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