Captain’s Log

“The hardest thing in this world is to

Here Be Monsters

Paul WS Anderson is letting the beasts out for Monster Hunter – and he really wants you to see them

The Omega Man

Mark Griffiths and John Ridgway are bringing back “Time Lord Satan” Omega in a new comic series

AERIAL ASSAULT

SCI-FI TV ROUND UP

Regression Therapy

Russell T Davies offers an alternative take on a classic Doctor Who story in his new drama It’s A Sin

Golden Years

Star Wars: The High Republic explores the rise of the Jedi in a new range of novels and comics

Teenage Kicks Right Through The Nightmare

Will School’s Out Forever be a post-Covid viral sensation?

NEWS WARP

HIGH-SPEED INFORMATION

All The World’s A Stage

Paul Bettany and Elizabeth Olsen discuss the strange realm of WandaVision

Penny Dreadful

SFX'S high priestess of horror

Are You Being Served

The nanny brings more hoodoo into the lives of the quirky Turners in Servant

Eternal Warrior

Matt Kindt talks collaborating with Keanu Reeves on new BOOM! Studios comic series BZRKR 

What’s That Coming Over The Hill?

The stakes are even higher for season two of Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous as the campers have to navigate for their lives on Isla Nublar

Jeremy Bulloch

1945–2020

SPLINTERS OF THE MIND'S EYE

COLIN TREVORROW’S DUEL OF THE FATES IS ONLY THE LATEST UNTOLD TALE OF THE SKYWALKERS. SFX INVESTIGATES THE STAR WARS ADVENTURES THAT NEVER MADE THE SCREEN

GOING UNDERGROUND

BACK IN 2005, GEORGE LUCAS ANNOUNCED STAR WARS’ FIRST LIVE-ACTION TV SERIES. BUT DESPITE SEVEN YEARS OF WORK, STAR WARS: UNDERWORLD NEVER MATERIALISED. MATTHEW GRAHAM, ONE OF ITS WRITERS, TALKS ABOUT HIS TIME WORKING ON THE SERIES WE NEVER GOT TO SEE

HELP ME ROND

IN PART TWO OF OUR LOOK AT WHAT THE ABORTIVE TV SERIES STAR WARS: UNDERWORLD MIGHT HAVE BEEN, WRITER RONALD D MOORE REVEALS WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO HELP GUIDE GEORGE LUCAS IN THE WAYS OF THE SMALL SCREEN

THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY

DARK HORSE COMICS SERIES  RESIDENT ALIEN  IS COMING TO THE SMALL SCREEN. SHOWRUNNER CHRIS SHERIDAN TELLS US MORE

DOCTOR STRANGE

Alan Tudyk talks playing an alien in disguise 

KILL PILL

TIME IS A LIE… REALITY-BENDING THRILLER  SYNCHRONIC  IS HERE TO EXPAND YOUR MIND. OR MAYBE JUST BLOW IT…

SHE-DEVIL

AS VAMPIRA, ’50S TV HORROR HOST AND STAR OF PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE, Maila Nurmi BECAME A GOTH ICON. A NEW BIOGRAPHY BY HER NIECE SANDRA NURMI USES EXTRACTS FROM MAILA’S WRITINGS TO DOCUMENT A REMARKABLE LIFE

MIND BLOWING

AS DAVID CRONENBERG’S HEAD-EXPLODING SF THRILLER MARKS ITS 40TH ANNIVERSARY, WE SPEAK TO ACTOR STEPHEN LACK AND CINEMATOGRAPHER MARK IRWIN

THEO JAMES

FACE TO FACE WITH THE BIGGEST STARS

TIME TEENS

TWO TEENAGERS FROM 1970 TRAVELLED INTO THEIR OWN TIMELINES AND PROJECTIONS OF ALTERNATE FUTURES IN GROUNDBREAKING KIDS’ TV SERIES TIMESLIP , NOW CELEBRATING ITS 50TH ANNIVERSARY.  SFX  SPOKE TO ITS TWO STARS

TL HUCHU

THE SFX AUTHOR INTERVIEW

BILL & TED FACE THE MUSIC

Party on, dads

CHRIS MATHESON

Co-writer of Bill & Ted Face The Music

POSSESSOR

RELEASED 8 FEBRUARY 2020 | 18 | Blu-ray/DVD

SYNCHRONIC

Gateway drug

TOMORROW I’LL WAKE UP AND SCALD MYSELF WITH TEA

RELEASED OUT NOW! 1977 | 12 | Blu-ray

SCHOOL’S OUT FOREVER

Power to the pupil

THE CANNIBAL CLUB

RELEASED OUT NOW! 2019 | 18 | DVD

LX 2048

RELEASED OUT NOW! 2020 | 15 | Blu-ray/DVD/download

THE SINNERS

RELEASED 22 FEBRUARY 2020 | TBC | Download/VOD

THE INTERGALACTIC ADVENTURES OF MAX CLOUD

RELEASED OUT NOW! 2020 | 12 | Blu-ray/DVD/download

STAR TREK: PICARD Season One

Make it so-so?

BATMAN: SOUL OF THE DRAGON

RELEASED 15 FEBRUARY (download out now) 2021 |

ERIK THE VIKING

RELEASED OUT NOW! 1989 | 15 | Blu-ray

RELIC

The dying of the light

CYBER CITY OEDO 808

RELEASED OUT NOW! 1990-1991 | 15 | Blu-ray

INNER SANCTUM MYSTERIES

Head cases

[REC]

RELEASED OUT NOW! 2007 | 18 | Blu-ray

DRAGON RIDER

A matter of scales

THE WEIRD AND WONDERFUL WORLD OF UJICHA

The unkindest cut

BLISS

Reality check

THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH

The hell of the ball

LINK

RELEASED 1 FEBRUARY 1986 | 15 | Blu-ray/DVD

SAINT MAUD

Guided By Voices

ROUND UP

Wordless CG animation AWAY (out now, download)

STAR TREK: DISCOVERY Season Three

In which Michael holds a Grudge

DRINKING GAME

Knock back a beverage of your choice every time…

DOCTOR WHO: REVOLUTION OF THE DALEKS

Droning on and on

EQUINOX

Gone Girl

THE MANDALORIAN Season Two

In The Armour Now

HIS DARK MATERIALS Series Two

Where there’s a Will

FATE: THE WINX SAGA Season One

Fairy Plotter

SWEET HOME Season One

Tower block of terror

PURGATORY MOUNT

Will peak your interest

HYDE

RELEASED 4 FEBRUARY 389 pages | Hardback/ebook/ audiobook

LAST ONE AT THE PARTY

RELEASED 4 FEBRUARY 368 pages | Hardback/ebook/ audiobook

THE MOONSTEEL CROWN

A Fistful Of Silver

HALL OF SMOKE

RELEASED OUT NOW! 432 pages | Paperback/ebook/ audiobook

A RIVER CALLED TIME

RELEASED OUT NOW! 452 pages | Hardback/ebook/ audiobook

THE LIBRARY OF THE DEAD

They’re all late returns here

STAR WARS: I LOVE YOU. I KNOW.

BULLET TIME A BOOK IN BULLET POINTS

THE CROW FOLK

RELEASED 4 FEBRUARY 352 pages | Paperback/ebook/ audiobook

WINTER’S ORBIT

RELEASED 4 FEBRUARY 434 pages | Paperback/ebook Author

KING’S REACH

RELEASED OUT NOW! 272 pages | Paperback/ebook Author

REISSUES

Wiliam Gibson’s latest, AGENCY ( , out

THE MASK OF MIRRORS

RELEASED OUT NOW! 663 pages | Paperback/ebook/ audiobook

STAR WARS: LIGHT OF THE JEDI

A longer time ago…

ALSO OUT

Further titles we couldn’t quite fit in include

Star Wars: Light Of The Jedi

LONG BEFORE THE FIRST ORDER, BEFORE THE EMPIRE, BEFORE EVEN THE PHANTOM MENACE… JEDI LIT THE WAY FOR THE GALAXY IN THE HIGH REPUBLIC

RORSCHACH

All The President’s Watchmen

THE STEEL CLAW: INVISIBLE MAN

RELEASED 4 FEBRUARY Publisher Rebellion Writer Ken Bulmer

ENDLESS WINTER

RELEASED OUT NOW! Publisher DC Comics Writers Andy

DUNE: HOUSE ATREIDES

Spice Boys

AMERICAN RONIN

RELEASED OUT NOW! Publisher AWA/Upshot Studios Writer Peter

DOCTOR WHO: THE KAIROS RING

RELEASED 5 FEBRUARY 79 minutes | CD/download Publisher

THE CIPHER

The Parallax View

FIREBALL XL5

RELEASED OUT NOW! 61 minutes | Vinyl/CD/download Label

Total Recall

Personal recollections of cherished sci-fi