It was the early internet, I would hear the familiar windchimes of my computer as MSN opened up, and then—bing, bing, bing—as I typed away with my internet friends from the Stargate fan groups. Back ...

Ellie’s story from our final chapter, Fandom Saves Lives, is one of the most vivid descriptions of anxiety I’ve read, and one ...

Anna Bogutskaya is a film programmer, writer, creative consultant and podcaster, and co-founder of horror film collective The Final Girls. She is currently the Festival Director of Underwire Festival.

Warning: This article contains spoilers for The X-Files episode ‘Home’ (S4, Ep2). Proceed with caution. Of the 202 episodes of The X-Files that I watched whilst growing up, ‘Home’ (S4, Ep2) is the one ...

Fans of Stargate SG-1 and its successors might have mixed feelings about the Roland Emmerich blockbuster that birthed the saga but given the importance of the Goa’uld System Lords to the overarching ...

There’s always been a fair amount of contention around Neon Genesis Evangelion. Like anything else that becomes as popular as it did (especially with anime, which attracts its fair share of possessive ...

Somehow, the sequel trilogy has returned. (Sorry, couldn’t help myself.) Star Wars Celebration Europe 2023 brought with it some exciting announcements for fans of ...

Let’s not forget, as we begin on what could be an esoteric and convoluted journey, that Ra was not originally going to be an alien in the Stargate (1994) movie. Jaye Davidson’s character was an ...

Farscape is anarchic and alien, sexy and savage – and that’s exactly how it sounds. The frantic stab of the first few seconds is like a needle scratch to shock you from your stupor: listen up, normal ...

The history and mythology of The X-Files is one built on cultural subjugation and direct colonisation. The weird and disturbed American landscape investigated week in and week out by Special Agents ...

Whilst the mainstreaming of fandom might cause some older hands to grind their teeth and jab needles into their Sheldon poppets, the consequence is not insignificant: the image of geeks as antisocial ...

In November 1975, a group of loggers in Arizona watched while their colleague Travis Walton was seemingly abducted by aliens. Despite their outlandish explanation for his disappearance, the local ...