Death Ray was a British magazine[1][2] devoted to science fiction and fantasy in all its forms, especially media-related topics and novels.
Death Ray was created by Matt Bielby, the ex-Future Publishing staff member who was editor[2] on some of that company's significant titles,[3] including Total Film magazine and SFX magazine, the dominant SF title.
[2] At their launches in 2007 Death Ray and SciFiNow, launched April 2007, were the first magazines in recent years to challenge SFX's dominance of the science fiction magazine market in the UK[4] but neither has yet to approach SFX in terms of popularity or sales[citation needed].
(A UK version of the American science fiction magazine Starlog was published for a couple years beginning in May 2000.)
However, the magazine has been described by one source as wordier and offering greater depth[5] than its two main competitors.