NewsAnime/manga Maison Ghibli returns to London, and No-Face is moving to Oxford Street (news). Studio Ghibli’s official travelling gift shop, Maison Ghibli, is coming back to London next weekend. Last winter it set up camp at 237… ColonelFrog / 30 Oct 2026
NewsFantasy Elon Musk’s AI Odyssey arrives seven minutes at a time, and Nolan’s $1.78bn epic needn’t lock the doors just yet (AI film news). Grok Imagine has posted Episode 1 of its AI-generated Odyssey on X: seven minutes, three months after Elon Musk promised a full-length "historically… ColonelFrog / 26 Oct 2026
ReviewCri-Fi Back Issue #26 February 2006 (magazine review) Another back issue of ‘Back Issue’. With the sub-title of ‘Spies And Tough Guys Issue’, it’s easy to see why this issue is… UncleGeoff / 12 Oct 2026
NewsScifi Gulliver’s Travels at 300: how a Dublin dean invented the flying island, the mad scientist and the moons of Mars, and still found time to be rude about everyone (feature). Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels was published 300 years ago this week. We look at Laputa, the Academy of Lagado, the moons of Mars… ColonelFrog / 29 Oct 2026
NewsFantasy Monster Hunter Outlanders is out on mobile, so you can now carve up an Elder Dragon on the bus (games news). Monster Hunter Outlanders, TiMi Studio Group's Capcom-licensed open-world survival hunter, has launched worldwide on iOS and Android as a free-to-play game. ColonelFrog / 29 Oct 2026
ReviewHorror Cryptology # 11 October 2026 (magazine review). Cryptology #11 from TwoMorrows dives into The Creature from the Black Lagoon, horror hosts, Richard Powers covers, the Golem and Hammer's The Nanny. UncleGeoff / 29 Oct 2026
NewsScifi Gulliver’s Travels at 300: how a Dublin dean invented the flying island, the mad scientist and the moons of Mars, and still found time to be rude about everyone (feature). Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels was published 300 years ago this week. We look at Laputa, the Academy of Lagado, the moons of Mars… ColonelFrog / 29 Oct 2026
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… Eamonn Murphy / 16 Oct 2026
NewsScifi Sir Patrick Stewart (1940–2026): the captain’s final log. Sir Patrick Stewart, Star Trek's Captain Picard and X-Men's Professor X, has died aged 86. SFcrowsnest remembers him. ColonelFrog / 29 Oct 2026
NewsSpy-Fy Marvel’s Zodiac finds its writers: twelve star signs, two spies and a London shoot. Amit Cohen and Ron Leshem are reportedly writing Zodiac, Marvel's Disney+ spy thriller about two agents hunting people with special abilities. It shoots… ColonelFrog / 23 Oct 2026
RoundupWorld getting weirder Dogfights Over the Desert: The SFcrowsnest UFO Roundup, October 2026 David Grusch returns to Joe Rogan with a field guide to the galaxy's warring tribes, the Pentagon unlocks the NDA cupboard, and a… ColonelFrog / 3 Oct 2026
NewsDoctor Who Exterminate the writers? Russell T Davies calls the BBC boss’s AI Doctor Who remarks “clumsy”, and puts a date on the new Doctor (news). Russell T Davies calls BBC director-general Matt Brittin's praise for an AI-made Doctor Who episode "clumsy", and says production with a new Doctor… ColonelFrog / 15 Oct 2026
NewsAnime/manga Maison Ghibli returns to London, and No-Face is moving to Oxford Street (news). Studio Ghibli’s official travelling gift shop, Maison Ghibli, is coming back to London next weekend. Last winter it set up camp at 237… ColonelFrog / 30 Oct 2026
ReviewBooks Dimensions: A Case Book Of Alien Contact by Jacques Vallee (book review). Jacques Vallee, in this 2008 update of ‘Dimensions: A Case Book Of Alien Contact’, questions whether the pilots of the UAPs come from… UncleGeoff / 24 Oct 2026
NewsScifi Sir Patrick Stewart (1940–2026): the captain’s final log. Sir Patrick Stewart, Star Trek's Captain Picard and X-Men's Professor X, has died aged 86. SFcrowsnest remembers him. ColonelFrog / 29 Oct 2026
NewsScifi “Never say never”: Phil Lord and Chris Miller have made their peace with losing Solo, and Kathleen Kennedy sent a nice note about Project Hail Mary (Star Wars news). Phil Lord and Chris Miller tell The Town podcast they have made peace with being removed from Solo: A Star Wars Story, and… ColonelFrog / 28 Oct 2026
NewsSteampunk Netflix’s Bass X Machina unleashes steampunk cowboys, mechanical minotaurs and a suspiciously familiar name Netflix's adult animated steampunk Western Bass X Machina, inspired by lawman Bass Reeves, arrives on 3 November 2026 with mechanical minotaurs, cybernetic arms… ColonelFrog / 23 Sep 2026
NewsBooks The superhero novel written to escape comics goes back to them: IDW is adapting Wildbow’s web serial Worm (comics news). IDW Publishing is adapting Worm, John McCrae's vast 2011–13 superhero web serial, as a comic, starting on Comics Giveaway Day, 1st May 2027. ColonelFrog / 29 Oct 2026
