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A bit of a milestone with this season's edition. We have now just passed posting 2,000 standalone fiction reviews on the site.  Well, not counting a couple of years hiatus as we switched from paper to online editions, we have been going for 36 years...

New up...

Now up we have our our autumnal* 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.  Seperately 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.
* 'Autumnal' season here being the northern hemisphere, academic year autumn.

Time to sit down at the PC, open the lap top or pad and explore the news page and its links to trailers and videos as well as science papers.

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

Forthcoming

In November we will have the third of our four 'Best of Nature "Futures" short stories' of the year, and in December a pre-Christmas final one. If you are new to this site, these are short, one-page, SF stories. They're rather fun and well worth sitting down with a mug of tea/coffee for a few minutes read. (The afore link is to our archive of past stories, so feel free to have a browse. Enjoy.)

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Most recently added

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)
  (Spread the love: Facebook edition alert here for comments / likes / shares.)

v33(5) 2023.9.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Alternate History Short Stories - Anon.
• Hidden Realms Short Stories - Anon.
• Weaponized (2nd review) - Neal Asher
• Ancient Images - Ramsey Campbell
• The Ferryman - Justin Cronin
• Wayward Pines 1: Pines - Blake Crouch
• Wayward Pines 2: Wayward - Blake Crouch
• Wayward Pines 3: The Last Town - Blake Crouch
• The Malevolent Seven - Sebastien de Castell
• The Malevolent Seven (2nd review) - Sebastien de Castell
• The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick: vols 1 – 4 - Philip K. Dick
• The Warlock Effect - Jeremy Dyson & Andy Nyman
• Essential Judge Anderson: Shamballa - Alan Grant et al
• The Dark Lands - Markus Heitz
• Not Alone - Sarah K. Jackson
• The Space Between Us - Doug Johnstone
• Dragonfall - L. R. Lam
• Silver Nitrate - Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• Untamed Shore (2nd review) - Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• For the First Time, Again - Sylvain Neuvel
• The Terraformers - Annalee Newitz
• The Best of our Past, the Worst of our Future - Christi Nogle
• Fractal Noise - Christopher Paolini
• The Cabinet of Dr. Leng - Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
• Sea of Tranquility - Emily St. John Mandel
• The Lost Metal - Brandon Sanderson
• Tress of the Emerald Sea - Brandon Sanderson
• Starter Villain - John Scalzi
• The Best of World SF - Volume 2 edited - Lavie Tidhar
• The Best of World SF - Volume 2 (2nd review) edited - Lavie Tidhar
• Equinox - David Towsey
• The Roamers - Francesco Verso
• Essential Judge Dredd: The Apocalypse War - John Wagner et al
• Judge Dredd: The Citadel - John Wagner et al
• Essential Judge Dredd: Judgement Day (Updated review for the new edition) - John Wagner et al
• Paradise-1 - David Wellington
• Doctor Who and the Daleks (3rd review) - David Whitaker
• Dark Dweller - Gareth Worthington

v33(5) 2023.9.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• Distrust: Big data, data torturing and the assault on science - Garry Smith

v33(4) 2023.7.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• In Response to Your Reader: Local issues (1-page PDF short story) - Gareth D. Jones
  Following the Event, the valley remained cut off from the rest of the world. But as the letter column in the local paper reveals, other things are happening.
  
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.
• The guidelines for prospective 'Futures' SF short stories authors.

v33(3) 2023.4.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Summer 2023

• Newscast for the Summer 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.
   
• Best Science Fiction Novels Then (1987) and Now (2022) – Jonathan Cowie
• Space Launch Costs in the New Era – Duncan Lunan
• 32nd Festival of Fantastic Films 2022 - Great Britain – Ian Taylor
• SF/F/H book reviewers wanted
• Gaia 2023 - Annual whimsical SF and/or science snippets and exotica
• Ten years ago. One from the archives: Eurocon 2013 – Kiev, Ukraine – Jim Walker
• Twenty years ago. One from the archives: Reading SF for the Blind (2003)
• Thirty years ago. One from the archives: Fact 'n Fiction 'n Me – John Gribbin (1993)
  (This edition's Twitter Alert here  and  Facebook here.)

v33(3) 2023.4.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• The Transcendent - Nadia Afifi
• Legends & Lattes - Travis Baldree
• Book of Night - Holly Black
• Infinity Gate - M. R. Carey
• Frontier (2nd review) - Grace Curtis
• The Red Scholar’s Wake - Aliette de Bodard
• Ragman - J. G. Faherty
• Growing Up Weightless - John M. Ford
• Beautiful Shining People - Michael Grothaus
• Psalms For the End of the World - Cole Haddon
• The Curator - Owen King
• Celestial - M. D. Lachlan
• The Secret of Life (2nd review) - Paul McAuley
• Garth Marenghi's Terrortome - Garth Marenghi
• Love Will Tear Us Apart - C. K. McDonnell
• Untamed Shore - Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• Close to Midnight - Mark Morris
• The Mountain in the Sea - Ray Naylor
• Judge Dredd: Megatropolis – Book One - Kenneth Niemand & Dave Taylor
• The This (2nd review) - Adam Roberts
• Cytonic (2nd review) - Brandon Sanderson
• The Kaiju Preservation Society (2nd review) - John Scalzi
• Children of Memory - Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Children of Memory (2nd review) - Adrian Tchaikovsky
• City of Last Chances - Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Doctor Who and the Daleks (2nd review) - David Whitaker
• Hide - Kiersten White

v33(3) 2023.4.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• The Spirit of Mathematics Algebra and all that - David Acheson
• East of the Wardrobe: The Unexpected Worlds of C. S. Lewis - Warwick Ball
• The Book of Mars: An anthology of fact and fiction - Stuart Clark
• Twenty-First-Century Tolkien: What Middle-Earth means to us today - Nick Groom
• On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory - Thomas Hertog
• I Am The Law: How Judge Dredd predicted our future - Michael Molcher
• The Oxford History of Science - Iwan Rys Morus

v33(2) 2023.3.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• The Resilience of Humanity (1-page PDF short story) - Gretchen Tessmer
  With the boon of immortality, there came a problem. Population. Still, there's a way around that, isn't there?
  
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.
• The guidelines for prospective 'Futures' SF short stories authors.

v33(1) 2023.1.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Spring 2023

• Newscast for the Spring 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.
   
• Charles Partington: A Life in Science Fiction
• Space Exploration 2022 – Ian Moss
• The 2022/3 Science Museum Science & SF Exhibition – Jonathan Cowie
• Star Trek: The Motion Picture: Is it time for a reappraisal? – Mark Yon
• Chicon 8 - The 2022 Chicago Worldcon – Sue Burke
• Chicon 8 - The 2022 Worldcon's Polish Programme Track – Marcin “Alqua” Klak
• British Fantasycon 2022 – Ian Hunter
• The Sci-Fi London 2022 Film Fest – Jonathan Cowie
• The Best SF Books & Films of 2022 - Possibly?
• 2022 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 years ago. One from the archives: 23rd Festival of Fantastic Films 2012 - Darrell Buxton
  
  Spring edition posting alert: Twitter  / FaceBook

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