SF² Concatenation

Yes, our home page colour this season is green for summer plants. (Watney was a botanist you know... As well as being the first coloniser of Mars ....and a space pirate!)

Site news: A few of us will be at this year's SF Worldcon in Glasgow.

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New up...

We have our 'summer'* season edition. It includes the season's full news page, with its Film News;  Television News;  Publishing News;  General Science News  and  Forthcoming SF Books from major British Isles SF imprints for the season, among much else.  There is a lot to unpack here with many links to YouTube trailers and other videos, so take time to sit down at your PC or with a laptop or pad, and dive on in.
* 'Summer' season here being the northern hemisphere, academic year summer.

Separately, we have a couple of stand-alone articles and convention reports.  Plus there is the usual tranche of stand-alone book reviews.  Something for every SF enthusiast and/or science bod.

Of interest to those going to this year's SF Worldcon in Glasgow, we have an introduction to the city for visiting SF folk.  If you are coming to Glasgow this summer and you feel this article is useful then do help promulgate: Facebook alert here. Spread the love (and the BSFA is worthy of your FB attention).

For details of / links to the new content, scroll down to beneath 'Most recently added' below.

Forthcoming

In July we will have the second of our four 'Best of Nature 'Futures' short, short SF stories of the year.  These are delightful little stories. If you want to check out past stories in this series the Best of Nature 'Futures' archive is here.

For details of / links to the new content, scroll down to beneath 'Most recently added' below.

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Most recently added

v34(3) 2024.4.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Summer 2024

• Newscast for the Summer 2024. This includes within it many key sections. See also the master newscast link index that connects to all its SF/F genre and science news sub-sections.
   
• Article on Britain's New Worlds magazine – Jonathan Cowie
• SF Worldcon publications policy – Peter Tyers
• British Fantasycon 2023 – Ian Hunter
• Glasgow: An introduction for visiting SF folk – Ian Hunter
• The English dictionary for visiting Americans – A UK Worldcon resource
• 33rd Festival of Fantastic Films 2023 - Great Britain – Jonathan Cowie
• Gaia 2024 - Annual whimsical SF and/or science snippets and exotica
• Ten years ago exactly. One from the archives: The Anglo-Romanian Science & Science Fiction Cultural Exchange Re-visited
• Twenty years ago exactly. One from the archives: The Greg Bear interview
• Twenty years ago exactly. One from the archives: SF, Globalization and China – Lavie Tidhar
• Thirty years ago exactly. One from the archives: When the Children Read Fantasy – Terry Pratchett

v34(3) 2024.4.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• The Book of Doors - Gareth Brown
• The Lonely Lands (2nd review) - Ramsey Campbell
• Floating Hotel - Grace Curtis
• Crucible of Chaos - Sebastien de Castell
• Play of Shadows - Sebastien de Castell
• Saturnalia - Stephanie Feldman
• Red Side Story - Jasper Fforde
• Dawn of Onyx (2nd review) - Kate Golden
• Doctor Who: The Giggle - James Goss
• The Descent - Paul E. Hardisty
• Orphans of the Sky - Robert Heinlein
• Lamb - Matt Hill
• These Burning Stars - Bethany Jacobs
• In the Lives of Puppets (2nd review) - T. J. Klune
• Incacerat - Gareth Marenghi
• Relight My Fire - C. K. McDonnell
• Relight My Fire (2nd review) - C. K. McDonnell
• Doctor Who: Wild Blue Yonder - Mark Morris
• The Mountain in the Sea (2nd review) - Ray Nayler
• One Eye Opened in That Other Place - Christi Nogle
• The Sky Vault - Benjamin Percy
• The Mars House - Natasha Pulley
• Machine Vendetta - Alastair Reynolds
• Poster Girl - Veronica Roth
• Doctor Who: The Star Beast - Gary Russell
• High Vaultage - Chris Sugden & Jen Sugden
• The City of Stardust - Georgia Summers
• The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennett, Witch (2nd review) - Melinda Taub

v34(3) 2023.4.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• Harry Potter Official Christmas Cook Book - Elena P. Craig & Jody Revenson
• The Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies - John Scalzi
• Selfish Genes to Social Beings - Jonathan Silvertown
• Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes - Rob Wilkins

v34(2) 2024.3.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• Change Your View: The world is just enough (1-page PDF short story) - Matt Tighe
  
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.
• The guidelines for prospective 'Futures' SF short stories authors.

v34(1) 2024.1.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Spring 2024

• Newscast for the Spring 2024. This includes within it many key sections. See also the master newscast link index that connects to all its SF/F genre and science news sub-sections.
   
• Fantasy: Realms of Imagination - The New British Library Exhibition
• The new Waterloo Doctor Who guided walk - Jonathan Cowie
• The 2022 Loscon 48 - Heath Row
• 2023 SF Film Top Ten Chart and Other Worthies
  (All archived annual film charts are indexed here)
• SF Convention Listing & Film Diary with links to con sites and film trailers
• Ten-ish years ago. One from the archives: Films from the Mummy's Tomb -Tony Chester
• Ten years ago exactly. One from the archives: LoneStarCon 3 – The 2013 SF Worldcon - Peter Tyers
• Twenty years ago exactly. One from the archives: The 2003 French National Convention - Alain de Bussy
  (Facebook Alert for this edition should you wish to spread the love with a like or share in the event you feel it appropriate (have fellow SF fan followers).)

v34(1) 2024.1.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Winter's Gifts - Ben Aaronovitch
• Conquest - Nina Allan
• Creation Node - Stephen Baxter
• Bridge - Lauren Beukes
• The Lonely Lands - Ramsey Campbell
• Scarlet Traces -- Sequel to the War of the Worlds - Ian Eddington & D'Israeli
• The Seventh Son - Sebastian Faulks
• Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars - Phil Ford
• Doctor Who: Warriors’ Gate and Beyond - Stephen Gallagher
• A Dawn Of Onyx - Kate Golden
• Doctor Who: The Zygon Invasion - Peter Harkness
• Silent Key - Laurel Hightower
• What The River Knows - Isabel Ibanez
• Bride of the Tornado - James Kennedy
• In the Lives of Puppets - T. J. Klune
• Translation State - Ann Leckie
• The Kindness - John Lindqvist
• The Blue, Beautiful World - Karen Lord
• Beyond the Reach of Earth - Ken MacLeod
• Hopeland - Ian McDonald
• Doctor Who: Kerblam! - Pete McTighe
• The Black Feathers - Rebecca Netley
• Promise - Christi Nogle
• A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories - Terry Pratchett
• Bonesmith - Nicki Pau Preto
• Airside - Christopher Priest
• A Sword of Bronze and Ashes - Anna Smith
• One - Eva Smith
• The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennett, Witch - Melinda Taub
• Lords of Uncreation - Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Doctor Who: Planet of the Ood - Keith Temple
• The Curious Affair of the Missing Mummies - Lisa Tuttle
• Robo-Hunter: Planet of the Robots - John Wagner & Ian Gibson
• The Best of Roger Zelazny - Roger Zelazny

v34(1) 2023.1.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• Word Monkey - Christopher Fowler
• Hauntings: A history of ghosts and where to find them - Neil Oliver
• Predicting Our Climate Future - David Stainforth

v33(7) 2023.12.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• Dragon Riders of CERN: Learning to fly (1-page PDF short story) - Rachelle Wright
  
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.
• The guidelines for prospective 'Futures' SF short stories authors.

v33(6) 2023.11.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• Aleph: Personal questions (1-page PDF short story) - Lavie Tidhar
  This story came out last year before this year's (2023) explosion in artificial intelligence (AI). But AI is not 'Artificial General Intelligence'. What would that first conversation be like?
   
• Advance post: Fantasy: Realms of Imagination - The New British Library Exhibition

v33(5) 2023.9.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Autumn 2023

• Newscast for the Autumn 2023. This includes within it many key sections. See also the master newscast link index that connects to all its SF/F genre and science news sub-sections.
   
• Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny... A close look reveals... – Arthur Chappell
• When did the first human evolve? A SETI approach illuminates – Jonathan Cowie
• Conversation – The 2023 British Eastercon – Arthur Chappell
• The Sci-Fi London 2023 Film Fest – Jonathan Cowie
• Pemmi-Con – The 15th North American Science Fiction Convention – Sue Burke
• 18 Years Ago - One from the archive: Glasgow - for visiting SF folk (This is very dated and we hope to have an update for 2024)
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