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New up...

New up, and to tide you over the festive season, we have the final of four for 2015 of what we consider were the best of the 51 science journal Nature 'Futures' SF stories of last year (2014).  This adds to the story posted back in November.  These are short, one-page PDF stories that reflect a possible future.

Beneath that, we have our Autumnal 2015 edition of news, convention reports and book reviews. There's something for everyone be they into SF books, cinema and/or TV with: SF author, film, book trade, science etc news, and it includes the season's forthcoming SF and fantasy books listings. You can also check out the news subsections master index.  In addition there are a few specialist articles and over 40 stand-alone SF book reviews.

See 'Most recently added' below. Enjoy.

Forthcoming

Mid-January will see our Spring edition of SF news (covering books, film, TV, forthcoming books, science etc.) and reviews as well as book listings of the SF, Fantasy and Science books you can expect in the shops this spring. Also in the mix we hope to have a couple of convention reports as well as our diary of 2016 national conventions and forthcoming SF/F films.  Then in March we will have the first of what will be four for 2016 of one-page 'Best of Nature 'Futures' short stories.

Hopefully you should find something to tickle your fancy below...

Most recently added

v25(7) 2015.12.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• Reversal of Misfortune: Alternative culture by J. W. Armstrong
  Being able to see all your alternative quantum options may not be as welcome as you might think... Or is it?
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.
• The guidelines for prospective 'Futures' SF short stories authors.

v25(6) 2015.11.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• When The Music Ends: Criminal records by Philip Ball
  Seeking perfection in music can only lead to catastrophe...

v25(5) 2015.9.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Autumn 2015

• Newscast for the Autumn 2015. 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.
   
• Science Fiction Club Deutschland - 60th anniversary retrospective - Thomas Recktenwald
   
• How Might the World End? 200 years on from penning Frankenstein - Ted Nield
   
• Eurocon 1 – The First Eurocon in 1972 - Dave Rowe
   
• Archipelacon: A Scandinavian convention through Swedish eyes - Karl-Johan Norén
   
• Archipelacon: A Scandinavian convention through British eyes - Peter Tyers

v25(5) 2015.9.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Dark Intelligence - Neal Asher
• Impulse - Dave Bara
• Mother of Eden - Chris Beckett
• Mirror Sight - Kristen Britain
• Queen of the Dark Things - C. Robert Cargill
• The Vorrh - B. Catling
• Star Wars: Honor Among Thieves - James S. A. Corey
• The Doll Collection - Ellen Datlow
• The Gerry Anderson Comic Collection - Sam Denham
• Bill the Galactic Hero - Harry Harrison
• The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert Heinlein
• Starship Troopers - Robert A. Heinlein
• Wolfhound Century - Peter Higgins
• Dark Touch - Debbie Johnson
• Wake - Elizabeth Knox
• The Word for World is Forest - Ursula K. Le Guin
• Old Man’s Ghosts - Tom Lloyd
• Windhaven - George R. R. Martin & Lisa Tuttle
• The Whispering Swarm - Michael Moorcock
• The Vagrant - Peter Newman
• Victorian Fairy Tales - Michael Newton (ed.)
• Waiting for the Machines to Fall Asleep - Peter Oberg (ed.)
• The Book of Phoenix - Nnedi Okorafor
• The Long Utopia - Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter
• The Causal Angel - Hannu Rajaniemi
• Glorious Angels - Justina Robson
• Firefight - Brandon Sanderson
• Wonderful World of Robert Sheckley - Robert Sheckley
• A Kill in the Morning - Graeme Shimmin
• A Quantum Mythology - Gavin Smith
• Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel
• Hard to be a God - Arkady & Boris Strugatsky
• Tamaruq - E. J. Swift
• Guns of the Dawn - Adrian Tchaikovsky
• A Man Lies Dreaming - Lavie Tidhar
• The Mechanical - Ian Tregilis
• The Boy Who Lost Fairyland - Catherynne M. Valente
• Dark Justice - John Wagner & Greg Staples
• Barricade - Jon Wallace
• Steeple - Jon Wallace
• Superposition - David Walton
• My Real Children - Jo Walton
• The Martian - Andy Weir
• Sleeping Late on Judgement Day - Tad Williams

v25(5) 2015.9.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• Everyone is African: How Science Explodes the Myth of Race - Daniel J. Fairbanks
• The Scientific Secrets of Doctor Who - Simon Guerrier & Marek Kukula
• Science in Wonderland: The Scientific Fairy Tales of Victorian Britain - Melanie Keene
• Ebola: An evolving story - James Lyons-Weiler
• Myth: A Very Short Introduction - Robert A. Segal
• Privacy: A Very Short Introduction - Raymond Wacks

v25(4) 2015.7.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• The Tiger Waiting on the Shore: Days of remembrance by Paul Currion
  In the not-too-distant future we will be more humane when it comes to criminal punishment... Won't we?

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