SF2 Concatenation

New up...

New up we have a one-page PDF 'Futures' short story called 'For Your Information'. Getting genetic data on a new prospective partner is all part of the dating process. But a little knowledge... (For those of you on Twitter we have a Twitter alert for the posting you can share with your SFnal friends.)

Message of the moment: We are now on Twitter.

Because we only have three major editions of news and reviews a year (spring, summer and autumn) and one short story in between, it is very easy to miss us.  So you can be notified when we have a new posting we are now on Twitter at @SF2Concat. (We promise only to send clusters of tweets at these upload times: perhaps just a little in advance of official upload times.) Our site statistics 'unique visitors' jump by a few thousand the months of our seasonal uploads, but whether or not Twitter alerts are appropriate (or needed) remain to be seen. Anyway, do feel free to spread the word to your friends with SF interests: it would be appreciated. :-)

Your good deed... (possibly)

Have you done the on-line survey to find out more about the demographics of SF&F readers. This survey is a worthy venture and we hope that our site's visitors will support it with five minutes of their time. The survey can be found here. And if you have filled it in then have a gander at the results so far here.

Other stuff...

If you are reading this in a non-English speaking country then you may care to note that we are on the lookout for non-UK-based national convention reviewers and non-British brief news reporters. Hope that some of you are up for it. We just need short, almost bullet-point messages and perhaps links, of news. See one of our news pages for the kind of small summaries of news we are after. Meanwhile enjoy the below.

Forthcoming

Towards the end of April (a little later than usual) we will have our summer edition of news, reviews, annual film top ten for 2013/4, annual whimsy with Gaia and perhaps an article, plus certainly a load of stand-alone book reviews.

Most recently added

v24(2) 2014.3.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• For Your Information by Connor Powers-Smith
  Short Story (1 page PDF). In the future getting genetic data on a new prospective partner is all part of the dating process. But a little knowledge...
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.
• The guidelines for prospective 'Futures' SF short stories authors.

v24(1) 2014.1.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Spring 2014

• Newscast for the Spring 2014. Which includes within it loads of sections covering SF books, films and TV as well as science not to mention fandom and convention news. See the master newscast link index that connects to all the news sub-sections.
• LoneStarCon 3 – The 2013 SF Worldcon - Peter Tyers
• 2013 World Fantasy Convention, Great Britain - Ian Hunter
• The 2013 Hispacon – Spain - Sue Burke
• 24th Festival of Fantastic Films 2013 – Great Britain - Darrell Buxton
• 2014/5 Diary of Major SF Conventions & Forthcoming SF Films of the Year

v24(1) 2014.1.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Broken Homes - Ben Aaronovitch
• Proxima - Stephen Baxter
• Terra - Mitch Benn
• Conquest - John Connolly & Jennifer Ridyard
• The Diamond Deep - Brenda Cooper
• Abaddon's Gate - James S. Corey
• London Falling - Paul Cornell
• Marauder - Gary Gibson
• The Thousand Emperors - Gary Gibson
• NOS4R2 - Joe Hill
• Johannes Cabal the Necromancer - Jonathan L. Howard
• Chosen - Benedict Jacka
• The Year of the Ladybird - Graham Joyce
• Tuf Voyaging - George R. R. Martin
• A Stir of Echoes - Richard Matheson
• Be My Enemy: Everness Book II - Ian McDonald
• Love Minus Eighty - Will McIntosh
• Judge Dredd: Crusade & Frankenstein Division - Grant Morrison & Mark Millar et al
• House of Small Shadows - Adam Nevill
• Drakenfeld - Mark Charan Newton
• Charm - Sarah Pinborough
• The Long War - Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter
• The Adjacent - Christopher Priest
• Stoker's Manuscript - Royce Prouty
• The Demi-Monde Fall - Rod Rees
• On the Steel Breeze - Alastair Reynolds
• The Sparrow - Mary Doria Russell
• Steelheart - Brandon Sanderson
• Angel City - Jon Steele
• Fiend - Peter Stenson
• War Master’s Gate - Adrian Tchaikovsky
• The Sleep Room - F. R. Travis
• The Ace of Skulls - Chris Wooding

v24(1) 2014.1.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• Homo Mysterious: Evolutionary Puzzles of Human Nature - David P. Barash
• Astrobiology: A Very Short Introduction - David G. Catling
• The Oxford Guide to Plain English - Martin Cutts
• Beyond the God Particle - Leon Lederman & Christopher Hill

v23(7) 2013.12.20 -- Christmas treat. A new story from the Nature Futures series

• If Only...   A Taste of your own Medicine by Tony Ballantyne
  Short Story (1 page PDF). So you don't want to have a vaccine? Fine, provided you have an evidence-based reason. Turn your back on science and science may turn its back on you...

v23(6) 2013.11.15 -- New story from the Nature Futures series

• White lies by Grace Tang
  Short Story (1 page PDF). You can't cut corners with ground-breaking research, but sometimes just little lies are required.

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