Tim Curry dies aged 80: Darkness loses its best voice (obituary).
Tim Curry, the English actor who could turn a raised eyebrow into an instrument of mass seduction and somehow make
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Gor blimey: swords, giant birds and an extremely dubious Counter-Earth (article).
There are fantasy series which age gracefully. There are fantasy series which become beloved period pieces. And then there is
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WSFA Names Its 2026 Small Press Finalists: Billionaire’s Tears and Teleporting Fairies (award news).
The Washington Science Fiction Association has announced the eight finalists for its 2026 WSFA Small Press Award, proving once again
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Space Cops, Stolen Books and the End of the World: SF & Fantasy News Round-Up (17 Aug 2026).
The science fiction, fantasy and horror worlds have been unusually busy over the past ten days, presumably because everyone realised
Read MoreAhsoka Season 2: Are you a Jedi or just very good with swords (trailer).
Star Wars: Ahsoka is returning for a second season, and the first proper teaser suggests Dave Filoni has decided there
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Avengers Doomsday: Tony Stark is dead, long live Doctor Doom (trailer).
Marvel has released a new special look at Avengers: Doomsday, and the good news is that Robert Downey Jr. is
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VisionQuest: new Marvel TV series (1st trailer).
Marvel has released the first trailer for VisionQuest, the forthcoming Disney+ series starring Paul Bettany as everybody’s favourite synthetic philosopher,
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E.J. Swift wins 40th Arthur C. Clarke Award (book news).
E.J. Swift has won the 40th Arthur C. Clarke Award for When There Are Wolves Again, published by Arcadia, proving
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Ghibli Park is growing a Toxic Jungle, and we demand a full-size Pirate Airship (news).
Studio Ghibli has apparently looked at its enormous park in Aichi, looked at the millions of people already wandering around
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Earth: the Galaxy’s worst breakdown lane? (article).
There is a worrying amount of evidence in science fiction that Earth sits beside some sort of badly maintained interstellar
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