SFX

OCTOBER 2025 | Issue 396 Future PLC, Quay

Captain’s Log

“We might not be alone in this hunt…”

Rants & Raves

Inside the SFX hive mind

Build High For Happiness

Cast and creators return for new miniseries

Forever Young

One of Doctor Who ’s most mysterious unmade adventures is revived on audio

War Games

New Secret Wars miniseries Battleworld draws on different timelines

Time And Tide

The sea brings in otherworldly secrets in The Drowned

Unsafe Space

How The Astronaut is bringing the fear of alien contact home

Sin City

Blade Runner heads to Las Vegas in new miniseries

NEWSWRAP

Breaking Genre News!

Stand To Detention

Red Dwarf producer Doug Naylor stays behind after school for new book

STATUS LEAK

When will we see new episodes of Red Dwarf ?

Police Special

Powers returns to its street level roots for its 25th anniversary

Fighting Spirit

Ahead of Duncan Jones’s movie, his comic co-writer Alex de Campi is telling Rogue Trooper’s secret origin

The Beautiful People

Seth Reiss reveals all about the fantastical A Big Bold Beautiful Journey

Fairy Tale Detectives

A much-loved YA series comes alive in animation for The Sisters Grimm

Clickbait Carnage

Strange Harvest brings true crime documentaries to the horror genre

Checking Out

Haunted Hotel ’s creator on merging horror and comedy for the ultimate dysfunctional sitcom

Megatropolis’ Finest

Don Simpson returns with old and new Megaton Man

A New Bit Of Kit

The Phantom is under siege in his new solo title from Mad Cave Studios

Snakes On A Plain

Snakes Alive! Conan meets Set and Thoth-Amon in crossover Scourge Of The Serpent

JENNIFER KENNEDY

MEET THE WRITER BEHIND OUR GIFTED HEARTS , A GOTHIC RIFF ON BLUEBEARD

TERENCE STAMP 1938–2025

Remembering a true screen icon

A WORLD OF PAIN

DIRECTOR DAN TRACHTENBERG ON TAKING AN ICON OF CINEMA IN A NEW DIRECTION FOR PREDATOR: BADLANDS

GAME CHANGER

SFX HEADS TO VANCOUVER TO VISIT THE TRON: ARES GRID AND TALK ALL THINGS TRON WITH THE FILMMAKERS BEHIND THE LONG-AWAITED SEQUEL

NEVER TRUST A STRANGER

THE STAKES ARE RAISED IN RENNY HARLIN’S ALL-NEW HORROR SEQUEL,

DEVIL'S BARGAIN

DIRECTOR JUSTIN TIPPING REVEALS HOW HIS PERSONAL EXPERIENCES MADE HIM THE RIGHT PERSON TO TELL

V DON'T NEED NO EDUCATION

IT’S SOPHOMORE YEAR FOR THE SUPER-POWERED STUDENTS OF GEN V, AND THE BOYS ’ UNIVERSE OVERSEER ERIC KRIPKE PROMISES SFX TENTACLED ANUSES, HIGHER STAKES AND A NEW DEAN DESTINED TO BREAK THE INTERNET

3 BACK TO THE UPSIDE DOWN

TAKE A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE AS WE CELEBRATE SEASON THREE OF STRANGER THINGS

GRAND DESIGNS

THE UNPUBLISHED SFX INTERVIEW

WHERE DARED EAGLES

NEVER MIND THE COMMLOCKS AS WE RETURN TO MOONBASE ALPHA TO CELEBRATE 50 YEARS OF SPACE: 1999 , THE COLDEST, STRANGEST ANDERSON SHOW OF ALL

ANDRZEJ SAPKOWSKI

THE SFX AUTHOR INTERVIEW

Stephen Baxter

The hard SF writer wishes he was a spaceman, the fastest guy alive

AUGUST 2002

SFX’s time machine hurls us back to a random month once again

ROALD DAHL

Celebrate Roald Dahl Day (13 September) with a quiz about the works of the master storyteller

Total Recall

Personal recollections of cherished sci-fi and fantasy

THE LONG WALK

Sole survivors

STRANGE JOURNEY: THE STORY OF ROCKY HORROR

⏵ RELEASED 3 OCTOBER 15

WEAPONS

A runaway success

HAPPYEND

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STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS Season Three

Where someone has gone before

PLAYING GRACIE DARLING

The Kids Are Not Alright

OBJECT Z

Brace for impact

WHO WANTS TO KILL JESSIE?

The Comic Strip Presents

THE MAN IN BLACK

Dyall of destiny

THE DROWNED

The water’s edge

THAT ALIEN, SOUND

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SOMNIUM

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YEAR 10

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THE PROTOS EXPERIMENT

▶ RELEASED OUT NOW! 2025 | 15 |

TROUBLE EVERY DAY

Love bites

THE WOODS

Second time Lucky

LOST IN SPACE

Here’s to you, Mrs Robinson

SHADOWZONE

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RATS: NIGHT OF TERROR

Rodent rage

(ROUND UP)

A shark horror with a twist, DANGEROUS ANIMALS

CROSSROADS OF RAVENS

Meet the young Geralt

THE WORLDS OF HAYAO MIYAZAKI

▶ RELEASED 18 SEPTEMBER 224 pages

MAKING MONSTERS

▶ RELEASED 11 SEPTEMBER 320 pages

SLASHED BEAUTIES

▶ RELEASED 17 SEPTEMBER 352 pages

MOONFLOW

▶ RELEASED OUT NOW! 384 pages |

THE SECOND DEATH OF LOCKE

▶ RELEASED 23 SEPTEMBER 480 pages |

THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK: THE MAKING OF THE CLASSIC FILM

Resurrection Man

SCREAMING AND CONJURING

▶ RELEASED OUT NOW! 466 pages

EXILES

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BIG TIME

▶ RELEASED OUT NOW! 368 pages

SIN BIN ISLAND

▶ RELEASED 11 SEPTEMBER 400 pages |

REISSUES

This month’s biggest paperback is Stephen King’s latest

JOHN WILLIAMS: A COMPOSER’S LIFE

▶ RELEASED OUT NOW! 640 pages

WHO WILL YOU SAVE?

The Powell Service

ALSO OUT

There are plenty more books we couldn’t fit

ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN: INCURSION

Miles apart

SYSTEM PREFERENCE

▶ RELEASED 23 SEPTEMBER ▶ Publisher Titan

TRINITY: DAUGHTER OF WONDER WOMAN

▶ RELEASED OUT NOW! ▶ Publisher DC

DAREDEVIL: COLD DAY IN HELL

Matt finish?

THUNDERBIRDS COMIC ANTHOLOGY Volume One

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TALES OF THE SHIRE

Hobbit farming, but not habit forming

DOCTOR WHO: THE RETURN OF THE DOCTOR

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MERCHANTS OF ANDROMEDA

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SKY: BEFORE THE CHAOS

Into The Woods

DEAD TAKE

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