SF² Concatenation

New up...

Up November 2019, the third of our one-page, short, SF story PDFs for the year that are our selection of among the best of Nature 'Futures' stories of the previous year, 2018.  (An archive of our past choices as to 'Best of Nature 'Futures' is here so there are plenty of short, SF short stories for you to dip into.)  These stories are very short and so ideal either for a lunchtime or a bed time read.

A little earlier we posted our edition for the autumn*.  It has its usual large seasonal news page covering core aspects of SF (books, films and television) as well as the season's science research. (In the mix there are loads of links to short videos, so sit down with a cup of tea/coffee and dive in.)  Added to which we have a short article on CERN as an unlikely tourist attraction plus a convention report on Britain's national con and New Zealand's, not to mention this year's SF Worldcon.  There is even a brief look back 40 years to when a group of students decided to run their own convention.  Plus, there is another in our series of articles by scientists who are SF authors on the scientists that have inspired them and their writing.
* 'Autumn' and 'spring' here being the northern hemisphere, academic year autumn and spring.

Forthcoming

Mid-December we will have the fourth and final of our one-page, short, SF story PDFs for the year that are our selection of among the best of Nature 'Futures' stories of the previous year, 2018.  For our few ultra-die-hard followers, around the Christmas New-Year break we may Tweet some archive Christmas and/or New Year themed Futures.

Then January 2020 we will have our spring edition of news, reviews, con reports, annual international convention & forthcoming film diary and also articles.
* 'Autumn' and 'spring' here being the northern hemisphere, academic year autumn and spring.

Meanwhile, hopefully you should find something below to tickle your fancy.  Also, why not have a snoop around our past material using the quick links on the short-cut column left of here...

Most recently added

v29(6) 2019.11.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• So, one of those tiny alien spaceships has flown into your house. Now what?
  (1-page PDF short story) - Laura Pearlman
  The best strategy is not to let them in, but maybe you left your chimney flue open or didn’t notice a hole in a window screen, and now there’s a tiny alien spaceship flitting around your living room or kitchen... What to do?
  (If you like this story then you can support promulgating the author's work by re-Tweeting or Facebook sharing.)
• The index to all of the SF² Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.
• The guidelines for prospective 'Futures' SF short stories authors.

v29(5) 2019.9.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Autumn 2019

• Newscast for the Autumn 2019. This 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 – Dominic Dulley (software engineer)
• CERN – Science or Tourism? -- Jane O'Reilly
• The Shoestringcon [1]: Polycon 1979 story -- Pete Gilligan
• Dublin – The 2019 World SF Convention - Sue Burke
• Ytterbium 2019 – The 2019 British Eastercon -- Arthur Chappell
• GeyserCon – New Zealand's 2019 national convention -- Alan Robson
  (Twitter alert here and Facebook here for this edition should you want to support our seasonal distilation of SF & science news and reviews effort, have SF followers and wish to share.)

v29(5) 2019.9.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• The Soldier - Neal Asher
• The Tangled Lands - Paolo Bacigalupi & Tobias S. Buckell
• Stone Clock - Andrew Bannister
• Ancestral Night - Elizabeth Bear
• The Unbound Empire - Melissa Caruso
• Earthlight - Arthur C. Clarke
• Against the Fall of Night - Arthur C. Clarke
• The Everlasting Rose - Dhonielle Clayton
• Tiamat's Wrath - James S. A. Corey
• The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick
• One of Us - Craig DiLouie
• Radicalized - Cory Doctorow
• Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen - James Goss (& Douglas Adams)
• The Testament of Loki - Joanne M. Harris
• Smoke in the Glass - Chris Humphreys
• The Fall of Deadworld: Book I - Kek-W & Dave Kendall
• Colder Greyer Stones - Tanith Lee
• Snakeskins - Tim Major
• The Migration - Helen Marshall
• A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine
• The Psychology of Time Travel - Kate Mascarenhas
• Ghost Virus - Graham Masterton
• Luna: Moon Rising - Ian McDonald
• Doomsday Morning - C. L. Moore
• Fury - C. L. Moore
• Northwest of Earth - C. L. Moore
• No Way - S. J. Morden
• Atlas Alone - Emma Newman
• From Divergent Suns - Sam Peters
• Blood Communion – A Tale of Prince Lestat - Anne Rice
• The Consuming Fire - John Scalzi
• New Maps: More Uncollected John Sladek - John Sladek
• Galactic Patrol - E. E. 'Doc' Smith
• Grey Lensmen - E. E. 'Doc' Smith
• Second Stage Lensmen - E. E. 'Doc' Smith
• The Bastard Legion: War Criminals - Gavin Smith
• The Rosewater Insurrection - Tade Thompson
• Thirteen Doctors: 13 Stories - Various
• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
• Judge Dredd: Cold Wars - John Wagner et al
• The Last Astronaut - David Wellington
• The Poison Song - Jen Williams

v29(5) 2019.9.25 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• Raw Spirit: In search of the perfect dram - Iain Banks
• The Future of Humanity:Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny beyond Earth - Michio Kaku
• Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence - James Lovelock
• Heroes of the Space Age: Women Who Took Humanity to the Stars - Rod Pyle
• Why Superman Doesn’t Take Over The World: What Superheroes Can Tell Us About Economics - Brian O’Roark
• Dyslexia: A Very Short Introduction - Margaret J. Snowling
• Extinction: A Very Short Introduction - Paul Wignall

v29(4) 2019.7.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• Mobile Hack: It pays to be well informed (1-page PDF short story) - Zack Lux
  You really (really!) need to look after that which looks after you...
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v29(3) 2019.4.25 -- New Columns & Articles for the Summer 2019

• Newscast for the Summer 2019 (which, for clarification, relates to the northern hemisphere and the academic year 'spring'). (Twitter alert if you enjoyed the reportage & have SF followers to whom you wish to spread the genre love.  Ditto Facebook.)
   
• Graham Connor – A life in Science Fiction & Space
• Sanity Blues: Science Needs to be Honest - Graham Connor (a re-post from 1998 in memory of Graham - its message still stands today!)
• My Top Ten Scientists – Eric Choi (aerospace engineer and SF author)
• 2018/19 (12 months to Easter) SF Film Top Ten Chart and Other Worthies  (All archive annual film charts here)
• SF Film recommendations from the 20th Century -- Part 1 (re-posting with trailers freshly check-linked) - Tony Chester
• SF/F/H book reviewers wanted
• Gaia 2019 - Annual whimsical SF and/or science snippets and exotica

Full 'What's New' list