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SEVERANCE Season One
All work and no play
Forever People
The X-Men are reborn: Kieron Gillen, Al Ewing and Si Spurrier on life after Jonathan Hickman for Marvel’s mutants
NOAH HAWLEY
The Fargo showrunner on writing a state-of-the-nation fantasy novel
MIDNIGHT SON
MORBIUS INTRODUCES A LIVING VAMPIRE INTO SONY’S SPIDER-MAN UNIVERSE
JENNIFER HOLLAND
Harcourt gets the job done and survives in Peacemaker
Backup Drive
Upload returns with more near-future tech satire and romance
LUNAR LANDING
GET SET TO MEET MOON KNIGHT, MARVEL’S HERO WITH AN IDENTITY CRISIS
AVENGER'S ENDGAME
DIRECTOR ROBERT EGGERS REVEALS HOW HE MADE THE NORTHMAN, HIS BRUTAL, FANTASY-TINGED VIKING REVENGE MOVIE
THE LAST WOMAN IN THE WORLD
Get practising your breathing exercises now: if Inga Simpson’s bleak vision of the near future is anything to go by, the ability to manage your anxiety might be the most important survival skill of them all.
“I SEE DEAD PEOPLE
COURTENEY COX PLAYS A MENOPAUSAL WOMAN HAUNTED BY HER PAST SINS IN SHINING VALE
VILE BODIES
THE BOYS IS BACK, BUT IT LOOKS A LITTLE DIFFERENT. DIABOLICAL’S SHOWRUNNER SIMON RACIOPPA TALKS GETTING ANIMATED
THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD MOTHERS
Of all the powers that the state has over its citizens, one of the most terrifying is its ability to remove your children.
THE JUSTICE OF KINGS
Sir Konrad Vonvalt is a formidable figure, an investigator and judge who travels the Empire of the Wolf dispensing justice.
THE HAUNTING OF LAS LÁGRIMAS
In the overgrown gardens of a sprawling estate, deep in the Argentinian Pampas, someone is hacking away at the trees.
THE GIRL WHO FELL BENEATH THE SEA
The Korean tradition of telling folk stories goes back thousands of years.
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