Tag Archives: Interviews

PROMOTION Lifelong Thunderbirds fan Stephen La Rivière stepped into Gerry Anderson’s filmmaking wonderland for his documentary Filmed In Supermarionation , but found the puppets wouldn’t cooperate and the puppeteers were just embarrassed (opens in new tab) What inspired you to make a documentary about Gerry Anderson and his team now? …

Dan Abnett and Nik Vincent talk about their spin-off from 2000 AD ‘s Kingdom stories (opens in new tab) Like the Nicci French of sci-fi and fantasy, Dan Abnett and Nik Vincent have written several books together including Gilead’s Blood for Warhammer and Tomb Raider: The Ten Thousand Immortals . …

Stephen Jewell talks to author James Lovegrove about new sub-genres of sci-fi and his latest book, Age Of Godpunk … There aren’t many authors who can lay claim to having pioneered or defined a sub-genre. How did you come to create Godpunk? As with most things in my life, I …

Professor Elemental is a titan of a man, striding heroically across the boundaries of science, science fiction, music and comedy with a jaunty tune being emitted from his Musical Trousers ( that is a euphemism, right? – ed ). The Professor, who rose to prominence a little while back with …

Charlie Pearson puts her questions to Iron Man 3 brains trust Shane Black and Drew Pearce . (opens in new tab) A few weeks back, SFX ran a competition that gave one lucky reader the chance to meet and interview Shane Black and Drew Pearce, the writer/director and writer, respectively, …

You may know her from Hustle and Warehouse 13 , but Murray is now playing a devious alien in Syfy’s major new alien-packed, multi-media drama, Defiance , which starts tonight at 9pm. Interview by Jayne Nelson, in a very dark corner of the Soho Hotel (they never asked us to …

Sam Witwer – who plays the vampire Aidan in the US version of Being Human – is a bit of a geek, and he doesn’t mind admitting it. Hell, he seems to like positively flaunting it (as you’ll discover). (opens in new tab) Which makes the fact that this interview …

(opens in new tab) Blood Of Dragons , the final book in the Rain Wilds Chronicles , is out in hardback (opens in new tab) and Kindle (opens in new tab) formats now. There’s a great quote from George RR Martin on the back of Blood Of Dragons : “Robin …

(opens in new tab) There’s a new kind of zombie drama coming to BBC Three this Sunday at 10pm. One that asks, “What if zombies could get better ?” Because in In The Flesh , after the initial “Rising” when zombies rose from their graves and did all that massacring …

(opens in new tab) Radio 4’s star-studded adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere was previewed for the press earlier this week with a panel that included Natalie Dormer, Bernard Cribbins and the author himself. The radio play, which features stars such as James McAvoy, Christopher Lee and Benedict Cumberbatch, tells the …