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Braving the streets of Woodbury for SFX in the latest Hollywood Hyperspace . (opens in new tab) With The Walking Dead back on TV, fans are now watching our scattered heroes as they struggle to regroup in the wake of the Governor’s midseason prison attack. When I visited the show’s …

Following the 50th anniversary of the good Doctor, top SF author Alastair Reynolds writes for SFX about his admiration for the show (opens in new tab) Alastair Reynolds is a scientist and science fiction author, famous for, among many others, his Revelation Space series of novels. In 2009 he signed …

The rise of “cli-fi” – author Kate Kelly discusses science fiction’s take on the environment Kate Kelly is a marine scientist who’s penned her first novel, Red Rock (opens in new tab) , based around climate change… with an extraterrestrial angle. The book is out on Thursday 12 September and …

As I’ve said before it’s always difficult to review a book like this. You get the same approach in every book of this type; casting, costume choices, locations and so on. It’s not a bad thing, God knows I’ve been reading these things avidly since I could shave, but it …

(opens in new tab) Percy Jackson: Sea Of Monsters is an okay film. If you can forgive female characters so thinly characterised the actresses should be able to sue for sexual discrimination, the end-of-level bad guy finale and the shameless Harry Potter ripping-off, it’s a decent enough kids’ fantasy adventure. …

(opens in new tab) Remember that scene when they blew up the White House in Independence Day ? Remember seeing the Statue Of Liberty’s head roll down the street in Cloverfield? They were huge iconic moments. Moments that set up their respective film’s threats; events which set the stakes as …

(opens in new tab) Whilst we’re in Doctor Who limbo, waiting to find out who the next Doctor will be, how long the new season is, what John Hurt’s role is and the other members of the never ending Legion Of Questions, it’s easy to get bored. Admittedly things can’t …

I see from my Facebook feed that it’s one week until the release of Star Trek Into Darkness . I know this because Paramount seems to be posting a countdown photo each day. After all the various trailers and posters and TV spots hitting us over the head with the …

The Torchwood and Life On Mars author writes for SFX.co.uk about the joys and challenges of penning a steampunk western… Today we welcome writer Guy Adams to the site. He’s already an established author but he’s begun a new series for Solaris, called The Heaven’s Gate Chronicles, which are described …

The biggest loss for me was definitely Fringe . My favourite show in a good long time left our screens after five season and a hundred episodes in January this year. I’m really going to miss that show. Eureka , one of the few fun, non-arc-plotted shows also left our …