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Stranger Things' Maya Hawke is the first big name in Legendary's Magic: The Gathering movie. Her role is secret, and nobody's said which colour she plays, which is the question Magic fans really care about. sfcrowsnest.info/maya-hawke-… @wizards_magic @Hasbro #MTG

Split-screen week for British fantasy: Sarah J. Maas sold 188,914 copies of A Court of Splintered Harmony in five days, a UK record, and China Miéville won the Goldsmiths with 1,200-plus pages. Sturdy shelves all round. sfcrowsnest.info/sarah-j-maa… @SJMaas @BloomsburyBooks #ACOTAR

Holy puppet strings! Mason Thames will voice Dick Grayson in DC's Dynamic Duo, a stop-motion and live-puppetry hybrid about the first two Robins. In 86 years Robin's been a sidekick, Nightwing and a Titan, never a puppet. Until now. sfcrowsnest.info/dynamic-duo… @DCOfficial #Robin

Blue Eye Samurai season 2 arrives on 19 January, and Mizu is taking her revenge to London. Anyone who's spent a January in London knows she doesn't scare easily. Kenneth Branagh's Fowler should start packing. sfcrowsnest.info/blue-eye-sa… @netflix #BlueEyeSamurai #animation

Starlog is back! The magazine that taught us to spot a matte painting returns in print on 13 November after 17 years, now as an annual edited by io9's Annalee Newitz. Like a Christmas annual, with more starships. sfcrowsnest.info/starlog-mag… @FANGORIA @Annaleen #Starlog #scifi

Lionsgate first announced a live-action Naruto in 2015. Eleven years on it's greenlit, with Destin Daniel Cretton directing and Charles Melton in talks to play Kakashi, who is, fittingly, running late. Believe it! sfcrowsnest.info/naruto-live… @Lionsgate @SonyPictures #Naruto #anime

Kids who watched the 2018 teaser can now vote. Bethesda has finally named it: The Elder Scrolls VI: Sentinel, set in sunny Hammerfell. No date, no gameplay, but the sand has arrived. Pack sunscreen. sfcrowsnest.info/elder-scrol… @ElderScrolls @BethesdaStudios #ElderScrollsVI

Britain wins twice in Nantes: Claire North takes the Prix Utopiales for Slow Gods, and RJ Barker's The Bone Ships wins the Prix Julia Verlanger. The French put on a cracking SF festival, and they have excellent taste. sfcrowsnest.info/prix-utopia… @ClaireNorth42 #PrixUtopiales #SFF

World of Warcraft: Forever opens tomorrow at 11pm UK time: 2004's Azeroth, a thousand new quests and Onyxia at 40 players. Clear your diary, apologise to your family in advance, and bring snacks. sfcrowsnest.info/world-of-wa… @Warcraft #WorldofWarcraft #WoWForever

John Leeson, the voice of K9, has died aged 83. For a generation he was the most dependable voice in the TARDIS, and "Affirmative, master" was far friendlier in the playground than "Exterminate". Good dog, good man. sfcrowsnest.info/john-leeson… @bbcdoctorwho #DoctorWho #K9 #RIP

Ben Wang is in talks to play Iceman in Marvel's X-Men. After four Fox films of Bobby Drake mostly chilling drinks and frosting windows, here's hoping this one finally lets him slide into the big leagues. sfcrowsnest.info/ben-wang-ic… @MarvelStudios @XMenMovies #XMen #Iceman

Dave Bautista has put on 20lb to play Kratos, and Amazon is reshooting every scene from before the recast. Ronald D. Moore is in charge, so expect grief, beards and very serious Norse family therapy. BOY. sfcrowsnest.info/god-of-war-… @PrimeVideo @SonySantaMonica #GodofWar #Kratos

Not that James Gunn. This one wrote The Cave of Night in 1955, before anyone had been to space, and got the details uncannily right. Four classic stories, and our reviewer says he's well worth seeking out. sfcrowsnest.info/some-dreams… #JamesGunn #SciFi #BookReview

Worlds of IF #180 is out, at nearly 300 pages, which for a digest is a doorstop with ambitions. Flip it over for a Bruce Pennington back cover and you're straight back at a 1970s paperback spinner rack. sfcrowsnest.info/worlds-of-i… @WorldsofIF #SciFi #BrucePennington

Teghaza 001, a pink rock picked up in the Sahara, turns out to be a 4.1-billion-year-old piece of Mars. No cylinder unscrewing near Woking, no little green men, just proof the neighbours once had weather. sfcrowsnest.info/teghaza-001… @NASAJPL #Mars #meteorite #science

Queen's Domain is out: a King's Field-style dungeon crawl where your sword doubles as a jet pack. Excalibur never had an upgrade path like this. Every corridor still wants you dead, mind. sfcrowsnest.info/queens-doma… @QueensDomain_ #QueensDomain #RPG #indiegames

A fan serial used AI to bring back Elisabeth Sladen's Sarah Jane, and her daughter Sadie Miller isn't having it: Mum never said yes. The show got there first: in 1975 the Kraals built a fake Sarah Jane, and she was the villain. sfcrowsnest.info/ai-sarah-ja… #DoctorWho #SarahJaneSmith