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RoboCop, 1987 original and reboot — one of the films built on Phil Tippett's effects work
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Saturday SciFi Splash: a workshop full of dinosaurs, a vampire at Netflix, and fandom having words (news roundup).

Phil Tippett’s Berkeley workshop closes for good, Netflix goes looking for Strahd, Worldcon’s business meeting reaches for the red pen, and the Horror Writers Association discovers what happens when you print a column about generative AI.

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The Hugo Award rocket trophy
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An Upset at the Hugos, a Sequel Thirteen Years Late, and a Reaper Who Can’t Keep Still (news roundup).

Three weeks of genre news in one go: a Hugo Awards upset in Anaheim, John Crowley’s death, T. Kingfisher’s suspiciously perfect publicity timing, and television quietly running out of books to adapt.

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Hugos in Anaheim, a Balrog voiced by Shaun of the Dead, and T. Kingfisher's suspiciously good week (news roundup).
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Hugos in Anaheim, a Balrog voiced by Shaun of the Dead, and T. Kingfisher’s suspiciously good week (news roundup).

Somewhere in Anaheim this weekend, several thousand people who own more books than shelf space are shuffling between function rooms

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Ahsoka Season 2: Are you a Jedi or just very good with swords
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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

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Ann Droid BBC comedy
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Seven Days in the Genre Trenches: 28 July – 4 August 2026 (news roundup).

Another week, another skip’s-worth of spaceships, séances and sentient hair to sift through. Comic-Con dust is still settling in San

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Masters of the Universe
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SFcrowsnest Weekly Wrap: Puppet Vulcans, Vengeful Mountains and a Siren Without a Tail (news).

Another seven days have hurtled past at their usual disrespectful pace, and the genre world has, as ever, refused to

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Silo: new Apple TV scifi series (trailer).
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Science Fiction and Fantasy News Roundup: 1st July 2026.

Apple TV+ is sending us back underground with the third season of Silo, with Rebecca Ferguson once again stalking around

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Editorial – March 2026: What Is It Good For?

Hello everyone. Editorials, as I have said in the past, are hard beasts to write if you want to use

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KPop Demon Hunter: Dancing with Demons? (article)
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October 2025 anime & manga news digest.

Demon slayers, vending machines and celestial slime: SFcrowsnest’s autumn anime & manga digest If you thought anime had peaked when

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Starship Simulator: A Saga Across 8 Quadrillion Cubic Lightyears (game news).
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Computer Gaming’s Ghoulish Grab-Bag: October 2025 roundup.

Computer Gaming’s Ghoulish Grab-Bag: October 2025 Round-Up The nights are drawing in, the pumpkins are two-for-a-fiver at the supermarket, and

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