Tag Archives: Blogs

Read Four Extracts From Marcus Sedgwicks The Ghosts Of Heaven

—– PROMOTION —– Read not just one, but four extracts from Marcus Sedgwick’s new novel (opens in new tab) Marcus Sedgwick , award-winning author of Floodland and Midwinterblood, has taken an extremely novel approach to new novel The Ghosts Of Heaven, an incredible tale of the path of infinity throughout …

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GUEST BLOG Screenwriting Vs Novels

C Robert Cargill reveals the different skills an author needs to write for the page and the screen. This is a guest blog by C Robert Cargill , author of Dreams And Shadows and Queen Of The Dark Things … When I was a kid, there were three things I …

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HOT TOPIC We Want Your Thoughts On Agents Of SHIELD

Let us know what you think about the start of Marvel’s TV show, and your comments could live forever in a future issue of SFX SFX ’s letters pages feature a regular section called Hot Topic , where we invite you to comment on the most burning sci-fi and fantasy …

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BLOG Dangling Plot Threads

(opens in new tab) Has anyone been watching The Returned ? The French-made, eight-part TV show has just finished airing on Channel 4. The Returned – Les Revenants in the original French – was adapted from a 2004 film called They Came Back – also called Les Revenants when it …

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BLOG Nights At The Round Table

A great man once said friends are the family we get to choose. He was begging his landlady to forgive him for accidentally pretending he was dating his flatmate at the time. That particular moment didn’t go well. Fortunately, he was dreaming, and that small fact aside the wisdom of …

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BLOG Hungry Audiences And Starving Writers

(opens in new tab) There’s a problem with writing a series, whether your series is only three episodes long or spans entire decades of content: the audience always wants more. They want bigger. Better. Stronger. Your heroes saved a life last instalment? This week they better save two. They saved …

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BLOG Fanservice Faux Pas

(opens in new tab) Oh, JJ Abrams, you master manipulator, you. What’s that? Star Trek Into Darkness has been out a few weeks now and isn’t getting as much attention online as it was? Well, there’s a simple solution to that problem. Just release footage of a presumably naked Benedict …

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BLOG Iron Man 3: Choose Your Own Adventure

(opens in new tab) So, Iron Man 3 . I liked it. Yes, it had its flaws, and heaven knows that the whole thing with The Mandarin was, well, just plain odd, but overall I liked the film. I took it for what it was and just let myself like …

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BLOG Is Anyone Actually Watching Film Trailers?

(opens in new tab) Watching my twitter and Facebook of late I’m starting to wonder if anyone’s watching film trailers any more. All I see is people talking about avoiding this trailer or that trailer or getting angry at what the trailers they have seen and what they reveal, and …

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