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Yes, our home page colour this season is blue now that we have the northern hemisphere winter. Brrr. It is a little chilly.
HELP SF Convention reporters wanted
We are seeking to expand our convention reports of national SF conventions beyond Britain. If you would like to contribute a report then feel free to contact office [at] concatenation [dot] org for a one-page con-reporter's guide.
March 2025 news
With our ISP sponsor living in Kyiv and given the Washington goings on, our thoughts are still very much with those in Ukraine.
Belated news from the monthly Ansible newsletter -- the online Science Fiction Encyclopaedia Ltd was dissolved by Companies House back in December. If, like us, you don't follow what goes on in Britain's Companies House -- the body that maintains the legal list of UK commercial companies -- then this will be news. Fortunately, the March edition of Ansible reports that the on-line SF Encyclopaedia continues, but without the hassle of having to provide audited accounts: the Encyclopaedia's annual turnover is very low. If you are not familiar with the SF Encyclopaedia it is a great resource for finding out about all things SFnal: we use it to augment our seasonal news page's information. Do check it out.
The Sci-Fi London film fest is back for 2025! Last year, due to Cineworld closing the community cinema venue, the event was truncated to a single day event of shorts. This year it is back to a four day event at a new venue just north of central London. It will be held 19th - 22nd June, 2025, at the Picturehouse Cinema, Finsbury Park, London. Finsbury Park has a rail and underground/metro station just around the corner from the venue (which, if you are visiting and want an extra day of central London tourism, makes for a good base, less expensive than central London accommodation). There are plenty of hotels near-by such as the Farringdon Travel Lodge.
New up...
Mid-March 2025 and we have the first of our four, one-page PDF, short SF stories from the science journal Nature. These science fiction shorts are weekly and behind a pay-wall. So if you do not subscribe to Nature you will not be able to see them. However SF² Concatenation has an arrangement with Nature to get the respective authors' permissions to re-post what we consider to be among the best four of the past year.
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For details of / links to the new content, scroll down to beneath 'Most recently added' below.
Forthcoming
Mid-April we will have our 'summer'* season edition. As usual, this includes an extensive, seasonal 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 make a mug of tea, settle 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.
What's not to like?
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Most recently added
v35(2) 2025.3.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series
v35(1) 2025.1.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Spring 2025
v35(1) 2025.1.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews
v35(1) 2025.9.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews
v34(7) 2024.12.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series
v34(6) 2024.11.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series
- The Nana Inheritance (1-page PDF short story) - Amanda Helms
The deathbed of your beloved grandmother isn’t really the place where you should decide who inherits her brain, but that’s what we did...
v34(5) 2024.9.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Autumn 2024
v34(3) 2024.9.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews
Full 'What's New' list
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