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First Contact • Hailing Frequencies Open!

SFX • January 2021 | Issue 335

Rants & Raves • Inside the SFX hive mind

Captain’s Log

The Next Generation • Robert Rodriguez believes the children are our future in new superhero sci-fi flick We Can Be Heroes

Memories Are Made Of This • Writer/director Gavin Rothery talks about his debut feature Archive

AERIAL ASSAULT • SCI-FI TV ROUND UP

Le Freak C’est Chic! • Kathryn Newton on her 2020-style scream queen in horror-comedy Freaky

Twist Of Fate • A global animation hit transforms into magical live-action Netflix series Fate: The Winx Saga

NEWS WARP • HIGH-SPEED INFORMATION

Hello From The Other Side • Noël Coward’s ghostly comedy Blithe Spirit returns to celebrate 70 years

Step Back In Time • Diana and Matthew from A Discovery Of Witches, travel back to Elizabethan London

EVERINA MAXWELL • MEET THE CIVIL SERVANT BEHIND SPACE OPERA WINTER’S ORBIT

Red Alert

Hard Reset • As Cyberpunk 2077 arrives, the RPG’s designer Mike Pondsmith talks genesis and resurrection

Penny Dreadful • SFX’s high priestess of horror

The Whole Of The Moon • Shadow Moon has daddy issues in season three of American Gods, as star Ricky Whittle explains

Dave Prowse 1935-2020 • SFX salutes the man behind one of the great villains

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THE ODD COUPLE • Phase Four of Marvel’s Cinematic Universe begins – slightly later than planned – with the surreal and secrecy-shrouded Disney+ series WandaVision. SFX speaks to its showrunner and stars

Watching The Detectives • A DECADE IN THE MAKING, THE WATCH IS FINALLY HERE… SFX MEETS THE STARS AND SHOWRUNNER OF BBC AMERICA’S LONG-AWAITED NEW SHOW INSPIRED BY THE NOVELS OF SIR TERRY PRATCHETT

The Wolf And The Puppy • Catching up with Carrot and Angua

BACK ON TRACK • AS SNOW PIERCER PREPARES TO RETURN FOR ITS SECOND SEASON, SFX HAS A SNOOP AROUND THE VANCOUVER SET. WELL, VIRTUALLY…

A TRAIN LIKE ALICE • Production designer Steve Geaghan takes us on a tour of Wilford’s quarters

THIS CHARMING MANDO • SHORTLY AFTER THE LAUNCH OF THE SECOND EPISODE OF SEASON TWO, SFX CAUGHT UP WITH THE MANDALORIAN HIMSELF, PEDRO PASCAL, SPEAKING FROM BUDAPEST

SUITING UP • WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN THE ACTOR PLAYING THE TITLE ROLE LEAVES YOUR SHOW? CAROLINE DRIES EXPLAINS HOW BATWOMAN BEGINS AGAIN

THE LIFE OF RYAN • Javicia Leslie is the new Batwoman

PUBLISH AND BE DAMNED • AS EDITORIAL DIRECTOR AT IPC MAGAZINES IN THE LATE ’70S, JOHN SANDERS OVERSAW THE LAUNCH OF 2000 A.D. IN HIS NEW MEMOIR HE DESCRIBES HOW IT CAME ABOUT…

GREAT SCOTT! • DIRECTOR EDGAR WRIGHT AND STAR MICHAEL CERA RETURN TO AN OLD SAVE POINT TO REMINISCE ABOUT 10 YEARS OF SCOTT PILGRIM VS THE WORLD. CONTINUE?

WHOOPI GOLDBERG • A big sci-fi fan, she’d have loved to have been the first female Doctor…

WE'RE ALL DOOMED! • CELEBRATED ITS 50TH ANNIVERSARY THIS YEAR, BUT THE ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS THE SHOW EXPLORED MATTER MORE THAN EVER. SPEAKING IN 1988, CO-CREATOR GERRY DAVIS REVEALED HOW HE AND KIT PEDLER SCARED THE NATION

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