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The shadowy wonderland beneath London’s streets is growing as crowded as the pavement above. From Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere to Dan Simmons’s Drood via Kate Griffin, Ben Aaronovitch, China Miéville and more, the imagined underworld of Britain’s capital occupies a whole subgenre of its own. With his superlative novels The Anubis …

Episode 2.08 Writer: Heather V Regnier Director: Seith Mann THE ONE WHERE: En route to the promised land of Charleston, the resistance encounter a harnessed girl. Baited by Pope, Maggie shares the secrets of her past with Hal. THE VERDICT: Quite a comedown after last week’s exemplary slice of Skies, …

Before the 2005 relaunch, playing the “imaginary Doctor Who spin-off” game was a regular pastime for fans, but now Big Finish are doing their best to make those dream projects into reality. Following on from the success of Jago & Litefoot , we now have another series starring a group …

“At university I was eager to publish some short stories and I found a list of print magazines that accepted unsolicited submissions and paid per word. There were not many of these, but one was a magazine called Cthulhu Sex , which only took stories that included ‘sex, tentacles, or, …

Two years after the King Rolen’s Kin series, Australian Rowena Cory Daniells is back with another trilogy. It shares many strengths with her earlier series – well-drawn characters, a ruthless streak to the plotting – though it lacks some of the tightly-focused adventure that made The King’s Bastard and its …

As China Miéville himself discussed when SFX interviewed him recently, there’s a rhythm to his ouevre. Whenever he’s written a novel that’s been “hard won”, he’s followed it up with a book that’s less obviously demanding. So it was that Kraken , a romp of an urban fantasy in so …

TV REVIEW Fringe 4.19 Episode 4.19 “Letters Of Transit” Writers: Akiva Goldsman, JH Wyman and Jeff Pinkner Director: Joe Chappelle THE ONE WHERE It’s 2036 and the Earth is under the control of the Observers. Walter and his now-legendary 2012 Fringe team are rescued from amber suspension by the resistance. …

Just as it’s intriguing to wonder how Iain M Banks’s career might have panned out had he first found fame for the Culture rather than as a literary novelist, Stephen King’s Dark Tower novels offer an interesting question. Specifically, would readers be so interested if King hadn’t first written Carrie …

It’s the grudge match we’ve all been waiting for: Rick vs Shane… Episode 2.10 “18 Miles Out” Writers: Scott M Gimple and Glen Mazzara Director: Ernest Dickerson THE ONE WHERE Rick and Shane take their prisoner Randall miles away to release him, and end up coming to blows. VERDICT Great …

Astrid doubles up… (opens in new tab) Episode 4.11 Writers: Akiva Goldsman, JH Wyman, Jeff Pinkner Director: Charles Beeson THE ONE WHERE Alt-Astrid crosses over to visit her doppelganger, while a killer with the Observer-like ability to see past, present and future simultaneously is bumping people off to save them …