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RICHARD EDWARDS EDITOR RAVES David Tennant as Crowley and Michael Sheen as Aziraphale? The casting in the new Good Omens TV show is perfect. So excited about Discovery. It’s been too long since boldly going was last a TV staple. RANTS Disappointed that the next Star Wars will focus on Obi- Wan Kenobi. I’m not fussed about character prequels. IAN BERRIMAN REVIEWS EDITOR RAVES Enjoyed The Defenders, though I was kinda checking my watch whenever Jessica Jones wasn’t on-screen… Delighted Silva Screen has reissued Tristram Cary’s music from 1963 Doctor Who episode “The Daleks”. Shame it’s not on vinyl, though. Currently rewatching The Twilight Zone. It’s so moreish! JONATHAN COATES ART EDITOR RAVES Almost too excited by the prospect of a live-action Jetsons series. Hope they keep the twinkly title…

FEMALE DRIVE “The old film has four guys and one girl,” says Oplev, “and that kind of reflects the world of nearly 30 years ago, but we have three very strong women and two cool guys, which reflects more the world we live in today. That was part of the reason why I liked the project. I have great compassion for strong female characters and I think they’re super-interesting on screen. I suppose I was in on creating a character that put a mark on the world with Lisbeth Salander.” MEDICAL MARVEL A team of researchers worked hard to ensure Flatliners featured the most up-to-date medical know-how. “All the medical procedures being correct brings out drama and gives an incredible tension to the scenes where the characters are trying to…

SCI-FACT! Only three members of The Exorcist’s main cast – the priests – return for the second season. MINOR PROBLEMS “I play a foster kid named Verity. She is on the verge of turning 18, which means she is about to be kicked out of the system. And John Cho plays Andrew, who is the foster father of four foster kids.” SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE “When I was growing up I was super into scary movies. I loved horror and slasher films, and my friends and I would sit around and have movie nights. I think my best friend showed me the original Exorcist film when I was in junior high school! [Laughs]” ENDURANCE TEST “I’ve always loved being scared, and the challenge. I like to see if movies can scare…

The Marvel Cinematic Universe’s winning streak is poised to continue next year with the studio’s TV comedy adaptation of New Warriors. The show will feature This Is Us star Milana Vayntrub as Squirrel Girl, Derek Theler as Mister Immortal, Jeremy Tardy as Night Thrasher, Calum Worthy as Speedball, Matthew Moy as Microbe and Kate Comer as Debrii. While promoting her new interactive rom-com That Moment When (produced by The Guild star Sandeep Parikh) at Comic-Con 2017, Vayntrub tells Red Alert of her introduction to the Warriors’ world… “My friend bought me a bunch of the comics because he thought that I reminded him of the character. And when I read them I thought, ‘I remind myself of this character!’ Then he heard there was a show, and he said, ‘You…

MCM LONDON COMIC CON 27-29 October The epic geek love-in returns to ExCel London in Royal Victoria Dock, with special guests yet to be announced. Oh, and kids go free. Which is nice. mcmcomiccon.com/london FRIGHTFEST HALLOWEEN 28 October London’s premier horror festival returns for a Halloween special at the Prince Charles Cinema in London. Films are to be announced nearer the time, but expect scares aplenty. Natch. frightfest.co.uk ARMADACON 3-5 November The sci-fi and fantasy con has been running in Plymouth since 1988, and returns to the Future Inns for another year of all things geek. armadacon.org GOLLANCZ FESTIVAL 2017 4 November Our pals at Gollancz round up another stellar bunch of sci-fi and fantasy writers (including Joanne Harris and Joe Hill) at Foyles on Charing Cross Road, London. foyles.co.uk…

SCI-FACT! Aldiss invented the mini-saga, an extremely short story form of exactly 50 words. “Brian was a man of limitless curiosity and in his work he was analysing the world, whereas Jimmy [JG Ballard], for instance, imposed his ideas on reality. I think if Brian had been more impositional or had a series character, perhaps, he might have had a higher profile in the SF world. Happily, his literary reputation continues to grow.” Michael Moorcock “The strengths [in his work] come from the sheer quality of his writing – it was fine writing in every sense, whatever genre he wrote for – but in SF he approached Wells, I think, in his mixture of humanity and grand Darwinian vistas. He was restless, and endlessly experimental, in itself a great strength.…

SCI-FACT! Before writing, Leckie had jobs as a rodman on a land surveying team and as a recording engineer. How do you follow up the most extraordinary success? It’s not a problem most of us ever have, but it’s certainly affected Ann Leckie whose debut, Ancillary Justice, garnered Hugo, Nebula, Clarke and BSFA awards. One answer, she says, is to remember to stop to be grateful. “I still really enjoy seeing all my awards trophies on the shelf,” she laughs. Another answer is to keep working and this autumn brings the publication of Provenance (see review on p106), a standalone novel set in the same universe as, but not directly following on from, her Imperial Radch trilogy. It’s a novel, she says, born of wanting “to write a book that…

We’re celebrating 30 years of Star Trek: The Next Generation this issue. Yes, time flies, especially when you have a Borg sphere generating a temporal vortex to the 21st century (hold on, this section’s actually called First Contact – it’s all connected!). Your memories of Picard and crew fill the Hot Topic slot this month while the star letter wins a copy of Eight Lamentations: Spear Of Shadows by Josh Reynolds, the new Warhammer: Age Of Sigmar title from Black Library. Don’t forget to write to us – you’ll find contact details on the opposite page.…

“MAGICAL SWORDS HAVE TO BE FORGED, THRONES BUILT AND GILDED” Recently, at a talk about the ancient Greek myth of Penelope, I learned that words relating to weaving have the same origin as those for storytelling, specifically the words “text” and “textile”. So perhaps it was inevitable that, as a writer, weaving has become one of my main pastimes. I’ve always blamed it on the fact that writing makes you wait, often for a year or more, for a sense of achievement. Weaving can provide that satisfaction sooner. Writing has also worn out my back, so that to keep myself strong and pain-free I need to spend a good deal of time away from the computer. Weaving on a floor loom is a surprisingly mobile activity, gently using my whole…

FACE TO FACE WITH THE BIGGEST STARS “PART OF CLAIRE’S DNA IS THAT SHE’S A SURVIVOR” Biodata Occupation Actor Born 4 October 1979 From Dublin, Ireland Greatest hits Super 8, Now You See Me, Escape Plan, Money Monster Random fact In 2006, when Balfe was primarily modelling, she played a small part as a Runway Magazine employee in The Devil Wears Prada. See if you can spot her... If Outlander’s proved anything to the masses, it’s that time-travel stories don’t just have to be about paradoxical dilemmas. In fact they can be sexy as hell. Based on the bestselling novel series by Diana Gabaldon, Ronald D Moore’s adaptation of the books has faithfully brought to life the timecrossed love story of 20th century nurse Claire Randall – played by Caitriona…

MATTHEW VAUGHN HAS THE perfect tagline for his new movie. It’s one you won’t be seeing on a billboard. “No one will let me use it,” he tells SFX. “I want to scream out, ‘If you didn’t like the first Kingsman you’re going to fucking hate this one!’ And that’s the attitude I’ve made the film with.” It’s a line that’s pure essence of Vaughn, so in your face you fear for your teeth. This is, after all, the provocateur who mixed fine tailoring, tar-black satire and delirious ultra-violence in 2014’s Kingsman: The Secret Service. Adapting the comic book by Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons, it was a propulsive love letter to the spy-fi genre, charting London street kid Eggsy’s metamorphosis from Burberry-clad no-hoper to immaculate gentleman agent. My Fair…

“THE ONLY THING YOU CAN CONTROL IS THE WORK” Biodata Occupation Novelist Born 7 July 1968, New Jersey From Shropshire Greatest Hits Dreaming In Smoke won the Clarke, while Maul and Occupy Me were also both shortlisted for the award. Random Fact Sullivan’s fascination with ASMR (autonomic sensory meridian response), “a YouTube subculture connected to calming people through sensory triggers, especially sound, that produce unique, characteristic physical sensations (usually things like scalp tingles)” influenced Sweet Dreams. There are times when writing careers don’t quite go as planned. Between 2010 and 2014, Tricia Sullivan, despite having won the 1999 Arthur C Clarke Award for Dreaming In Smoke, was out of contract. It would be 2016 before Gollancz would publish her book, Occupy Me. So what happened? “Most of this delay is…

Why Michael? Is this an “A Boy Named Sue” thing?! It’s not! Bryan Fuller typically has his female leads have male names. I was so happy they decided to go with it, because I think so many things are being touched on. It’s the power of androgyny that we find in the future – a lot of aspects of society have been ameliorated by embracing androgyny. What I created was that Michael was named after her father, which is something you don’t see very often. That’s also an interesting dynamic that we’re exploring. Burnham was brought up on Vulcan. How has that informed her personality? I’m the only human to have not just attended the Vulcan Science Academy, but excelled. I think that speaks to Burnham’s level of intelligence. Burnham…

Does Saru’s race have any special abilities? If you saw the trailer, there’s one quote everyone’s been hanging on: “My people have been biologically engineered for one purpose and one purpose alone: to sense the coming of death!” So the guesses are out there. Is he clairvoyant? Can he predict the future? I think of it like the family dog. Dogs start howling at things that you don’t hear. That’s me! And there’s a physical trait that pops out every so often – it’s like, “Oh jeez, it’s embarrassing,” because I’m the only one of my kind in Starfleet. But it’s indicative that I can sense things, like an animal can, before the humans can. So you’re the canary in the mine? Yeah, exactly. My people come from a planet…

Was this a particularly intense shoot? “Gruelling and intense” are pretty much the right words, especially on a film that doesn’t have a $150 million budget. And you don’t have that many days, so there were a lot of times we worked 20 hours and then went to sleep. And at the same time Idris was doing this film, he was training for a kickboxing fight show! Did you want to emphasise in-camera effects rather than CGI? My thing is always trying to keep it real, so I assembled a team who were all into that. We didn’t want a big, fantasy, scrolling colours, kids’ film, and it’s not like a Warcrafttype fantasy film. We wanted both New York and Mid-World to feel extremely real; extremely grounded in reality. Was…

RELEASED 4 OCTOBER 15 | 93 minutes Director Masaaki Yuasa Cast Gen Hoshino, Kana Hanazawa, Hiroyuki Yoshino, Keiji Fujiwara Anime it may be, but this offbeat film feels remarkably close to one of the urbane comedy-fantasy books by Terry Pratchett or Tom Holt. It’s a series of beguilingly weird and madcap adventures set in the venerable Japanese city of Kyoto, drawn in an artfully loose, whimsical style. Over a very long night, a hapless young man encounters divinities, magic books, fairytale feasts and rogue theatre companies. All the while he’s chasing a heroically unflappable girl who’d impress Pratchett’s Granny Weatherwax. This is a Japanese A Midsummer Night’s Dream, with some of the libidinally-frustrated farce of Scorsese’s After Hours. Bits of the comedy feel Python-esque (there’s even a silly walk), but…

SPOILER WARNING! AMBER ALERT After the shock wave hits the Covenant, familiar shapes flash on monitors as Walter extinguishes flaming controls. Orange crosses like this also featured in Alien, Blade Runner and Prometheus. NAILING IT In Blade Runner, Roy Batty sticks a nail through his hand, and says, “That’s the spirit!” when Deckard wallops him with a pipe. David says the same thing after Daniels sticks a nail in his throat. A CREEPY TAIL This shot of a Xeno tail rising up between the legs of Upworth and Ricks recalls a similar image just before the death of Lambert in Alien. FLIPPING THE BIRD Most obvious: there is a pair of “drinking bird” toys on the dining table in the Nostromo. One turns up again on the Covenant. Did Weyland-…

EXTRAS RELEASED OUT NOW 1966 | 15 | Blu-ray & DVD (dual format) Director Mario Bava Cast Giacomo Rossi-Stuart, Erika Blanc, Fabienne Dali, Piero Lulli BLU-RAY DEBUT Many of the most effective examples of cinematic surrealism can be found in the horror genre, and this film includes a real doozy. The hero runs out of a room… into an identical room. He tries again, with the same result. Chasing after someone exiting through the door opposite, the pattern repeats… and repeats. Gradually gaining on the mystery man, on the sixth and final loop he grabs hold of them, turning the figure to reveal: himself! This gobsmacking WTF moment is just one highlight of Italian horror maestro Mario Bava’s sublime exercise in style. Set in 1907, it follows a doctor sent…

EXTRAS RELEASED OUT NOW! 2017 | 15 | Blu-ray/DVD Thirteen years in the making, Andrew Getty’s The Evil Within is finally released two years after the director’s death. Getty spent millions fastidiously polishing every frame of this shocker about Dennis, a young man with learning difficulties sent on an evil mirror-inspired killing spree. There are some arresting visuals (an animatronic band with an octopus drummer!), but the plot is a mess, the dialogue’s awful and Fred Koehler’s Dennis is an astonishingly ill-advised, offensive caricature. Extras None.…

EXTRAS RELEASED OUT NOW! 1940 | PG | DVD Director Ernest B Schoedsack Cast Albert Dekker, Thomas Coley, Janice Logan, Charles Halton “You are tampering with powers reserved for God!” someone tells the titular bad egg of this pulpy romp – words to give a sense of career satisfaction to any selfrespecting mad scientist. Albert Dekker is the myopic Cyclops, all bottle-top specs, shaved dome and perfect manners. Experimenting with radium deposits in the Amazon jungle, he discovers a way to reduce human beings to doll size. Honey, he shrunk the heroes… then dressed them in handkerchiefs, the fiend. Based on a Henry Kuttner tale in Thrilling Wonder Stories, it’s helmed by Ernest B Schoedsack, one of the team who brought King Kong to the screen. While Kong was a…

First, let’s detail the latest avalanche of TV box sets. Available to buy now are Dark Matter season three, The Flash season three, Person Of Interest season five and Supernatural season 12, with Arrow season five arriving on 18 September. Also out: a new 15th Anniversary box set of Joss Whedon’s unjustly short-lived “space western” Firefly – no new extras, but you do get 10 art cards, five stickers and a fold-out poster. A 20th anniversary DVD box set of Buffy follows hot on its heels on 18 September. Making its HD debut: GERRY ANDERSON’S NEW CAPTAIN SCARLET (out now, Blu-ray). In 2005 we were blown away by this CGI update of the classic puppet show. We said: “The CGI is uncanny, the scripts are intelligently written, and there are…

RELEASED OUT NOW! 400 pages | Paperback/ebook Author Ferrett Steinmetz Publisher Angry Robot In this standalone by the author of the ’Mancer trilogy, the dead rule the living. Generations of digitally uploaded deceased enjoy paradise while keeping the living in a miserable state. For the mortal masses, life is worthless; they dream of suicide and cyber-immortality. Our living hero is Amichai, a prankster rebel in a New York orphanage, who’ll move (digital) heaven for his hospitalised sister. A social pariah, Amichai finds himself on an undercover mission to a hidden computer tower. What he finds will shake civilisation, living and dead... The book marries a bold premise to a highly entertaining adventure, though the two sides don’t always mesh. It depicts a vivid alternate world where fleshy life is seen…

RELEASED OUT NOW! 333 pages | Hardback/ebook Author Omar El Akkad Publisher Picador Sarat Chestnut is just a child when the Second American Civil War breaks out after four Southern States refuse to quell their reliance on fossil fuels. Displaced by the fighting to a refugee camp, Sarat attracts the attention of a recruiter for the rebel cause, in the process setting in motion a chain of events that will bring ruin upon what’s left of her country. Set in the near future, American War is a study of radicalisation that tips our world upside down. The Free Southern States that Sarat calls home rely on aid shipments from China and the Middle East, while a US president is killed by a domestic-born “homicide bomber”. Omar El Akkad’s topically minded…

RELEASED 15 SEPTEMBER 208 pages | Paperback/ebook Author Liam Brown Publisher Legend Press Charlie Brooker has pretty much cornered the market in technofear Twilight Zone parables, so if you’re going to dabble in similar themes, you need to be sure you’ve got something new to say. Sadly, with his novel Broadcast, Liam Brown hasn’t. Brown is clearly an author with talent: his prose is compelling, his pacing is page-turning, and his characters are lively. But this tale of a vlogger who becomes the star of a new form of web-based reality TV feels like a lot of ideas we’ve seen or read before. Many times. Broadcast’s protagonist, David Callow, has a chip inserted in his head which means that viewers of “MindCast” can see his thoughts. But the company that…

RELEASED 19 SEPTEMBER 256 pages | Hardback Authors Syd Mead, Craig Hodgetts Publisher Titan Books In the world of movie concept art, two names stand head and shoulders above the rest: legendary Star Wars draughtsman Ralph McQuarrie, and Syd Mead, the man who helped Ridley Scott visualise the grimy future LA of Blade Runner. This comprehensive journey through Mead’s filmography celebrates his work in the best possible way: by showcasing lots of his art. Whereas McQuarrie’s most famous work is unashamedly cinematic, Mead’s is more functional and grounded, stirring the cerebellum as much as the heart. While he’s capable of beautiful Chris Foss-like space scenes, more often his designs have a rigorous detail that makes you feel you’ve got the instructions you need to build the tech of Aliens’s Sulaco…

Get sci-fi news, reviews and features at gamesradar.com/sfx ▸RELEASED OUT NOW! ▸Publisher Marvel ▸Writer David F Walker ▸Artist Nelson Black II ISSUES 1-4 The onscreen Marvel universe may not be quite as interconnected as it once was, but Marvel’s comics division is still happy to jump on the corporate synergy bandwagon by linking fresh titles with blockbuster movies and gritty TV projects. The latest example of this habit has been occurring across the last 12 months, in the run-up to the release of Netflix’s Marvel superhero team-up The Defenders. Not only is there a new Defenders title, but we’ve also been given ongoing solo series for team members Jessica Jones, Iron Fist and – most recently – Luke Cage. Cage has been a mainstay of the Marvel Universe for decades,…

▸RELEASED OUT NOW! ▸Publisher Breakdown Press ▸Writer/artist Shaky Kane COLLECTION Shaky Kane is one of the most distinctive – and undersung – comics talents of the last 40 years; a post-punk Jack Kirby whose A-Men and Space Boss strips were surreal highlights of late-’80s/ early-’90s magazine Deadline. This overdue volume collects all of his work for the title together for the first time. Kane’s work frequently takes pop culture icons (Daleks and Elvis are just two that pop up here) and repurposes them in psychedelic new contexts. His lines are sharp and clean, his colours (when he employs them – much of this early work is monochrome) flat and pop art bold. The early A-Men strips (in which an ultra-religious police force roams Manchester offing unbelievers) owe a lot to…

Get sci-fi news, reviews and features at gamesradar.com/sfx ▸RELEASED OUT NOW! ▸Reviewed on PS4 ▸Also on PC ▸Publisher Ninja Theory VIDEOGAME Hellblade is like little we’ve seen before. There’s DNA of Ninja Theory’s earlier, actionorientated works here, but also spatial puzzling, harrowing audiovisual storytelling and a blend of unusual new ideas. It charts Celtic warrior Senua’s quest to rescue a loved one’s soul from the Norse underworld, and her battle with trauma-induced psychosis. You experience the world as she processes it: distorted and twisted by her illness. Mental health has often been poorly portrayed within games, so it’s refreshing to see a sympathetic interpretation. But there’s no attempt to shy away from the uglier aspects of a psychotic illness, with horrific imagery throughout. It’s the audio work that really envelops…

▸RELEASED OUT NOW! ▸Reviewed on PC ▸Also on PS4, Xbox One, mobile ▸Publisher Telltale Games VIDEOGAME The first season of Telltale’s Batman was mixed, but did establish one of the most strikingly different takes on the hero we’ve seen. Season two opener “The Enigma” builds on that foundation, ushering in a sequel that looks set to surpass its predecessor. In the aftermath of the Children of Arkham, it seems Batman’s let the genie out of the bottle. Sleazy Mafiosos are out, costumed weirdos are in. Enter the Riddler, returning proto-Joker John Doe and a ruthless supervillain-hunting government agency. Don’t fear if you missed the first season – thanks to an opening recap and mostly clean-slate story, it’s easy to get up to speed. Things kick off in the form of…

We don’t have enough homegrown sci-fi on TV these days. In recent years the UK has produced more one-season wonders than bona fide new hits, leaving genre stalwarts Doctor Who and Red Dwarf to carry the torch. While the Time Lord is frequently held up as a British cultural icon, however, I don’t think the boys from the Dwarf get the credit they deserve. This is a show in its 30th year, that continues to be both loaded with unconventional sci-fi ideas and very funny – an achievement that deserves to be shouted about. So with Red Dwarf XII heading Earthwards in October, I had the privilege of meeting the show’s stars, with one mission: to ask them your questions (p40). Elsewhere in this packed-to-bursting issue, we’ve been on set…

SCI-FACT! This isn’t Green Ninja Lloyd’s movie debut – he cameoed as a Master Builder in The Lego Movie. It’s ninjas and giant robots and kung fu, and it’s fun mixing all of these genres YOU DON’T NEED TO KNOW NINJAGO 1 It may have spawned numerous toy sets, videogames, a TV show and more, but if you’re not a pre-teen (or the parent of one), chances are Lego Ninjago has passed you by. Newbies have nothing to fear, however. “I think we were really aware that unless you’re ten years old you probably haven’t heard of Ninjago, so we wanted to make sure the film didn’t only play to fans,” The Lego Ninjago Movie director Charlie Bean tells Red Alert. “It’s an introduction to the crazy world of Ninjago…

SCI-FACT! Luke shares Ahch-To with an all-female group of fish-like aliens known as Caretakers. They merely tolerate his presence. You know how invading ETs, however powerful, usually get sent packing by the human race? New TV drama Extinct takes place 400 years in a postapocalyptic future, where an alien faction has to resurrect three Reborns to restart human civilisation. But the trio must overcome new dangers, uncover secret agendas and battle the aliens that killed off humanity in the first place. “This is a show about second chances,” executive producer Aaron Johnston tells Red Alert. “We find ourselves in the worst possible circumstances. The human race doesn’t exist anymore. Everything that gives us joy, everything that defines us as human beings, is gone. This isn’t a show that wallows in…

Tell us about your protagonist. Catherine Helstone is very much a gothic heroine: curious but sheltered, passionate but repressed, ambitious but held back by her position in society. She travels to fairyland to find her missing missionary brother. Things go very badly for her there. What in particular inspired the book? I came across some grotty old books in the university library that turned out to be Victorian missionary manuals. Reading them and seeing how much they thought they were dealing with utterly alien people, I wanted them to meet some actual alien beings. So I took passages about weird foreigners in missionary manuals literally, and made them the Fae. How long did it take? It started off as three books, the earliest of which I started over a decade…

JEDI HARDER! OBI-WAN KENOBI Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi is the next Star Wars icon in search of a spin-off movie. Lucasfilm is reportedly in the early stages of developing a standalone adventure for the character, set to be directed by Stephen Daldry, Oscarnominated director of The Hours and Billy Elliot. The big question, of course, is just where it will slot into Star Wars chronology: will we see his original initiation into the Jedi order? Maybe we’ll follow him into battle in the Clone Wars? Or could we be gripped by scenes of self-imposed exile on Tatooine, practising his party piece impression of a desert dragon? You should hear his mating Bantha squeal too. It’s very good. No word on whether Ewan McGregor will reprise his best Alec Guinness from…

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CELEBRATING CLASSIC SF & FANTASY NOVELS It is the year 2034, four decades after a third world war left the planet a bombed-out, charred husk of a dystopian nightmare, littered with roving gangs, disparate communities, and mutant animals. For 15-year-old Vic, navigating the nuclear wastes puts him in a steady pursuit of the three things every teenage boy thinks about: food, sleep and girls. Trouble is, in the postapocalyptic wastes of the 21st century, the only thing harder to find than a meal and a place to crash for the night is girls. Good thing for Vic his trusty companion, Blood, is a telepathic wunderkind with the nose inherited from a world-class narcotics dog of an ancestor. And the one thing Blood can sniff out better than anything else is…

Were you always confident you were going to get a sequel? I have unwavering faith in Mr Vaughn. I think he’s a freak of nature in the nicest possible way. He knows exactly what he’s trying to create, and he’s uncompromising and tenacious in his pursuit of it. He wanted a sequel. Kingsman was an origin story and there was a justified question about what happens next. That, and the prospect of making hundreds of millions of dollars, is a good reason to make a sequel. It doesn’t work when it’s just about the making hundreds of millions of dollars… You had to hit the gym again. Could you ever be one of those action stars that has to be permanently match-fit? That wouldn’t be a life well led. The…

What’s your character like? She’s a veteran. She’s seen the horrors of war, but she has great hope for humanity. I think that was one of the reasons why Sarek put Burnham in her charge – because Michael’s human, she’s trying harder to be a Vulcan than any Vulcan. And there’s this amazing captain who anybody would follow the path of, who believes that at the end of the day, it’s humanity and compassion that will win. That it is okay to feel – and in fact, it’s very important to feel. What’s her relationship with Burnham like? She is her mentor. It’s really been a seven-year journey between those two, how they’ve learned to respect and love one another. It’s like best friends, or mother/ daughter – a really,…

THOMAS NIGEL KNEALE’S THREE 1950s BBC TV serials about rocket scientist Professor Bernard Quatermass were among the first examples of televised science fiction in Britain. Over 60 years later, they remain some of the finest. Between 1953 and 1958, audiences in the United Kingdom tuned in in their millions. In atmospheric black and white, viewers witnessed the dogged scientist confront a mutant parasite, alien infiltrators of the British establishment and, the trilogy’s finest moment, the paranormal legacy of Martian experiments on humanity’s ancestors. Testifying to the impact of Kneale’s professor, all three serials were made into successful movies by Hammer Films. Five years after the professor’s sole outing in colour in Hammer’s Quatermass And The Pit and on the eve of the 15th anniversary of the first series, The Quatermass…

RELEASED OUT NOW! 15 | 102 minutes Director Christophe Honoré Cast Amira Akili, Sébastien Hirel, Damien Chapelle, Mélodie Richard Get sci-fi news, reviews and features at gamesradar.com/sfx Ovid’s narrative poem Metamorphoses is 15 volumes long, and takes in more than 250 individual myths. It would be impossible for one film to dramatise the epic in its entirety. Instead, Christophe Honoré hones in on Europe (Amira Akili), a young woman who encounters a succession of deities, from libidinous Jupiter to the menacing Bacchus and finally Orphée. They proceed to regale her with tales of humans turned into animals; the dreadful story of the Minas sisters, kidnapped and tormented because they refused to believe in the gods; of the murder of 100-eyed Argus, and more. Playing out in present-day France, with a cast…

15 SEPTEMBER MOTHER! Darren Aronofsky’s latest follows “a couple whose relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home”. Judging by the freakiness of the trailer we’re expecting Rosemary’s Baby-style Satanists. CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND This 40th anniversary reissue is a 4K restoration of the third cut of Steven Spielberg’s film; the 1998 Collector’s Edition, made for home video. Not screening near you? Don’t fret: a Blu-ray’s out on 18 September. 20 SEPTEMBER KINGSMAN: THE GOLDEN CIRCLE Eggsy and a miraculously still-alive Harry Hart team up with their American counterparts, Statesman, in this second outing for the Mark Millar comics franchise. 27 SEPTEMBER YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN Mel Brooks’s Universal horror parody is the second ’70s classic getting a revival this month. Worth the price of admission just to…

EXTRAS RELEASED 2 OCTOBER (out 19 September on download) 2017 | 12 | Blu-ray/DVD/VOD/download Directors Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg Cast Johnny Depp, Javier Bardem, Brenton Thwaites, Kaya Scodelario We’re now five films into a series that started well, got a little swamped in the middle, and then faltered badly last time. It’s quite the achievement for a franchise based on a theme park ride. So does Salazar’s Revenge match the high watermarks of the Pirates saga? Only occasionally. At this point, you know what to expect. Johnny Depp will dig out his drunk schtick as Jack Sparrow. He’ll be aided by a couple of camera-ready youthful types (here, Brenton Thwaites’s driven Henry Turner and Kaya Scodelario’s smart, resourceful Carina Smyth). He’ll face a serious supernatural threat, needing to sail off…

EXTRAS RELEASED 18 SEPTEMBER 2017 | 12 | DVD/download Stop us if you’ve heard this one before. Three filmmakers head into the wilderness and don’t come back. Years later their tapes are found. But it’s UFOs, not witchcraft, in this found-footage flick inspired by the Phoenix Lights case. The leads are good, and the film has an authentically retro look, but boy is it dull, with an unsurprising ending. And the framing device – a grieving relative investigates – is shoddily abandoned. Extras None.…

EXTRAS RELEASED OUT NOW! 1988 | 18 | Blu-ray BLU-RAY DEBUT Though it dials up the gore, this goofy ’80s horror feels like a throwback to an earlier age. A bunch of teens are drawn into a waxworks’ vignettes – portals to encounters with classic menaces like a mummy, aristo vampires and de Sade. The format is pure Amicus anthology; Hammer horror is homaged; the sight of familiar thesps like Avengers star Patrick Macnee delights. But it doesn’t have much to offer beyond fanboy shivers of recognition. Extras Commentary; Making Ofs; gallery; trailer.…

EXTRAS RELEASED OUT NOW! 1993 | 18 | Blu-ray Director Brian Yuzna Cast Melinda Clarke, Kent McCord, J Trevor Edmond, Sarah Douglas BLU-RAY DEBUT Years before Edward ran his icy fingers across Bella’s cheek, numerous films explored the forbidden attraction between humans and monsters. La Belle Et La Bête, The Company Of Wolves... Return Of The Living Dead III? Make no mistake: this is pure ’90s VHS sleaze, but its coy exploration of kink and sexuality elevates it above the usual low-budget sequel. After being revived by her boyfriend following a motorcycle accident, teen zombie Julie (Melinda Clarke) discovers that hurting herself is the only thing that keeps her cravings for flesh at bay. Equating insatiable hunger with sexual desire begs to be deconstructed – one striking scene sees Julie…

EXTRAS RELEASED 18 SEPTEMBER 1959 | U | Blu-ray & DVD (dual format) Director Henry Levin Cast James Mason, Pat Boone, Arlene Dahl, Gertrude the Duck The hollow Earth is one of the more enduring itches in the human imagination, powering everything from Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Pellucidar novels to Nazi occultism. This Cinemascope blockbuster adapts Jules Verne’s 1864 novel, mining the same strain of Victorian high adventure that made 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea a hit. It even steals that film’s star, James Mason, cast here as Sir Oliver Lindenbrook, a geology professor determined to locate the secret entrance to the planet’s interior. It’s a robust, good-hearted exploration yarn, squarely aimed at the family audience (though the bloody demise of a comedy duck sidekick strikes a weirdly dark note). Maybe…

RELEASED 21 SEPTEMBER 349 pages | Hardback/ebook Author Jay Jay Burridge Publisher Supersaurs “What would the world look like if dinosaurs never died out?” is the premise of the first in this new series aimed at 9-12-year-olds. The answer is “Exactly the same, but with dinosaurs”. It’s set in a 1930s where World War One has happened and people sing “Knees Up Mother Brown” in the music halls of London, but you can now ride an allosaur through the fields of Oxfordshire. Firstly, this feels like a failure of imagination. If humankind had existed alongside dinosaurs, the world would be unimaginably different from the one we know. Secondly, if you’re going to set it in an unchanged 1930s, it would be more fun to see dinosaurs within that modern world,…

DOCTOR WHO: NOW WE ARE SIX HUNDRED RELEASED 14 SEPTEMBER 118 pages | Hardback/ebook Author James Goss Publisher BBC Books • This “collection of Time Lord verse” bears a remarkable resemblance to AA Milne’s Winnie-The- Pooh collection Now We Are Six. • Cue a collection of poems in a similar style, but centred on a certain Time Lord, his companions and adventures. • Some are modelled after specific poems, such as “The Flower Sour”, which plays on Milne’s “Daffowdowndilly”, but describes the Nestene’s deadly plastic daffodils. • Others are original, including the Adricreferencing “The Boy Wonder”: “I’m very good at maths/So why does no-one like me?” (We snickered.) • The poems are fairly charming, but the conceit gets tired pretty quickly. • The illustrations – by former showrunner Russell T…

Not enough books for ya? Here’s some more, you great word-gannets. In Paul Hoffman’s SCORN (out now, Red Opera) a scientist transformed by a Large Hadron Collider experiment eats the priests who brutalised him as a child – then sets his sights on the likes of Tony Blair and the Pope! Delilah S Dawson’s prequel STAR WARS: PHASMA (out now, Century) sees an adversary of the First Order officer bent on unearthing her mysterious origins, while short story collection INFINITY WARS (out now, Solaris) unites military SF tales by the likes of Elizabeth Bear and Garth Nix. Teenage assassin Mia returns in book two of Jay Kristoff’s Nevernight Chronicle saga, GODSGRAVE (out now, Harper Voyager). We rather enjoyed book one, calling it “entertaining and witty throughout”. Also continuing: Trudi Canavan’s…

▸RELEASED OUT NOW! ▸Publisher Image Comics ▸Writers Dustin Weaver, DJ Bryant ▸Artist Dustin Weaver ISSUES 1-3 This new anthology series is a vehicle for writer/ artist Dustin Weaver (previously best known for co-creating SHIELD: Architects Of Forever) to explore his own eccentric ideas. The first three issues fall somewhere between the experimental edge of Image’s Island and the sci-fi action of early 2000 AD. The first two issues lead off with standalone stories, “Mushroom Bodies” and “An Empty Shell In The Ocean”. In the former, a man may or may not be turning into an insect; in the latter, a swordwielding agent becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman. There’s a certain mania to Weaver’s composition that’s a good fit for these one-offs, which fall somewhere between Kafka and Lynch. Angles…

The League Of Gentlemen to return for three new episodes. Karl Urban is “in discussions” to play Judge Dredd again in TV show Judge Dredd: Mega-City One. New DC universe TV series Titans has landed its first lead in Tegan Croft, who’ll play empath Raven. The Dark Tower TV series will be overseen by former Walking Dead showrunner Glen Mazzara. It’ll be based on the fourth book in the saga. The Munsters are back! Seth Meyers and Jill Kargman will executive produce a reboot of the ’60s show for NBC. David Tennant and Michael Sheen will take the lead roles in the TV adaptation of Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens “Terry would be over the moon,” said Rob Wilkins, Pratchett’s longtime assistant. Comedian Paul Scheer is writing the Galaxy Quest…

JAMES KYSON Ando Masahashi in Heroes He was teleporting Hiro’s loyal best mate who subsequently discovered he had superhuman abilities of his own. He’s since cropped up in episodes of Preacher, Sleepy Hollow and Elementary, and is currently performing in Wild Goose Dreams at the La Jolla Playhouse in California. Would you like to play Ando again? In some ways, it feels like a chapter from my life that I have graduated from, yet there were so many back stories of Ando that we never got to explore in the show. So, if it was in the right context and storyline to deepen his character, then I’d be happy to reprise the role. What would he be doing now? He would be married to Kimiko (Hiro’s sister), running our company…

A NEWS HOPE At the time of writing there’s still no trailer from The Last Jedi, but Entertainment Weekly tunnelled past the Disney forcefield to grab the world some intel from a galaxy far, far away.... For starters, it looks like Luke Skywalker isn’t that chuffed to have visitors on Ahch-To. “[Han Solo]'s gone, and instead I’m with this grumpy guy on an island who doesn’t want me here," says Daisy Ridley (Rey). “The very first step in the writing of this was figuring out why he’s on that island," explains writer/director Rian Johnson. “We know that he’s not a coward. But we also know that he must know his friends are in danger. It had to be something where Luke Skywalker believes he’s doing the right thing.” The Resistance…

Get ready for the Twin Peaks UK Festival DATE 7-8 October LOCATION Hornsey Town Hall Arts Centre, London It’s all anybody’s been talking about since it returned to our screens (alright, that and some place called Westeros), and Twin Peaks is heading back to the UK for the eighth official Twin Peaks UK Festival. Hornsey Town Hall is being transformed into locations from the show, including the Black Lodge and The Roadhouse, and all guests will be able to see live performances from Lynchinspired burlesque and cabaret act The Double R Club. Want some special guests? There are more than we can shake a log lady at, including (deep breath) stars Sherilyn Fenn, James Marshall, Michael Horse, Kenneth Welsh, Jake Wardle and executive producer Sabrina Sutherland. VIP and Blue Diamond…

Tobe Hooper, director of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Poltergeist, has died aged 74. Actor Robert Hardy has passed away at 91. His genre work included playing Cornelius Fudge, Minister for Magic, in the Harry Potter series. Netflix acquires MillarWorld, Mark Millar’s creator-owned comic-book company. “We’re flying to LA to strategise the next steps,” he says. Disney to launch its own streaming service in 2019, first in the US, then globally. That means you won’t be able to watch Iron Man 3 on Netflix anymore. The Hunger Games, Twilight, and Now You See Me are getting their own theme park attractions at the Lionsgate Movie World in – wait for it – South Korea. Better start saving up... The Exorcist has been turned into a stage production! Get ready for servings of pea…

The Witch’s Anya Taylor- Joy reuniting with director Robert Eggers on Nosferatu… Daniel Craig renewing his licence to kill for Bond 25… WWE’s John Cena orbiting the Hasselhoff-shaped hole in the Knight Rider remake… David Oyelowo joining Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley in Doug Liman’s Chaos Walking… Amblin Entertainment bringing us Intelligent Life, directed by Rebecca Thomas… Paramount adapting Olivia Koski’s Vacation Guide To The Solar System… Emily Blunt starring in supernatural thriller A Quiet Place… Annie Clark AKA St Vincent directing a gender-swap take on The Picture Of Dorian Gray… Halston Sage rumoured to be playing Dazzler in X-Men: Dark Phoenix… Lionsgate developing live action adap of manga Naruto… Geneva Robertson- Dworet taking a crack at the Captain Marvel script… Riz Ahmed in talks to join Tom Hardy in Sony’s Venom… Transformers franchise adding an animated movie to its portfolio, the first in a…

This month it’s all about golems, devils, mothers and children LONDON GIRLS My movie of the month, The Limehouse Golem is a gory Victorian murder mystery featuring a stoic detective, a Jack the Ripperesque killer and a beautiful young woman accused of murder who might just hang if the crime isn’t solved in time. So far, so generic, but fortunately it’s written by Jane Goldman and turns out to take an interesting feminist approach. Olivia Cooke plays the wide-eyed music hall star who’s been systematically abused throughout her life, accused of poisoning her husband who might just be the monstrous Golem who’s been terrorising the streets of London. Bill Nighy is the good-hearted detective who desperately wants to solve the crime and save her from the dock. But sometimes women…

Making his debut in 1974’s Amazing Spider-Man #129, the Punisher was initially introduced by Gerry Conway and John Romita as part of the supporting cast of the first Clone Saga. “I had this villain called the Jackal, who was operating behind the scenes,” recalls Conway. “In order to make it clear that he was this master manipulator, I brought in a subordinate character, who was just going to be a one-off character as he would just be our way of meeting the Jackal.” A former Vietnam sniper who takes the law into their own hands, the Punisher is often compared to Don Pendleton’s the Executioner. However, the Brooklyn-born Conway also drew on real events to create the troubled character of Frank Castle. “New York in the early 1970s was a…

Get sci-fi news, reviews and features at gamesradar.com/sfx RELEASED OUT NOW! 12A | 95 minutes Director Nikolaj Arcel Cast Idris Elba, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Taylor, Claudia Kim, Abbey Lee, Jackie Earle Haley The Gunslinger begins with Stephen King’s most evocative line: “The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.” One line that splits into two tantalising questions – who is the man in black, and why is this gunslinger following him? In contrast, there is nothing tantalising about this adaptation. To call it a mess would be underselling its catastrophe. Taking its gun-toting antihero to heart, The Dark Tower shoots its source material to pulp, leaving behind a limp adaptation that quickly bleeds out. Part of the problem is shifting the genre from a slow supernatural…

RELEASED 29 SEPTEMBER 15 | 91 minutes Director Ivan I Tverdovskiy Cast Natalya Pavlenkova, Masha Tokareva, Aleksandr Gorchilin Natasha (Natalya Pavlenkova) is lonely. Her colleagues bully her, she has nothing resembling either a romantic or a social life and, in her fifties, she still lives with her mother. Then, one day, she grows a tail. The first time you see her new appendage, it’s repugnant – a fleshy, twitching thing the length of an arm. And yet, rather than bring her pain, it seems to awaken something in her. When people in her religiously conservative seaside town gossip about a bestial woman among them, she finds it amusing rather than upsetting. Implied to be a virgin, her sexuality awakens and she embarks on a sort-offling with a young doctor. Ivan…

Get sci-fi news, reviews and features at gamesradar.com/sfx EXTRAS RELEASED 18 SEPTEMBER (out now on download) 2017 | 15 | Blu-ray (4K/standard)/DVD/download Director Ridley Scott Cast Michael Fassbender, Billy Crudup, Katherine Waterston, Danny McBride Say what you like about Ridley Scott’s prequel Prometheus, but it did at least make a sincere attempt to broaden out the Alien universe, introducing mysterious giants the Engineers and the Xenomorph precursors created by their bioweapons. Many fans of the series were unhappy that the results didn’t feel sufficiently Alien-y, though. With Alien: Covenant – whether course-correcting in response or in accordance with his long-term plan – Ridley Scott delivers something that assuredly does. We have a vessel drawn to a planet by a mysterious signal. We have a wrecked spaceship to be explored. There…

EXTRAS RELEASED OUT NOW 2017 | 15 | Blu-ray/DVD/download Director Nacho Vigalondo Cast Anne Hathaway, Jason Sudeikis, Austin Stowell, Tim Blake Nelson If you thought it would be impossible to make a kaiju movie odder than Godzilla’s various rumbles with giant moths, turtles and lobsters, think again. Jessica Jones fans may find themselves crushing on Gloria (Anne Hathaway), a boozing out-of-work writer who after being kicked out by her boyfriend, heads back to her parents’ empty house, snagging a job in schoolmate Oscar’s bar. When a giant monster starts stomping through Seoul, Gloria is staggered to realise it’s replicating some of her movements. Then Oscar (Jason Sudeikis) realises that he can get a piece of the action too… Making metaphorical use of kaiju for an indie romcom that gradually warps…

EXTRAS RELEASED OUT NOW! 2016 | 18 | Blu-ray/DVD/download Showrunner Ryan Murphy Cast Evan Peters, Kathy Bates, Angela Bassett, Sarah Paulson American Horror Story is as unkillable as the slasher monsters it references. Every year it resurrects in a different form, with new tricks to delight/annoy its audience. But season six is more transformed than usual, with showrunner Ryan Murphy taking big risks – with mixed results. AHS is divisive at the best of times, but Roanoke’s extra-meta four-act structure about a haunted-house reality show, delivered through a foundfootage format, split fans faster than Kathy Bates’s meat cleaver. There are still plenty of familiar elements to keep things grounded (well, as grounded as a show that references Blair Witch, The Shining and its own mythology in the same scene can…

EXTRAS RELEASED OUT NOW! 2017 | 15 | DVD If this dodgy Americansabroad horror makes you scream, it won’t be because you’re scared, but because you’re so frustrated with its characters’ stupid decisions. After being warned not to go looking for an abandoned Japanese temple in the woods, the group set off with only a creepy child to guide their way, and (inevitably) get attacked by evil spirits. The film’s mythology’s a mess, the creature effects are slapdash, and the final twist is forehead-smackingly obvious. Extras Trailer.…

Get sci-fi news, reviews and features at gamesradar.com/sfx EXTRAS RELEASED OUT NOW! 1980 | 18 | Blu-ray Director Bruno Mattei Cast Margit Evelyn Newton, Franco Garofalo, Selan Karay, Vincent José Gras BLU-RAY DEBUT As Dawn Of The Dead rip-offs go, it doesn’t get more shameless then this. Not only does Zombie Creeping Flesh recycle parts of the score, it cribs Tom Savini’s blue-tinged makeups and places a commando squad at the fore. To rub it in, director Bruno Mattei is credited as “Vincent Dawn”! In fairness, the bookending sections, featuring a zombie outbreak at a mysterious nuclear facility, aren’t too bad. There are tantalising hints of a political subtext here – sadly, miserably under-developed. The central stretch is the problem. Painfully slow, it sees the commandos, a female journalist and her…

RELEASED OUT NOW! 432 pages | Paperback/ebook Author Adrian J Walker Publisher Del Rey Man’s best friend is a dog, right? For Reginald Hardy, surviving in the smoking remains of London, that definitely seems to be true. He’s got his telescope, a decent supply of canned food, and his canine bestie, and that’s all he needs. Or so he thinks, until a desperate child arrives on his doorstep and forces him out of his comfort zone. Half of The Last Dog On Earth is narrated by Lineker, an ever-hungry and foul-mouthed mongrel. It’s an idea that sounds great, allowing for parallels to be drawn between man and beast, but in practice it doesn’t quite work. Sometimes it’s because the allegory is too on-the-nose (both people and dogs can be “trained”…

RELEASED 21 SEPTEMBER 272 pages | Hardback/ebook Author William Sutcliffe Publisher Bloomsbury One day there will doubtless be a book hailed as “Nineteen Eighty-Four for the drone generation”. In the meantime we have We See Everything, a kind of Young Adult beginner’s guide to dystopia. It’s a decent enough stopgap – exciting, pacy, with some clever ideas – but it’s hardly the most incisive critique of surveillance culture. The book features parallel plots, focusing on two teenage boys – Lex and Alan – who never meet but whose lives impact fatefully on each other. They both live in a ravaged, post-war, fenced-off London, where the all-seeing eyes of a swarm of drones enable the victors to keep the masses under the thumb. Lex is part of the resistance while Alan…

RELEASED OUT NOW! 352 pages | Paperback/ebook Author George Mann Publisher Titan Books There’s something curiously old-fashioned about Wychwood. The female journalist moving home after a relationship breakup; her former friend, now a policeman; the rural village setting… it’s charming, in a Midsomer Murders sort of way. Cosy, even. But while straight crime can be cosy – Agatha Christie still sells – the ritualistic, flamboyant killings and an element of the supernatural don’t really go with the overall tone of the novel. Reading it, you keep expecting things to get nastier, to feel more sinister, but they never do. The killings are, when you think about them, horrific, but they don’t feel that way when you read about them. The only real tension comes from wondering when you’ll get to…

With Halloween looming on the horizon, why not stock up with some tales of terror? The Woman In Black author Susan Hill’s slim collection THE TRAVELLING BAG ( , 28 September, Profile Books) contains four old-fashioned ghost stories, including the titular, Victorian-era tale about a prank gone wrong. We said: “An unshowy collection that, though unlikely to leave you clammy with fear, has a nice line in quietly understated uncanny.” Michelle Paver’s similarly spooky THIN AIR ( , 5 October, Orion) is set in 1935, and follows a group of five climbers in the Himalayas following the route of an Edwardian expedition that ended in tragedy, one of whom starts perceiving something no one else can see… We said: “Paver’s clearly done her research; it all feels authentic. It’s a…

AN EXTRACT FROM A NEW BOOK The Author James Bradley is a novelist and critic. His novels include Wrack, The Deep Field and The Resurrectionist, all of which won or were shortlisted for major Australian and international literary awards, a book of poetry, Paper Nautilus, The Penguin Book of the Ocean, and a YA science fiction novel, The Silent Invasion. As well as writing fiction, James writes and reviews for numerous newspapers and magazines, including The Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian and The Washington Post. In 2012 he was awarded the Pascall Prize for Australia’s Critic of the Year. He blogs at cityoftongues.com. Adam is a scientist based in Antarctica, marking the passage of the solstice. Across the globe, his wife Ellie is waiting for the results of her IVF…

▸RELEASED OUT NOW! ▸Publisher Dark Horse Comics ▸Writer/artist James Stokoe ISSUES 1-3 The Xenomorph scuttled back into cinemas this year, greeted by mostly underwhelmed audiences. For any Alien fans who sent out a distress beacon after seeing Covenant, the cry has been answered with this comic, the best franchise property since James Cameron’s first sequel. The story’s simple: an astronaut attempts to survive an Alien, while remembering how he first encountered it. But if the plot’s basic, the art is anything but. French art geeks will be reminded of Jean Giraud (aka Moebius); a perfect fit considering how much influence Moebius has had on Ridley Scott’s career (he created concept art for Alien and was an inspiration for Blade Runner). But the art goes beyond homage. The intensely intricate images…