Visual Imagination Ltd. was a British company that produced genre magazines. It was founded in 1985 by Stephen Payne and originally only published the

science-fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel univer ...

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

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

Film Review Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films and the film medium. In general, film criticism can be divided into two categories: journalistic criticism that appears regularly in newspapers, magazines and other popular mass-media outle ...

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

TV Zone ''TV Zone'' is 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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* 1985 establishments in the United Kingdom 2009 disestablishments in the United Kingdom Publishing companies established in 1985 Companies disestablished in 2009