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Tachyon Publishing At World Fantasy Book Convention 2026
The 52nd World Fantasy Convention lands in our own backyard next week, October 22–25 at the Oakland Marriott City Center, and Tachyon is…
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ReviewScifi
Creative Futures (Beyond And Within) edited by Allen Stroud (book review)
‘Creative Futures’ is not your usual anthology but comes with big credentials. It’s a collaboration between Science Fiction writers, Coventry University and the…
ReviewFantasy
Songs Of The Dead: The Strata Wars book 1 by Brandon Sanderson and Peter Orullian (book review).
Collaborative writing is difficult to master. Some, like Iain Grant and Heide Goody, produce fiction where it is almost impossible to separate the…
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Gachiakuta: Kei Urana’s rubbish-tip shonen climbs back out of the Pit on 11 November.
Kei Urana's Gachiakuta manga returns from its research hiatus on 11 November in Weekly Shonen Magazine, while anime season two waits in the…
TrailerHorror
Dead-End Job: Netflix’s Korean horror offers 50 times the minimum wage and a lethal probation period (trailer).
Netflix's Korean horror Dead-End Job drops its main trailer, as Lee Jae-wook takes a gig paying 50 times the minimum wage. From 30…
TrailerAnime/manga
Fate/EXTRA Record: The moon’s Holy Grail War finally clocks in for January, rivals and all (trailer).
Fate/EXTRA Record's new Rival's Side trailer parades Rin, Rani and an Arcueid Berserker ahead of the long-delayed remake's 28 January 2027 launch.
TrailerFantasy
Laika’s Wildwood: Fifteen years, nine thousand feathers and one very cross eagle (trailer).
Laika's stop-motion epic Wildwood reaches cinemas on 23 October, fifteen years after the studio bought the book and 9,000 hand-crafted feathers later.
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Zendaya and Alex Garland were both meant to be taking a break, and now they’re making an A24 sci-fi film together
Zendaya will star in Alex Garland's untitled A24 sci-fi film, due to shoot in 2027, though both had promised to take a break.
ReviewHorror
Van Helsing And His Kin by Daniel O’Brien (book review)
Author Daniel O’Brien makes a strong point in his introduction to ‘Van Helsing And His Kin’ that, next to the legendary Count…you know…
TrailerFilms
The Beekeeper 2: Who keeps the keepers when the hive goes rogue? (trailer).
Watch the trailer on YouTube: https://youtu.be/WfZMdt00kEs When Sherlock Holmes retired, he went off to the Sussex Downs to keep bees and write a…
NewsScifi
Transformers Animated Season Four Finally Rolls Out – Seventeen Years Late and on Paper
When Cartoon Network cancelled Transformers Animated in 2009, it left Optimus Prime’s Detroit crew stuck at the end of season three. Season four…
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James Gunn Loves Batman Beyond, Which Is Not Quite the Same Thing as Making It
On the red carpet at the Clayface premiere in Los Angeles on 13 October, James Gunn was asked which animated properties might make…