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Bloomsbury has sent Sarah J. Maas's A Court of Forgotten Melody on a European billboard tour, like a band with a new album. Amsterdam got one cryptic line; Berlin is next on 19-20 November. Bring a theory. sfcrowsnest.info/a-court-of-… @SJMaas @BloomsburyBooks #ACOTAR #SarahJMaas

HBO's Harry Potter character posters are here: Harry, Ron and Hermione, wands held bolt upright in a cosy library. The First Year Begins, and so does the internet's zoom-in-and-squint season. Looks rather lovely to us. sfcrowsnest.info/hbo-harry-p… @hbomax #HarryPotter #HBO

A future where nobody has to work, and anime has still made it quietly crushing. Sonny Boy's Shingo Natsume and Madhouse bring ghost – end of night to Japanese cinemas on 11 February 2027. Commute not included. sfcrowsnest.info/ghost-end-o… @Madhouse_News #anime #Madhouse

The Inquisition has checked its diary: Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy arrives 28 January 2027, the grimmest game setting launching in the darkest, most skint week of the British year. Perfect timing. sfcrowsnest.info/warhammer-4… @OwlcatGames @warhammer #DarkHeresy #Warhammer40k

Voyager 1 reaches one light-day from Earth on 18 November: 49 years old, still running on tape. Unlike V'Ger, it has no plans to come home and demand to meet its maker. Godspeed, little one. sfcrowsnest.info/voyager-1-o… @NASAJPL @StarTrek #Voyager1 #NASA #StarTrek

J. J. Pierce (1941–2026), the critic who fought the New Wave wars with postage stamps and semicolons, edited Galaxy and championed Cordwainer Smith. Loyal opposition, and a true fan of the genre he loved. sfcrowsnest.info/j-j-pierce-… #scifi #SFhistory #obituary

While the literati toasted the Booker, horror handed out its own trophies, with extra blood. Stephen Graham Jones's The Buffalo Hunter Hunter wins best novel at the Splatterpunk Awards. Not one for breakfast. sfcrowsnest.info/splatterpun… @SagaPressBooks #horror #SplatterpunkAwards

Stephen King adaptations have made the streamers over $1bn since 2020, and Pennywise is the top earner. Turns out we all float, straight to the subscribe button. sfcrowsnest.info/stephen-kin… @StephenKing @hbomax @ParrotAnalytics #StephenKing #Pennywise

EA opened the cupboard nobody opens and found 20,000 tapes, Wing Commander's masters and a full-motion Mark Hamill. 25 classic PC games are out on Steam and GOG. The Kilrathi never stood a chance. sfcrowsnest.info/ea-classics… @EA @Steam @GOGcom #WingCommander #RetroGaming

Spielberg's aliens skipped the cinemas in June, and now they've moved in on the sofa: Disclosure Day has spent over 100 days in Amazon's US charts. The truth is out there, and it's on Peacock. sfcrowsnest.info/disclosure-… @disclosureday @UniversalPics @peacock #DisclosureDay

M John Harrison has won the Booker Prize for The End of Everything! At 81, he's the oldest winner ever and the first from the SF magazines. The Booker took 50 years to notice him but got there, like a night bus. 🚀 @TheBookerPrizes @serpentstail #scifi sfcrowsnest.info/m-john-harr…

Clifton's, the LA fake-forest cafeteria where a teenage Ray Bradbury met fellow fans, is reopening as Sanctuary with a never-ending D&D-style game. Level up and you get money off a sandwich. Finally, a quest reward we can use. sfcrowsnest.info/cliftons-sa… @raybradbury #DnD #scifi

Blade Runner 2099's final trailer: the humans want their city back. Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer hunt a runaway, and all eight episodes land on Prime Video on 25 November. The Voight-Kampff machine is sweating. sfcrowsnest.info/blade-runne… @PrimeVideo #BladeRunner2099 #scifi

The Day After Tomorrow is Netflix's No. 1, 22 years on. Roger Ebert called it "profoundly silly", and it began as a book co-written by Communion's Whitley Strieber. Climate science, by way of the men with big black eyes. sfcrowsnest.info/day-after-t… @20thcentury @netflix #scifi

Catherynne M. Valente was writing for the next Mass Effect, and when BioWare closed, her work went with it. We'd have happily paid to read it. Somewhere on a server, a Normandy crew we'll never meet waits for orders. sfcrowsnest.info/catherynne-… @catvalente @masseffect #MassEffect

Darth Vader meets Doctor Doom on a new Hope Assembles variant: two iron masks, one crossover, zero chance either of them kneels. Kevin Smith writes, David Marquez draws, and the Avengers meet a trash compactor. sfcrowsnest.info/hope-assemb… @Marvel @starwars #StarWars #Marvel

M John Harrison started out in New Worlds in the 1960s. On Monday night he could be the oldest Booker winner, at 81, with a novel about strange things in the sky. Fingers crossed for weird old sci-fi blokes. sfcrowsnest.info/m-john-harr… @serpentstail #BookerPrize #MJohnHarrison