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In this month’s edition of SFX we introduce you to reader Kenneth Barker’s movie – here’s more about the Leeds-based production “We are making a film that genre fans will really ‘dig.’” At least that’s the hope of ambitious independent film director Kenneth Barker. After almost three years of hard …

Lavie Tidhar talks to Stephen Jewell about scooping the World Fantasy Award for his novel Osama Sometimes outsiders really do prevail. Up against heavyweight bestsellers like George RR Martin’s A Dance With Dragons and Stephen King’s 11/22/63 , no one was more surprised than Lavie Tidhar when his novel Osama …

Matt Smith talks to SFX at the Doctor Who Experience about Jenna-Louise Coleman, his fantasy Doctor Who 50th anniversary story and what props he’d nick. He also mimes a spoiler for the Christmas Special… (Guest appearance by Steven Moffat). [bcvideo] And here are some pictures of the new series seven …

(opens in new tab) The episode features an invasion of Earth led by black cubes, and when asked where the inspiration for this came from, Chibnall comments: “A few years ago, near where I live, the MSC Napoli got stuck in Lyme Bay. A lot of its contents got washed …

(opens in new tab) (opens in new tab) Si Spurrier is one of the most consistently interesting, and versatile, comic authors working today. A 2000AD veteran, he’s also made science cool (And frankly demented) again in the Marvel universe with X-Club and is ending the world an agonisingly slow, incredibly …

(opens in new tab) The title to next week’s Doctor Who says it all, really, and as returning writer Chris Chibnall reveals, the title was where it all started… What was the origin of “Dinosaurs On A Spaceship”? “It just started with the title. I had a meeting with Steven …

Accomplished author Juliet E McKenna talks to Sandy Auden about the inspiration, emotions and cruelty behind her latest fantasy series With Defiant Peaks concluding the Hadrumal Crisis in November, the author takes at look back at how the series began… SFX : Your short story “The Wizard’s Coming” inspired the …

If you live in the green and pleasant land of England Town (or anywhere in the world really) then you will be acutely aware that the Olympics are going to officially start happening today. To celebrate this momentous occasion we decided to sit down at our desks and exchange emails …

(opens in new tab) Monkeybrain Comics has had a very good couple of weeks. Its initial launch announcement was so well received that it launched through comiXology, the digital comics site, two days early. I talked to the creative teams on the launch titles, including Colleen Coover and Paul Tobin. …

[VAMS bc=”1710150383001″ url=”noah-wyle-falling-skies-season-two-interview-5hX1JEA0P06KC”] (opens in new tab) Last time we saw Falling Skies militia man Tom Mason (Noah Wyle), he was walking onto an alien spaceship in the climax of season one. When the show returns for season two, three months have passed – and Tom has been released by …