First Contact

Hailing Frequencies Open!

Rants & Raves

Inside the SFX hive mind

Captain’s Log

© BBC How exciting was that Doctor Who

Black Death

Tim Story mines laughs and screams from the African-American experience in The Blackening

Revolutionary Times

The time-travelling Frasers of Outlander are back for a decade-crossing seventh season

NEWS WARP

HIGH-SPEED INFORMATION

Greatest Hitch

The Ultimate Universe is relaunched with Ultimate Invasion

Back To The Future

Marc Guggenheim is taking X-Men to Doomsday

Fin-tastic Voyage

Adrian Grünberg on what makes his shark movie The Black Demon different to the rest

NEWS WARP

HIGH-SPEED INFORMATION

Release The Kraken!

Dreamworks Animation plunges into an underwater fantasy with Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken

Game Over, Man!

Face a xenomorph horde in Aliens: Dark Descent

Young Guns

The denizens of Dreddworld return to their younger days in Mega-City Max

Cosmic Chaos

Keanu Reeves’s BRZRKR faces off against HP Lovecraft’s Cthulhu in Steve Skroce’s Poetry Of Madness

Todd Couple

Sweeney Todd is adapted into Prime Video’s very black comedy The Horror Of Dolores Roach

Day Of Reckoning

Details for the multi-platform Doctor Who adventure Doom’s Day have been released

Doctor Doom

Missy meets Doom in Titan Comics’ contribution to Doom’s Day, set at 06.00-07.00/08.00-09.00

RED ALERT

► SCI-FACT! Mark Gatiss appeared in the 2005 version

VERITY M HOLLOWAY

MEET THE WRITER BEHIND HISTORICAL HORROR THE OTHERS OF EDENWELL

THE FINAL FRONTIER

► SCI-FACT! Austin directed 1983’s The Return Of

WHIP-CRACK AWAY

THE MAN IN THE HAT IS BACK IN INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY. IT’S JUST A MATTER OF TIME…

THE ARK KNIGHT RISES

MEET INDIANA SMITH, GHOSTBUSTING KUNG FU PLAYBOY… WAIT, WHAT? AS THE MAN IN THE HAT HEADS BACK TO THE BIG SCREEN, SFX UNEARTHS THE BIRTH OF A HERO

DESTINY'S CHILD

THE CAST OF THE WITCHER DISCUSS WHAT LIES IN STORE FOR THEIR CHARACTERS IN SEASON THREE

RETURN TO TOMORROW

IN THE FIRST OF A SERIES OF CAST INTERVIEWS, ANSON MOUNT AND ETHAN PECK DISCUSS SEASON TWO OF

SPACE SETTING

BLACK MIRROR GOES TO SPACE – AGAIN! “BEYOND THE SEA” PRODUCTION DESIGNER UDO KRAMER TALKS SFX THROUGH MAKING A RETRO-FUTURISTIC SPACESHIP

SECRET SOCIETY

MARVEL PUTS THE SPOTLIGHT ON NICK FURY IN SECRET INVASION. DIRECTOR ALI SELIM TELLS SFX WHY THE AVENGERS ASSEMBLER CAN’T TRUST ANYONE

BATTLE ROYALE

A WAR BETWEEN EMPIRE AND TERMINUS DRAWS CLOSER IN THE SECOND SEASON OF APPLE TV+’S ASIMOV ADAPTATION FOUNDATION

ALEXANDER SKARSGÅRD

FACE TO FACE WITH THE BIGGEST STARS

NOVEL APPROACHES

FOUR DOCTOR WHO WRITERS TELL US HOW THEY WENT ABOUT TURNING THEIR TV EPISODES INTO TARGET NOVELISATIONS

KEITH TEMPLE ON PLANET OF THE OOD

This 2008 story saw the Doctor and Donna

PHIL FORD ON THE WATERS OF MARS

A water-borne lifeform possesses a Mars base crew

PETER HARNESS ON THE ZYGON INVASION

In Twelfth Doctor two-parter “The Zygon Invasion”/”The Zygon

PETE McTIGHE ON KERBLAM!

In 2018’s “Kerblam!”, the Thirteenth Doctor investigates disappearances

IT'S SHOWTIME!

DIRECTOR JOE DANTE DISCUSSES M ATINEE, HIS AFFECTIONATE LOVE LETTER TO MOVIE-GOING, ATOMIC MONSTERS AND B-MOVIE KING WILLIAM CASTLE

NICK HARK AWAY

THE SFX AUTHOR INTERVIEW

Review

CINEMA 86 TV 92 HOME ENTERTAINMENT 96 BOOKS 102

INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY

Definitely The Last Crusade

THE REICH STAFF

More Nazis who, like Jürgen Voller, continued scheming

SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE

Worlds Wide Web

ELEMENTAL

Things could get steamy...

ASTEROID CITY

It Came From Outer Space

HYPNOTIC

Brain freeze

THE BOOGE YMAN

Bumpy in the night

THE LITTLE MERMAID

Fish out of water

SMOKING CAUSES COUGHING

Nicotine Titans

ALSO+OUT

There were no review screenings for TRANSFORMERS: RISE

CITADEL Season One

Quantum Of Homage

MULLIGAN Season One

Needs a do-over

COUNT ABDULLA Series One

Faith, fangs and tons of fun

YELLOWJACKETS Season Two

A dish best served cold

BL ACK KNIGHT Season One

Postman-apocalyptic

STAR WARS: YOUNG JEDI ADVENTURES Season One

The Apprentices

ENTER THE VIDEO STORE: EMPIRE OF SCREAMS

Band together

THE CHANGELING

Spiritual home

MEXICO MACABRE

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STEPHEN KING ON SCREEN

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65 Earth shock

“What do you call a dinosaur with

SIGHT EXTENDED

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BREAKING INFINITY

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BROOKLYN 45

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CEREBRUM

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HOPPING MAD

The Nonwalking Dead

THE NUTTY PROFESSOR

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CRATER

RELEASED OUT NOW! 2023 | 9+ | SVOD

SHAZAM! FURY OF THE GODS

Super geeks vs ancient Greeks

ROUND UP

The works of JG Ballard were an inspiration

TRANSLATION STATE

When cultures collide

INK BLOOD SISTER SCRIBE

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THE FIRST BRIGHT THING

★★★★★ RELEASED 22 JUNE 352 pages | Hardback/ebook/

GODS OF THE WYRDWOOD

Branching out

THE SURVIVING SKY

★★★☆☆ RELEASED OUT NOW! 528 pages | Paperback/ebook

YOU’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO DIE TONIGHT

★★★★☆ RELEASED 20 JUNE 240 pages | Paperback/ebook/

SHANGHAI IMMORTAL

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THE ILLUSIONS

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THE USBORNE BOOK OF THE FUTURE

A BOOK IN BULLET POINTS

THE MAGIC HOUR

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BORED GAY WEREWOLF

★★★★☆ RELEASED OUT NOW! 272 pages | Hardback/ebook

RELENTLESS MELT

★★★★☆ RELEASED OUT NOW! 256 pages | Paperback/ebook

REISSUES

Our pick of the paperbacks is historical fantasy

HAMMER OF FATE

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WHETHER VIOLENT OR NATURAL

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CORMAN/POE

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ALSO OUT

Originally self-published, Alexander Darwin’s THE COMBAT CODES

Ann Leckie

Sounds like the Hugo winner nearly wore out her library tickets…

SUPERMAN: LOST

The Voyage Home

MORIARTY: CLOCKWORK EMPIRE

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FURY

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UNSTOPPABLE DOOM PATROL

Strange Crew

BETSY BRADDOCK: CAPTAIN BRITAIN

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THE LORD OF THE RINGS: GOLLUM

Save your precious time

DOCTOR WHO: THE ARK

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STAR TREK: RESURGENCE

Taking Resolute action

THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: TEARS OF THE KINGDOM

DIY Hero

MOTORCYCLES

Get your motor running and head out on the highway as we test your knowledge of bikers and their hogs

Total Recall

Cerebus: High Society