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New up...

New up we have our Autumn edition of Science Fiction news (covering the book trade, SF film, TV news), as well as book listings of the forthcoming SF, Fantasy and Science & Non-Fiction books you can expect in the shops this summer.  Plus there is the last season's round-up of Science including Astronomy & Space and Natural Science.   Elsewhere in this season's mix we have various standalones including: an examination of Spainish Science Fiction (which kind of complements this November's 2016 Eurocon in Barcelona); a review of this year's New Zealand national SF convention in the Wellington; a report on the 2016 British national convention and finally one on ConCarolinas, a regional USA convention.

See 'Most recently added' below. Enjoy.

Forthcoming

Mid-November will see our third for 2016 of what we consider were the best four of the 51 science journal weekly Nature 'Futures' SF stories of last year (2015).  These are short, one-page PDF stories that reflect a possible future. And you do not need to take it from us that the very best of these 'Futures' stories are mind-dazzlingly brilliant. Being just one page long you can easily check their standard for yourself. (We will have another one in December to tide you over the Christmas and New Year break before our next, seasonal full edition of news and reviews in January 2017.)

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

Most recently added

v26(5) 2016.9.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Autumn 2016

• Newscast for the Autumn 2016. Which includes within it many key 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.
   
• Spanish Science Fiction - Alejandro Mohorte Medina & José Nieto
• Au Contraire 3 - New Zealand's 2016 national convention - Maree Pavletich
• Mancunicon – The 2016 British Eastercon - Peter Tyers
• ConCarolinas 2016 – A regional USA con - Peter Tyers

v26(5) 2016.9.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
• Second Lives - Scott K. Andrews
• Timebomb - Scott K. Andrews
• Creation Machine - Andrew Bannister
• The Scarlet Gospels - Clive Barker
• The Medusa Chronicles - Stephen Baxter & Alastair Reynolds
• Tracer - Rob Boffard
• Morning Star - Pierce Brown
• Doctor Who: In the Blood - Jenny T. Colgan
• The Tourist - Robert Dickinson
• Doctor Who: City of Death - James Goss
• Underground - S. L. Grey
• Starship Troopers - Robert A. Heinlein
• Hex - Thomas Olde Heuvelt
• The Summon Stone - Ian Irvine
• Children of Earth and Sky - Guy Gavriel Kay
• Star Wars: Lords of the Sith - Paul S. Kemp
• Nebula Awards Showcase 2016 - Mercedes Lackey (ed.)
• Ancillary Mercy - Ann Leckie
• The Paper Menagerie - Ken Liu
• The Paper Menagerie (2nd review) - Ken Liu
• The Corporation Wars: Dissidence - Ken MacLeod
• Into Everywhere - Paul McAuley
• Bite - K. S. Merbeth
• Reality by Other Means - James Morrow
• The Book of Phoenix (2nd review) - Nnedi Okorafor
• Those Above - Daniel Polansky
• The Long Cosmos - Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter
• Revenger - Alastair Reynolds
• The Fallen - Tarn Richardson
• Aurora - Kim Stanley Robinson
• Calamity - Brandon Sanderson
• Long Dark Dusk - J. P. Smythe
• Long Dark Dusk (2nd review) - J. P. Smythe
• Way Down Dark (2nd review) - J. P. Smythe
• Extinction - Kazuaki Takano
• Judge Dredd Classics: The Dark Judges - John Wagner et al
• Judge Dredd: The Life and Crimes of P. J. Maybe- John Wagner et al
• Rig - Jon Wallace
• The 1000 Year Reich - Ian Watson
• The Great Science Fiction - H. G. Wells
• The Book of the New Sun Vol. 1: Shadow and Claw - Gene Wolfe
• The Chrysalids - John Wyndham

v26(5) 2016.9.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life when Robots Rule the Earth - Robin Hanson
• How Population Change will Transform our World - Sarah Harper
• Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps and the Tenth Dimension - Michio Kaku
• The Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction - Samir Okasha
• Doctor Who: 365 days of memorable moments and impossible things (2nd review) - Justin Richards

v26(4) 2016.7.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• Grains of Wheat: A lesson learned by Alex Shvartsman
  Best not to upset those (including your relatives) on your way up as you may need them on the way down...
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.
• The guidelines for prospective 'Futures' SF short stories authors.

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