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Words by: Alex Jones And if you like anime, don’t forget that the latest SFX anime special is in the shops from tomorrow (Friday, 20 July). (opens in new tab) 10 KIMBA THE WHITE LION Year: 1965 Dir: Eichii Yamamato What’s It About? Captive white lion Kimba learns from his …

(opens in new tab) Death is never an obstacle in sci-fi and fantasy, so perhaps we shouldn’t be too surprised that Uther – played by Anthony Head – will be returning for Merlin series 5 . The revelation was announced by Merlin co-creator and executive producer Johnny Capps at San …

What in your opinion is the greatest piece of science fiction theme music ever produced? This week though, I added a caveat. If someone wanted to choose the Doctor Who theme tune they could, but they had to choose something else as well. So, let’s see who’s humming what tune, …

(opens in new tab) Cue the fan-gasm. Twenty-five years after one of the most celebrated comics of all-time hit shelves, award-winning and critically acclaimed author and screenwriter, Neil Gaiman , will return to The Sandman . Gaiman made the announcement, via video, at DC Entertainment’s Vertigo panel at San Diego …

Any worries that by book six/seven (should we count The Great Samuel Pepys Fiasco?) the Thursday Next series would have settled into a rut prove groundless here, as Jasper Fforde delivers another swerve ball. The previous book was set entirely in Bookworld; this time there’s no action in Bookworld at …

Game Of The Week http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65U2I18o5wo Spurious Award Winner Of The Year (so far). Should Have Gone To Specsavers Of The Week (opens in new tab) Lafayette mistakes car for piano in True Blood . Bad Dalek Impression Of The Week (opens in new tab) Katy Perry enters a cosplay competition …

True Blood 5.04 “We’ll Meet Again” (opens in new tab) Episode 5.04 Writer Alexander Woo Director Romeo Tirone THE ONE WHERE Everybody hates Sookie, so she gets drunk; Jason learns something about the death of his parents at a fairy nightclub; Eric frees Pam of her bond to him; Roman …

Katherine Parkinson, best known as hapless manager Jen in The IT Crowd , is the star of a new SF sitcom for Radio Two. Welcome To Our Village, Please Invade Carefully airs on Thursday 5 July, from 9.30-10.00pm. At the moment it’s just a pilot, but the hope is that …

While occasionally flirting with full-blown fantasy ( The Tooth Fairy ), Graham Joyce more often writes novels that exist on the very edges of the genre, in which elements of the supernatural are delicately woven into the real-world plots like gossamer threads ( Smoking Poppy , The Facts Of Life …

(opens in new tab) In 1985, Stuart Gordon directed his first feature film and created a sensation. It was an adaptation of H Lovecraft’s Re-Animator , and went on to become a major cult hit, delivering as many laughs as it did screams. It even won a Critics’ Prize at …