THE BALLOON THIEF

There’s a lot of thinky stuff to chew on in this debut from 24-year-old Aneesa Marufu.

THE EMBROIDERED BOOK

How much alt do you like in your alt-histories?

THE ART OF STAR WARS: THE MANDALORIAN SEASON TWO

BULLET TIME: A BOOK IN BULLET POINTS

SCORPICA

This book takes far, far too long to become interesting.

SEVENTH HEAVEN

JERI RYAN ON WHAT TO EXPECT FROM SEVEN OF NINE IN SEASON TWO OF STAR TREK: PICARD

PENNYBLADE

This epic fantasy adventure serves up a fresh take on elves, here called the commrach, who live in a rigid, if decadent, island community far from the human mainland.

ONLY A MONSTER

It would be easy to dismiss Vanessa Len’s debut as a bog-standard YA fantasy, given its forgettably beige title and elements recognisable to any Harry Potter fan: a protagonist hitting a certain age and receiving magical powers; a nasty family who can only be the Malfoys; a section of London that’s basically Diagon Alley.

Rockin' Back

Dance your cares away – furred rock from the Henson returns

OFF TARGET

In a near-future world where genetic engineering is commonplace – no one eats real meat any more, and furniture is made from fungus-based mycoleather – the questions we already face about the engineering of humans become all the more urgent.

MOON WITCH, SPIDER KING

In 1954, JRR Tolkien’s The Two Towers set the template for the middle volume of fantasy trilogies.

MARLON JAMES

X marks the spot: how a Booker winner found his way to fantasy

LOST IN THE WOODS

A TOWN WITH NO EXIT SURROUNDED BY MONSTERS WITH NO MERCY – WELCOME TO FROM

It's Panda Monium!

Hormones, boy bands and red pandas collide in Turning Red, Pixar’s take on the Hulk

CHAIN REACTION

HOLD ON TO YOUR LIMBS! LEATHERFACE REVS UP AGAIN IN GORE-SPLASHED SEQUEL TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE

BLOOD, SWEAT & CHROME

Just deserts

ANTHEM

Kids In America

ALAN TUDYK

Once Wash in Firefly, now a fish out of water in Resident Alien

UNION OF THE SNAKE

ALL BACK TO KEPLER-22B TO CELEBRATE MOTHER’S NEWBORN IN RAISED WOLVES SEASON TWO

Nanny State

The cult is coming in Servant season three

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY'S GREATEST COMIC: 2000 AD

CELEBRATES ITS 45TH BIRTHDAY IN FEBRUARY, AND ITS SECOND YEAR WAS A TALE OF TWO VERY DIFFERENT MERGERS

Station Master

Don’t panic! Pandemic tale Station Eleven makes a timely leap to TV

PAST IMPERFECT

AKIVA GOLDSMAN AND TERRY MATALAS, EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS AND CO-SHOWRUNNERS OF SEASON TWO OF STAR TREK: PICARD, TALK TIME TRAVEL AND WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS…

DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

DIRECTOR ROLAND EMMERICH TAKES ANOTHER STAB AT DESTROING THE PLANET IN MOONFALL. HIS LATEST DISASTER MOVIE

Cat Fight

Catwoman: Hunted sees the feline thief team up with Batwoman for the fight of her nine lives

BRUCE CAMPBELL

The actor returns to the horror-comedy genre that made him an icon

Dean Koontz

Please don’t send the bestselling author jars of fish – it’s a bit creepy.

ASTRONAUT EXCLUSIVE: Rocket Man

It’s not exactly the final frontier, but William Shatner still wowed the world by flying into space

SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE

AS MARVEL’S LIVING VAMPIRE HITS THE BIG SCREEN, SFX UNCOVERS HIS ORIGINS WITH MORBIUS CREATOR ROY THOMAS

A Family Affair

Superman & Lois showrunner Todd Helbing teases season two’s villains and the Kent family dynamic

GHOST TOWN

GHOSTFACE IS BACK – BUT WHO ARE THEY THIS TIME? SFX TRIES TO UNMASK A KILLER