SF² Concatenation

Happy birthday to us, Happy birthday to us...  As of Easter we were 30 years old.

It's our 30th, but also it's Cassini's 13th and final year
Below a tip of the hat to the first detailed mission
to explore the Saturn system

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New up...

Most recently posted we have our autumnal edition. (Well, autumnal in our northern hemisphere, but we're sure our southern friends work it out.)  Its large-ish seasonal news page has sections on film, books, TV, as well as the season's forthcoming books listing of new titles from the major imprints in the British Isles, many of which will soon be available elsewhere.  And then there's the news page's science as well as science and SF interface section.

This is the last seasonal edition in this our 30th year of SF² Concatenation doing SF.  This is something that could not have happened without the support of its team and the current band of contributors . If back in 1987, and our first (print) edition, anyone had said we'd still be around the best part of a third-of-a-century later then none of us would have believed it.  Looking forward we do plan to continue for a few years so as to reach this one-third-century mark. After that we'll see.

Your good deed, possibly?

Samuel R. Delany journal campaign needs your support.  We have coverage within this season's news page.

Forthcoming

Mid November we will have the third this year of our choices as to the best of last year's Nature 'Futures' SF stories. As usual it is a one-page (PDF) short story that has either a bit of a twist and/or edge.  And then mid-December a pre-Christmas treat with the last of our 'Futures' selection for the year.

Meanwhile, hopefully you should find something to tickle your fancy below...

Most recently added

v27(5) 2017.9.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Autumn 2017

• Newscast for the Summer 2017. Which includes within it many key sections covering SF books, films and TV as well as science. See the master newscast link index that connects to all the news sub-sections.
   
• My Top Ten Scientists - Paul McAuley
• Understanding Polish SF conventions - Marcin 'Alqua' Klak
• Eurocon 2017 – Dortmund, Germany - Jim Walker
• Lexicon - New Zealand's 2017 national convention - Lee Murray, Dan Rabarts and Darian Smith
• Innominate - The 2017 British Eastercon - Peter Tyers
• Innominate - The 2017 British Eastercon - Arthur Chappell
• and, following this summer's North American eclipse, a 30th anniversary blast-from-the-past with the 1st International Week of Science & SF and the 1999 European eclipse with Bob Sheckley
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v27(5) 2017.9.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Sharp Ends - Joe Abercrombie
• Iron Gods - Andrew Bannister
• Creation Machine (2nd review) - Andrew Bannister
• The Waking Land - Callie Bates
• Xeelee Vengeance - Stephen Baxter
• Skitter - Ezekiel Boone
• Firebrand - Kirsten Britain
• Fierce Gods - Col Buchanan
• The Boy on the Bridge - M. R. Carey
• Judge Dredd: Every Empire Falls - Michael Carroll et al
• The House of Binding Thorns - Aliette de Bodard
• Walkaway - Cory Doctorow
• Fall of Light - Steven Erikson
• The Remnant - Charlie Fletcher
• Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - Alexander Freed
• Rhyming Rings - David Gemmell
• The Immortal Throne - Stella Gemmell
• Neuromancer (New edition) - William Gibson
• Ararat - Christopher Golden
• Freeks - Amanda Hocking
• Collected Ghost Stories (2nd review) - M. R. James (Darryl Jones ed.)
• The Dream Quest of Vellitt Boe - Kij Johnson
• Agents of Dreamland - Caitlin R. Kiernan
• The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. LeGuin
• Invisible Planets - Ken Liu (ed.)
• The Corporation Wars: Insurgence - Ken MacLeod
• Austral - Paul McAuley
• Into Everywhere (2nd review) - Paul McAuley
• Sins of Empire - Brian McClellan
• Luna: Wolf Moon - Ian McDonald
• Judge Dredd: The Cursed Earth Saga (Updated with uncensored edition) - Mills & Wagner
• Cold Welcome - Elizabeth Moon
• The Complete Skizz - Alan Moore & Jim Baikie
• New York 2140 - Kim Stanley Robinson
• Immortal Unchained - Lynsay Sands
• Dark Made Dawn - J. P. Smythe
• The Bear and the Serpent - Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 14 - John Wagner & Carlos Ezequerra et al
• The Invisible Man - H. G. Wells
• The Shape of Things to Come (New edition) - H. G. Wells
• War of the Worlds (New edition) - H. G. Wells
• Where the Late Sweet Birds Sang - Kate Wilhelm
• The Ninth Rain - Jen Williams
• The Affinities - Robert Charles Wilson
• Star Wars: Thrawn - Timothy Zahn

v27(5) 2017.9.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• The Emerald Planet: How Plants Changed Earth's History - David Beerling
• Living With the Living Dead: The wisdom of the Zombie Apocalypse - Greg Garrett
• We Know All About You: The story of surveillance in Britain and America - Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones
• Amazing Stories of the Space Age: True Tales of Nazis in Orbit, Soldiers on the Moon, Orphaned Martian Robots, and Other Fascinating Accounts from the Annals of Spaceflight - Rod Pyle
• Before Time Began: The Big Bang & the Emerging Universe - Helmut Satz
• Quantum Leaps in the Wrong Direction: Where real science end and pseudoscience begins - Charles M. Wynn and Arthur W. Wiggins

v27(4) 2017.7.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• The Memory Ward - Wendy Nikel
  Lisa is saving her memories before she loses them to dementia. And then, playing an old one back, she discovers...
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.
• The guidelines for prospective 'Futures' SF short stories authors.

v27(3) 2017.4.20 -- New Columns & Articles for the Summer 2017

• Newscast for the Summer 2017. Which includes within it many key sections covering SF books, films and TV as well as science. See the master newscast link index that connects to all the news sub-sections.
   
• My Top Ten Scientists – Ian Stewart
• Eurocon 2016 – Barcelona, Spain - Jim Walker
• The 2000AD 40th Anniversary Event - Anthony Heathcote
• SF Film recommendations from the 20th Century -- Part 3: The Space Age (1960-'69) - Tony Chester
• 2016/17 (year to Easter) SF Film Top Ten Chart and Other Worthies  (All archive annual film charts here)
• Gaia 2017 - Annual whimsical SF and/or science snippets and exotica
  

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