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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 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.  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.)
• The index to all of the 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 – The 2019 British Eastercon -- Arthur Chappell
• GeyserCon – New Zealand's 2019 national convention -- Alan Robson

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
• 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
• Waste Tide - Chen Quifan
• 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
• Why Superman Doesn’t Take Over The World: What Superheroes Can Tell Us About Economics - Brian O’Roark
• Heroes of the Space Age: Women Who Took Humanity to the Stars - Rod Pyle
• 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...
  (If you like this story then you can support promulgating the author's work by re-Tweeting.)
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.
• The guidelines for prospective 'Futures' SF short stories authors.

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'). 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.
   
• 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

v29(3) 2019.4.25 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Sunfall - Jim Al-Khalili
• Doctor Who: Scratchman - Tom Baker & James Goss
• The Hod King - Josiah Bancroft
• Stone Clock - Andrew Bannister
• The Caged Queen - Kristen Ciccarelli
• The Sands of Mars - Arthur C. Clarke
• Splintered Suns - Michael Cobley
• Doctor Who: The Good Doctor - Juno Dawson
• The Blue Salt Road - Joanne M. Harris
• Vivat Regina - Maz Hedgehog
• Horror Stories: Classic Tales from Hoffmann to Hodgson (2nd review) - Darryl Jones (ed)
• The Raven Tower - Ann Leckie
• Broken Stars - Ken Liu (ed.)
• Ghost Virus - Graham Masterton
• Doctor Who: Molten Heart - Una McCormack
• Star Wars: Last Shot - Daniel José Older
• All The Lonely People - David Owen
• Shadow Captain - Alastair Reynolds
• Winter World - A. G. Riddle
• Red Moon - Kim Stanley Robinson
• Skyward - Brandon Sanderson
• Ocean Light - Nalini Singh
• Doctor Who: The Secret Vault - David Solomons
• The Labyrinth Index - Charles Stross
• Rosewater - Tade Thompson
• The Freeze-Frame Revolution - Peter Watts
• Emily Eternal - M. G. Wheaton

v29(3) 2019.4.25 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• TARDIS: Type 40 Instruction Manual - Atkinson et al
• The Globotics Upheaval: Globalization, robotics and the future of work - Richard Baldwin
• Making Eden: How plants transformed a barren planet - David Beerling
• C. S. Lewis: A Very Short Introduction - James Como
• A Supernatural War - Owen Davies
• Biometrics: A Very Short Introduction - Michael Fairhurst
• At Least Know This: Essential Science to Enhance Your Life - Guy P. Harrison
• Columbus in Space - Julien Harrod & ESA
• Sleeping with the Lights On (2nd review) - Darryl Jones
• Climate Change and the Health of Nations - Anthony J. McMichael et al
• The Cosmic Mystery Tour: A high-speed journey through space & time - Nicholas Mee
• Interplanetary Robots: True stories of space exploration - Rod Pyle

v29(2) 2019.3.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• The Preprint: Time to Publish (1-page PDF short story) - J. W. Armstrong
  Discovering the true nature of time -- fundamental to reality -- is something that might not want to be shared...
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.
• The guidelines for prospective 'Futures' SF short stories authors.

v29(1) 2019.1.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Spring 2019

• Newscast for the Spring 2019 (which, for clarification, relates to the northern hemisphere and the academic year 'spring'). 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 – Julie E. Czerneda (biologist and SF author)
• San Jose - The 2018 World SF Convention – Peter Tyers
• Windycon 45 - Chicago regional convention – Sue Burke
• 28th Festival of Fantastic Films 2018 - Great Britain –Darrel Buxton
• British Fantasycon 2018 - Ian Hunter
• SF Convention Listing & Film Diary
• Best Science Fiction of Past Years - Possibly? – Newly created archive page (This last is because in recent years, in our spring news for fun, we give our suggestions as to the best SF/F/H novels and films of the previous year.  All well and good.  Yet, though it is only -- we stress -- a bit of fun, invariably nearly every year we cite a work or two that goes on to be short-listed and/or win a major SFaward.  So we thought it about time we collected these in one place with a note at the foot of each year's entry as to which went on to garner a major award.)

v29(1) 2019.1.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Amercia City (2nd review) - Chris Beckett
• Adrift - Rob Boffard
• Brief Cases: Stories from the Dresden files - Jim Butcher
• Kindred - Octavia Butler
• Sea of Rust - Robert Cargill
• Everything About You - Heather Child
• The Cathedral of the Known Things - Edward Cox
• The Watcher of Dead Time - Edward Cox
• Rejoice - Steven Erikson
• Doctor Who and the Kricket Men - Douglas Adams & James Goss
• The Quanderhorn Xperimentations - Rob Grant & Andrew Marshall
• Time’s Convert - Deborah Harkness
• The Minds of Billy Milligan - Daniel Keyes
• The Wall - John Lanchester
• Ball Lightning - Cixin Liu
• 84K - Claire North
• From Darkest Skies - Sam Peters
• The Pit and the Pendulum and Other Tales - Edgar Allan Poe
• Summerland - Hannu Rajaniemi
• Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis - Anne Rice
• Blood Communion: A Tale of Prince Lestat - Anne Rice
• By the Pricking of Her Thumbs - Adam Roberts
• Snapshot - Brandon Sanderson
• Oathbringer - Lynsay Sands
• Dreadful Company - Vivian Shaw
• The Bastard Legion: Friendly Fire - Gavin Smith
• The Gone World - Tom Sweterlitsch
• Hunted - G. X. Todd
• Nebula Awards Showcase 2018 - Jane Yolen (ed.)
• Star Wars: Thrawn Alliances - Timothy Zahn

v29(1) 2019.1.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• Quantum Space - Jim Baggott
• Artificial Intelligence... 'A Very Short Introduction' - Margaret A. Boden
• Inside Black Mirror - Charlie Brooker & Annabel Jones
• How Population Change will Transform our World - Sarah Harper
• Sleeping With The Lights On: The unsettling story of horror - Darryl Jones
• Wicked Mortals - Aaron Mahnke
• The AI Delusion - Gary Smith
• What Shape is Space?: A primer for the 21st century - Giles Sparrow

v28(7) 2018.12.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• Sparrowfall: The city never sleeps (1-page PDF short story) - Robert Dawson
  The AI keeps the city immaculate. But does everyone -- even the person that created it -- appreciate it?
   
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.
• The guidelines for prospective 'Futures' SF short stories authors.

v28(6) 2018.11.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• Life, Hacked: Out For A Duck (1-page PDF short story) - Krystal Claxton
  So how do you know you are real, and not a copy of the real you in a copy-verse? Ask a duck.
   

v28(5) 2018.9.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Autumn 2018

• Newscast for the Autumn 2018. Which 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 - Sam Peters (mathematician and SF author)
• Follycon - The 2018 British Eastercon - Peter Tyers
• Conclave III - New Zealand's 2018 national convention – Lee Murray (with an assist from Simon Litten)
• Wanted, SF authors who are scientists!

v28(5) 2018.9.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• The Tangled Lands - Paolo Bacigalupi & Tobias S. Buckell
• Arm of the Sphinx - Josiah Bancroft
• Blood of Assassins - R. J. Barker
• Raft - Stephen Baxter
• Spring Tide - Chris Beckett
• Zero Day - Ezekiel Boone
• Doctor Who: The Day She Saved the Doctor - Susan Calman et al
• The Defiant Heir - Melissa Caruso
• Doctor Who: The Christmas Invasion - Jenny T. Colgan
• Doctor Who: Twice Upon A Time - Paul Cornell
• Doctor Who: Rose - Russell T. Davies
• The Grey Bastards - Jonathan French
• Gnomon - Nick Harkaway
• The Testament of Loki - Joanne M. Harris
• The Smoke - Simon Ings
• The Fall of Deadworld – Book I - Kek-W & Dave Kendall
• The Night Lies Bleeding - M. D. Lachlan
• Nemesis - Alex Lamb
• A Talent for War - Jack McDevitt
• The City and the City - China Mieville
• Blackfish City - Sam J. Miller
• Into the Fire - Elizabeth Moon
• One Way - S. J. Morden
• After Atlas - Emma Newman
• Before Mars - Emma Newman
• Planetfall - Emma Newman
• Humans, Bow Down - James Patterson & Emily Raymond
• The Store - James Patterson
• The Complete Fairy Tales - Charles Perrault
• From Distant Stars - Sam Peters
• Slow Bullets (2nd review) - Alastair Reynolds
• The Collapsing Empire - John Scalzi
• Head On - John Scalzi
• Doctor Who: The Missy Chronicles - Cavan Scott et al
• Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
• Downward to the Earth - Robert Silverberg
• Hunted - G. X. Todd
• Assassins’ Legacy - Ian Watson & Andy West
• The Thousand Deaths of Ardor Benn - Tyler Whitesides
• The Bitter Twins - Jen Williams
• Last Year - Robert Charles Wilson
• Judge Dredd / Anderson: The Deep End - Arthur Wyatt et al

v28(5) 2018.9.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• Demography: A Very Short Introduction - Susan Harper
• Dreams Must Explain Themselves and Other Essays 1972–2004 - Ursula K. Le Guin
• One of Ten Billion Earths: How we learn about our planet's past and future from distant exoplanets - Karel Schrivner
• Geology… A Very Short Introduction - Jan Zalasiewicz

v28(4) 2018.7.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• Legs-11 - Hugh Cartwright
  Meet the home help.  It's new and you get a free trial.  So what's not to like?
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.
• The guidelines for prospective 'Futures' SF short stories authors.

v28(3) 2018.4.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Summer 2018

• Newscast for the Summer 2018. Which 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 - Peter Watts (biologist and SF author)
• 2017/18 (12 months to Easter) SF Film Top Ten Chart and Other Worthies  (All archive annual film charts here)
• Follycon - The 2018 British Eastercon - Arthur Chappell
• Gaia 2018 - Annual whimsical SF and/or science snippets and exotica

v28(3) 2018.4.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Lawless: Welcome to Badrock - Dan Abnett & Phil Winslade
• Star Wars’ Canto Bight - Saladin Ahmed et al
• Senlin Ascends - Josiah Bancroft
• Places in the Darkness - Chris Brookmyre
• The Tethered Mage - Melissa Caruso
• The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick
• Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams - Philip K. Dick
• Doctor Who and the Kricket Men - James Goss
• Into the Drowning Deep - Mira Grant
• You Should Come With Me Now - M. John Harrison
• Strange Weather - Joe Hill
• Strange Weather (2nd review) - Joe Hill
• The Dragon Lords: False Idols - Jon Hollins
• Star Trek: The Classic UK Comics – Part 3 - Dean Mullaney (ed.)
• Seven Surrenders - Ada Palmer
• Too Like the Lightning (2nd review) - Ada Palmer
• The Will to Battle - Ada Palmer
• Elysium Fire - Alastair Reynolds
• Revenger (3rd review) - Alastair Reynolds
• Oathbringer - Brandon Sanderson
• The Eternity War: Pariah - Jamie Sawyer
• The Bastard Legion - Gavin Smith
• Dogs of War - Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View - Various authors
• The Genius Plague - David Walton

v28(3) 2018.4.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• Conjuring the Universe: The origins of the laws of nature - Peter Atkins
• Mass: The Quest to Understand Matter from Greek Atoms to Quantum Fields - Jim Baggott
• Blockbuster Science: The Real Science in Science Fiction - David Siegel Bernstein
• Heroes & Villains: A photographic odyssey into the fantastic world of cosplay - Andrew Boyle
• Religion vs. Science: What Religious People Really Think - Elaine H. Ecklund & Christopher P. Scheitle
• Anthropocene: A Very Short Introduction - Erle C. Ellis
• Doctor Who: The Book of Whoniversal Records - Simon Guerrier
• Flora of Middle-Earth: Plants of J. R. R. Tolkien's Legendarium - Walter S. Judd & Graham A. Judd
• Terry Pratchett Discworld Imaginarium - Paul Kidby
• Monstrous Creatures - Aaron Mahnke
• Miracles: A Very Short Introduction - Yujin Nagasawa
• Explorations of the Marvellous - Peter Nicholls (ed.) (In memoriam)

v28(2) 2018.3.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• I Die A Little - Bo Balder
  Sometimes it is impossible to stay on a new planet no matter how much our children like it.
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.
• The guidelines for prospective 'Futures' SF short stories authors.

v28(1) 2018.1.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Spring 2018

• Newscast for the Spring 2018. Which 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 - Andrew Bannister
• SF Conventions Across Europe - Roberto Quaglia
• Helsinki – The 2017 World SF Convention - Peter Tyers
• British Fantasycon 2017 - Ian Hunter
• 28th Festival of Fantastic Films 2017 – Great Britain - Darrell Buxton
• The 2017 Hispacon – Spain - Cristina Jurado
• The 2017 Celsius 232 – Spain - Peter Tyers
• Diary of Major SF Conventions & Forthcoming SF Films of the Year
• SF/F/H book reviewers wanted

v28(1) 2018.1.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• The Furthest Station - Ben Aaronovitch
• The Hanging Tree - Ben Aaronovitch
• Iron Gods - Andrew Bannister
• Age of Assassins - R. J. Barker
• America City - Chris Beckett
• Raising Fire - James Bennett
• Successor's Promise - Trudi Canavan
• Sea of Rust - C. Robert Cargill
• The Last Namsara - Kristen Ciccarelli
• Minority Report - Philip K. Dick
• Mostly Void, Partially Stars: Welcome to Nightvale Episodes Volume 1 - Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor
• The Great Glowing Coils of the Universe Welcome to Nightvale Episodes Volume 2 - Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor
• Star Wars: Battlefront II – Inferno Squad - Christie Golden
• Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse - James Goss
• Runemarks - Joanne Harris
• The Fireman - Joe Hill
• The Fatal Gate - Ian Irvine
• Infernal Machines - John Hornor Jacobs
• Provenance - Anne Leckie
• The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. LeGuin
• The Wandering Earth - Cixin Liu
• The Wall of Storms - Ken Liu
• Star Wars: A New Hope - George Lucas
• Star Wars Trilogy - George Lucas
• The Corporation Wars: Emergence - Ken MacLeod
• Blackwing - Ed McDonald
• Doctor Who: Plague City - Jonathan Morris
• Too Like the Lightening - Ada Palmer
• The Dark Net - Benjamin Percy
• From Darkest Skies - Sam Peters
• The Death House - Sarah Pinborough
• The Gradual - Christopher Priest
• The Castle in Cassiopeia - Mike Resnick
• Revenger - Alastair Reynolds
• Slow Bullets - Alastair Reynolds
• The Core of the Sun - Johanna Sinisalo
• The Delirium Brief - Charles Stross
• The Doomed City - Arkady & Boris Strugatsky
• Artemis - Andy Weir
• The Island of Doctor Moreau - H. G. Wells
• Crosstalk - Connie Willis
• The Feed - Nick Clark Windo
• Doorways in the Sand - Roger Zelazny

v28(1) 2018.1.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction - Susan Blackmore
• A Concise Guide to Communication in Science and Engineering - David H. Foster
• Big Data: A Very Short Introduction - Dawn E. Holmes
• Quantum Physics: What everyone needs to know - Michael G. Raymer
• Beeronomics: How beer explains the world - Johan Swinnen & Devin Briski

v27(7) 2017.12.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• The Fourth Law of Humanics - Ian Stewart
  What of Asimov's Laws once the robots have won...?
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.
• The guidelines for prospective 'Futures' SF short stories authors.

v27(6) 2017.11.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• The Department of Correction - Ninan Tan
  Offender, Mr Smith, turns up for a medical procedure. A lesson has to be learned.

v27(5) 2017.9.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Autumn 2017

• Newscast for the Autumn 2017. Which 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 - Paul McAuley
• Understanding Polish SF conventions - Marcin 'Alqua' Klak
• Eurocon 2017 – Dortmund, Germany - Jim Walker
• Lexicon - New Zealand's 2017 national convention - Lee Murray, Dan Rabarts and Darian Smith
• Innominate - The 2017 British Eastercon - Peter Tyers
• Innominate - The 2017 British Eastercon - Arthur Chappell

v27(5) 2017.9.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Sharp Ends - Joe Abercrombie
• Iron Gods - Andrew Bannister
• Creation Machine (2nd review) - Andrew Bannister
• The Waking Land - Callie Bates
• Xeelee Vengeance - Stephen Baxter
• Skitter - Ezekiel Boone
• Firebrand - Kirsten Britain
• Fierce Gods - Col Buchanan
• The Boy on the Bridge - M. R. Carey
• Judge Dredd: Every Empire Falls - Michael Carroll et al
• The House of Binding Thorns - Aliette de Bodard
• Walkaway - Cory Doctorow
• Fall of Light - Steven Erikson
• The Remnant - Charlie Fletcher
• Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - Alexander Freed
• Rhyming Rings - David Gemmell
• The Immortal Throne - Stella Gemmell
• Neuromancer (New edition) - William Gibson
• Ararat - Christopher Golden
• Freeks - Amanda Hocking
• Collected Ghost Stories (2nd review) - M. R. James (Darryl Jones ed.)
• The Dream Quest of Vellitt Boe - Kij Johnson
• Agents of Dreamland - Caitlin R. Kiernan
• The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. LeGuin
• Invisible Planets - Ken Liu (ed.)
• The Corporation Wars: Insurgence - Ken MacLeod
• Austral - Paul McAuley
• Into Everywhere (2nd review) - Paul McAuley
• Sins of Empire - Brian McClellan
• Luna: Wolf Moon - Ian McDonald
• Cold Welcome - Elizabeth Moon
• The Complete Skizz - Alan Moore & Jim Baikie
• New York 2140 - Kim Stanley Robinson
• Immortal Unchained - Lynsay Sands
• Dark Made Dawn - J. P. Smythe
• The Bear and the Serpent - Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 14 - John Wagner & Carlos Ezequerra et al
• The Invisible Man - H. G. Wells
• The Shape of Things to Come (New edition) - H. G. Wells
• War of the Worlds - H. G. Wells
• Where the Late Sweet Birds Sang - Kate Wilhelm
• The Ninth Rain - Jen Williams
• The Affinities - Robert Charles Wilson
• Star Wars: Thrawn - Timothy Zahn

v27(5) 2017.9.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• The Emerald Planet: How Plants Changed Earth's History - David Beerling
• Living With the Living Dead: The wisdom of the Zombie Apocalypse - Greg Garrett
• We Know All About You: The story of surveillance in Britain and America - Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones
• Amazing Stories of the Space Age: True Tales of Nazis in Orbit, Soldiers on the Moon, Orphaned Martian Robots, and Other Fascinating Accounts from the Annals of Spaceflight - Rod Pyle
• Before Time Began: The Big Bang & the Emerging Universe - Helmut Satz
• Quantum Leaps in the Wrong Direction: Where real science end and pseudoscience begins - Charles M. Wynn and Arthur W. Wiggins

v27(4) 2017.7.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• The Memory Ward - Wendy Nikel
  Lisa is saving her memories before she loses them to dementia. And then, playing an old one back, she discovers...

v27(3) 2017.4.20 -- New Columns & Articles for the Summer 2017

• Newscast for the Summer 2017. Which 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 - Ian Stewart
• Eurocon 2016 – Barcelona, Spain - Jim Walker
• The 2000AD 40th Anniversary Event - Anthony Heathcote
• SF Film recommendations from the 20th Century -- Part 3: The Space Age (1960-'69) - Tony Chester
• 2016/17 (year to Easter) SF Film Top Ten Chart and Other Worthies  (All archive annual film charts here)
• Gaia 2017 - Annual whimsical SF and/or science snippets and exotica

v27(3) 2017.4.20 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• The Hanging Tree - Ben Aaronovitch
• Class: Joyride - Guy Adams
• The Massacre of Mankind - Stephen Baxter
• The Massacre of Mankind (2nd review) - Stephen Baxter
• Obelisk - Stephen Baxter
• Take Back the Sky - Greg Bear
• Class: The Stone House - A. K. Benedict
• The Day Before Forever - Anna Caltabiano
• Fellside (2nd review) - M. R. Carey
• Babylon's Ashes - James S. A. Corey
• Arthur Conan Doyle: Gothic Tales - Arthur Conan Doyle
• The X Files Origins: Agent of Chaos - Kami Garcia
• Class: What She Does Next Will Astound You - James Goss
• Star Wars: Bloodline - Claudia Gray
• Star Wars: Catalyst - James Lucenoh
• Doctor Who – The Whoniverse - George Mann & Justin Richards
• Void Star - Zachary Mason
• The X Files Origins: Devil's Advocate - Jonathan Mayberry
• Down Station - Simon Morden
• The White City - Simon Morden
• Arcanum Unbounded - Brandon Sanderson
• Arcanum Unbounded (2nd review) - Brandon Sanderson
• Elantris- Brandon Sanderson
• Defender - G. X. Todd
• The Liberation - Ian Tregillis
• Judge Dredd The Mega Collection: Mean Machine - Wagner et al
• The Guns of Empire - Django Wexler
• Pelquin’s Comet - Ian Whates
• Doctor Who and the Crusaders - David Whitaker
• The Midwich Cuckoos - John Wyndham

v27(3) 2017.4.20 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• The Oxford Illustrated History of Witchcraft & Magic - Owen Davies (ed.)
• The Extended Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
• Einstein at Home - Friedrich Herneck
• Artificial Intelligence: What everyone needs to know - Jerry Kaplan
• The Science of the Game of Thrones - Helen Keen
• Eugenics: A Very Short Introduction - Philippa Levine
• The Oxford Dictionary of Science - Oxford University Press
• True Genius: The Life and Work of Richard Garwin - Joel N. Shurkin
• Infinity: A Very Short Introduction - Ian Stewart
• Intellectual Property: A Very Short Introduction - Siva Vaidhyanathan

v27(2) 2017.3.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• Ghosts in the Machine - Aaron Moskalik
  Can you prove that you are alive? Really prove that you are alive? Administration may want to know...
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.
• The guidelines for prospective 'Futures' SF short stories authors.

v27(1) 2017.1.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Spring 2017

• Newscast for the Spring 2017. Which includes within it loads of 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 – Tony Ballantyne
• 27th Festival of Fantastic Films 2016 – Great Britain - Darrell Buxton
• British Fantasycon 2016 - Ian Hunter
• Diary of Major SF Conventions & Forthcoming SF Films of the Year

v27(1) 2017.1.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Second Lives (2nd review) - Scott K. Andrews
• Doctor Who: The Legends of River Song edited - Anonymous
• War Factory - Neal Asher
• Heart of Granite: Blood and Fire - James Barclay
• Heart of Granite: Blood and Fire (2nd review) - James Barclay
• Daughter of Eden - Chris Beckett
• The Hatching - Ezekiel Boone
• Fellside - M. R. Carey
• The Girl with all the Gifts - M. R. Carey
• Dominion: The Chronicle of the Invaders - John Connolly & Jennifer Ridyard
• Who Killed Sherlock Holmes - Paul Cornell
• The Watcher of Dead Time - Edward Cox
• Poison City - Paul Crilley
• The Augur’s Gambit - Stephen Donaldson
• The King’s Justice - Stephen Donaldson
• Survival Game - Gary Gibson
• Neuromancer - William Gibson
• The Dragon Lords: Fool’s Gold - Jon Hollins
• Nebula Awards Showcase 2016 (2nd review) - Mercedes Lackey (ed.)
• The Sixth Watch - Sergei Lukyanenko
• All Our Wrong Todays - Elan Mastai
• South - Frank Owen
• Typescript of the Second Origin - Manuel de Pedrolo
• Woman on the Edge of Time - Marge Piercy
• The Long Cosmos (2nd review) - Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter
• The Gradual - Christopher Priest
• The Gradual (2nd review) - Christopher Priest
• The End of All Things - John Scalzi
• The World Raven - A. J. Smith
• Doctor Who and the Zarbi - Bill Strutton
• Hunters and Collectors - M. Suddain
• Find Me - Laura van den Berg
• The First Men in the Moon - H. G. Wells
• The Time Machine - H. G. Wells
• The War of the Worlds - H. G. Wells
• Doctor Who: In an exciting adventure with the Daleks - David Whitaker

v27(1) 2017.1.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• The Divine Madness of Philip K. Dick - Kyle Arnold
• A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
• Doctor Who: The Official Cookbook - Joanna Farrow
• Oxygen: The molecule that made the world - Nick Lane
• The Call of the Primes: Surprising patterns, peculiar puzzles and other marvels of mathematics - O'Shea

v26(7) 2016.12.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• Single Layer I. T.: A collective celebration - William R. D. Wood
  It is the countdown to the end of the year and the dawn of a new one. Happy New Year everyone. 'Five', 'four', 'three'...
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.
• The guidelines for prospective 'Futures' SF short stories authors.

v26(6) 2016.11.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• The Memory of Trees - Lynette Mejía
  One of the first things to go in a fated world may well be the last thing its people really needs... Art!

v26(5) 2016.9.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Autumn 2016

• Newscast for the Autumn 2016. Which includes within it many key 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.
   
• Spanish Science Fiction - Alejandro Mohorte Medina & José Nieto
• Au Contraire 3 – New Zealand's 2016 national convention - Maree Pavletich
• Mancunicon – The 2016 British Eastercon - Peter Tyers
• ConCarolinas 2016 – A regional USA con - Peter Tyers

v26(5) 2016.9.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
• Second Lives - Scott K. Andrews
• Timebomb - Scott K. Andrews
• Creation Machine - Andrew Bannister
• The Scarlet Gospels - Clive Barker
• The Medusa Chronicles - Stephen Baxter & Alastair Reynolds
• Tracer - Rob Boffard
• Morning Star - Pierce Brown
• Doctor Who: In the Blood - Jenny T. Colgan
• The Tourist - Robert Dickinson
• Doctor Who: City of Death - James Goss
• Underground - S. L. Grey
• Starship Troopers - Robert A. Heinlein
• Hex - Thomas Olde Heuvelt
• The Summon Stone - Ian Irvine
• Children of Earth and Sky - Guy Gavriel Kay
• Star Wars: Lords of the Sith - Paul S. Kemp
• Nebula Awards Showcase 2016 - Mercedes Lackey (ed.)
• Ancillary Mercy - Ann Leckie
• The Paper Menagerie - Ken Liu
• The Paper Menagerie (2nd review) - Ken Liu
• The Corporation Wars: Dissidence - Ken MacLeod
• Into Everywhere - Paul McAuley
• Bite - K. S. Merbeth
• Reality by Other Means - James Morrow
• The Book of Phoenix (2nd review) - Nnedi Okorafor
• Those Above - Daniel Polansky
• The Long Cosmos - Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter
• Revenger - Alastair Reynolds
• The Fallen - Tarn Richardson
• Aurora - Kim Stanley Robinson
• Calamity - Brandon Sanderson
• Long Dark Dusk - J. P. Smythe
• Long Dark Dusk (2nd review) - J. P. Smythe
• Way Down Dark (2nd review) - J. P. Smythe
• Extinction - Kazuaki Takano
• Judge Dredd Classics: The Dark Judges - John Wagner et al
• Judge Dredd: The Life and Crimes of P. J. Maybe- John Wagner et al
• Rig - Jon Wallace
• The 1000 Year Reich - Ian Watson
• The Great Science Fiction - H. G. Wells
• The Book of the New Sun Vol. 1: Shadow and Claw - Gene Wolfe
• The Chrysalids - John Wyndham

v26(5) 2016.9.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life when Robots Rule the Earth - Robin Hanson
• How Population Change will Transform our World - Sarah Harper
• Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps and the Tenth Dimension - Michio Kaku
• The Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction - Samir Okasha
• Doctor Who: 365 days of memorable moments and impossible things (2nd review) - Justin Richards

v26(4) 2016.7.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• Grains of Wheat: A lesson learned by Alex Shvartsman
  Best not to upset those (including your relatives) on your way up as you may need them on the way down...

v26(3) 2016.4.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Summer 2016

• Newscast for the Summer 2016. Which includes within it many key 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.
   
• German SF Since 1945 - Dirk van den Boom
• Sasquan – The 2015 World SF Convention - Peter Tyers
• 2015/16 (year to Easter) SF Film Top Ten Chart and Other Worthies  (All archive annual film charts here)
• Gaia 2016 - Annual whimsical SF and/or science snippets and exotica

v26(3) 2016.4.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Dreamland (2nd review) - Robert L. Anderson
• Starbound - Dave Bara
• Nebula Awards Showcase 2015 - Greg Bear (ed.)
• Nebula Awards Showcase 2015 (2nd review) - Greg Bear (ed.)
• Armada - Ernest Cline
• Nova - Samuel R. Delany
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Alan Dean Foster
• Star Wars Battlefront: Twilight Company - Alexander Freed
• Dead Ringers - Christopher Golden
• Doctor Who: The Legends of Ashildr - James Goss et al
• Speak - Louisa Hall
• Visitor’s Book - Sophie Hannah
• Starborn - Lucy Hounsom
• Doctor Who: The Drosten’s Curse (2nd review) - A. L. Kennedy
• The Dark Forest - Cixin Liu
• The Monk - Matthew Lewis
• Thunderbird - Jack McDevitt
• Luna - Ian McDonald
• The Night Clock - Paul Meloy
• Slade House - David Mitchell
• Lost Girl - Adam Nevill
• Secrets of Drearcliff Grange School - Kim Newman
• The Boy Who Wept Blood - Den Patrick
• Earthquake Weather - Tim Powers
• Bête - Adam Roberts
• The Thing Itself - Adam Roberts
• The Thing Itself (2nd review) - Adam Roberts
• Firefight (2nd review) - Brandon Sanderson
• The Human Division - John Scalzi
• Zoe's Tale - John Scalzi
• Strontium Dog: The Life and Death of Johnny Alpha – Dogs of War - John Wagner & Carlos Ezquerra
• The Philosopher Kings - Jo Walton
• The Silver Tide - Jen Williams

v26(3) 2016.4.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• Origins: The Scientific Story of Creation - Jim Baggott
• Black Holes: A Very Short Introduction - Katherine Blundell
• Good Thinking: What you need to know to be smarter, safer, wealthier and wiser - Guy P. Harrison
• Reading C. S. Lewis: A Commentary - Wesley A. Kort
• Doctor Who: Impossible Worlds: A 50-year treasury of art and design - Stephen Nicholas & Mike Tucker
• Doctor Who: 365 days of memorable moments and impossible things - Justin Richards
• Moons: A Very Short Introduction - David A. Rothery
• The Astronomer & The Witch: Johannes Kepler's Fight for his Mother - Ulinka Rublack

v26(2) 2016.3.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• Asymmetrical Warfare: So you want to be a star? by S. R. Algernon Hugo nominated 2016
  If you really are set on invading the Earth, then be advised: it may not be quite as easy as you think!
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.
• The guidelines for prospective 'Futures' SF short stories authors.

v26(1) 2016.1.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Spring 2016

• Newscast for the Spring 2016. 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.
   
• The Hugo Best Dramatic Presentation Short Form: Is it really recognising the breadth of SF achievement? - Jonathan Cowie
• British Fantasycon 2015 - Ian Hunter
• The 2015 Hispacon – Spain - Sue Burke
• 26th Festival of Fantastic Films 2015 – Great Britain - Darrell Buxton
• ConFuse – The 2015 Swecon - Karl-Johan Norén
• Diary of Major SF Conventions & Forthcoming SF Films of the Year

v26(1) 2016.1.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• A Few Words for the Dead - Guy Adams
• Dreamland - Robert L. Anderson
• Tales from the Vatican's Vault - David V. Barrett
• Dr Who: Deep Time - Trevor Baxendale
• Xeelee Endurance - Stephen Baxter
• Killing Titan - Greg Bear
• Dark Run - Mike Brooks
• The Supernatural Enhancements - Edgar Cantero
• The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet - Becky Chambers
• The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet (2nd review) - Becky Chambers
• Night Music: Nocturnes Volume 2 - John Connolly
• Edge of Dark - Brenda Cooper
• The Relic Guild - Edward Cox
• Humpty Dumpty in Oakland - Philip K. Dick
• Willful Child - Steven Erikson
• Grendel - John Gardner
• The Tin Men - Christopher Golden
• Dead Ice - Laurell K. Hamilton
• Misspent Youth - Peter F. Hamilton
• Star Wars: Lords of the Sith - Paul S. Kemp
• Doctor Who: The Drosten’s Curse - A. L. Kennedy
• Roboteer - Alex Lamb
• The Hunter’s Kind - Rebecca Levene
• The Three-Body Problem - Cixin Liu
• The Gracekeepers - Kirsty Logan
• Dr Who: Royal Blood - Una McCormack
• The Bone Clocks - David Mitchell
• The Dead Lands - Benjamin Percy
• Doctor Who: The Time Lord Letters - Justin Richards
• Dr Who: Big Bang Generation - Gary Russell
• Lie of the Land - Michael F. Russell
• Lock In - John Scalzi
• The Sky Pirates - Leisel Schwarz
• Way Down Dark - J. P. Smythe
• Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Night Lamp - Jack Vance
• Supersymmetry - David Walton
• Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham

v26(1) 2016.1.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• Biocode: The new age of genomics - Dawn Field & Neil Davies
• Thunderbirds: The Vault - Marcus Hearn
• A Very Short Introduction to Corruption - Leslie Holmes
• C. S. Lewis and his Circle - Roger White, Judith Wolfe & Brendan N. Wolfe
• The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales - Jack Zipes (ed.)

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

• Reversal of Misfortune: Alternative culture by J. W. Armstrong
  Short Story (1 page PDF). 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
  Short Story (1 page PDF). 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 (2nd review) - 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
• Superposition - David 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
  Short Story (1 page PDF). In the not-too-distant future we will be more humane when it comes to criminal punishment... Won't we?

v25(3) 2015.4.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Summer 2015

• Newscast for the Summer 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.
• Loncon 3 – The 2014 SF Worldcon - Peter Tyers
• SF Film recommendations from the 20th Century -- Part 2: The Golden Age (1950-59) - Tony Chester
• 2014/15 (year to Easter) SF Film Top Ten Chart and Other Worthies  (All archive annual film charts here)
• SF/F/H book reviewers wanted
• Gaia 2015 - Annual whimsical SF and/or science snippets and exotica

v25(3) 2015.4.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• The Brian Aldiss Collection – The Complete Short Stories: The 1950s - Brian Aldiss
• The Secrets of Blood and Bone - Rebecca Alexander
• The Gods Themselves - Isaac Asimov
• War Dogs - Greg Bear
• Mother of Eden - Chris Beckett
• Empire - John Connolly & Jennifer Ridyard
• Empires: Extraction - Gavin Deas
• Empires: Infiltration - Gavin Deas
• Symbiont: Parasitology 2 - Mira Grant
• Horns - Joe Hill
• NOS4R2 - Joe Hill
• Sand - Hugh Howey
• Zombie Apocalypse! Endgame - Stephen Jones (ed)
• Revival - Stephen King
• Something Coming Through - Paul McAuley
• The Wolves of London - Mark Morris
• An English Ghost Story - Kim Newman
• Retribution - Mark Charan Newton
• Breakfast with the Borgias - D. B. C. Pierre
• On the Steel Breeze - Alastair Reynolds
• Poseidon's Wake - Alastair Reynolds
• The Blood Red City - Justin Richards
• The Slow Regard of Silent Things - Patrick Rothfuss
• Originator - Joel Shepherd
• The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole
• The Book of the New Sun – Vol. 1: Shadow and Claw - Gene Wolfe

v25(3) 2015.4.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• Living With The Stars: How the human body is connected with the life cycles of the Earth, the planets and the stars - Karel Schrijver & Iris Schrijver
• Rare: The High-Stakes Race to Satisfy our Need for the Scarcest Metals on Earth - Keith Veronese
• Once Upon A Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale - Marina Warner

v25(2) 2015.3.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• Investments by Simon Kewin
  Short Story (1 page PDF). There's been a lot of investment in humanity. Now it's time for a bit of corporate rationalisation and tough choices for the chief executive of Blue Planet Holdings...
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.
• SF/F/H book reviewers wanted.

v25(1) 2015.1.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Spring 2015

• Newscast for the Spring 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.
• Eurocon 2014 – Dublin, Ireland (2nd review) - Peter Tyers
• British Fantasycon 2014 - Ian Hunter
• 25th Festival of Fantastic Films 2014 – Great Britain - Darrell Buxton
• Utopiales 2014 – France - Jim Walker
• The 2014 Hispacon – Spain - Sue Burke
• Diary of Major SF Conventions & Forthcoming SF Films of the Year

v25(1) 2015.1.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Nearly Definitive Edition - Douglas Adams
• Cairo - Louis Armand
• Pebble in the Sky - Isaac Asimov
• The Incarnation - Susan Barker
• Ultima - Stephen Baxter
• Broken Monsters - Lauren Beukes
• Skin Game: The Dresden Files - Jim Butcher
• The Severed Streets - Paul Cornell
• The Relic Guild - Edward Cox
• Elite Dangerous: Wanted - Gavin Deas
• Elite: Docking is Difficult - Gideon Defoe
• Tinder - Sally Gardner
• Extinction Game - Gary Gibson
• The Revolutions - Felix Gilman
• The Abyss Beyond Dreams - Peter F. Hamilton
• Kill Baxter - Charlie Human
• Emporium Stories - Adam Johnson
• Horror Stories: Classic Tales from Hoffmann to Hodgson - Darryl Jones (ed)
• The House of the Four Winds - Mercedes Lackey & James Mallory
• Ancillary Sword - Ann Leckie
• The Three - Sarah Lotz
• Coming Home - Jack McDevitt
• The Spectral Book of Horror Stories - Mark Morris (ed)
• Murder - Sara Pinborough
• The Long Mars (2nd review) - Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter
• The Fortress in Orion - Mike Resnick
• Elite: Nemorensis - Simon Spurrier
• Shadows of the Apt: Book Ten – Seal of the Worm - Adrian Tchaikovsky
• The Traitor's Heir - Anna Thayer
• Predator vs. Judge Dredd vs. Aliens - John Wagner et al
• The Mammoth Book of Steampunk Adventures - Sean Wallace (ed)
• Firefall (Echopraxia) - Peter Watts

v25(1) 2015.1.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• A Lifetime In The Building: The Extraordinary Story of May Savidge - Christine Adams
• An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth - Chris Hadfield
• A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction - Terry Pratchett
• Curiosity: An Inside Look at the Mars Rover Mission - Rod Pyle
• The Frood: The Authorised and Very Official History of Douglas Adams and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Jem Roberts
• What Makes This Great: Re-Reading the Classics of Science Fiction and Fantasy - Jo Walton
• Ocean Worlds: The story of seas on Earth and other planets - Jan Zalasiewicz & Mark Williams

v24(7) 2014.12.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• First Foot by Deborah Walker
  Short Story (1 page PDF). It's the season to be jolly, and there are traditions that we must adhere to through to new year lest we incur displeasure...
  
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.

v24(6) 2014.11.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• Quis Custodiet by Brian Clegg
  Short Story (1 page PDF). The world is ruled by a caring AI. It is a perfect dictatorship, isn't it?

v24(5) 2014.9.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Autumn 2014

• Newscast for the Autumn 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.
• My 25 years of Eurocons and the European Science Fiction Society - Roberto Quaglia
• Eurocon 2014 – Dublin, Ireland - Jim Walker
• Satellite 4 – The 2014 British Eastercon - Ian Hunter

v24(5) 2014.9.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Jupiter War - Neal Asher
• Terminus - Adam Baker
• Kindred - Octavia Butler
• Black Moon - Kenneth Calhoun
• Cell - Roger Cook
• Judge Dredd: Trifecta - Al Ewing et al
• Asterix and the Picts - Jean-Yves Ferri & Didier Conrad
• The Ocean At The End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman
• The City - Stella Gemmell
• Apocalypse Now Now - Charlie Human
• Nebula Awards Showcase 2014 - Kij Johnson (ed)
• Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi – Into the Void - Tim Lebbon
• Ancillary Justice - Ann Leckie
• Cauldron - Jack McDevitt
• Empress of the Sun: Everness Book III - Ian McDonald
• Defenders - Will McIntosh
• Rags & Bones: New Twists on Timeless Tales - Melissa Marr & Tim Pratt (editors)
• Lagoon - Nnedi Okorarafor
• The Long Earth - Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter
• The Long Mars - Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter
• The Forever Watch - David Ramirez
• Rebecca Newton and the Sacred Flame - Mario Routi
• Operation Shield - Joel Shepherd
• Fiend (2nd review) - Peter Stenson
• Neptune's Brood - Charles Stross
• Tomorrow and Tomorrow - Thomas Sweterlitsch
• The Voices - F. R. Tallis
• The Violent Century - Lavie Tidhar
• Judge Dredd: Day of Chaos – End Game - John Wagner et al
• The World According to Spiderman - Daniel Wallace & Mirco Pierfederici
• The First Men in the Moon - H. G. Wells
• Vortex - Robert Charles Wilson
• The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham

v24(5) 2014.9.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• Life On Air - David Attenborough
• Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers and Strategies - Nick Bostrom
• The Chemistry of Alchemy - Cathy Cobb, Monty Fetterolf & Harold Goldwhite
• The Knowledge: How to re-build our world from scratch - Lewis Dartnell
• The Little Book of Chocolat: Fifty recipes celebrating the bestselling novel Chocolat - Joanne Harris
• Mental Biology: The new science of how the brain and mind meet - W. R. Klemm
• It Started With Copernicus: Vital Questions About Science - Keith Parsons

v24(4) 2014.7.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• The Front Line by Sylvia Spruck Wrigley
  Short Story (1 page PDF). Holding the line against a relentless, unstoppable alien invasion of the Solar system is not what you might expect.  Time for a stiff gin...
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.
• The guidelines for prospective 'Futures' SF short stories authors.

v24(3) 2014.4.30 -- New Columns & Articles for the Summer 2014

• Newscast for the Summer 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.
• Anglo-Romanian Science & Science Fiction Cultural Exchange Re-visited
• SF Film recommendations from the 20th Century -- Part 1 - Tony Chester
• 2013/14 (year to Easter) SF Film Top Ten Chart and Other Worthies  (All archive annual film charts here)
• Gaia 2014 - Annual whimsical SF and/or science snippets and exotica

v24(3) 2014.4.30 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Jupiter War - Neal Asher
• The Silence of Ghosts - Jonathan Aycliffe
• Exit Kingdom - Alden Bell
• Arctic Rising - Tobias S. Buckell
• Black Moon - Kenneth Calhoun
• Conquest - John Connolly and Jennifer Ridyard
• The Troop - Nick Cutter
• The Arrows of Time: Orthogonal Book 3 - Greg Egan
• The Devil Delivered and Other Tales - Steven Erikson
• Fortunately the Milk - Neil Gaiman
• Snowblind - Christopher Golden
• Snowblind (2nd review) - Christopher Golden
• Parasite: Parasitology 1 - Mira Grant
• An Apple for the Creature - Charlaine Harris & Toni L. P. Kelner (eds)
• M. R. James: Collected Ghost Stories - Darryl Jones (ed)
• Fearie Tales: Stories of the Grimm and Gruesome - Stephen Jones (ed) and illustrations by Allan Lee
• Fearie Tales: Stories of the Grimm and Gruesome (2nd review) - Stephen Jones (ed) and illustrations by Allan Lee
• The Walking Dead: The Fall of the Governor – Part One - Robert Kirkman and Jay Bonasinga
• Rayguns Over Texas - Richard Klaw (ed)
• Descent - Ken MacLeod
• The Disestablishment of Paradise - Phillip Mann
• In Thunder Forged - Ari Marmell
• The Falconer - Elizabeth May
• Starhawk - Jack McDevitt
• Anno Dracula: Johnny Alucard - Kim Newman
• Dodger's Guide to London - Terry Pratchett
• Dodger (2nd review) - Terry Pratchett
• Fiddlehead - Cherie Priest
• The Doctor and the Dinosaurs - Mike Resnick
• Doctor Who: Harvest of Time - Alastair Reynolds
• Steelheart (2nd review) - Brandon Sanderson
• Limit - Frank Shatzing
• The Age of Scorpio - Gavin Smith
• The Guard - Peter Terrin
• The Woman in Black: The Sequel Angel of Death - Martyn Waites

v24(3) 2014.4.30 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• Think: Why you should question everything - Guy P. Harrison
• The Delinquent Teenager: Who was mistaken for the world's top climate expert - Donna Laframboise
• The Physics of War: From Arrows to Atoms - Barry Parker

v24(2) 2014.3.15 -- A new story from the Nature Futures series

• For Your Information by Connor Powers-Smith
  Short Story (1 page PDF). In the future getting genetic data on a new prospective partner is all part of the dating process. But a little knowledge...

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
• 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...

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 2013 - Annual whimsical SF and/or science snippets and exotica
• 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
• 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 2012 - 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
• 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 2011 - Annual whimsical SF and/or science snippets and exotica
• 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
• 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 2010 - 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
• 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 2009 - 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
• 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