Tag Archive | "SFX"

Pratchett on Doctor Who and “makeitupasyougalongeum”

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

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Terry Pratchett is guest editing the 196th edition of SFX magazine, and he’s taking it upon himself to explain why he sees Doctor Who as decidedly dodgy sci-fi in the piece “Terry Pratchett vs Who“. It’s a great take-down of the Russell T Davies Deax Ex Machina years, albeit a very fond take-down: “So once again I [...]

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SFX Weekender – awards and news of Gaiman writing for Who (at last!)

Monday, February 8, 2010

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The SFX Weekender was held over the weekend (well, duh!) and among the panels and cosplay and discussions and drinking there were, of course, the annual SFX awards. The Geek Syndicate boys were live-Tweeting them as they happened (thanks, Nuge) and SF Awards Watch has handily compiled them all. Neil Gaiman won the Best Novel [...]

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Comic Heroes – new British superhero mag

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

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The Guardian reports that Future Publishing, home of the very fine science fiction mag SFX, will be launching a new quarterly-published magazine, Comic Heroes, themed around superheroes this March, which will cover comics, video games and movies, inspired by the huge success of one of SFX’s recent specials on superheroes which apparently was one of [...]

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Cast your vote for the annual SFX Awards

Sunday, October 18, 2009

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Voting is now open in the annual awards from Blighty’s top selling science fiction mag SFX. Actually they opened a number of days ago and I clean forgot to post a link up to it, but as they voting is open until 5th December there’s still plenty of time to consider who you will cast [...]

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Al Ewing at SFX

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

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The excellent Al Ewing is interviewed in SFX magazine and they’ve very nicely put it up online so everyone can read it. As well as discussing his career Al offers advice for would-be comics writers, noting how the short Future Shocks stories in 2000AD have proven to be a great way for new scribes to [...]

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