Visual Imagination Ltd. was a British company that produced genre

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s. It was founded in 1985 by Stephen Payne and originally only published the

science-fiction Science fiction (often shortened to sci-fi or abbreviated SF) is a genre of speculative fiction that deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts. These concepts may include information technology and robotics, biological manipulations, sp ...

magazine ''Fantasy Image''. After Payne bought the magazine ''

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'' from

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, its list of titles expanded to include: * ''Cult Times'' * ''

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'' * ''Movie Idols'' * '' Shivers'' * ''Space Junkk'' * ''

TV Zone ''TV Zone'' was a British magazine that was published every four weeks by Visual Imagination that covered cult television. Initially, it mostly covered science fiction, but branched out to cover other drama and comedy series. History ''TV Zone ...

'' * ''Ultimate DVD'' * ''The Works'' * ''XPosé'' It also published translated editions of some of the above in

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and

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. The company was disestablished in early 2009.

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