SF2 Concatenation

New up...

New up we have one of the Nature multidisciplinary science journal, one-page 'Futures' short stories that we consider among the best of the 51 published by Nature the previous year. See below... 'Most recently added'.

Message of the moment: We are now on Twitter.

Because we only have three major editions of news and reviews a year (spring, summer and autumn) and one short story in between, it is very easy to miss us.  So you can be notified when we have a new posting we are now on Twitter at @SF2Concat. (We promise only to send clusters of tweets at these upload times.) Our site statistics 'unique visitors' jump by a few thousand the months of our seasonal uploads, but whether or not Twitter alerts are appropriate (or needed) remain to be seen. Anyway, do feel free to spread the word to your friends with SF interests: it would be appreciated. :-)

Your good deed... (possibly)

Mary Robinette Kowal has been running an on-line survey to find out more about the demographics of SF&F readers. (Let's hope once she has 10,000 responses she does a multivariate analysis.) This survey is a worthy venture and we hope that our site's visitors will support it with five minutes of their time. The survey can be found here. And if you have filled it in then have a gander at the results so far here.

Other stuff...

If you are reading this in a non-English speaking country then you may care to note that we are on the lookout for non-UK-based national convention reviewers and non-British brief news reporters. Hope that some of you are up for it. We just need short, almost bullet-point messages and perhaps links, of news. See one of our news pages for the kind of small summaries of news we are after. Meanwhile enjoy the below.

Forthcoming

There will be another best of 'Futures' mini-short story mid-December to tide you over the Christmas/New Year break. Mid-January and we will have our seasonal round-up of news and reviews together with our natcon and forthcoming film diary for 2014, plus possibly a convention report or two. Mid-March sees another one-page PDF 'Futures' short story.  Spandancarous.

Most recently added

v23(6) 2013.11.15 -- New story from the Nature Futures series

• White lies by Grace Tang
  Short Story (1 page PDF). You can't cut corners with ground-breaking research, but sometimes just little lies are required.
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.
• The guidelines for prospective 'Futures' SF short stories authors.

v23(5) 2013.9.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Autumn 2013

• Newscast for the Autumn 2013. 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.
• II Celsius 232 – Avilés, Spain -- Sue Burke
• Aelita 2013 – Yekaterinburg, Russia -- Roberto Quaglia
• Eurocon 2013 – Kiev, Ukraine -- Jim Walker

v23(5) 2013.9.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Red Country - Joe Abercrombie
• Countess Dracula - Guy Adams
• Finches of Mars - Brian Aldiss
• Nebula Awards Showcase 2013 - Catherine Asaro (ed.)
• Zero Point - Neal Asher
• Dark Eden - Chris Beckett
• Century 21: Classic Comic Strips From The Worlds of Gerry Anderson - Chris Bentley (ed.)
• The Shining Girls - Lauren Beukes
• Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
• Dreams and Shadows - Robert Cargill
• The Devil's Looking Glass - Mark Chadbourn
• London Falling - Paul Cornell
• Seoul Survivors - Naomi Foyle
• Angel Stations - Gary Gibson
• Empire of Light - Gary Gibson
• Nova War - Gary Gibson
• Stealing Light - Gary Gibson
• Heaven's War - David S. Goyer & Michael Cassutt
• The Dog Stars - Peter Heller
• Horns - Joe Hill
• Rebellion: The Tainted Realm – Book 2 - Ian Irvine
• A Memory of Light - Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson
• Nebula Awards Showcase 2012 - James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel (ed.s)
• The Shambling Guide to New York City - Mur Lafferty
• The Best of All Possible Worlds - Karen Lord
• The New Watch - Sergei Lukyanenko
• Intrusion - Ken Macleod
• Evening's Empires - Paul McAuley
• Odyssey - Jack McDevitt
• To Hold Infinity - John Meaney
• Railsea - China Miéville
• The Curve of the Air - Simon Morden
• Poison - Sarah Pinborough
• The Long War - Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter
• Dodger - Terry Pratchett
• Demi-Monde: Summer - Rod Rees
• The Only Good Dalek - Justin Richards & Mike Collins
• Adam Robots - Adam Roberts
• Jack Glass - Adam Roberts
• 2312 - Kim Stanley Robinson
• A Conspiracy of Alchemists - Leisel Schwarz
• Tales From Majipoor - Robert Silverberg
• The Air War - Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Your Brother's Blood - David Towsey
• Anarchy - James Treadwell
• The Last Grave - Debbie Viguie
• Judge Dredd: The Fourth Faction - John Wagner et al
• The Ten-Seconders - Rob Williams, Dom Reardon & Mark Harrison

v23(5) 2013.9.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• Global Environments Through The Quaternary (2nd edition) - David E. Anderson, Andrew S. Goudie & Adrian G. Barker
• Writing the Science Fiction Film - Robert Grant
• The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction - Nick Groom
• Fixing Climate: The Story of Climate Science and How to Stop Global Warming - Robert Kunzig & Wallace Broecker
• Metaphysics: A Very Short Introduction - Stephen Mumford
• Magnificent Mistakes in Mathematics - Alfred S. Postmentier & Ingmar Lehmann
• Robotics: A Very Short Introduction - Alan Winfield

v23(4) 2013.7.15 -- New story from the Nature Futures series

• Squealer: Mouthpiece for a generation by Nathan Correll
  Short Story (1 page PDF). Following 'the Crash' much is lost. So no time for SFnal classics. It could be so Orwellian...

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