Captain’s Log

Somewhat like the Hargreeves of The Umbrella Academy, everything could

First Contact

Ilona Kosmowsky, email You mentioned in your article about Spides

Retro-active

In space, no one can hear you scream - with

IT’S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT

SUPERHEROES typically foil the bad guys and save the day

TIME TO KILL

AS WITH ANY supersized spy yarn, the stakes in Christopher

IMMORTAL COMBAT

WHO WANTS to live forever?” the great Freddie Mercury once

Return to Mars

I’ve got this idea for the poster,” says Matthew Graham,

DESIGNING STAR TREK: PICARD

THIS IS REGRESSING! I’VE NEVER been busier in my life

SURVIVORS UNSEEEN

TEN YEARS ON FROM ITS FINAL EPISODE, CREATOR ADRIAN HODGES

GUSTAF SKARSGÅRD

Ever wished you could vanish from the face of the

STEP BACK IN TIME

"PART III WAS THE MOST FUN of the three movies

THE BOOK OF THE DEAD

IT’S THREE YEARS SINCE George Romero - who, with Night

It’s time to get things started!

WE COULD ALL DO WITH SOME laughs right now. Thankfully,

Future Imperfect

UTOPIAS AREN’T ALL THEY ARE cracked up to be. Take

Bite Club

MARK HAMILL EMBRACES THE DARK SIDE with his not-so-secret cameo

Everybody’s heard about the bird…

It’s exciting. The whole prospect is really exciting. I’m ecstatic

Craig Charles

FROM PERFORMANCE poet to live DJ via soap actor and

The Stuff Of Nightmares

LONG PLAGUED BY INSOMNIA, G Willow Wilson has now drawn

MICAIAH JOHNSON

Cara is someone trying to hide her actual past by

Penny Dreadful

Wicked witches, vulnerable old ladies and Bigfeet. But enough about

SIX OF THE BEST

The shortlist for this year’s Arthur C Clarke Award has

NEWS WARP

And talking of ol’ acid-blood itself (left): Walter Hill pitching

You Only Die Twice

GROWING UP, CAVAN Scott was equally obsessed with spies like

FEATHERTIDE

In fantasy, coming of age stories tend to come accompanied

PENNY DREADFUL: CITY OF ANGELS Season One

EPISODES 1.01-1.08“We are Pachuco.We are Chicano. We are Aztec. We

SPIDES Season One

There’s not a moment watching this German-made alien invasion series

VAGRANT QUEEN Season One

A Syfy Original shot in Cape Town, with a budget

CURON Season One

EPISODES 1.01-1.07All that remains of the former town of Curon

REALITY Z

EPISODES 1.01-1.10Way back in 2008, Charlie Brooker’s five-part horror-comedy series

THE OLD GUARD

NETFLIX Had The Old Guard been made 20 years ago,

ZOMBIE FOR SALE

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BRITANNIA HOSPITAL

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STAR TREK: SHORT TREKS

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THE BEAST MUST DIE

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SWAMP THING Season One

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FANTASY ISLAND

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PROMARE

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THINK LIKE A DOG

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DEATH OF A VLOGGER

Paranormal Activity taughtus that you shouldn’t film a haunting. Turns

THE HUNT

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GHOSTS OF WAR

War is hell. No wonder it’s such an apposite backdrop

ARTEMIS FOWL

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VALHALLA: LEGEND OF THOR

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ARTHUR & MERLIN: KNIGHTS OF CAMELOT

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ALIEN OUTBREAK

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OPEN 24 HOURS

Working the night shift in a remote petrol station could

CREEPSHOW 2

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BLACK RAINBOW

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ROUND UP

An overdue nod to Screen Anime, an ongoing “online film

THE CONSTANT RABBIT

Jasper Fforde does racism.We’ll give you a moment to digest

ALPHA OMEGA

This book’s hampered by an oh-so-generic title, as well as

THE ONLY GOOD INDIANS

Elks aren’t a big thing in the UK, so there’s

THE MAGIC OF TERRY PRATCHETT

Somehow, there has never been a proper biography of Sir

THE WAITING ROOMS

Mass gatherings are cancelled. Everyone wears masks when they go

REISSUES

The big paperback this month is undoubtedly Stephen King’s THE

SURVIVOR SONG

“This is not a fairy tale” begins Survivor Song, the

THE HOLLOW ONES

It’s been nine years since Guillermo del Toro and Chuck

THE VANISHED BIRDS

Making journeys she counts in days, but where years pass

ALL THE STARS AND TEETH

You know when you fancy a delicious cup of coffee

TWO TRIBES

As the aphorism has it, all science fiction is about

ALSO OUT

Words have mystical power in Jay Posey’s space opera EVERY

Alpha Omega

The students at NutriStart Skills Academy begin to show symptoms

80TH ANNIVERSARY SUPER-SPECTACULARS

ONE-SHOTS A side-effect of DC having created so many memorable

AMETHYST

ISSUES 1-3 This revival of Amethyst smartly drops the Princess

THE CLOVEN Book One

Stein migrates to graphic novels with this charming, if somewhat

JUDGE DREDD: CONTROL

Dredd artists can be described as masters: people like Carlos

JACK KIRBY

GRAPHIC NOVEL Based on original interviews with Jack Kirby, whose

THE LAST OF US PART II

VIDEOGAME For many, The Last Of Us Part II will

THUNDERBIRDS

SOUNDTRACK Just as Derek Meddings’s cinematic miniatures ensured Thunderbirds punched

STAR WARS EPISODE I: RACER

VIDEOGAME Even the grumpiest Star Wars fans have to admit

THE SANDMAN

AUDIO DRAMA The Sandman has famously evaded adaptation before -

DIRK GENTLY’S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY

AUDIO DRAMA However many times TV attempts to grapple with

PODCAST ROUNDUP

Running for a decade now, Mike White’s The Projection Booth

THE POLICE

Which TV series was set on the planet Altor, and

Fire In The Sky

UFOs are back in the cultural consciousness again. Perhaps because