Our home page colour this season is green now that we have the northern hemisphere summer. Yes, the plants are blooming....
HELP SF Convention reporters wanted
We are seeking to expand our convention reports of national SF conventions beyond Britain. If you would like to contribute a report then feel free to contact office [at] concatenation [dot] org for a one-page con-reporter's guide.
May 2025 news
Jim Walker. It is with sadness that we report news that the British SF fan Jim Walker has passed. Jim was a friend of, and contributor to, SF² Concatenation. His first offerings were a couple of book reviews back in the mid-1990s. From the early 2000s to 2017, he was one of our regular convention reporters, especially of Eurocons. He also took part in the Anglo-Romanian Fan Fund activities of the 1990s to early 2000s attending events both here in Britain when there were visiting Eastern European fans, and also in Timisoara, Romania, with our two International Weeks of Science and SF in 1999 and 2003. In addition to Eurocons, he was a regular at Britain's (there are others) Festival of Fantastic Films and the British Eastercon. A civil engineer by training and profession, in retirement he made short films with local friends including a couple of SF offerings which, naturally, were screened at the Festival of Fantastic Films. Farewell old pal.
Advance Post
We have a convention report now up of Windycon in Chicago, USA.
April 2025 news
Hugo Award news. This year's Hugo Award voting begins. Those registered for the 2025 SF Worldcon can download a printable ballot form here and vote on the short-listed works.
If you missed the partial eclipse of the Sun (19th March) don't worry, there will be another next year on 12th August 2026, 7.13pm in London when over 90% of the Sun will be obscured.
The Sci-Fi London film fest is back for 2025! Last year, due to Cineworld closing the community cinema venue, the event was truncated to a single day event of shorts. This year it is back to a four day event at a new venue just north of central London. It will be held 19th - 22nd June, 2025, at the Picturehouse Cinema, Finsbury Park, London. Finsbury Park has a rail and underground/metro station just around the corner from the venue (which, if you are visiting and want an extra day of central London tourism, makes for a good base, less expensive than central London accommodation). There are plenty of hotels near-by such as the Farringdon Travel Lodge.
New up...
Our 'summer'* season edition is now up. As usual, this includes an extensive, seasonal full news page, with its 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. There is a lot to unpack here with many links to YouTube trailers and other videos, so take time to make a mug of tea, settle down at your PC or with a laptop or pad, and dive on in.
* 'Summer' season here being the northern hemisphere, academic year summer.
Separately, we have a couple of stand-alone articles and convention reports. Plus there is the usual tranche of stand-alone book reviews. Something for every SF enthusiast and/or science bod.
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For details of / links to the new content, scroll down to beneath 'Most recently added' below.
Forthcoming
Mid-July we will have another 'Best of Nature Futures' short story. The science journal Nature publishes these roughly once a week, but unless you are a subscriber you will not see these little SF gems. However we have an arrangement with Nature and secure the authors' permissions to re-post four of those we think are among the best each year. If you can't wait until mid-July, we have our archive of past 'Futures' stories here.
What's not to like?
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Most recently added
v35(3) 2025.4.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Summer 2025
v35(3) 2025.4.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews
v35(3) 2025.4.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews
v35(2) 2025.3.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series
v35(1) 2025.1.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Spring 2025
v35(1) 2025.1.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews
v35(1) 2025.1.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews
v34(7) 2024.12.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series
v34(6) 2024.11.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series
- The Nana Inheritance (1-page PDF short story) - Amanda Helms
The deathbed of your beloved grandmother isn’t really the place where you should decide who inherits her brain, but that’s what we did...
v34(5) 2024.9.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Autumn 2024
Full 'What's New' list
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