Star Trek Discovery: Season Three is available on Blu-ray™, DVD and to Download & Keep now from CBS Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Entertainment. To celebrate the release, we’re giving away a copy of Star Trek Discovery: Season Three on Blu-ray™ as well as a Star Trek Discovery Property of U.S.S. Discovery Embroidered Hat and
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Epic Fantasy was something I devoured as a teen and adult. I had read a lot of mythology books, and for me fantasy was an extension of that, creating your own mythology, as it were. It’s still my favourite sub-genre, and I’ve been lucky enough to write myself in that genre. Having said that, I
Released: 20 August 2021 Certificate: 15 Director: David Bruckner Writer: Ben Collins, Luke Piotrowski Cast: Rebecca Hall, Sarah Goldberg, Evan Jonigkeit Distributor: Walt Disney Studios Running Time: 108 mins Rebecca Hall stars as a woman confronted with her own mortality in David Bruckner’s scary supernatural horror The Night House. Recently widowed from her husband Owen
The Virtual Crunchyroll Expo is well underway now and it’s already given us plenty to look forward to, including a deeper look at the new Blade Runner: Black Lotus! Not only has new key art been unveiled (see above) for the new animated series but its opening credits have also been unveiled. It looks as
Summer 2021 anime season is well underway, and while it can’t hope to match the ultra-stacked winter and spring seasons, there’s still plenty to get excited about. Whether anything on offer this quarter will match the dizzying height of spring’s Vivy, To Your Eternity or Odd Taxi, to name just three highlights, remains to be seen, but there’s certainly
Over a three-year period in the late Eighties, Octavia Butler wrote one of the most interesting and thoughtful sci-fi trilogies around. Lilith’s Brood, which consists of Dawn (1987), Adulthood Rites (1988) and Imago (1989) is a fascinating look at interspecies cooperation and co-habitation, as well as a study of humanity, our weaknesses and potential downfalls.
Back in the Dark Ages of the late twentieth century, queer stories in SFF were thin on the ground. We passed around well-worn copies of Ellen Kushner’s Swordspoint or Nicola Griffith’s Slow River, and huddled around the TV on Tuesday nights to watch Willow and Tara fall in love on Buffy the Vampire Slayer (it
Science fiction, speculative fiction, in fact all the sub-genres herein, is a fantastic place to really express emotions, social commentary, thoughts, idealisms, violence, human rights (and lack of) and so on… But writing with these in mind there’s a sense of trepidation and hesitancy. Whether this is a thread of the community in which we
We all know that genre is enjoyed throughout the world, but it’s always great to read genre from the perspective of those from different countries and cultures. That’s why we’re so excited about The Best of World SF – an anthology that draws together stories from across the spectrum of science fiction – robots, spaceships and
Listen up Demon Slayer fans! Young Tanjiro’s mission to figure out a way to turn his sister back into a human will soon be continuing as Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train heads to the UK this May! Check out the trailer here… <span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:
The anime season of winter 2021 will forever be remembered as one of the most spectacular in recent memory. Not only did we have the continuation of modern masterpiece Attack On Titan and practically perfect shounen Jujutsu Kaisen from autumn, but we also had shows like the second half of the second season of the
Do you find yourself shouting “OH COME ON” at fictional characters? If so, please know that you are not alone: I too am perenially that guy complaining that no one in a zombie movie ever seems to have seen a zombie movie, and no one in a vampire book has ever read Dracula. (This leads
Skyward Inn, within the high walls of the Western Protectorate, is a place of safety, where people come together to tell stories of the time before the war with Qita. But safety from what? Qita surrendered without complaint when Earth invaded and innkeepers Jem and Isley, veterans from either side, have regrets but few scars.
With the UK release of the Snyder Cut of Justice League, we thought it would be a good time to count down some of our favourite comics from the League’s heroes. From classic writers like Kirby and Wolfman through to the modern age of Tynion and Wilson, once you’ve read our list you’ll be able
Now that the final episode of WandaVision has aired on Disney+, we count down our top five most wanted pieces of merchandise to show our love for the bewitchingly fun first season… WandaVision kicked off as a black-and-white take on Fifties and Sixties sitcoms, smartly adding a splash of colour as the episodes moved on.
In Residuum (the final instalment in Dominic Dulley’s epic space opera The Long Game series), Orry Kent just wants a quiet life. But even a little R&R on the holiday planet of Halcyon turns wild when she accidentally sparks off a revolution amongst the downtrodden native workers. But that’s small beer compared with the news
Hello SciFiNow, thank you for inviting me to write about my favorite genre, Fantasy, specifically Urban Fantasy. What first drew me into this genre and what fuels my love for it, is the blend of the mundane with the fantastical. How you can go about your everyday life and not know if that cute barista
“Do you write to music?” “Does you have a soundtrack in your head as you plot out each scene?” Writers and artists get asked this from time to time. I suspect every one of us would have different answers if there were enough different answers to go around. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t. For
On publication of her new novel This is Not the Jess Show – described as ‘My So Called Life meets The Truman Show meets Black Mirror‘ – Anna Carey gives us her top nostalgic Nineties screen recs. My So-Called Life This show only needed one season to imprint itself on Nineties teens everywhere. A stark
Hello, SciFiNow! Thanks for inviting me to write something to celebrate The Forever Sea’s release! I was so excited to see my book being labeled ‘hopepunk’ in early reviews, because hope is something I feel very strongly about when it comes to climate stories. I believe there’s a place for stories of warning and doom
People love phones. They’re a small appliance that represents our never-ending hope there is something better to do than what’s currently going on. Teens text in class because they’d rather be somewhere else. Business people text under the table. Partners will doomscroll rather than do laundry. Sure, you can dial 911 on your phone or
The animal world infuses just about everything I write. Spiders, most notably, but also tigers, wolves, dogs and, most recently, bears… Animals have been running through human narratives since before humans were human. We’ve always known that we shared the world with them. Modern life can’t divorce itself from that heritage, whether it’s Paw Patrol
At fifteen, I had spots, a permanent erection and couldn’t do anything with my hair. Every attempt at self-discovery resulted in humiliation. But resembling a stick insect with a toilet brush for a head never stopped me from trying to look cool. That Christmas, I wanted the latest style: a donkey jacket. Did I say
(1993) Trust Tim Burton to bring a gothic slant to festive proceedings by exploring the prospect of a Halloween character standing in for Santa. The result is a morbid stop-motion musical marvel, where presents are delivered to fright rather than delight. (1972) An escaped homicidal maniac dressed as Santa comes knocking after a devious wife
If you asked a random sample of film fans to name an Eighties movie about the threat of nuclear Armageddon, chances are Steve De Jarnatt’s 1988 film Miracle Mile won’t be the one named. John Badham’s suspense thriller WarGames, Mick Jackson’s horrifically realistic BBC docu-drama Threads and Harry T Murakami’s animated drama When The Wind
Do you remember 2019? You could leave your back door open. In fact, you could let members of another household through that back door and into your garden without the neighbours thinking you were a monster. Masks were something you wore to scare people at Halloween, as opposed to a political statement/ IQ test. The
For me, timeless stories are the holy grail of storytelling. I love ‘em. Have done all my life, from long before I really understood why I loved them. I just knew that certain tales clicked more than others. And now, years later, they’re what I aspire to creating. But what do I mean by a
Boy, do we have a great competition for all the Doctor Who fans out there! To celebrate the final set of releases in The Doctors documentary series with the addition of The Peter Davidson Years and The Doctors: Heroes And Villains, we are giving away a complete set of The Doctors releases, from the first
Since Dracula first appeared in Bram Stoker’s novel of the same name in 1897, the character has been depicted in books, graphic novels, cartoons TV, films and even audio dramas. Here, Jonathan Barnes, author of Dracula horror sequel Dracula’s Child runs down his top ten best Draculas in popular culture… Christopher Lee in Count Dracula
“It’s a suburban ghostbusters!” Richard McDowell laughs as we discuss his new TV series Truth Seekers. “Make of that what you will. That’s what makes it unique. There’s no show on television like this, that’s even close to this. There’s lots of wonderful things in it.” Truth Seekers follows the story of Gus (Nick Frost)