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Editor Darren Scott (DS) darren.scott@futurenet.com Deputy Editor Ian Berriman (IB) ian.berriman@futurenet.com Art Editor Jonathan Coates jonathan.coates@futurenet.com Production Editor Ed Ricketts ed.ricketts@futurenet.com Editor-at-large Nick Setch
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Rants & Raves
→ Finally caught up with Interview With The Vampire and The Sandman, both of which were wonderful and fantastically queer. J’adore! → Star Trek: Picard season three. Holy HELL. Give Terry Matalas whatever he wants, now. → M3GAN is absolutely brillian
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Captain’s Log
Sci-fi, in general, makes me really happy. But there are a few specific franchises – for want of a better term – that bring me utter joy. I don’t want to use the word escapism (though that definitely seems to be an acceptable frame of mind these days
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Whiskery Business
IT’S EASY TO LAUGH in the face of death when you have nine lives. But what if you’ve carelessly used up eight of them and the metaphorical “game over” screen is looming large on your horizon? That’s the dilemma facing Shrek franchise stalwart Puss in
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A Shocking Return
LAUNCHED AT DC BY a coalition of African-American creators including Denys Cowan and the late Dwayne McDuffie, Milestone Media celebrates its 30th anniversary this February with a range of new offerings, including the return of Static in new miniseri
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News Warp
→ Blame it on the boogie! Donald Glover is ’70s Spider-Man villain Hypno-Hustler in new Sony spin-off. → Henry Cavill loses the cape as James Gunn writes a Superman reboot movie. → Greg Nicotero remaking Michael Mann’s 1983 horror The Keep. → Animate
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The Walls Have Eyes
WHO DOESN’T LOVE the idea of the stories and secrets that reside within the creepy walls of an old apartment building in New York City? Just the potential of that scenario alone was enough for writer/executive producer Emily Fox (Zoey’s Extraordinary
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Double Trouble
IN ACTOR LAURENCE FISHBURNE’S LONG and esteemed stage and screen career, there are plenty of roles he’s taken just because he’s a lifelong comic book geek. He’s voiced the Silver Surfer, run the Daily Planet as editor Perry White and as Dr Bill Foste
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News Warp
→ Henry Cavill bringing Warhammer 40,000 to Amazon as star and executive producer. → Netflix developing animated spinoff Stranger Things Tokyo. → Bryce Dallas Howard leading Witch Mountain reboot for Disney+. → Amazon turning game God Of War into a s
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Family Matters
WHEN WE LAST SAW Mary Campbell (Meg Donnelly), John Winchester (Drake Rodger) and their Monster Club of demon hunters in The Winchesters midseason finale “Reflections”, those two crazy kids had a big personal moment with their first kiss, and Mary’s
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Blade Runner
AS A LONG-TIME FAN of Wesley Snipes’s bigscreen vampire hunter, being asked to write Bloodline: Daughter Of Blade was a childhood dream come true for Danny Lore. “I’ve been a fan of Blade for longer than I’ve even known he was a Marvel Comics charact
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Sole Survivor
THE FINAL GIRL IS traditionally the last person standing (usually female) in slasher films, and Betty Cooper will be stepping into the archetypal role in the latest Archie Horror Presents: Chilling Adventures anthology. Describing her as “the can-do
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Hyde And Seek
WRITTEN BY FRED DUVAL AND JEAN-PIERRE Pécau, drawn by Stevan Subic, and originally published in France by Delcourt, Titan Comics’ new four-issue series MORIARTY: Clockwork Empire transplants Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective duo into a steampunk-style V
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Space And Time
♦ On Saturday 17 December, the costumes for the Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby Sunday were revealed on Doctor Who social media accounts. Fan art quickly followed, of course! ♦ Ncuti Gatwa also took to Instagram to reveal some images from the costume trail
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Close Encounter
REFERRING TO IT AS “TRUE WEIRD,” JAMES Tynion IV and Michael Avon Oeming prove that truth is often stranger than fiction in their new Dark Horse series Blue Book, which chronicles real people’s alleged experiences with extraterrestrial spacecraft. “W
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Chris Boucher 1943-2022
“I PREFER MY HEROES and villains a little more nuanced,” said writer and script editor Chris Boucher, whose taste for moral ambiguity and gift for acid banter found a perfect showcase in Blake’s 7. Born in Maldon, Essex, Boucher was an only child who
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Ray Nayler
Tell us about your protagonist. → Dr Ha Nguyen is a marine biologist specialised in cephalopod communication given a dream opportunity: to study a species of octopus that may have achieved symbolic communication and complex culture. But there’s a lot
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“I’m Not Sure It’s The End Of The Next Generation Story”
This feels like the biggest Star Trek yet. A It’s amazing, isn’t it? It’s spectacular. It’s very filmic, but it has a little First Contact vibe. I’m thrilled with it. Terry has revitalised the whole franchise. What was it like to revisit Riker in suc
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Brace For Impact
THIS IS IT, TREKKERS. THIS IS THE Big One. Twenty years since we last saw the Next Generation cast together in Star Trek: Nemesis, the original crew are back for one final hurrah. But is it final and will you be saying hurrah? The answers, in turn, a
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“She’s Had To Become A Warrior”
There aren’t many actors who return to a role over 35 years… A It felt absolutely sensational. I can’t think of a better gift. We all love each other, we really are a family. Then to have a really great script… I loved what Terry Matalas did with the
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Crew Manifest
Her life didn’t quite play out the way we saw it in “All Good Things”. She has remained a doctor, but not within Starfleet. She’s a kind of a doctor without borders, tending to worlds that Starfleet may have forgotten – that’s sort of where her adven
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Quantum Of Menace
“NO ONE EXPECTED Ant-Man to even have a trilogy,” smiles screenwriter Jeff Loveness. “So let’s triple-down and make it the most climactic trilogy-capper you can imagine for a guy who shrinks to the size of a penny!” That’s the inverse ratio at the he
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Merd Games
“MODOK is maybe my single favourite thing that I got in the movie!” laughs Jeff Loveness of Quantumania’s appearance by the grotesque fan fave. One of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby’s most utterly out-there creations, he’s essentially a malevolent giant hea
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Adapt To Survive
Knock At The Cabin is adapted from Paul Tremblay’s bestselling 2018 novel The Cabin At The End Of The World. Given M Night Shyamalan’s devotion to secrecy when making his films, was it a challenge having the story widely available in a different form
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Cabin Fever
THE PREMISE OF THE book is so strong. I remember thinking, ‘I wish I had come up with this idea.’” When M Night Shyamalan talks about his film Knock At The Cabin, he makes the project sound like a perfect confluence of events. He was first asked to p
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The Illustreted Man
“If you repeat stories you actually make them into better stories,” says writer and artist Dave Gibbons, justifying the title of Confabulation, his autobiography. “You edit them, because real life is quite messy and random. Confabulation is what peop
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A Peri Peculiar Practice
IT’S UNUSUAL FOR AN ACTOR TO JUMP FROM drama school straight into a high-profile television series, but Nicola Bryant did just that when she joined Doctor Who as Perpugilliam – Peri to her friends! – Brown. “Everyone was expected to get a job in rep
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Honey Monster
DARK THINGS ARE AFOOT IN the Hundred Acre Wood. Once a place of innocent fun and childhood adventures, it’s now taken on a more sinister aspect. When a grown-up Christopher Robin returns, intending to introduce new fiancée Mary to his old pals Winnie
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On The Edge
So who are Jagged Edge Productions? The hugely prolific horror house is run by Waterfield and co-producer Scott Jeffrey (himself a director of several features). In the last couple of years they’ve produced a vast number of low-budget films with daft
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Alan Tudyk
Every SFX year should start with an Alan Tudyk interview, that’s just how steeped in sci-fi and genre productions he is. Even if you’re not actually seeing him on screen – or if he’s behind a prosthetic on Resident Alien – his voice pops up in more f
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Folk In Hell
FOLK HORROR FILMS ARE often characterised by deceptively idyllic landscapes, superstitions connected to ancient pagan mythologies, and the unnerving influences that these traditions can impose on people. It’s a terror that literally seeps from the so
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Written In Blood
What was your approach to the novelisation of Blood On Satan’s Claw? Because the story in the film was never quite complete, I’ve always wanted to go back. I wanted to go back because what happened to the film was a bit strange. The title Blood On Sa
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Reviews
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Ian Mcdonald
OVER THE PAST FEW MONTHS, FOLLOWING the loss of his wife Enid, Ian McDonald has been deep within the grieving process. “I’m the Wile E Coyote who’s run over the cliff,” he says. “My feet are still going, they’re still moving forwards. Things are chan
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M3gan
▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! 15 | 102 minutes ▸ Director Gerard Johnstone ▸ Cast Allison Williams, Violet McGraw, Amie Donald, Jenna Davis → Akela Cooper and James Wan’s Black Mirror-style follow-up to Malignant has an antagonist equally deserving of being an
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Puss In Boots: The Last Wish
▸ RELEASED 3 FEBRUARY U | 100 minutes ▸ Directors Joel Crawford, Januel Mercado ▸ Cast Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Harvey Guillén, Florence Pugh → Sequels to spin-offs used to be the sort of thing that’d show up on home video. But DreamWorks Anima
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WILLOW Season One
▸ UK/US: Disney+, streaming now ▸ Showrunner Jonathan Kasdan ▸ Cast Warwick Davis, Ellie Bamber, Ruby Cruz, Erin Kellyman, Tony Revolori, Amar Chadha-Patel EPISODES 1.01-1.08 If audiences were crying out for a sequel to Lucasfilm’s 1988 swords-and-so
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Drinking Game
Willow admonishes one of his companions for not taking the quest seriously enough. A burst of James Horner’s original theme plays on the soundtrack. Madmartigan gets namechecked. Kit and Jade nearly kiss – but not quite! Elora completely mangles the
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LITTLE DEMON Season One
▸ UK/US Disney+, streaming now (Originally broadcast in the US on FXX) ▸ Showrunners Darcy Fowler, Seth Kirschner, Kieran Valla ▸ Cast Aubrey Plaza, Lucy DeVito, Danny DeVito, Lennon Parham EPISODES 1.01-1.10 Imagine if Adult Swim had made a Rosemary
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REGINALD THE VAMPIRE Season One
UK Sky Sci Fi, Tuesdays US Syfy, finished airing ▸ Showrunner Harley Peyton ▸ Cast Jacob Batalon, Mandela Van Peebles, Em Haine, Savannah Basley EPISODES 1.01-1.10 Vampires aren’t just bloodsucking killers in this TV take on a series of YA books, the
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EXTRAORDINARY Series One
UK/US Disney+, streaming now ▸ Creator Emma Moran ▸ Cast Máiréad Tyers, Sofia Oxenham, Bilal Hasna, Luke Rollason EPISODES 1.01-1.08 Watching this super-powered comedy, at first it’s difficult to wrap your head around the fact that it’s a Disney show
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STAR TREK PRODIGY Season One (Part Two)
▸ UK/US Paramount+, streaming now ▸ Showrunners Kevin and Dan Hageman ▸ Cast Kate Mulgrew, Brett Gray, Ella Purnell, Rylee Alazraqui But EPISODES 1.11-1.20 Nickelodeon’s adrenalised, teen-targetted Trek toon is back, and it’s brought Chakotay with it
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PENNYWORTH Season Three
UK Lionsgate+, streaming now US HBO Max, streaming now ▸ Showrunner Bruno Heller ▸ Cast Jack Bannon, Paloma Faith, Harriet Slater, Ryan Fletcher EPISODES 1.01-1.10 With its move to HBO Max in the States, Pennyworth sees a few changes for its third se
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Black Adam
RELEASED OUT NOW! 2022 | 12 | Blu-ray (4K/regular)/DVD/download ▸ Director Jaume Collet-Serra ▸ Cast Dwayne Johnson, Aldis Hodge, Pierce Brosnan, Noah Centineo When this latest DCEU movie was on the way, star/producer Dwayne Johnson’s constant social
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LET THE RIGHT ONE IN Season One
UK/US Paramount+, streaming now ▸ Creator Andrew Hinderaker ▸ Cast Demián Bichir, Anika Noni Rose, Madison Taylor Baez, Grace Gummer EPISODES 1.01-1.10 Does a TV show protagonist have to be likeable? Not necessarily. But it can be an obstacle if near
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Crimes Of The Future
▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! 2022 | 18 | DVD ▸ Director David Cronenberg ▸ Cast Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, Scott Speedman, Kristen Stewart David Cronenberg’s return to genre filmmaking is as queasy, unsettling and darkly comic as you might imagine from the
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Hatching
▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! 2022 | 15 | Blu-ray/DVD ▸ Director Hanna Bergholm ▸ Cast Siiri Solalinna, Sophia Heikkilä, Jani Volanen, Reino Nordin → A doll’s house. A teddy bear. A wallpaper pattern of pretty pink flowers. In her debut feature, Hanna Bergholm
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Halloween Ends
▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! 2022 | 18 | Blu-ray/DVD/download ▸ Director David Gordon Green ▸ Cast Jamie Lee Curtis, Andi Matichak, Rohan Campbell, James Jude Courtney → All credit to David Gordon Green for not just taking the easy route… Halloween Ends wraps
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The Pale Blue Eye
▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! 2022 | 15 | SVOD ▸ Director Scott Cooper ▸ Cast Christian Bale, Harry Melling, Gillian Anderson, Lucy Boynton NETFLIX Honestly, you wait ages for a film about Edgar Allan Poe’s time in the military, and then two come along at once
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The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen
▸ RELEASED 30 JANUARY 1988 | 12 | Blu-ray ▸ Director Terry Gilliam ▸ Cast John Neville, Sarah Polley, Eric Idle, Oliver Reed → It’s fitting that a film about a legendary fabulist should spawn its own movieland myth: Terry Gilliam’s overreaching folly
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Eight For Silver
▸ RELEASED 30 JANUARY 2022 | 18 | Blu-ray/DVD ▸ Director Sean Ellis ▸ Cast Boyd Holbrook, Kelly Reilly, Alistair Petrie, Roxanne Duran → Forget the Treasure Island vibes suggested by the title. Also released as The Cursed, this sombre, mood-drenched
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The Lair
▸ RELEASED 26 JANUARY 2022 | TBC | SVOD SHUDDER Neil Marshall returns to his roots with this action-horror – essentially Dog Soldiers meets Resident Evil, in Afghanistan. After an RAF pilot downed in the desert stumbles upon a Soviet “black site” ful
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Sorry About The Demon
▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! 2023 | TBC | SVOD SHUDDER In this tiresome horror-comedy from Emily Hagins (perhaps best known for making a zombie film at the age of 12), a dumped man-child finds that his cheap new accommodation has a catch: a resident demon. Sa
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Shadow Master
▸ RELEASED 30 JANUARY 2022 | 18 | Blu-ray/DVD/download → To get good at martial arts, you need focus, discipline and the ability to withstand pain. You need the same qualities to make it to Shadow Master’s end credits, with its brown colour palette,
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The Harbinger
▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! 2022 | TBC | Download Halfway through this claustrophobic Covid-era creepfest, two women use Zoom to contact a demonologist, who warns them to keep their tone upbeat because her kids are around and she doesn’t want to scare them.
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.com For Murder
▸ RELEASED 6 FEBRUARY 2002 | 18 | Blu-ray ▸ Director Nico Mastorakis ▸ Cast Nastassja Kinski, Nicollette Sheridan, Jeffery Dean, Huey Lewis BLU-RAY DEBUT Arrow Video’s mission to scrape right through the barrel of Nico Mastorakis’s filmography contin
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Enter Santo
▸ RELEASED 13 FEBRUARY 1961 | 12 | Blu-ray ▸ Director Joselito Rodríguez ▸ Cast Joaquín Cordero, Norma Suárez, Gina Romand, Santo BLU-RAY DEBUT You’re probably aware of iconic Mexican wrestler Santo, but did you know that his first two films were sho
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(round Up)
The Catholic church gets a little Bond-ified in PREY FOR THE DEVIL (out now, Blu-ray/DVD/download), in which a relatable young nun strives to save a possessed young girl. We said: “Colin Salmon provides gravitas, and there’s one half-decent twist… Ot
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In Ascension
▸ RELEASED 2 FEBRUARY 512 pages | Hardback/ebook ▸ Author Martin MacInnes ▸ Publisher Atlantic Books → A recurring complaint science fiction/fantasy readers and writers have about lit-fic authors is that too many of our posh cousins appear blithely u
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Hopeland
▸ RELEASED 16 FEBRUARY 656 pages | Hardback/ebook ▸ Author Ian McDonald ▸ Publisher Gollancz → In the middle of July, temperatures in the UK hit 40°C. At the end of the year, the Met Office announced that 2022 had been the warmest ever year in the UK
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Such A Pretty Smile
▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! 352 pages | Paperback/ebook ▸ Author Kristi DeMeester ▸ Publisher Titan Books Don’t walk home alone after dark. Don’t draw attention to yourself. Don’t make a scene. Kristi DeMeester’s brilliant and biting supernatural mystery tak
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The House At The End Of The World
▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! 416 pages | Hardback/ebook/audiobook ▸ Author Dean Koontz ▸ Publisher Thomas & Mercer → Dean Koontz is famously a “semi-libertarian”, one whose mistrust of Those In Power has a tendency to manifest in his novels as a finger-waggin
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The Terraformers
▸ RELEASED 2 FEBRUARY 368 pages | Paperback/ebook/audiobook ▸ Author Annalee Newitz ▸ Publisher Orbit Books → Terraforming takes a while. And so do revolutions, as IO9 founder Annalee Newitz details in this sprawling multigenerational saga, set 6,000
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Spice Road
▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! 496 pages | Hardback/ebook/audiobook ▸ Author Maiya Ibrahim ▸ Publisher Hodder & Stoughton → Maiya Ibrahim packs a lot into her debut YA novel, tackling colonialism, the clash between duty to country and family, and ideas about is
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Collision
▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! 320 pages | Paperback ▸ Editors Rob Appleby, Connie Potter ▸ Publisher Comma Press → This anthology of shorts – subtitled Stories From The Science Of CERN – contains as much fiction about science as traditional science fiction. CE
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The Luminaries
▸ RELEASED 26 JANUARY 352 pages | Paperback/ebook/audiobook ▸ Author Susan Dennard ▸ Publisher Daphne Press → Winnie Wednesday is your typical teenage girl. A little moody and misunderstood. Spunky and insecure. Oh, and she’s the descendant of a long
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The Drift
▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! 400 pages | Hardback/ebook/audiobook ▸ Author CJ Tudor ▸ Publisher Michael Joseph → Where would you rather be trapped: an overturned bus in a snowdrift? A dangling cable car? Or a mysterious abandoned research facility? In CJ Tudo
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Shield Maiden
▸ RELEASED 2 FEBRUARY 416 pages | Hardback/ebook ▸ Author Sharon Emmerichs ▸ Publisher Head Of Zeus → For her debut novel, Sharon Emmerichs crafts an addendum to Beowulf, told from the perspective of Freyda, teenage daughter of Weohstan, lord of the
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Reissues
Pick of the paperbacks: Edward Ashton’s MICKEY7 (, 2 February, Solaris), which is lined up to become a Bong Joon-Ho movie. Set in a future where you can have your memories downloaded into a new body when you die, it follows the titular “expendable” d
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First Contact
Rob Graham, email Wednesday has been surprisingly excellent, with a Buffy The Vampire Slayer meets Stranger Things and Harry Potter vibe. This is the best Addams Family since the classic ’60s TV series, with spot-on casting. Jenna Ortega turns in a s
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How To Sell A Haunted House
▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! 400 pages | Hardback/ebook ▸ Author Grady Hendrix ▸ Publisher Titan Books → You’re pretty much guaranteed three things when you pick up a Grady Hendrix novel: a tightly plotted supernatural mystery; a couple of moments of unforget
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The Sleeping Stones
▸ RELEASED 2 FEBRUARY 224 pages | Paperback/ebook ▸ Author Beatrice Wallbank ▸ Publisher Firefly Press → Children’s fantasy has a rich and magical heritage, from The Hobbit and Narnia through to The Snow Spider, Harry Potter and more. Very few novels
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Also Out
There are plenty more books that we couldn’t quite fit in. New anthology AT MIDNIGHT (7 February, Titan) includes 15 reimagined versions of fairy tales such as “Rumplestiltskin”, “Puss In Boots” and “Sleeping Beauty” by a diverse group of YA authors.
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Dark Dweller
Told through various eyes, Dark Dweller follows a young girl who claims she has seen all of time and must save everyone from disaster. The ship’s shrink, Dallas, scrawls again. The nib squeaks and taps on the sapphire screen. Her eyes are greedy, and
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Ramsey Campbell
What is your daily writing routine like? While I stumble through making a cup of tea I’ll be composing sentences and developing today’s scene in my head. By the time I reach my desk (six o’clock or earlier) I’ll have at least the opening sentence. A
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Fantastic Four
▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! ▸ Publisher Marvel Comics ▸ Writer Ryan North ▸ Artist Iban Coello ISSUES 1-3 Superhero comics often thrive on familiarity – and if there’s one thing that’s been true since the Fantastic Four’s first appearance in 1962, it’s that
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Damn Them All
▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! ▸ Publisher BOOM! Studios ▸ Writer Simon Spurrier ▸ Artist Charlie Adlard ISSUES 1-3 Gangland London is one of those settings that rarely seems to go out of style, and the latest comic to explore London’s mean and brutal streets a
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Wakanda
▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! ▸ Publisher Marvel Comics ▸ Writers Evan Narcisse, Stephanie Williams, Ho Che Anderson ▸ Artists Paco Medina, Ibrahim Robertson, Sean Hill, Natacha Bustos ISSUES 1-3 After the recent blockbuster sequel, it makes sense to release t
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Wonder Woman: Historia – The Amazons
▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! ▸ Publisher DC Comics/Black Label ▸ >Writer Kelly Sue DeConnick ▸ Artists Phil Jiminez, Gene Ha, Nicola Scott ISSUES 1-3 DC’s Black Label imprint has always put heavy emphasis on the visuals of its comics – especially those with “
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Star Trek
▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! ▸ Publisher IDW ▸ Writer Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing ▸ Artist Ramon Rosanas, Oleg Chudakov, Joe Eisma ISSUES 1-3 A kind of United Federation Of Planets’ Mightiest Heroes, the central idea behind this new monthly is so ingeniousl
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The Dark Is Rising
▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! ▸ 214 minutes | Radio ▸ Broadcaster BBC World Service AUDIO DRAMA Susan Cooper’s 1973 fantasy novel is a timeless classic beloved by generations of readers for its coming-of-age drama and heightened sense of the folkloric weird. T
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High On Life
▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! ▸ Reviewed on Xbox Series X ▸ Also on Xbox One, PC ▸ Publisher Squanch Games VIDEOGAME High On Life is a first-person shooter unlike any other, something which shouldn’t come as much of a surprise once you discover that it’s a gam
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Doctor Who: Cass
▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! ▸ 279 minutes | CD/download ▸ Publisher Big Finish AUDIO DRAMA The concept of a Time War is ideal for those wanting to mix up continuity – as discussed in the extras here, it means you don’t have to explain how the Eighth Doctor m
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Australia
What was the original occupation of Australian Doctor Who companion Tegan Jovanka? In Mad Max, what is the surname of the titular character? In Eternals, which of the immortal beings is seen living in seclusion in Australia? Supply the title missing
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In The Next Issue Of Sfx
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Fact Attack!
→ Novel writing was a sideline for O’Brien. His main job was as an editor for National Geographic – from 1951 until his death in 1973. → O’Brien was a pen name, adopted because the Geographic frowned on outside writing. His real surname was Conly. →
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Z For Zachariah
Being of, ahem, a certain age I find it almost quaint when fears of nuclear apocalypse will flare up and then just as quickly fade away. Because in the early ’80s, such concerns were a constant background hum. The threat of mutual annihilation permea

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