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The acclaimed anthology show Black Mirror returns for a second series of three episodes on Channel 4 at 10pm on 11 February, and in the next issue of SFX (#232, out next Wednesday) we have a major interview with writer/creator Charlie Brooker in which he goes into detail about each …

(opens in new tab) The universally-acclaimed and brilliantly inventive time travel movie Looper , starring Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the same man (one of them has to assassinate the other) is out on DVD and Blu-ray on Monday 28 January. SFX managed to grab a chat with the …

Starfleet meets the Canadian Space Agency, Simon Pegg’s severed head and Nathan Fillion’s method for coping with the end of Firefly , all in the latest Tweets Of The Week (opens in new tab) (opens in new tab) There are plenty of things wrong with Twitter. The relentless, ever-changing list …

A follow-up to our dream sequence feature , here’s a selection of films that never happened because they were all a dream (allegedly) or just someone’s flight of fancy… Invaders From Mars (1953) (opens in new tab) The “plot”: Young boy in a small US town sees a spaceship crash …

So many great names have crossed the final frontier into the undiscovered country in 2012. Thank you one and all for your massive contributions to science fiction and fantasy. You’ll be sorely missed but your work will live on, to be appreciated by – an inspiration for – countless generations …

In exactly a year’s time, the BBC will be celebrating the Doctor Who ’s 50th Anniversary . But how exactly should the Corporation celebrate? We’re not talking in terms of plot here – no demands for The Time War or “The 50 Doctors” – but what else the BBC could …

From The SFX Archives: Some of the best flying cars (and buses) – that actually LOOK like cars (or buses) – from science fiction and fantasy (with one exception, for product placement reasons). ( This is an updated and extended version of a feature published in 2010 .) Back To …

The Time’s Arrow author talks about writing a novel with a bit of help from his readers. (opens in new tab) Time’s Arrow , the latest novel in Abaddon Books’ Pax Britannia series, is a little different from previous titles. Originally published in three parts in e-book form, Time’s Arrow …

With Star Wars Episode VII on its way, we’re in a Force-fuelled mood of nostalgia here on the forest moon of SFX. Join us as we switch off our targeting computers and strike straight for the heart of the ’70s… A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, …

Words by: Alasdair Stuart 10 Vir Babylon 5 (opens in new tab) Who knew, when Babylon 5 first started, that one of the best elements of the show would be Vir? The perpetually terrified, cringing Centauri aide started out as little more than comic relief, but over the course of …