SF² Concatenation

Current state

It is the start of a new year (our 35th) during which much is slated to happen. Here, among others, our thoughts are with the folk deploying the European-US James Webb Space Telescope launched before Christmas. The 300-step deployment process is due to take a month or so and each step has to work! Just try not to think about the £7.5 billion (US9.7 billion) at stake...

Meanwhile, there has been much SF and science news. More below...

New up...

Our spring* edition is now up with its full news page, articles and convention reports. Yes, conventions are coming back!  Plus there is a tranche of stand-alone book reviews. Something for everyone.
* 'Spring' season here being the northern hemisphere, academic year spring.

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

Whatever your tastes in SF (literary, cinematic or television) or science (general, natural or astronomical) there should be something for every SF enthusiast and/or science bod.

Forthcoming

Mid-March we hope to have the first of our four 'Best of Nature "Futures" short stories' of the year. If you are new to this site, these are short, one-page, SF stories. They're rather fun. (The afore link is to our archive of past stories, so feel free to have a browse. Enjoy.)

And a reminder, for the few of you who can't wait, that we provide some early access to new content as well as notifications of seasonal posting through Twitter @SF2Concat. (Early notifications only: we don't want to distract anyone with chat.)

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Most recently added

v32(1) 2022.1.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Spring 2022

• Newscast for the Spring 2022. 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.
   
• Dune: the novel and films compared – Mark Yon
• The world of the Trigan Empire – Jonathan Cowie
• JUICE 2022 - Jupiter and Icy Moons Explorer – Ian Moss
• Whither Worldcons: Just where are they heading? – Peter Tyers
• My Top Ten Scientists – Timothy Gawne (neuroscientist & SF author)
• 31st Festival of Fantastic Films 2021 - Great Britain – Darrel Buxton
• British Fantasycon 2021 – Ian Hunter
• 2021 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: Films from the Mummy's Tomb – Tony Chester
• Twenty years ago. One from the archives: Eclipsing the 1999 Eclipse: The first International Week of Science & SF – Roberto Quaglia

v32(1) 2022.1.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Doctor Who: And the Pirate Planet - Douglas Adams & James Goss
• Foundation - Isaac Asimov
• Call of the Bone Ships - R. J. Barker
• The 22 Murders of Madison May - Max Barry
• Tomorrow - Chris Beckett
• Tomorrow (2nd review) - Chris Beckett
• The Blacktongue Thief - Christopher Buehlman
• Artefact Space - Miles Cameron
• Born to the Dark - Ramsey Campbell
• Somebody’s Voice - Ramsey Campbell
• Hollow - Brian Catling
• Whisper Down the Lane - Clay McLeod Chapman
• UFO: Comic Anthology – vol. 1 - Andrew Clements & Chris Dale (eds.)
• Doctor Who: The Essential Terrance Dicks Volume 1 - Terrance Dicks
• Doctor Who: The Essential Terrance Dicks Volume 2 - Terrance Dicks
• The God is Not Willing - Steven Erikson
• Luckenbooth - Jenni Fagan
• The Great Troll War - Jasper Fforde
• The True Bastards - Jonathan French
• Doctor Who: The Crimson Horror - Mark Gatiss
• A Terrible Fall of Angels - Laurell K. Hamilton
• Light Chaser - Peter F. Hamilton & Gareth L. Powell
• The Library of the Dead - T. L. Huchu
• XX - Rian Hughes
• The Tale of the Tailor and the Three Dead Kings: A medieval ghost story - Dan Jones
• Doctor Who: The Ruby's Curse - Alex Kingston
• Goldilocks - Laura Lam
• Goldilocks - Laura Lam
• Holes in the Veil - Beth Overmyer
• Inhibitor Phase - Alastair Reynolds
• Doctor Who: The TV Movie - Gary Russell
• Doctor Who: Revelation of the Daleks - Eric Saward
• Hard Time - Jodi Taylor
• Shards of Earth - Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Screams from the Void - Anne Tibbets
• The Hood - Lavie Tidhar
• Andrea Víctrix - Llorenç Villalonga
• Soot - Dan Vyleta
• Judge Dredd: Guatemala - John Wagner
• Have You Seen Me? - Alexandra Weis
• Moonbase Alpha: Technical Operations Manual - Steve White (ed.)
• Doctor Who: The Witchfinders - Joy Wilkinson

v32(1) 2022.1.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• The Oxford Illustrated History of Witchcraft and Magic - Owen Davies

v31(6) 2021.11.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• An Intersection of Parallel Lives (1-page PDF short story) - Wendy Nikel
  A long departed generation ship represents a commercial opportunity...
  (Our few die-hard Twitter followers got this a few days earlier)
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.
• The guidelines for prospective 'Futures' SF short stories authors.

v31(5) 2021.11.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• Press Play (1-page PDF short story) - Marissa Lingen
  War was coming, but we could protect our children by putting them in stasis. But there is a cost...

v31(4) 2021.9.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Autumn 2021

• Newscast for the Autumn 2021. 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.
   
• Getting Published -- From MS to print – Sue Burke
• My Top Ten Scientists – Ken MacLeod (zoologist & SF author)
• Fictionalising Science and CoVID -- Will politicians be held to account? – Jonathan Cowie
• The Solar System’s First Interstellar Visitor ’Oumuamua Revisited – Duncan Lunan
• Universes all the way down (1-page PDF short story) - Matt Tighe
  The aliens are more advanced and occasionally like to give a helping hand with things like, say, understanding the nature of the universe...
• Ten years ago. One from the archives: How long? -- Should there be really thick SF novels? – Peter Tyers
  (Autumnal edition's Twitter alert and Facebook notification.)

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