NewsAnime/manga Yu-Gi-Oh! Maze of Machines: Konami loads Bandit Keith’s hardware into a 153-card set for March (card games news). Konami's next Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG booster, Maze of Machines, arrives in March 2027 with 153 cards, Bandit Keith's Dark Machines and ten cards from… 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 Hogwarts Hires Its Ghosts, A Portrait And A Talking Hat, And There’s Still No Sign Of Peeves. HBO's Harry Potter series has cast Leo Bill as Nearly Headless Nick, Andrew Brooke as the Bloody Baron, Laura Smyth as the Fat… ColonelFrog / 30 Oct 2026
TrailerScifi Cronos: Lazarus is dated for 3 December, and the Warden finally gets a hunter of his own (trailer). Bloober Team's Cronos: Lazarus story DLC launches on 3 December for $9.99, with a new hunter called the Tracker and faster, more aggressive… ColonelFrog / 30 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
ReviewScifi The Land Unknown (1957) (film review) A team is briefed about an oasis in the Antarctic that they are to investigate. The military team is going to be accompanied… UncleGeoff / 30 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
NewsComics Captain America #16: Doctor Doom repossesses Hell, voids Mephisto’s contracts, and Spider-Man fans start eyeing One More Day (comic news, spoilers). Spoilers: in Captain America #16, Doctor Doom takes over Hell and declares Mephisto's deals void, which has Spider-Man fans wondering about One More… ColonelFrog / 30 Oct 2026
