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SFX is the world's leading sci-fi, horror and fantasy magazine. Covering all areas of the genre across TV, movies, books, games, collectables and comics, every month SFX delivers news, features, exclusive Q&As, behind-the-scenes stories, star profiles and TV episode guides. Recently redesigned to reflect the growing mainstream popularity of sci-fi, now you can read our Hollywood news, TV celebrity interviews and top columnists on your computer or mobile device, thanks to Zinio.

First Contact • Hailing Frequencies Open!

SFX • OCTOBER 2023 | Issue 370

Rants & Raves • Inside the SFX hive mind

Captain’s Log

Little Grey Men • Director Brian Duffield puts actress Kaitlyn Dever through her paces in sci-fi thriller No One Will Save You

Puppet Mastery • Otto Baxter: Not A F***ing Horror Story brings a unique new voice to the screen

NEWS WARP • HIGH-SPEED INFORMATION

Ghoul Power • Transport yourself into films, shows and videogames at Halloween Horror Nights

Resistance Is Futile • Humanity pokes the hornet’s nest as Invasion returns

Sting In Her Tale • Murder is afoot as the Wasp and Vision join forces for Avengers Inc.

SFX SPACE AND TIME Celebrating 60 years of DOCTOR WHO

Monster Fun • Ahoy Comics uncovers rare beasties in new anthology Project: Cryptid

War Games • Worlds collide as 2000 AD and Battle Action unite

Body Snatchers • First comics, then TV, and now Secret Invasion comes to prose fiction with Paul Cornell’s new novel

MARIELY LARES • MEET THE FORMER SYSTEMS ENGINEER BEHIND FANTASY SUN OF BLOOD AND RUIN

WILLIAM FRIEDKIN 1935-2023 • The power of cinema compelled him

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LOST IN FRANCE • NORMAN REEDUS SWAPS CONTINENTS AND REVERTS BACK TO LONER MODE IN HIS SPIN-OFF SERIES, THE WALKING DEAD: DARYL DIXON

MAN VS MACHINE • DIRECTOR GARETH EDWARDS RETURNS WITH THE CREATOR, AN ORIGINAL SCI-FI STORY THAT CONFRONTS ALL OUR AI ANGST

TRUE BRIT • ARTHURIAN LEGEND COMBINES WITH THE WEST WING-STYLE POLITICKING AS BERNARD CORNWELL’S NOVEL THE WINTER KING COMES TO THE SMALL SCREEN

BACK TO SCHOOL • THE BOYS GETS A SUPERHERO SCHOOL SPIN-OFF – MEET THE GEN V STUDENTS

ROLL CALL! • Meet the cast of Gen V

ENSIGN OF THE TIMES • AS STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS WARPS INTO ITS FOURTH SEASON, SUPERVISING DIRECTOR BARRY J KELLY REVEALS HOW THE CARTOON SITCOM IS EXPLORING NEW FRONTIERS

USS EGG-TERPRISE • Trek-themed Easter eggs are a major part of Lower Decks – and they can evolve at any stage of the production process

SAW THAT COMING • JOHN KRAMER’S ALIVE – AGAIN! SAW X DIRECTOR KEVIN GREUTERT TELLS SFX WHY THE ICON’S LATEST KILLING SPREE IS SURPRISINGLY EMOTIONAL

UNDEAD RECKONING • WE HAVE A CODE FIVE! ON THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF ULTRAVIOLET, CREATOR JOE AHEARNE LOOKS BACK AT THE VAMPIRE-SLAYING TV CLASSIC

HITCH CRAFT • The art of suspense

DESIGNING THE LAST OF US • PRODUCTION DESIGNER JOHN PAINO TALKS SFX THROUGH CONCEPT ART, RENDERS AND BEHIND THE-SCENES IMAGES FROM THE MAKING OF THE LAST OF US SEASON ONE

THE SOUNDS OF SUMMERISLE • COMPOSER GARY CARPENTER REFLECTS ON THE WICKER MAN’S ICONIC SOUNDTRACK

MELISSA NAVIA • She’s a fly girl – writing the book on piloting an iconic starship

EVERYBODY'S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE • IT’S JAMIE VS THE EVIL DALEKS FOR DOCTOR WHO STAR AND FIRST-TIME NOVELIST FRAZER HINES

JOHN CONNOLLY • Worlds collide: the Irish writer talks genre and literature as therapy

Reviews

BLUE BEETLE • Scarab Spring

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