Rants & Raves

Inside the SFX hive mind

Captain’s Log

Let’s kill the son of a bitch! ©

PIKE TIME VIEWING

CAPTAIN PIKE AND COMPANY ARE BACK AGAIN TO GIVE STAR TREK FANS SOME OF THOSE OLD-SCHOOL FEELS IN STRANGE NEW WORLDS

Unsung Heroes

Constantine returns to a familiar building in the latest animated DC venture

Time To Kill

Elisabeth Moss swaps Gilead for a ’90s time travel thriller in her latest series Shining Girls

Loving The Alien

The Man Who Fell to Earth gets updated as a series reflecting our times

Secret Origins

The Fugitive Doctor makes her comics debut in Titan’s new Doctor Who series

Brexit In Space

Xenomorphs meet Little Britain in David Barnett’s new novel Alien: Colony War

Multiple Choice

Ke Huy Quan and James Hong make Everything Everywhere All At Once come together

Arachnid Apocalypse

Steve Orlando on celebrating Spider- Man 2099’s 30th anniversary with Biblical crossover Exodus

The One And Obi

Obi-Wan Kenobi is in a reflective mood in Marvel’s new miniseries

AF STEADMAN

MEET THE FORMER LAWYER BEHIND SKANDAR AND THE UNICORN THIEF

VERONICA CARLSON 1944-2022

An English rose among Hammer’s thorns

STRANGER THINGS

ON-SET SECRETS! BEHIND-THE- SCENES INFORMATION! PLANS FOR THE FUTURE! SFX GOES IN DEPTH, UPSIDE DOWN AND INSIDE OUT WITH THE DUFFER BROTHERS ON A GLOBE- SPANNING JOURNEY TO HAWKINS AND BEYOND FOR SEASON FOUR OF STRANGER THINGS

MAGICAL THINKING

REALITY SHATTERS IN DOCTOR STR ANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS. WHAT SORCERY IS THIS?

CHILDHOOD PRODIGY

THIS STAR TREK MAY BE ANIMATED, BUT CREATORS THE HAGEMAN BROTHERS AND DIRECTOR BEN HIBON AREN’T JUST DOING IT FOR THE KIDS

BACK ONCE AGAIN FOR THE RENEGADE MASTER

AHEAD OF OBI-WAN’S NEW TV SHOW, SFX CELEBR ATES STAR WARS’ ORIGINAL JEDI KNIGHT

CHILD'S PLAY

OSCAR-NOMINEE ESKIL VOGT’S NEW FILM THE INNOCENTS IS NOT YOUR USUAL TALE OF KIDS WITH INCREDIBLE POWERS

PYROMANIA

FIRESTARTER DIRECTOR KEITH THOMAS TALKS TAKING ON A STEPHEN KING CLASSIC

THE ART OF THE BATMAN

GO BEHIND THE SCENES ON THE REBIRTH OF A COMIC BOOK LEGEND IN A NEW COFFEE TABLE ART BOOK

THOUGHTCRIME AND PUNISHMENT

BBC, GETTY GEORGE ORWELL’S PRESCIENT political satire Nineteen

NIAMH ALGAR

The star of Raised By Wolves talks mullets, dead rats and not barfing

LIVE WIRE

SHORT CIRCUIT SCREENWRITER SS WILSON REVISITS THE CREATION OF THE ’80S’ MOST BELOVED ROBOT NUMBER 5 – AND THE LEGACY OF A PROTO-AI CLASSIC

EMILY ST JOHN MANDEL

The Clarke Award-winning author on her new time travel novel

REVIEWS

86 MORBIUS Dr Living Vampire, I presume? THIS

MORBIUS Thirst claptrap

★★☆☆☆ RELEASED OUT NOW! 15 | 104 minutes

X Boogie Frights

★★★☆☆ RELEASED OUT NOW! 18 | 106 minutes

FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE

Third time’s a charmer

THE NORTHMAN Kill Uncle

“Anyone else think the sausages were underdone?” ★★★★☆

SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 2

★★★☆☆ RELEASED OUT NOW! 2021 | PG |

UMMA

★★☆☆☆ RELEASED OUT NOW! 2021 | 15 |

PEACEMAKER Season One

A Walk On The Suicide

STAR TREK : PRODIGY Season One, Part One

Rebels Without A Course

ROAR Season One

I am woman, hear me…

STAR TREK : DISCOVERY Season Four

Let’s cry

RAISED BY WOLVES Season Two

★★★★☆ UK: Sky Atlantic, Wednesdays/ streaming on NOW

RUSSIAN DOLL Season Two

Sequels! What a concept!

THE LAST BUS Season One

Next stop: Armageddon

SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME

The Peter principle

GERRY ANDERSON: A LIFE UNCHARTED

► RELEASED OUT NOW! 2022 | TBC |

CONSTANTINE: THE HOUSE OF MYSTERY

Fortunes of warlock

ZEDER

►RELEASED 25 APRIL 1983 | 15 | Blu-ray

NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR

24 Hour Party People

GODMONSTER OF INDIAN FLATS

►RELEASED OUT NOW! 1973 | 12 | Blu-ray

THE BUBBLE

Deserves a Beasting

NIGHT’S END

►RELEASED OUT NOW! 2022 | TBC | SVOD

HELD

►RELEASED 25 APRIL 2020 | 15 | DVD/download

FATHER OF FLIES

►RELEASED OUT NOW! 2022 | TBC | Download

AGNES

►RELEASED OUT NOW! 2022 | 18 | DVD/download

YOU ARE NOT MY MOTHER

►RELEASED OUT NOW! 2022 | 15 | Download

THREE MONSTER TALES OF SCI-FI TERROR

Universal appeal

CHOOSE OR DIE

Want to play a game?

MICHAEL REEVES

Shoot fast, die young

WE’RE ALL GOING TO THE WORLD’S FAIR

►RELEASED 9 MAY 2022 | 15 | Blu-ray/download

MASTER

►RELEASED OUT NOW! 2022 | 15 | SVOD

THE MATRIX RESURRECTIONS

Far from bullet-proof

ROUND UP

Paramount kept quiet about the physical release of

SEA OF TRANQUILITY

Time and time again

SAINT DEATH’S DAUGHTER

►RELEASED OUT NOW! 624 pages | Hardback/ebook/ audiobook

THE MEMORY LIBRARIAN

Stacks of imagination

NETTLE & BONE

►RELEASED 26 APRIL 336 pages | Hardback/ebook ►Author

BATMAN: THE KNIGHT

I Was A Teenage Caped Crusader

THE HOUSE OF DOLMANN

RELEASED OUT NOW! Publisher Rebellion Writer Tom Tully

JOY OPERATIONS

RELEASED OUT NOW! Publisher Dark Horse Comics Writer

HAWK THE SLAYER

The Way Of The Warrior

BRAVE NEW WORLD

RELEASED 21 APRIL Publisher Vintage Classics Writer/artist Fred

TINY TINA’S WONDERLANDS

Borderlands rolls a natural 20

THE VINYL COUNTDOWN

Our pick of the latest LPs

DOCTOR OF WAR: GENESIS

Trials Of A Time Lord

GHOSTWIRE: TOKYO

Into the unknown

SCREAM

Who answers the phone anyway?

UNDER FORTUNATE STARS

►RELEASED 12 MAY 368 pages | Hardback/ebook/ audiobook

BOOK OF NIGHT

Jumping at shadows

BULLET TIME

A BOOK IN BULLET POINTS

THE BLOOD TRIALS

►RELEASED OUT NOW! 400 pages | Paperback/ebook/ audiobook

SKANDAR AND THE UNICORN

►RELEASED 28 APRIL 400 pages | Hardback/ebook/ audiobook

BLOOD TO POISON

►RELEASED OUT NOW! 384 pages | Paperback/ebook ►Author

REISSUES

Our pick of the paperbacks this month: THE

TELL ME AN ENDING

►RELEASED 12 MAY 544 pages | Hardback/ebook/ audiobook

GLITTERATI

►RELEASED 17 MAY 288 pages | Paperback/ebook ►Author

MERCURY RISING

►RELEASED 10 MAY 391 pages | Paperback/ebook ►Author

ALSO OUT

There’s plenty more books we couldn’t fit in.

Adrian Tchaikovsky

THE SFX AUTHOR QUESTIONNAIREA

THE LIFE AQUATIC

It’s a fishy business this month, as we test your knowledge of all things great and small which dwell in the oceans, rivers and lakes

The Invisibles

Personal recollections of cherished sci-fi and fantasy