Science Fiction Concatenation's What's New

A chronological log of updates to
the Science Fact and Science Fiction Concatenation e-magazine.

You can either scroll down here to find the latest, or alternatively find out from the specialist indexes about recent SF news, all our science fact and science fiction book reviews, top science fiction films (including for past years), the forthcoming national & international science fiction convention and film diary, and articles or reach these indexes from the front page. (Newcomers to this site may first want to see an introduction.)

Forthcoming

Mid-March will see us post another of what we think are the best of last year's Nature 'Futures' one-page short-stories originally published at the back of the science journal Nature.

Most recently added

v24(1) 2014.1.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Spring 2014

• Newscast for the Spring 2014. 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.
• LoneStarCon 3 – The 2013 SF Worldcon - Peter Tyers
• 2013 World Fantasy Convention, Great Britain - Ian Hunter
• The 2013 Hispacon – Spain - Sue Burke
• 24th Festival of Fantastic Films 2013 – Great Britain - Darrell Buxton
• 2014/5 Diary of Major SF Conventions & Forthcoming SF Films of the Year

v24(1) 2014.1.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Broken Homes - Ben Aaronovitch
• Proxima - Stephen Baxter
• Terra - Mitch Benn
• Conquest - John Connolly & Jennifer Ridyard
• The Diamond Deep - Brenda Cooper
• Abaddon's Gate - James S. Corey
• London Falling - Paul Cornell
• Marauder - Gary Gibson
• The Thousand Emperors - Gary Gibson
• NOS4R2 - Joe Hill
• Johannes Cabal the Necromancer - Jonathan L. Howard
• Chosen - Benedict Jacka
• The Year of the Ladybird - Graham Joyce
• Tuf Voyaging - George R. R. Martin
• A Stir of Echoes - Richard Matheson
• Be My Enemy: Everness Book II - Ian McDonald
• Love Minus Eighty - Will McIntosh
• Judge Dredd: Crusade & Frankenstein Division - Grant Morrison & Mark Millar et al
• House of Small Shadows - Adam Nevill
• Drakenfeld - Mark Charan Newton
• Charm - Sarah Pinborough
• The Long War - Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter
• The Adjacent - Christopher Priest
• Stoker's Manuscript - Royce Prouty
• The Demi-Monde Fall - Rod Rees
• On the Steel Breeze - Alastair Reynolds
• The Sparrow - Mary Doria Russell
• Steelheart - Brandon Sanderson
• Angel City - Jon Steele
• Fiend - Peter Stenson
• War Master’s Gate - Adrian Tchaikovsky
• The Sleep Room - F. R. Travis
• The Ace of Skulls - Chris Wooding

v24(1) 2014.1.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• Homo Mysterious: Evolutionary Puzzles of Human Nature - David P. Barash
• Astrobiology: A Very Short Introduction - David G. Catling
• The Oxford Guide to Plain English - Martin Cutts
• Beyond the God Particle - Leon Lederman & Christopher Hill

v23(7) 2013.12.20 -- New story from the Nature Futures series

• If Only...   A Taste of your own Medicine by Tony Ballantyne
  Short Story (1 page PDF). So you don't want to have a vaccine? Fine, provided you have an evidence-based reason. Turn your back on science and science may turn its back on you...
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.
• The guidelines for prospective 'Futures' SF short stories.

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 white lies are required.

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...

v23(3) 2013.4.20 -- New Columns & Articles for the Summer 2013

• Newscast for the Summer 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 relating to films, books, TV, fandom, science news and forthcoming book listings for both SF, fantasy and popular science.
• 2012/13 (year to Easter) SF Film Top Ten Chart and Other Worthies (All archive annual film charts here)
• Gaia - Annual whimsical SF and/or science snippets and exotica
• 2013/4 Diary of Major SF Conventions & Forthcoming SF Films of the Year (Updated)

v23(3) 2013.4.20 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Hunger - Melvin Burgess
• The Creative Fire - Brenda Cooper
• Gun Machine - Warren Ellis
• The Steam Mole - Dave Freer
• Misspent Youth - Peter F. Hamilton
• A Red Sun Also Rises - Mark Hodder
• Society of Steam Book 3 – Power Under Pressure - Andrew P. Mayer
• The Ballad of Halo Jones - Alan Moore & Ian Gibson
• Boneshaker - Cherie Priest
• The Doctor and the Rough Rider - Mike Resnick
• Apollo’s Outcasts - Allen Steele
• Batman – Judge Dredd Collection - John Wagner et al
• Strontium Dog: The Life and Death of Jonny Alpha - The Project - John Wagner & Carlos Ezequerra
• (Judge Dredd) The Taxidermist - John Wagner, Alan Grant et al
• The Emperor of All Things - Paul Witcover

v23(3) 2013.4.20 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• The Mummy’s Curse: The True History of a Dark Fantasy - Roger Luckhurst
• The Science of Discworld IV: Judgment Day - Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart & Jack Cohen

v23(2) 2013.1.30 -- New story from the Nature Futures series

• Invisible: The path to immortality by Joao Ramalho-Santos
  Short Story (1 page PDF). Having a scientific breakthrough, getting published and hence recognition, you might think was a path to immortality... Not any more... (This is one that may well resonate with our scientist regulars.)

v23(1) 2013.1.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Spring 2013

• Newscast for the Spring 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 relating to films, books, TV, fandom, science news and forthcoming book listings for both SF, fantasy and popular science.
• The 2012 Hispacon, Spain - Sue Burke
• 23rd Festival of Fantastic Films 2012 - Darrell Buxton
• 2013/4 Diary of Major SF Conventions & Forthcoming SF Films of the Year

v23(1) 2013.1.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Whispers Underground - Ben Aaronovitch
• The House of Rumour - Jake Arnott
• The Hydrogen Sonata - Iain Banks
• Iron Winter – Northland: Book Three - Stephen Baxter
• Control Point - Myke Cole
• The Woman Who Died a Lot - Jasper Fforde
• Cuttlefish - Dave Freer
• Vampire Empire: The King Makers - Clay Griffith & Susan Griffith
• Great North Road - Peter F. Hamilton
• Empty Space - M. John Harrison
• Some Kind of Fairy Tale - Graham Joyce
• 11.22.63 - Stephen King
• The Walking Dead – Rise of the Governor - Robert Kirkman & Jay Bonansinga
• Stormdancer - Jay Kristoff
• Half Sick of Shadows - David Logan
• Dodger - Terry Pratchett
• The Fractal Prince - Hannu Rajaniemi
• Demi-Monde Spring - Rod Rees
• Dr Who: The Dalek Project - Richards
• The Complete Alcatraz - Brandon Sanderson
• Redshirts - John Scalzi
• Apollo’s Outcasts - Allen Steele,
• Judge Dredd: The Dark Judges - John Wagner, Aland Grant, Brian Bolland et al
• Judge Dredd: America - John Wagner & Collin MacNeil 's
• The Time Machine - H. G. Wells
• War of the Worlds - H. G. Wells
• The Dirty Steps of Heaven - Tad Williams
• Chocky - John Wyndham
• Sorry Please Thank You - Charles Yu

v23(1) 2013.1.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• The Stardust Revolution - Jacob Berkowitz
• The Festival of Fantastic Films - George Houston, George Gaddi & Tony Edwards
• Frontiers of Astrobiology - Chris Impey, Jonathan Lunine and Jose Funes (eds.)
• Astrobiology: A Brief Introduction (2nd edition) - Kevin W. Plaxco & Michael Gross

v22(7) 2012.12.21 -- New story from the Nature Futures series

• NPG’S Policy on Authorship: Important change to submission criteria by Jordan Suchow
  Short Story (1 page PDF). In the future the science journal Nature changes its policy in a way that will concern humans as they will no longer be able to submit work for publication.

v22(6) 2012.11.15 -- New story from the Nature Futures series

• A Perfect Drug by Dan Erlanson
  Short Story (1 page PDF). Creating and bringing a new pharmaceutical to market is very expensive and fraught with difficulty. But the new drug Paxpharma was something else...

v22(5) 2012.9.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Autumn 2012

• Newscast for the Autumn 2012. 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 relating to films, books, TV, fandom, science news and forthcoming book listings for both SF, fantasy and popular science.
• Eurocon 2012 - Zagreb, Croatia - Jim Walker
• Unconventional - New Zealand's 2012 National Convention - June Young

v22(5) 2012.9.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Something Wicked This Way Comes - In memoriam Ray Bradbury
• The Last Theorem - Arthur C. Clarke and Frederik Pohl
• Total Recall: What is real? - Philip K. Dick
• Earth Girl - Janet Edwards
• Cuttlefish - Dave Freer
• Make Room! Make Room! - In memoriam Harry Harrison
• 11.22.63 - Stephen King
• Half-Sick of Shadows - David Logan
• The Armageddon Rag - George R. R. Martin
• Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in honour of Jack Vance - George R. R. Martin and Gardener Dozois (eds)
• Echo - Jack McDevitt
• Railsea - China Miéville
• Last Days - Adam Nevill
• The Chosen Seed - Sarah Pinborough
• Triggers - Robert J. Sawyer
• Nocturnal - Scott Sigler
• Roadside Picnic - Arkady & Boris Strugatsky
• A Game of Groans: A Parody of Slush and Soot - George R. R.Washington
• Saving for a Sunny Day - Ian Watson

v22(5) 2012.9.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• The Science of Avatar - Stephen Baxter
• Miles M.52, Gateway to Supersonic Flight - Captain Eric Brown
• Head Shot: The Science Behind the J F K Assassination (Extended edition) -- G. Paul Chambers
• Evolving: The Human Effect and Why it Matters - Daniel J. Fairbanks
• Ignorance: How It Drives Science - Stuart Firestein
• Stars: A Very Short Introduction - Andrew King
• New Oxford Style Manual - Oxford University Press
• Destination Mars: New Explorations of the Red Planet - Rod Pyle
• The Goldilocks Planet - Jan Zalasiewicz & Mark Williams

v22(4) 2012.7.15 -- New story from the Nature Futures series

• Last of the Guerrilla Gardeners by David Clements
  Short Story (1 page PDF). When big business controls the intellectual property rights to biological species, will gardening become as much a political act as a hobby...?   Now, Dave Clements is not just a scientist into SF (just the sort of person for whom Concatenation is primarily (but not solely) aimed), he has contributed a non-fiction, science article to us before (see 'The Hidden History of the Universe'). So it was a delight when -- during our annual sift at Christmas -- it happened that his story got short-listed as our selection of one of the best published by Nature the previous year. Them's the breaks. Enjoy.

April announcement: Thank you for the 2012 Eurocon Award from the European SF Society whose Eurocon was this year held in Croatia.

v22(3) 2012.4.20 -- New Columns & Articles for the Summer 2012

• Newscast for the Summer 2012. 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 relating to films, books, TV, fandom, science news and forthcoming book listings for both SF, fantasy and popular science.
• Appraisal of the venue for the proposed 2014 London Worldcon - Peter Tyers
• Duple Time: 24th UK Filk Convention - Peter Tyers
• 2011/12 (year to Easter) SF Film Top Ten Chart and Other Worthies (All archive annual film charts here)
• Gaia - Annual whimsical SF and/or science snippets and exotica

v22(3) 2012.4.20 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Insurrection - Dan Abnett & Colin MacNeil
• The Departure - Neal Asher
• Juggernaut - Adam Baker
• Bronze Summer – Northland: Book Two - Stephen Baxter
• Black Swan Rising - Lee Carroll
• Dark Heavens: Book Two – Red Phoenix - Kylie Chan
• Dark Heavens: Book One – White Tiger - Kylie Chan
• The Clockwork Rocket - Greg Egan
• The Monster's Corner - Christopher Golden (ed.)
• Conan the Barbarian - Robert E. Howard
• Jack Cloudie - Stephen Hunt
• Cyber Circus and Black Sunday - Kim Lakin-Smith
• The Society of Steam Book Two: Hearts of Smoke and Steam - Andrew P. Mayer
• In the Mouth of the Whale - Paul McAuley
• Transmission - John Meaney
• Judge Dredd: The Cursed Earth Saga - Pat Mills & John Wagner
• Them or Us - David Moody
• The Mechanical Messiah and Other Marvels of the Modern Age - Robert Rankin
• Blue Remembered Earth - Alastair Reynolds
• 2012: The Crystal Skull - Manda Scott
• Bioshock: Rapture - John Shirley
• Shadows of the Apt: Book Seven – Heirs of the Blade - Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Julian Comstock - Robert Charles Wilson
• The Return Man - V. M. Zitto

v22(3) 2012.4.20 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• Oxford Dictionary of Plant Sciences - Michael Allaby
• 50 Popular Beliefs That People Think Are True - Guy P. Harrison
• The Geek Manifesto: Why Science Matters - Mark Henderson
• The Lucy Man: The scientist who found the most famous fossil ever - C. A. P. Saucier
• 2012: Everything you need to know about the Apocalypse - Manda Scott
• Stem Cells: A Very Short Introduction - Jonathan Slack
• The History of Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction - Jaqueline Stedall
• The Fallacy of Fine-Tuning: Why the Universe is not designed for us - Victor J. Stenger

v22(2) 2012.3.15 -- New story from the Nature Futures series

• The Cleverest Man in the World: Problem Solved by Tony Ballantyne
  Short Story (1 page PDF). Falling with a broken parachute! What to do? Why, call the cleverest man in the world!
  This story actually came out December 2010 in Nature but just missed our yearly assessment for 2011 posting. We thought it so good that we simply had to carry it over.   But don't worry, we have three more 'Futures' stories (our selection of the best from 2011) to come in 2012. And as for the author, maths teacher Tony Ballantyne, he becomes the first 'Futures' author to have had two stories selected by us! Why not check out his novels Blood and Iron, Capacity, Divergence and Recursion.

v22(1) 2012.1.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Spring 2012

• Newscast for the Spring 2012. 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 relating to films, books, TV, fandom, science news and forthcoming book listings for both SF, fantasy and popular science.
• Films from the Mummy's Tomb - Tony Chester
• Renovation - The 2011 World SF Convention - Peter Tyers
• British Fantasycon - Ian Hunter
• 22nd Festival of Fantastic Films 2011 - Darrell Buxton
• 2012/3 Diary of Major SF Conventions & Forthcoming SF Films of the Year

v22(1) 2012.1.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Red Glove - Holly Black
• Spellbound - Blake Charlton
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
• Ubik - Philip K. Dick
• Bringer of Light - Jaine Fenn
• Heaven's Shadow - David S. Goyer & Michael Cassutt
• Pax Brittania: Anno Frankenstein - Jonathan Green
• Vampire Empire: The Rift Walker - Clay Griffith & Susan Griffith
• Queen of Kings - Maria Dahvana Headley
• Johannes Cabal the Detective - Jonathan L. Howard
• The Society of Steam: The Falling Machine - Andrew P. Mayer
• Dead Island - Mark Morris
• Tongues of Serpents - Naomi Novik
• The Islanders - Christopher Priest
• Revelation Space - Alastair Reynolds
• The Dark and Hollow Places - Carrie Ryan
• A Long, Long Sleep - Anna Sheenan
• War in Heaven - Gavin Smith
• The Harvest - Robert Charles Wilson

v22(1) 2012.1.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• From Elvish to Klingon: Exploring Invented Languages - Michael Adams (ed.)
• From Elvish to Klingon: Exploring Invented Languages (2nd review) -- Michael Adams (ed.)
• On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears - Stephen T. Asma
• A Tolkien Tapestry: Pictures to accompany the Lord of the Rings - Cor Blok
• Denying Science: Conspiracy theories, media distortions and the war against reality - John Grant
• Changing the Climate: Utopia, Dystopia and Catastrophe - Andrew Milner, Simon Sellars and Verity Burgmann (ed.)

v21(7) 2011.12.15 -- New story from the Nature Futures series

• Dark They Were, And Strange Inside by Vaughan Stanger
  Short Story (1 page PDF). Internet dating in the multiverse is not as great as it sounds...

v21(6) 2011.11.15 -- New story from the Nature Futures series

• Health tips for traveller by David W. Goldman
  Short Story (1 page PDF). When travelling to other worlds it is best to ensure you have taken all the precautions necessary for a healthy visit.

v21(5) 2011.9.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Autumn 2011

• Newscast for the Autumn 2011. 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 relating to films, books, TV, fandom, science news and forthcoming book listings for both SF, fantasy and popular science.
• How long? -- Should there be really thick SF novels? - Peter Tyers
• Context - New Zealand 2011 national convention - June Young
• Eurocon 2011 - Stockholm, Sweden - Jonathan Cowie
• Odyssey2010 - UK National Convention & Euroconference - Peter Tyers

v21(5) 2011.9.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Moon Over Soho - Ben Aaronvitch
• Ark - Stephen Baxter
• Hull Zero Three - Greg Bear
• The Reapers are the Angels - Alden Bell
• Bread, Butter and Paradoxine - Roberto Quaglia
• Desdaemona - Ben Macallan (Chaz Brenchley)
• Sea of Ghosts - Alan Campbell
• Spellwright - Blake Charlton
• Songs of the Earth - Elspeth Cooper
• The Nemesis List - R. J. Frith
• Empire of Light - Gary Gibson
• Final Days - Gary Gibson
• A Separate War and Other Stories - Joe Haldeman
• The Inheritance - Robin Hobb
• Johannes Cabal The Detective - Jonathan L. Howard
• Among Thieves - Douglas Hulick
• Fenrir - M. D. Lachlan
• Songs of the Earth - George R. R. Martin
• Embassytown - China Miéville
• The Ritual - Adam Nevill
• The Map of Time - Felix J. Palma
• The Recollection - Gareth Powell
• The River of Shadows - Robert V. S. Redick
• Quantum Gravity Book 5: Down to the Bone - Justina Robson
• The Wise Man's Fear - Patrick Rothfuss
• Wonder - Robert Sawyer
• The Zombie Autopsies: Secret Notes from the Apocalypse - Steven C. Schlozman
• Sky City - Carl-Eddy Skovgaard (ed.)
• The Watchers - Jon Steele
• Black Halo - Sam Sykes
• The Sea Watch - Adrian Tchaikovsky
• The Waters Rising - Sheri Tepper
• Judge Dredd: Tour of Duty -- Mega-City Justice - John Wagner et al
• Loss of Separation - Conrad Williams
• Blackout - Connie Willis
• How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe - Charles Yu
• How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (2nd review) -- Charles Yu

v21(5) 2011.9.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• Head Shot - G. Paul Chambers
• Revolutions that made the Earth - Tim Lenton & Andrew Watson
• Incoming! Or Why We Should Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Meteorite - Ted Nield
• Life on Earth: Portrait of a Beautiful, Middle-Aged Stressed-out World - Stanley A. Rice
• Science Fiction: A Very Short Introduction - David Seed

v21(4) 2011.7.15 -- New story from the Nature Futures series

• IRC: A Helping Hand by Julian Tang
  Short Story (1 page PDF). What if your computer was not only connected to the internet but something else entirely?
• Advance posting book review: Embassytown - China Mieville

v21(3) 2011.4.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Summer 2011

• Newscast for the Summer 2011. 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 relating to films, books, TV, fandom, science news and forthcoming book listings for both SF, fantasy and popular science.
• Top 10 (and worst 10) Horror Films of the 20th Century - Tony Chester
• 2010/11 (year to Easter) SF Film Top Ten Chart and Other Worthies (All archive annual film charts here)
• Gaia - Annual whimsical SF and/or science snippets and exotica
• 2011 Diary of Major SF Conventions & Forthcoming SF Films of the Year (Updated)

v21(3) 2011.4.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Rivers of London - Ben Aaronvitch
• The Heroes - Joe Abercrombie
• The Horns of Ruin - Tim Akers
• Engineman - Eric Brown
• The Demon King: The Seven Realms Series Book 0ne - Cinda Williams Chima
• The Exiled Queen: The Seven Realms Series Book Two - Cinda Williams Chima
• Stronghold - Paul Finch
• The Nemesis List - R. J. Frith
• Blood Royal - Jonathan Green
• Vampire Empire: Book One: The Greyfriar - Clay Griffith & Susan Griffith
• The Golden City - John Twelve Hawks
• The Classic Heroes: Conan's Brethren - Robert E. Howard
• Black Hand Gang - Pat Kelleher
• Thirteen Years Later - Jasper Kent
• The Infernal Game: Ghost Dance - Rebecca Levene
• The Age of Odin - James Lovegrove
• Kraken - China Miéville
• The End of the Line - Jonathan Oliver (ed)
• The Buntline Special - Mike Resnick
• The Best of Tomes of the Dead - Matthew Smith, Al Ewing and Rebecca Levine
• Chopper: Surf's Up - John Wagner et al
• Judge Dredd: Tour of Duty – Backlash - John Wagner et al
• The Shape of Things to Come - H. G. Wells

v21(3) 2011.4.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• The Genesis of Science: The Story of Greek Imagination - Stephen Bertman
• Head Shot - G. Paul Chambers
• Climate Refugees - Collectif Argos
• Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist The Truth About Climate Change - Clive Hamilton
• The Wonder of Genetics: The Creepy, The Curious, and the Commonplace - Richard V. Knowles
• Quantum Physics for Poets - Leon M. Lederman and Christopher T. Hill
• Marie Curie: A Biography - Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie

v21(2) 2011.3.15 -- New story from the Nature Futures series

• Grandfather Paradox by Ian Stewart
  Short Story (1 page PDF). Sometimes you have to go back in time to kill your own grandfather just to stay alive... A great twist on a the classic science gedanken paradox.

v21(1) 2011.1.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Spring 2011

• Newscast for the Spring 2011. 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 relating to films, books, TV, fandom, science news and forthcoming book listings for both SF, fantasy and popular science.
• Science Fiction in Romania since the 1990 revolution - L. Nistorescu, A. Genescu, D. Davideanu and S. Genescu
• 2010 Worldcon Review: Australia - Jonathan Cowie
• New Zealand 2010 national convention review: Au Contraire - Jonathan Cowie
• 21st Festival of Fantastic Films 2010 - Darrell Buxton
• The 2010 European SF Convention, Poland / Czech Republic - Jim Walker
• 2010 World Horror Convention Review: Great Britain - Peter Tyers
• 2011 Diary of Major SF Conventions & Forthcoming SF Films of the Year

v21(1) 2011.1.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• The Technician - Neil Asher
• Recursion (2nd review) -- Tony Ballantyne
• Surface Detail - Iain M. Banks
• Stone Spring – Northland: Book One - Stephen Baxter
• The Guardians of the Phoenix - Eric Brown
• The Passage - Justin Cronin
• The Book Of Genesis Illustrated - R. Crumb
• The Fall - Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan
• For The Win - Cory Doctorow
• Guardians of Paradise - Jaine Fenn
• Nemesis List - R. J. Firth
• The Evolutionary Void - Peter F. Hamilton
• Secrets of the Fire Sea - Stephen Hunt
• City of Ghosts - Stacia Kane
• Instinct - Ben Kay
• Wolfsangel - M. D. Lachlan
• Cold Warriors: The Internal Game - Rebecca Levene
• The Age of Zeus - James Lovegrove
• Halfhead (2nd review) -- Stuart B. MacBride
• The Restoration Game - Ken MacLeod
• Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honour of Jack Vance - George R. R. Martin & Gardner Dozois (eds)
• The Dervish House - Ian McDonald
• The Dervish House (2nd review) -- Ian McDonald
• Absorption - John Meaney
• Kraken - China Miéville
• Apartment 16 - Adam Nevill
• Tongues of Serpents - Naomi Novik
• The Alchemist In The Shadows - Pierre Pevel
• The Japanese Devil Fish Girl and other Unnatural Attractions - Robert Rankin
• Demi-Monde: Winter - Rod Rees
• The Buntline Special - Mike Resnick
• Terminal World (2nd review) -- Alistair Reynolds
• Galileo's Dream (paperback) -- Kim Stanley Robinson
• Veteran (2nd review) -- Gavin Smith
• Engineering Infinity - Jonathan Strahan (editor)
• The Fuller Memorandum - Charles Stross
• The Office of Shadow - Matthew Sturges
• Blindsight - Peter Watts
• The Noise Within - Ian Whates
• Engines of the Apocalypse - Mike Wild

v20(6) 2010.11.15 -- New story from the Nature Futures series

• Press '1' to begin by Nye Joell Hardy
  Short Story (1 page PDF). The growth of internet communication, sites like Concatenation, social sites, chat rooms and so forth, has a downside: personal skills could suffer... Knock, knock...

v20(5) 2010.9.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Autumn 2010

• Newscast for the Autumn 2010. 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 relating to films, books, TV, fandom, science news and forthcoming book listings for both SF, fantasy and popular science.
• German Science Fiction up to 1945 - Elmar Podlasly

v20(5) 2010.9.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Blood and Iron - Tony Ballantyne
• The Reapers are the Angels - Alden Bell
• Moxyland - Lauren Beukes
• The Strain - Guillermo del Toro & Chuck Hogan
• Zendegi - Greg Egan
• Damned if You Do in the Nightside - Simon R. Green
• Horns - Joe Hill
• Angel of Death - J. Robert King
• The Age of Zeus - James Lovegrove
• Ghosts of Manhattan - George Mann
• Uprising - Scott G. Mariani
• A Matter of Blood: The Dog-Faced Gods - Sarah Pinborough
• The Quantum Thief - Hanu Rajaniemi
• Circus of Sins - Natasha Rhodes
• Watch - Robert J. Sawyer
• Son of Man - Robert Silverberg
• Veteran - Gavin Smith

v20(5) 2010.9.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• The Eerie Silence: Are we alone in the Universe - Paul Davies
• Communicating Science: Professional, Popular, Literary - Nicholas Russell
• West of the Mountains and East of the Sea: The Map of Tolkien's Beleriand - Brian Sibley & John Howe

v20(4) 2010.7.15 -- New story from the Nature Futures series

• Goliath by Bruce W. Ferguson
  Short Story (1 page PDF). A giant asteroid is discovered heading for Earth and an extinction event...

v20(3) 2010.4.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Summer 2010

• Newscast for the Summer 2010. 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 relating to films, books, TV, fandom, science news and forthcoming book listings for both SF, fantasy and popular science.
• Zombies After Romero - Tony Chester
• Unseen Mainland European SF Classics - Jonathan Cowie
• Odyssey2010 - UK National Convention & Euroconference - Roberto Quaglia
• 2009/10 (year to Easter) SF Film Top Ten Chart and Other Worthies (All archive annual film charts here)
• Gaia - Annual whimsical SF and/or science snippets and exotica

v20(3) 2010.4.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Cosmopath - Eric Brown
• Shine: An Anthology of Near Future Optimistic SF - (ed) Jetse de Vries
• The Prisoner - Thomas M. Disch (new 2010 edition)
• Geosynchron - David Louis Edelman
• The Stranger - Max Frei
• Nova War - Gary Gibson
• Metro 2033 - Dmitry Glukhovsky
• Evil Ways - Justin Gustainis
• Skin Trade - Laurell K. Hamilton
• Retromancer - Robert Rankin
• Stalking the Dragon - Michael D. Resnick
• Chasing the Dragon - Justina Robson
• Terminal World - Alistair Reynolds
• Wake - Robert J. Sawyer

v20(3) 2010.4.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• We Are Not Alone: Why We Have Already Found Extraterrestrial Life - Dirk Schulze-Makuch & David Darling

v20(2) 2010.3.15 -- New story from the Nature Futures series

• Takeaway by Tony Ballantyne
  Short Story (1 page PDF). The fast food business in a multi-species environment can be challenging...

v20(1) 2010.1.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Spring 2010

• Newscast for the Spring 2010. 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 relating to films, books, TV, fandom, science news and forthcoming book listings for both SF, fantasy and popular science.
• China's Science Fiction World - Sherry Yao
• 20th Festival of Fantastic Films 2009 - Darrell Buxton
• Zombies Before Romero - Tony Chester
• 2010 Diary of Major SF Conventions & Forthcoming SF Films of the Year

v20(1) 2010.1.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Best Served Cold - Joe Abercrombie
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
• Life, The Universe and Everything - Douglas Adams
• The Restaurant at the End of the Universe - Douglas Adams
• The Gabble - Neal Asher
• Prador Moon - Neal Asher
• And Another Thing...: Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Eoin Colfer
• Eagle Rising - David Devereux
• Martian Time-Slip - Philip K. Dick
• The Temporal Void - Peter F. Hamilton
• Dead and Gone - Charlaine Harris
• Dead Until Dark - Charlaine Harris
• Spirit - Gwyneth Jones
• Patient Zero - Jonathan Maberry
• Halfhead - Stuart B. MacBride
• Gardens of the Sun - Paul McAuley
• Retromancer - Robert Rankin
• Starship: Flagship - Mike Resnick
• I am Scrooge: A Zombie Story for Christmas - Adam Roberts
• Galileo's Dream - Kim Stanley Robinson
• Flashforward - Robert J. Sawyer
• The Clan Corporate - Charles Stross
• The Margarets - Sheri S. Tepper

v20(1) 2010.1.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• The Joy of Chemistry: The Amazing Science of Familiar Things - Cathy Cobb & Monty L. Fetterolf
• Bogus Science or, Some People Really Believe These Things - John Grant

v20(1) 2010.1.15 -- Graphic Novel and Art Book Reviews

• Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451: The Authorized Adaptation - Tim Hamilton
• Strontium Dog: Traitor to his Kind - John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra

v19(7) 2009.12.15 -- New story from the Nature Futures series

• Harnessing the Brane-Deer by Robert Billing
  Short Story (2 page PDF). A tale of a Christmas prang at a Royal Airforce Base. What ho... (Ho, ho, ho...)

v19(6) 2009.11.15 -- New story from the Nature Futures series

• Birthday Surprises by Erika Cule
  Short Story (1 page PDF). A hard SF biology tale from a biochemist exploring nature and/or nurture.

v19(5) 2009.9.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Autumn 2009

• Newscast for the Autumn 2009. 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 relating to films, books, TV, fandom, science news and forthcoming book listings for both SF, fantasy and popular science.
• The 2009 European SF Convention, Italy - Jim Walker
• 'The Horror, The Horror' -- A review of cinematic horror to mark the forthcoming first World Horror Convention outside of N. America
• London and Brighton guide for those going to the World Horror Con and Odyssey 2010 Euroconference on successive weekends this coming Easter
• Wellington/New Zealand guide for those going to the NZ national con the weekend before the Australian Worldcon
• PSIFA 30-year Anniversary Event -- Hertfordsire University / Hatfield Polytechnic Old Age PSIFAns get together

v19(5) 2009.9.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Orbus - Neal Asher
• Shadow of the Scorpion - Neil Asher
• Capacity - Tony Ballantyne
• Divergence - Tony Ballantyne
• Flood - Stephen Baxter
• City at the End of Time - Greg Bear
• The Accord - Keith Brooke
• The Hoard Mhorrer - M. E. W. Curran
• Oceanic - Greg Egan
• Consorts of Heaven - Jaine Fenn
• Principles of Angels - Jaine Fenn
• Eve: The Empyrean Age - Tony Gonzales
• Daemons Are Forever - Simon Green
• The Spy Who Haunted Me - Simon Green
• Memoirs of a Master Forger - William Heaney
• The Dragon Keeper - Robin Hobb
• Tutankhamun: the Last Secret - Christian Jacq
• Eternal Light - Paul McAuley
• The Quiet War (Pyr US edition out) - Paul McAuley
• Royal Exile: Book One of the Valisar Trilogy - Fiona McIntosh
• Irons in the Fire: Chronicles of the Lescari Revolution - Juliet E.Mckenna
• The City and ytiC ehT - China Mieville
• House of Suns - Alastair Reynolds
• Zima Blue - Alastair Reynolds
• The Forest of Hands and Teeth - Carrie Ryan
• Zoe's Tale - John Scalzi
• Winterstrike by Liz Williams

v19(5) 2009.9.15 -- Graphic Novel and Art Book Reviews

• Century 21 Classic Comic Strips From The Worlds of Gerry Anderson vols 1 & 2 - Chris Bentley (ed.)
• Dan Dare - Garth Ennis & Gary Erskine
• James Bond: Polestar - Jim Lawrence, John McLusky & Yaroslav Horak
• The Nightmare Factory Vol. 2 - Thomas Ligotti
• The Brave and the Bold: The Lords of Luck - Mark Waid & George Perez
• Star Wars: The Force Unleashed - Sean Williams

v19(4) 2009.7.15 -- New story from the Nature Futures series

• Subject to Change by Joseph Lachance
  Short Story (1 page PDF). A hard SF physics tale from a biologist as to the Universe's nature.
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.

v19(3) 2009.4.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Summer 2009

• Newscast for the Summer 2009. 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 relating to films, books, TV, fandom, science news and forthcoming book listings for both SF, fantasy and popular science.
• Science Fiction in Romania up to 1990
• 2008/9 (year to Easter) SF Film Top Ten Chart and Other Worthies (All archive annual film charts here)
• Gaia - Annual whimsical SF and/or science snippets and exotica

v19(3) 2009.4.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Tau Zero - Poul Anderson
• The Painted Man - Peter V. Brett
• Kethani - Eric Brown
• Necropath - Eric Brown
• Rendezvous With Rama - Arthur C. Clarke
• The Secret War - M. E. W. Curran
• A Darkness Forged in Fire - Chris Evans
• The Accidental Time Machine - Joe Haldeman
• Make Room! Make Room! - Harry Harrison
• Eternal Light - Paul McAuley
• The Quiet War - Paul McAuley
• Cyberabad Days - Ian Mcdonald
• Desolation Road - Ian Mcdonald
• The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction vol 3. - George Mann (ed.)
• Ringworld - Larry Niven
• Necrophenia - Robert Rankin
• Century Rain - Alastair Reynolds
• Stone - Adam Roberts
• The Forest of Hands & Teeth - Carrie Ryan
• Android's Dream - John Scalzi
• The Last Colony - John Scalzi
• Ilium - Dan Simmons

v19(3) 2009.4.15 -- Graphic Novel and Art Book Reviews

• Schoolgirl Milky Crisis: Adventures in the anime and manga trade - Jonathan Clements
• Dan Dare (Parts 1 - 3) - Garth Ennis & Gary Erskine
• Strontium Dog - The Kreeler Conspiracy - John Wagner & Carlos Ezquerra
• Heroes vol.2 - various

v19(2) 2009.3.15 -- New story from the Nature Futures series

• The Invisible Hand by Allan M. Lees
  Short Story (1 page PDF). An SF tale for scientists revealling how science really works... Really!
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.

v19(1) 2009.1.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Spring 2009

• Newscast for the Spring 2009. 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 relating to films, books, TV, fandom, science news and forthcoming book listings for both SF, fantasy and popular science.
• New Site Introductory Editorial - well, we were 21 last year don't you know
• History of Concatenation - well, we were 21 last year don't you know
• Tribute to Hatfield PSIFA's 30th Anniversary (with a link to their 10 anniversary zine) - well, they are 30 don't you know
• Top 10 (and worst 10) SF Films - Tony Chester
• Conjunction 2008: The New Zealand National SF Convention - June Young
• 2009 Diary of Major SF Conventions & Forthcoming SF Films of the Year

v19(1) 2009.1.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Fast Forward 2 - Lou Anders (ed.)
• Line War - Neal Asher
• The Ninth Circle - Alex Bell
• The Illustrated Man - Ray Bradbury
• Ray Bradbury Stories - Ray Bradbury
• Firstborn - Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxter
• Five Great Novels - Philip K. Dick (Omnibus)
• Permutation City - Greg Egan
• Quarantine - Greg Egan
• Night of Knives - Ian C. Esslemont
• Troy: Fall of Kings - David and Stella Gemmell
• Extraordinary Engines - Nick Gevers (Ed)
• The Stainless Steel Rat Omnibus - Harry Harrison
• The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert Heinlein
• The Taint - Brian Lumley
• Dream Songs - George R. R. Martin
• The Quiet War - Paul McAuley
• White Devils - Paul McAuley
• Maelstrom: Book Two of the Twins of Petaybee - Anne McCaffrey & Elizabeth A. Scarborough
• Deluge: Book Three of the Twins of Petaybee - Anne McCaffrey & Elizabeth A. Scarborough
• Dragon Harper - Anne and Todd McCaffrey
• The Sweet Scent of Blood - Suzanne McLeod
• Dark Blood - John Meaney
• The Steel Remains - Richard Morgan
• Stalking the Vampire - Mike Resnick
• Blood of Elves - Andrzej Sapkowski
• Procession of the Dead - D. B. Shan
• The Terror - Dan Simmons
• Primal Heat - Susan Sizemore
• Tales From The Perilous Realm - J. R. R. Tolkien
• Martin Martin's On the Other Side - Mark Wernham
• Axis - Robert Charles Wilson
• Severian of the Guild - Gene Wolfe
• The Fade - Chris Wooding

v19(1) 2009.1.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• Who Goes There: Travels through strangest Britain in search of the Doctor - Nick Griffiths
• The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion - Wayne G. Hammond & Christina Scull
• The History of the Hobbit - Parts 1 & 2 - John D. Rateliff

v19(1) 2009.1.15 -- Graphic Novel and Art Book Reviews

• The Beast Within - Ken Barr
• Judge Anderson - Shamballa - Alan Grant & Arthur Ranson
• The Colour of Magic: Illustrated Screenplay - Vadim Jean & Terry Pratchett
• Watchmen - Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
• Judge Dredd - Mandroid - John Wagner et al

v18(6) 2008.11.15 -- New story from the Nature Futures series

• A Better Moustrap by Mike Resnick
  Short Story (1 page PDF). A high-tech space station needs high-tech pest control...
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.

v18(5) 2008.9.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Autumn 2008

• Newscast for the Autumn 2008. Which includes within it loads of sections covering SF books, films and TV as well as science, not to mention fandom and convention news, plus forthcoming books listings for this season. Either use the master newscast link index that directly connects to all the season's news specialist sub-sections or jump straight to the whole SF news page.
• The Masked Villains of Cinematic Serials - Adrian James
• The 2008 European SF Convention, Moscow, Russia - Jim Walker
• 18th Festival of Fantastic Films 2007 - Review by Darrell Buxton

v18(5) 2008.9.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Hothouse - Brian Aldiss
• Neuropath - Scott Bakker
• The Domino Men - Jonathan Barnes
• City at the End of Time - Greg Bear
• The Adventures of Indiana Jones - Campbell Black et al
• Firstborn: The Conclusion of A Time Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter
• Tales From The White Hart - Arthur C. Clarke
• The Last Theorem - Arthur C. Clarke & Frederik Pohl
• Iron Man - Peter David
• Blast from the past to mark TMD's passing - The Prisoner - T. M. Disch
• Incandescence - Greg Egan
• Luminous - Greg Egan
• The Dreaming Void - Peter F. Hamilton
• Dune - Frank Herbert
• The Kingdom Beyond the Waves - Stephen Hunt
• The Martian General’s Daughter - Theodore Judson
• Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H. P. Lovecraft - H. P. Lovecraft
• Hunter’s Run - George R. R. Martin, Gardner Dozois and Daniel Abraham
• Marshal Law: Origins - Pat Mills and Kevin O’Neill
• Black Man published as Thirteen in the US - Richard Morgan
• Ivory - Mike Resnick
• Starship: Mercenary - Mike Resnick
• The Prefect - Alastair Reynolds
• Swiftly - Adam Roberts
• Rollback - Robert J. Sawyer
• Procession of the Dead - D. B. Shan
• Lurulu - Jack Vance

v18(5) 2008.9.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction - Thomas Dixon
• The Coming Convergence - Stanley Schmidt PhD
• Book of the Vampire - Nigel Suckling