SF² Concatenation

New up...

The Spring 2015 edition of news, convention reports and book reviews is now up (see 'Most recently added' below). Here the news page contains our thoughts on what might possibly be among the best SF books and films of 2014. If our selections the past years are anything to go by then there may well be a number that will go on to win some major SF awards... (For example, here are our 'Best of ' SF/F books and films of 2013, and subsequent Hugo Award nominations.)

Forthcoming

Mid-March sees a new, one-page SF story from our 'Best of' the Nature 'Futures' series.

Our posting schedule is regular -- so you can see when things are due by looking at what was posted, and when, previously -- but if you want early notification of a few advance posts then join the few following us on our new Twitter thingy. (And if you yourself are on Twitter and you enjoy the site then how about your New Year Christmas present to us being to re-Tweet our last couple of alerts?)

Meanwhile you should find something to enjoy and/or informative below...

Most recently added

v25(1) 2015.1.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Spring 2015

• Newscast for the Spring 2015. 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.
• Eurocon 2014 – Dublin, Ireland (2nd review) - Peter Tyers
• British Fantasycon 2014 - Ian Hunter
• 25th Festival of Fantastic Films 2014 – Great Britain - Darrell Buxton
• Utopiales 2014 – France - Jim Walker
• The 2014 Hispacon – Spain - Sue Burke
• 2015 Diary of Major SF Conventions & Forthcoming SF Films of the Year

v25(1) 2015.1.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Nearly Definitive Edition - Douglas Adams
• Cairo - Louis Armand
• Pebble in the Sky - Isaac Asimov
• The Incarnation - Susan Barker
• Ultima - Stephen Baxter
• Broken Monsters - Lauren Beukes
• Skin Game: The Dresden Files - Jim Butcher
• The Severed Streets - Paul Cornell
• The Relic Guild - Edward Cox
• Elite Dangerous: Wanted - Gavin Deas
• Elite: Docking is Difficult - Gideon Defoe
• Tinder - Sally Gardner
• Extinction Game - Gary Gibson
• The Revolutions - Felix Gilman
• The Abyss Beyond Dreams - Peter F. Hamilton
• Kill Baxter - Charlie Human
• Emporium Stories - Adam Johnson
• Horror Stories: Classic Tales from Hoffmann to Hodgson - Darryl Jones (ed)
• The House of the Four Winds - Mercedes Lackey & James Mallory
• Ancillary Sword - Ann Leckie
• The Three - Sarah Lotz
• Coming Home - Jack McDevitt
• The Spectral Book of Horror Stories - Mark Morris (ed)
• Murder - Sara Pinborough
• The Long Mars (2nd review) - Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter
• The Fortress in Orion - Mike Resnick
• Elite: Nemorensis - Simon Spurrier
• Shadows of the Apt: Book Ten – Seal of the Worm - Adrian Tchaikovsky
• The Traitor's Heir - Anna Thayer
• Predator vs. Judge Dredd vs. Aliens - John Wagner et al
• The Mammoth Book of Steampunk Adventures - Sean Wallace (ed)
• Firefall (Echopraxia) - Peter Watts

v25(1) 2015.1.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• A Lifetime In The Building: The Extraordinary Story of May Savidge - Christine Adams
• An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth - Chris Hadfield
• A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction - Terry Pratchett
• Curiosity: An Inside Look at the Mars Rover Mission - Rod Pyle
• The Frood: The Authorised and Very Official History of Douglas Adams and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Jem Roberts
• What Makes This Great: Re-Reading the Classics of Science Fiction and Fantasy - Jo Walton
• Ocean Worlds: The story of seas on Earth and other planets - Jan Zalasiewicz & Mark Williams

v24(7) 2014.12.15 -- A new festive-season story from the Nature Futures series

• First Foot by Deborah Walker
  It's the season to be jolly, and there are traditions that we must adhere to through to new year lest we incur displeasure...
  
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.
• The guidelines for prospective 'Futures' SF short stories authors.

v24(6) 2014.11.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• Quis Custodiet by Brian Clegg
  The world is ruled by a caring AI. It is a perfect dictatorship, isn't it?

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