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When book and movie worlds collide! The steampunk author discusses the route from page to screen This is a guest blog by author Stephen Hunt… I came fairly close to achieving this goal in the great apple-bobbing sideshow fair that is the publishing/movie-TV world conjunction. My first novel, The Court …

There should always be light at the end of the tunnel, says the author of the The Boy With The Porcelain Blade This is a guest blog by author Den Patrick whose new book The Boy With The Porcelain Blade is published on Thursday 20 March… Like many readers of …

Rumour? Controversy? Twitter storms? An Arthur C Clarke Award judge craves not these things, says Tom Hunter This is a guest blog by the director of the prestigious Arthur C Clarke Award for science fiction, Tom Hunter… (opens in new tab) Look back over the winners of the last 27 …

In his latest Hollywood Hyperspace column, our man in LA Joe McCabe revels in a certain Time Lord’s recent birthday… (opens in new tab) Doctor Who ’s 50th Anniversary Special “The Day of the Doctor” debuted via Global Simulcast on Saturday. I was fortunate enough to watch it with one …

Black Mask is having a hell of a debut year. As well as the excellent Occupy Comics, its launch titles include supernatural grindhouse noir 12 Ways To Die , demented science fiction thriller Ballistic and Liberator . Liberator is one of the most interesting, taking the standard superhero idea of …

(opens in new tab) In the first half of Person Of Interest ‘s first season it’s not evidently a show that has any genre credentials. In the land of UK TV listings it’s been quite sitting comfortably next to non-fantastical police procedural shows CSI and The Mentalist . Actually ignore …

I was one of those authors. Back in the early 21st Century, Andrew gave me a slot in one of the anthologies. The Alsiso Project was an anthology of stories based on a typo, and the different ways you could interpret it. My story was presented as a lecture, if …

The books are a huge amount of fun, and are part of the new spearhead of British urban fantasy, along with Paul Cornell’s London Falling , Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers Of London series and The City’s Son by Tom Pollock. Emma’s been working in this world for some though, having produced …

Issue #1 Writer: J Michael Straczynski Artist: Ben Templesmith Letterer: Troy Peteri Publisher: Image Comics Joe Fitzgerald is a man you come to when you don’t have anyone else. A problem solver, Joe has a reputation hard-earned through his previous life as a mob enforcer and the horrific end to …

Back in 1999 I did something that seems amazing to me now: I avoided every ounce of hype for Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace . All of it. Everything. Completely. (opens in new tab) If you were around in 1999, which I’m sure most of you were, you …