First Contact

Hailing Frequencies Open!

Rants & Raves

Inside the SFX hive mind

Captain’s Log

Something we talk about quite a bit now

Into The Spider-Verse

French director Samuel Bodin talks about horror film Cobweb, his debut feature

Return To Arrakis

Florence Pugh as Princess Irulan. WARNER BROS ENTERTAINMENT,

Timely Tribute

The House of Ideas harks back to its halcyon days in giant-sized special Marvel Age #1000

A Musical Marvel

An MCU moment becomes an actual stage show with Rogers: The Musical

SFX SPACE AND TIME celebrating 60 years of DOCTOR WHO

The TARDIS got a new – if somewhat

Big Freeze

It’s getting chilly in Bill Willingham and Leonardo Manco’s new Fire And Ice prequel

Time Warped

Chilling Adventures Presents… Strange Science offers an Archie first

Norse Code

Old Goldilocks undergoes an identity crisis in The Immortal Thor

MIRANDA SUN

MEET THE WRITER BEHIND YA FANTASY IF I HAVE TO BE HAUNTED

MANNY COTO 1961-2023

The man who “wrote the hell out of Star Trek”

STILL ALONE IN THE NIGHT

AS BABYLON 5 RETURNS IN THE ROAD HOME, ITS CREATOR AND STARS TELL SFX ABOUT THE SHOW THAT WAS, THE NEW ANIMATED MOVIE THAT IS, AND THE LIVE-ACTION REBOOT THAT (HOPEFULLY) WILL BE

TRUE BLUE

THE FIRST DCU CHARACTER ARRIVES! BLUE BEETLE DIRECTOR ÁNGEL MANUEL SOTO AND STAR XOLO MARIDUEÑA TALK KICKSTARTING A NEW CINEMATIC UNIVERSE

Piece of The Action

ACTORS IÑAKI GODOY AND EMILY RUDD TALK ABOUT STARRING IN One Piece, NETFLIX’S NEW ADAPTATION OF THE WORLD’S BEST-SELLING MANGA

Times Two

THE WHEEL OF TIME

FORCE OF HABIT

WHAT’S BLACK AND WHITE AND READ ALL OVER? THIS INTERVIEW WITH DIRECTOR MICHAEL CHAVES, ABOUT CONJURING UNIVERSE SEQUEL THE NUN II

EVIL DEAD RISE

DESIGNING

Life, The Universe And Everything

A NEW BOOK ABOUT DOUGLAS ADAMS PRESENTS TREASURES FROM THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY CREATOR’S ARCHIVE. EDITOR KEVIN JON DAVIES GIVES US A PREVIEW

THE GREAT EXPERIMENT

70 YEARS AGO A TV CLASSIC CHILLED THE NATION – AND THAT WAS JUST THE BEGINNING. PREPARE TO FACE THE QUATERMASS PHENOMENON…

CHRISTINA CHONG

FACE TO FACE WITH THE BIGGEST STAR S

FIVE STAR

FASTEN YOUR SEATBELTS FOR A TIME FLIGHT INTO THE FUTURE WITH JANET FIELDING’S AUSSIE AIR HOSTESS TEGAN JOVANKA

JAMES KENNEDY

A whirl of trouble: the American author tells us about turning to horror

HAUNTED MANSION

Is it a worthwhile exorcise?

HAUNTED MANSION

They ain’t ’fraid of no ghosts

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: MUTANT MAYHEM

Cowabunga party

COBWEB

RELEASED 1 SEPTEMBER 15 | 88 minutes Director

BARBIE

Living Doll

THE BLACKENING

RELEASED 25 AUGUST 15 | 97 minutes Director

INSIDIOUS: THE RED DOOR

RELEASED OUT NOW! 15 | 107 minutes Director

PSYCHO-PASS: PROVIDENCE

RELEASED OUT NOW! 15 | 120 minutes Director

MAVKA: THE FOREST SONG

RELEASED OUT NOW! PG | 99 minutes Directors

JUST SUPER

RELEASED OUT NOW! U | 76 minutes There’s

APOCALYPSE CLOWN

RELEASED 1 SEPTEMBER 15 | 102 minutes Half

SECRET INVASION

Full of sound and Fury

FROM Season Two

The Prisoners

FOUNDATION Season Two

138 Years Of Solitude

GOOD OMENS Season Two

The New Testament

THE WITCHER Season Three, Volume Two

UK/US Netflix, streaming now Showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich

SUPA TEAM 4 Season One

GOAT shenanigans

BIONIC TV

We have the technology

PARADISE

The Wonga Years

JUSTICE LEAGUE: WARWORLD

League champions

THE TORTURE CHAMBER OF DR SADISM

RELEASED OUT NOW! 1967 | 15 | Blu-ray

THEY CLONED TYRONE

Copy cats

SATAN’S LITTLE HELPER

RELEASED OUT NOW! 2004 | 15 | Blu-ray

TIM

Tolerably Interesting Movie

MOTHER, MAY I?

RELEASED 28 AUGUST 2023 | 15 | Download

THE INHABITANT

RELEASED 14 AUGUST 2022 | 15 | Download

ALONE AT NIGHT

RELEASED 28 AUGUST 2023 | 15 | Download

BIRD BOX BARCELONA

Seeing is believing

DUNGEONS & DRAGONS HONOUR AMONG THIEVES

Rolls a natural 20 for Charisma

MAGIC COP

RELEASED OUT NOW! 1990 | 15 | Blu-ray

EARWIG

RELEASED OUT NOW! 2022 | 15 | Blu-ray

MURDER ME, MONSTER

RELEASED OUT NOW! 2019 | 18 | Blu-ray

ROUND UP

Though it’s set in the 14th century, anime

CONAN THE BARBARIAN THE OFFICIAL STORY OF THE FILM

Cimmerian tension

PROPHET

RELEASED 24 AUGUST 480 pages | Hardback/ebook/ audiobook

IMMORTAL LONGINGS

RELEASED OUT NOW! 384 pages | Hardback/ebook/ audiobook

THE WEAVER AND THE WITCH QUEEN

RELEASED OUT NOW! 412 pages | Paperback/ebook/ audiobook

THE SUN AND THE VOID

RELEASED OUT NOW! 528 pages | Hardback/ebook Author

REISSUES

Our pick of the latest paperbacks: Sunyi Dean’s

BRIDE OF THE TORNADO

RELEASED 15 AUGUST 336 pages | Paperback/ebook/ audiobook

OH GOD, THE SUN GOES

RELEASED OUT NOW! 240 pages | Paperback/ebook Author

THE EXORCIST LEGACY

RELEASED OUT NOW! 304 pages | Hardback/ebook/ audiobook

ALSO OUT

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

Claire North

Looks like Catherine Webb may need a sci-fi pen name next…

THE EXPANSE: DRAGON TOOTH

Keep on Rocinante

A GUEST IN THE HOUSE

RELEASED 17 AUGUST Publisher Faber & Faber Writer/artist

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY

RELEASED OUT NOW! Publisher Marvel Comics Writers Collin

EXTREME VENOMVERSE

A superfluity of symbionts

MOTHER NATURE

RELEASED OUT NOW! Publisher Titan Comics Writers Jamie

EXOPRIMAL

Tyrannosaurus/mechs

OXENFREE II: LOST SIGNALS

►RELEASED OUT NOW! ►Reviewed on PlayStation 5 ►Also

STARSHIP TROOPERS

►RELEASED OUT NOW! ►86 minutes | Vinyl ►Label

MARVEL MULTIVERSE ROLE-PLAYING GAME

Be your own hero

DOCTOR WHO: TRAVEL IN HOPE

►RELEASED OUT NOW! ►165 minutes | CD/download ►Publisher

HORSES

The SFX quiz

BRIDGE

Worming her way in SEX LOVES * * *

MASTERS OF DEATH

SEX LOVES * * * * * ►RELEASED

THE LONELY LANDS

►RELEASED 15 AUGUST 256 pages | Hardback/paperback/ ebook

THE KINDNESS

The unkindness of strangers

THE FRUGAL WIZARD’S HANDBOOK FOR SURVIVING MEDIEVAL ENGLAND

RELEASED OUT NOW! 384 pages | Hardback/ebook Author

Twilight

TotalRecall Personal recollections of cherished sci-fi and fantasy