Blackfish Publishing

ISSUE 10 February 2008 (on sale 21/1/08)

IN THIS ISSUE...

INSIDE CAPTAIN JACK!

"Sexy and odd, new and vibrant." Dogged by controversy, the Torchwood team continue to battle off aliens and solicit each other for sexual favours. We asked for the dirt, and we got it. "Martha slots right in," apparently. Yes, that's right. Those naughty chaps and chapesses from Cardiff are back, and it'd be remiss of us to *not* round the lot of them up for interrogation. And so we have.

INSIDE LAST YEAR!

As Death Ray reaches double figures with issue #10, we bid farewell to 2007 with a comprehensive rummage through twelve months of science fiction, and deal out awards with reckless abandon. 'Most elaborate bloodletting'. 'Most curiously interesting episode of Battlestar Galactica about unionisation'. 'Best urination gag' That kind of thing. Find out who won, and who lost (Flash Gordon, we're looking at you), on page fifty…

INSIDE THE BROTHERS STRAUSE!

The Strause brothers tell us everything we needed to know about Predators, Aliens and their babies, the 'Predaliens'. What does Ted Nugent have to do with the new AvP film? Find out only in Death Ray! The human race is incidental – this is for fans of sharp, dripping, invasive things. With guns.

INSIDE SEX!

Did you ever expect an issue of Death Ray to be so educational? Keith Stuart talks Freud, hentai, and demon seed, violating your mind with his fearsome, prodding intelligence. Science fiction, you see, has never *not* been about sex…

INSIDE STEPHEN DONALDSON!

We interviewed Stephen Donaldson, our favourite prince of fantasy, and America's best attempt at producing a Tolkien to rival our own. As he embarks on his third series of Thomas Covenant books, we quiz him about storytelling technique, empathy, and fear.

PLUS...

PLUS

We speak to Adrian Hodges, presently maestro of Primeval, but soon to be writing the BBC's re-imagined Survivors. There's also an eye-bedazzling interview with the ubiquitous Chris Moore, artist extraordinaire, and a thorough A-K of the new 'predalien'.

AND

A ten-minute tutorial on Conan the Barbarian! Dark romance with Naomi Novik! The real boss of Doctor Who, Julie Gardner! Guy Haley meets an alien! Lawrence Miles blows out the candles for George Orwell – it's the 60th Anniversary of Nineteen Eight-Four! Four pages on H.G. Wells! Why King Kong is really, really good! The return of Encyclopedia Galactica! And enough reviews to keep you going for a month – Torchwood, I Am Legend, Doctor Who, The Mighty Boosh and Iain M. Banks are all taken to task – and we even visited an art gallery in Dulwich!