sci-fi author wrote the short sto
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Fact Attack!
→ Cops began airing in 1989, commissioned as a result of the writers’ strike of 1988. Amazingly enough, it’s still running today. → Vince Gilligan originally pitched a crossover during the show’s fourth season, but Chris Carter wasn’t sure that it wo

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