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Current state

Russia's war with Ukraine continues. Our thoughts continue with the acquaintances made, and remembering the experiences had, at the 2006 Eurocon and 2013 Eurocon in Kyiv, Ukraine, in this difficult time. We are particularly thinking of our ISP and sponsorship person, Boris in Kyiv.  (Like/share SF solidarity with Ukraine on Facebook and/or Twitter.) Currently in Kyiv there are fairly regular power cuts.

This site has now topped the three thousand page mark. They do ramp up over the decades...

New up...

Just up is 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 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.)

Forthcoming

April sees our summer* edition up. Last season's links are given here but the sumer edition will include the updated version of the full news page, articles and convention reports, including:  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.  Plus there will be a tranche of stand-alone book reviews, a few articles, and a couple of convention reports.  Something for every SF enthusiast and/or science bod.
* 'Summer' 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.

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 from us only: we don't want to distract anyone with chat, though you can comment among yourselves.) We hope to have Tweets linking to advance posts of some new book reviews and articles.

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Most recently added

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

v33(1) 2023.1.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Rivers of London: Bodywork Deluxe Writer's Edition - Ben Aaronovitch
• The Emergent - Nadia Afifi
• Weaponized - Neal Asher
• The Last Unicorn - Peter S. Beagle
• The Seventh BHF Book of Horror Stories - Darrell Buxton (ed.)
• Queen High - C. J. Carey
• Widowland - C. J. Carey
• Black Water Sister - Zen Cho
• Upgrade - Blake Crouch
• Upgrade (2nd review) - Blake Crouch (2nd review)
• Frontier - Grace Curtis
• The Final Strife - Saara El-Arifi
• Doctor Who: The Androids of Tara - David Fisher
• Doctor Who: The Stones of Blood - David Fisher
• Blood Country: The Raven – Book Two - Jonathan Janz
• Fairy Tale - Stephen King
• Tick Tock - Simon Mayo
• Beyond the Burn Line - Paul McAuley
• Ordinary Monsters - J. M. Miro
• Doctor Who: The Fires of Pompeii - James Moran
• The Daughter of Doctor Moreau - Silvia Moreno-Garcia (2nd review)
• The Daughter of Doctor Moreau (3rd review) - Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• Doctor Who: The Eaters of Light - Rona Munro
• The Sanctuary - Andrew Hunter Murray
• Expect Me Tomorrow (2nd review) - Christopher Priest
• Juniper and Thorn - Ava Reid
• Ruination - Anthony Reynolds
• Storm Echo - Nalini Singh
• Hershey: Disease - Rob Williams & Simon Frazer

v33(1) 2023.1.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness - Nicholas Humphrey
• Dice Men: The Original Story of Games Workshop - Ian Livingstone & Steve Jackson
• New Maps: More uncollected John Sladek - David Langford (ed.)
• Conspiracy: A History of Bxllocks Theories and How Not to Fall For Them - Tom Phillips & Jonn Elledge

v32(7) 2022.12.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• The Christmas Tree Barn (1-page PDF short story) - Mary E. Lowd
  Christmas trees of the future may have more personality, and not just for Christmas...
  
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.
• The guidelines for prospective 'Futures' SF short stories authors.

v32(6) 2022.11.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• Venetian blinds (1-page PDF short story) - Gretchen Tessmer
  Global warming has become critical and it is time to leave...!

v32(5) 2022.9.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Autumn 2022

• Newscast for the Autumn 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.
   
• Batman – Cinematic Portrayals – Mark Yon
• Ghost stories from Asia – Steven French
• My Top Ten Scientists – John. W. Armstrong (physicist & SF author)
• Is Science Destroying Itself? – Jonathan Cowie
• Chillercon UK 2022 – Ian Hunter
• Reclamation – The 2022 British Eastercon – Arthur Chappell
• 10 years ago. One from the archives: Unconventional - New Zealand's 2012 National Convention - June Young
• 25 years ago. One from the archives: Lucien - The First Arab SF Mini-convention Reviewed – Kawthar Ayed
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