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(Penguin Random House/Vintage 978-0-593-08115-0, $17, 272pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, June 1, 2021) Fantasy novel, inspired in part on the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch, about mercenaries transporting a sacred oracle in 16th-century Netherlands. With lush, erudite prose and a large cast of darkly eccentric humans and monsters, this spellbinding slipstream novel from Catling (the Vorrh trilogy) feels like stepping into one of Hieronymus Bosch’s playfully macabre paintings—works which are aptly referenced in the novel’s second act. In a fantasy revisionist’s version of ea...

Alec Gillis & Tom Woodruff Alien Day 2021 Interview Alec Gillis & Tom Woodruff Alien Day 2021 Interview Posted by Darkness on May 7, 2021 (Updated: 07-May-2021) Tom Woodruff and Alec Gillis are the founders of special effects studio, Amalgamated Dynamics Inc. They worked on Aliens under Stan Winston before forming they’re own studio. They’ve worked on many films since then including handling the effects on Alien 3, AvP Requiem and The Predator. We originally did an interview with both of them back in December 2006, Next, RidgeTop visited the StudioADI workshop in December 2017 and pro...

Nostromo until one last, surprise showdown with the alien, which she then — finally — blasts into space. It’s a fantastic ending. The culmination of an undeniable masterpiece. Now imagine sitting down to watch Alien and not know what’s going to happen. Maybe everyone lives. Maybe everyone dies. Later this summer, that’ll be up to you: Ravensburger is releasing a brand new board game called Alien: Fate of the Nostromo. It’s a collaborative, strategy-based, thriller board game that makes anywhere from one to five players members of the Nostromo crew. Together, players must survi...

As a way of celebrating Alien Day, here's a ton of new merch from fashion, to toys, to xenomorph glasses that would make Ellen Ripley proud.

Aliens Star Has Best Reaction to This Year's "Alien Day" With Alien fans around the world all taking part in "Alien Day" on social media, star of Aliens Lance Henriksen also got in on the action, hilariously captioning a photo of his character being killed by describing it as a chess move. While Sigourney Weaver is easily the most well-known star of the franchise, having appeared in all four original Alien films, Henriksen debuted in 1986's Aliens, going on to have small roles in both Alien 3 and the spinoff prequel Alien vs. Predator. Despite often playing intense characters in his fil...