First Contact

Hailing Frequencies Open!

Rants & Raves

Inside the SFX hive mind

Captain’s Log

“Take your f*cking twink and get the f*ck

Travelling Light Years

What lurks in the garden in new drama Night Sky?

Village People

Alex Garland gets surreal in Men, his latest twist on the horror genre

Chamber Of Secrets

The mundane and the fantastical collide in Night Sky

Killing Jokers

Paul Cornell is taking Wild Cards back to the beginning in The Drawing Of The Cards

Time In The Sun

Sundance Film Festival: London is back with a bang

FAB Three

New Captain Scarlet, Space Precinct and Terrahawks return in comics anthology Spectrum

A Bug’s Life

Al Ewing and Tom Reilly celebrate Ant-Man’s 60th birthday with an era-spanning new miniseries

Dark Bloom

Nancy A Collins on bringing anime Blade Runner: Black Lotus to comic books

SAARA EL-ARIFI

MEET THE EX-MARKETING PROFESSIONAL BEHIND FANTASY THE FINAL STRIFE

JAMES BAMA 1926-2022

King of American fantasy illustration

THE JOY OF SETH

IT’S BEEN THREE YEARS, BUT THE ORVILLE IS READY TO SET SAIL ONCE MORE – AND ITS SIGHTS ARE SET FIRMLY ON NEW HORIZONS

KHAN DO ATITUDE

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER SANA AMANAT AND HEAD WRITER BISHA K ALI EXPLAIN WHY BELOVED COMIC HEROINE MS MARVEL BREAKS NEW GROUND AS A DISNEY+ SERIES

WHEN DINOSAURS RULE THE EARTH

FIRST AN ISLAND, THEN THE ENTIRE PLANET. JURASSIC WORLD DOMINION BRINGS THE DINO-DR AMA TO A CLOSE. FOR NOW…

EDGE OF GLORY

FANS OF SHOULD BE CAREFUL WHAT THEY WISH FOR… SHOWRUNNER ERIC KRIPKE PREPARES TO UNLEASH SEASON THREE

RETURN OF THE JEDI

DISNEY+’S NEW OBI-WAN KENOBI TV SHOW REVEALS WHAT THE VENER ABLE JEDI HAS BEEN UP TO SINCE REVENGE OF THE SITH. WE GET THE LOWDOWN ON A HOTLY ANTICIPATED COMEBACK…

THE KIDS ARE UNITED

BRITISH SF GREAT JOHN WYNDHAM’S CLASSIC NOVEL THE MIDW ICH CUCKOOS HAS BEEN ADAPTED FOR TELEVISION. WRITER DAVID FARR TELLS US HOW HE WENT ABOUT IT

ABOUT A TOY

PIXAR LOOKS TO THE STAR S IN LIG HTYEAR, A SCI-FI ADVENTURE THAT BOLDLY GOES WH ERE NO TOY ST ORY HAS GONE BEFORE…

JM MIRO

Why the award-winning Canadian writer has turned to fantasy

DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS

Strange In Loads Of Strange Lands

EVERY THING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE

Depth and taxes

EARWIG

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ ▶ RELEASED

ALL MY FRIENDS HATE ME

With friends like these

MEN

They’re just normal men

MOON KNIGHT Season One

A marvellous Knight for a Moon dance

SHINING VALE

Season One She’ll be there for you UK

THE RISING

Gone Girl

SHINING GIRLS

Peep In Time

DOCTOR WHO: LEGEND OF THE SEA DEVILS

UK: BBC One, now on iPlayer Also on

NOUGHTS + CROSSES Series Two

Nowhere To Run

OUTER RANGE Season One

Way Out West

THE INNOCENTS

Suffer little children

THE HOUSE NEXT DOOR

★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ▶ RELEASED

HUMAN L ANTERNS

A little light murder

THE RIGHTEOUS

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ ▶ RELEASED

VAMPYR

It’s a Gray area

SNEAKERELLA

★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ▶ RELEASED OUT

THE SADNESS

In With The Id Crowd

BLOOD OF THE VAMPIRE

★ ★ ★ ★ EXTRAS ★ ★ ★

JOHNN Y MNEMONIC

A head for numbers

GIRLS NITE OUT

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ▶ RELEASED

TURNING RED

★★★★☆ EXTRAS ★★★ ☆☆ ▶ RELEASED OUT

BUBBLE

★★☆☆☆ ▶RELEASED OUT NOW! 2022 | 15 |

WYRMWOOD: APOCALYPSE

★★★☆☆ EXTRAS ☆☆ ☆ ☆☆ ▶ RELEASED OUT

THE FOUND FOOTAGE PHENOMENON

ALAMY (1) ★★★☆☆ ▶ RELEASED 19 MAY 2022

STINGRAY

Troy Story

THE PHANTOM EMPIRE

ALAMY (1) ►RELEASED OUT NOW! 1935 | PG

MOONFALL

Rock Follies

ROUND UP

Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg search for the

EVERSION

Inside-out science fiction

EQUINOX

►RELEASED OUT NOW! 336 pages | Hardback/ebook ►Author

THE COLLARBOUND

► RELEASED OUT NOW! 352 pages | Hardback/ebook/

AURORA

Ejectile dysfunction

THE STARDUST THIEF

► RELEASED 19 MAY 468 pages | Hardback/ebook/

SPACE: 1999 – THE VAULT

The Whole Of The Moon

THE PHARMACIST

★★★★★ ► RELEASED OUT NOW! 368 pages |

HIDE

★★★★☆ ► RELEASED 24 MAY 256 pages |

BLACK MAMBA

★★★☆☆ ► RELEASED 2 JUNE 320 pages |

REISSUES

Our pick of the paperbacks this month: TERMINATION

OUR SISTER, AGAIN

►RELEASED OUT NOW! 304 pages | Paperback/ebook ►Author

STAR WARS: BROTHERHOOD

★★☆☆☆ ►RELEASED OUT NOW! 352 pages | Hardback/ebook/

THE CHERRY ROBBERS

★★★★☆ ►RELEASED 2 JUNE 432 pages | Hardback/ebook

ALSO OUT

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

Holly Black

The Spiderwick Chronicles writer has a kitten named after a D&D demon!

Equinox

DISCOVER A SPELLBINDING NEW FANTASY SET IN A WORLD WHERE EACH BODY IS SHARED BY TWO SOULS

SHE-HULK

It Isn’t Easy Being Green

MONKEY PRINCE

★★★☆☆ ►RELEASED OUT NO ►Publisher DC Comics ►Writer

BLACK BETH: VENGEANCE BE THY NAME

►RELEASED 9 JUNE ►Publisher Rebellion ►Writers Unknown, Alec

STAR TREK : KLINGONS/FERENGI

Trek without Terrans

ALL-NEW FIREFLY

★★★★☆ RELEASED OUT NOW! ►Publisher BOOM! Studios ►Writer

LEGO STAR WARS: THE SK Y WALKER SAGA

May the toys be with you

SUPERHEROES, ORPHANS AND ORIGINS

★★★★☆ ►Open until 28 AUGUST ►Venue Foundling Museum,

LUSUS

★★★★☆ ►RELEASED OUT NOW! Approx 30 minutes per

BATMAN: EVERYBODY LIES

Tellin’ Stories

DOCTOR WHO: BACK TO EARTH

★★★★☆ ►RELEASED OUT NOW! 167 minutes | CD/download

JOHN WYNDHAM

As The Midwich Cuckoos comes to the small screen, we pose some, ahem, Random Questions about the renowned British sci-fi author

Funny Man

Personal recollections of cherished sci-fi and fantasy