Science Fiction Concatenation's What's New

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

• Newscast for the Spring 2010. Which includes within it loads of sections covering SF books, films and TV as well as science not to mention fandom and convention news. See the master newscast link index that connects to all the news sub-sections relating to films, books, TV, fandom, science news and forthcoming book listings for both SF, fantasy and popular science.
• China's Science Fiction World -- Sherry Yao
• 20th Festival of Fantastic Films 2009 -- Darrell Buxton
• Zombies: Before Romero -- Tony Chester
• 2010 Diary of Major SF Conventions & Forthcoming SF Films of the Year

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Harnessing the Brane-Deer by Robert Billing
  Short Story (2 page PDF). A tale of a Christmas prang at a Royal Airforce Base. What ho... (Ho, ho, ho...)
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.

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

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

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

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

• Newscast for the Summer 2009. Which includes within it loads of sections covering SF books, films and TV as well as science not to mention fandom and convention news. See the master newscast link index that connects to all the news sub-sections relating to films, books, TV, fandom, science news and forthcoming book listings for both SF, fantasy and popular science.
• Science Fiction in Romania up to 1990
• 2008/9 (year to Easter) SF Film Top Ten Chart and Other Worthies (All archive annual film charts here)
• Gaia - Annual whimsical SF and/or science snippets and exotica

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

v18(5) 2008.9.15 -- Graphic Novel Reviews

• Jeff Hawke: Overlord - Sydney Jordan & Willie Patterson
• All-Star Batman & Robin vol.1 - Frank Miller, Jim Lee and Scott Williams
• Batman vs. Two-Face - various
• Star Wars: Dark Times - various
• Judge Dredd: The Henry Flint Collection - John Wagner et al

v18(4) 2008.6.30 -- New story from the Nature Futures series

• A New Note For Nat by Gareth Owens
  Short Story (1 page PDF). Being a hypersonic rock star is great... until you get too old.
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.

v18(3) 2008.4.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Summer 2008

• Newscast for the Summer 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 High Frontier, Redux: Interstellar Travel Difficulties - Charles Stross
• Science Fiction in China: 2008 - Jenny Bai and Cecilia Qin
• 2007 Worldcon Review: Japan - Pete Tyers
• Blade Runner vs. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Jonathan Cowie
• 2007/8 (year to Easter) SF Film Top Ten Chart and Other Worthies (All archive annual film charts here)
• Gaia - Annual whimsical SF and/or science snippets and exotica

v18(3) 2008.4.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Hilldiggers - Neal Asher
• Recursion -Tony Ballantyne
• Flood - Stephen Baxter
• Weaver: Time's Tapestry Book Four - Stephen Baxter
• The Machineries of Joy by Ray Bradbury
• The Ninth Circle - Alex Bell
• Distress - Greg Egan
• Incandescence by Greg Egan
• Principles of Angels - Jaine Fenn
• Darkest Days -Stanley Gallon
• Jumper - Steven Gould
• Jumper: Griffin's Story - Steven Gould
• 20th Century Ghosts - Joe Hill
• The Waking - T. M. Jenkins
• Duma Key - Stephen King
• Cowboy Angels - Paul McAuley
• Odyssey - Jack McDevitt
• The Metatemporal Detective - Michael Moorcock
• Galactic North - Alastair Reynolds
• House of Suns - Alastair Reynolds
• Splinter - Adam Roberts
• The Ghost Brigades - John Scalzi
• The Modern World - Steph Swainson
• Blue War - Jeffrey Thomas
• The Diamond Warriors - David Zindell

v18(3) 2008.4.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner 2nd edition - Paul M. Sammon
• The Coming Convergence: The Ways Diverse Technologies Interact to Shape our World & Future

v18(3) 2008.4.15 -- Graphic Novel Reviews

• Batman: The Man Who Laughs - Ed Brubaker
• Batman: Rules of Engagement - Andy Diggle
• Hellblazer: Bloodlines - Garth Ennis et al
• Jeff Hawke: Overlord - Sydney Jordan and Willie Patterson
• Justice vol.3 - Jim Kruegeret al
• Star Wars: Dark Empire 2 - Tom Veitch et al
• Young Death: Boyhood of a Superfiend - John Wagner et al

v18(2) 2008.3.15 -- New story from the Nature Futures series

• Succussion by Steven Longworth
  Short Story (1 page PDF). Record-breaking global health has an unlikely cause and an equally odd solution.
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.

v18(1) 2008.1.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Spring 2008

• Newscast for the Spring 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. 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.
• Danish Science Fiction Between 2004 and 2007 - Janus Andersen
• The 2007 European SF Convention -- Denmark
• The 2007 Hispacon, Spain, reviewed
• Diary of Major SF Conventions & Forthcoming SF Films
• How the various Dan Dare reprints compare - Graphic novel review update/supplemental

v18(1) 2008.1.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Divergence - Tony Ballantyne
• Conqueror: Time's Tapestry Book Two - Stephen Baxter
• Navigator: Time's Tapestry Book Three - Stephen Baxter
• Blood Music - Greg Bear
• Helix - Eric Brown
• Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said - Philip K. Dick
• Fatal Revenant: The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant Book 2 - Stephen Donaldson
• Schild's Ladder - Greg Egan
• Shield of Thunder - David A. Gemmell
• Stealing Light - Gary Gibson
• Light - M. John Harrison
• Nova Swing - M. John Harrison
• The Secret of Crickley Hall - James Herbert
• The Mark of the Beast & Other Fantastical Tales - Rudyard Kipling
• Necroscope: The Touch - Brian Lumley
• Cowboy Angels - Paul McAuley
• Eternal Light - Paul McAuley
• Fairyland - Paul McAuley
• Brasyl - Ian McDonald
• Creatures of Glass and Light: New European Stories of the Fantastic - Klaus Æ. Mogensen (ed)
• Altered Carbon - Richard Morgan
• Black Powder War - Naomi Novik
• Throne of Jade - Naomi Novik
• The DA-DA DE-DA-DA Code - Robert Rankin
• Revelation Space - Alastair Reynolds
• Land of the Headless - Adam Roberts
• The Liberty Gun - Martin Sketchley
• Glasshouse - Charles Stross
• Mockingbird - Walter Tevis

v18(1) 2008.1.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• New Theories of Everything: The Quest for Ultimate Explanation - John Barrow
• Different Engines: How Science Drives Fiction and Fiction Drives Science - Brake & Hook
• Chambers Dictionary of the Unexplained: A Guide to the Mysterious, the Paranormal and the Supernatural
• Corrupted Science: Fraud, Ideology and Politics in Science - John Grant
• Dalek I Loved You - Nick Griffiths
• Beyond AI: Creating the Conscience of the Machine - J. Storrs Hall
• What's Science Ever Done For Us?: What The Simpsons Can Teach Us About Physics, Robots, Live and the Universe - Paul Halpern
• Supercontinent: Ten Billion Years in the Life of our Planet - Ted Nield

v18(1) 2008.1.15 -- Graphic Novel Reviews

• Scarlet Traces: A Murder-Mystery Sequel to H. G. Wells' The War of the Words - Ian Eddington & D'Israeli
• The Boys: The Name of the Game - Garth Ennis & Darick Robertson
• Judge Dredd: The Carlos Ezquerra Collection - Ezquerra et al
• Star Wars: Legacy - Jon Ostrander
• Judge Dredd: Origins - John Wagner et al

v17(6) 2007.11.15 -- New story from the Nature Futures series

• Homo Sapiens Declared Extinct by Bruce Sterling
  Short Story (1 page PDF). The last human on Earth dies and so it is time to pause for a moment of reflection.
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.

v17(5) 2007.9.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Autumn 2007

• Newscast for the Autumn 2007. 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.
• Boreal - France's non-French national convention reviewed
• Lucien - The First Arab SF mini-convention reviewed
• Sci-Fi London film fest reviewed

v17(5) 2007.9.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Fast Forward 1 - (ed) Lou Anders
• Emperor: Time's Tapestry Book One - Stephen Baxter
• Infinity Plus the Anthology - Keith Brooke and Nick Gevers (eds)
• Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
• Hunter's Moon - David Devereux
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
• Dr Bloodmoney - Philip K. Dick
• Human Is? A Philip K. Dick Reader - Philip K. Dick
• Battlestar Galactica: Cylon's Secret - Craig Shaw Gardner
• Stealing Light - Gary Gibson
• Dark Lord - Ed Greenwood
• Death's Head - David Gunn
• The Heart-Shaped Box - Joe Hill
• The Day Watch - Sergei Lukyanenko
• Red Seas Under Red Skies - Scott Lynch
• Acorna's Children: Second Wave - McCaffrey and Scarborough
• Making Money - Terry Pratchett
• Black Man - Richard Morgan
• The Prefect - Alastair Reynolds
• Dante's Girl - Natasha Rhodes
• Set the Seas on Fire - Chris Roberson
• Sixty Days and Counting - Kim Stanley Robinson
• Selling Out - Justina Robson
• Old Man's War - John Scalzi
• The Swarm - Frank Schatzing
• Life During Wartime - Lucius Shepard
• Deadstock - Jeffrey Thomas
• Rainbows End - Vernor Vinge

v17(5) 2007.9.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• The Prisoner Handbook - Steven Paul Davies
• Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of SF - Prucher
• Dawkins vs. Gould: Survival of the Fittest - Sterelny

v17(5) 2007.9.15 -- Graphic Novel Reviews

• Dan Dare: The Man from Nowhere - Frank Hampson
• Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic - Commencement - John Jackson Miller et al
• Albion - Alan Moore et al
• The Hills Have Eyes: The Beginning - Palmiotti et al
• Superman & Batman Vs. Aliens & Predator - Schultz & Olivetti
• Star Wars: Boba Fett - Man with a Mission - various
• Star Wars: Rebellion vol.1 - various

v17(4) 2007.8.10 -- New story from the Nature Futures series

• Reality Check by David Brin
  Short Story (1 page PDF). OK, so it is not a Matrix style reality, but even so sometimes don't you get the feeling everything's too bad to be true?
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.

v17(3) 2007.4.25 -- New Columns & Articles for the Summer 2007

• Newscast for the Summer 2007. 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 covers all the news sub-sections
• The Science in Science Fiction by Ian Hocking
• Redemption - UK convention reviewed
• 2006/7 (year to Easter) SF Film Top Ten Chart and Other Worthies (Archive annual film charts here)
• Gaia - Annual whimsical SF and/or science snippets and exotica

v17(3) 2007.4.25 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Before They Are Hanged - Joe Abercrombie
• The Somnambulist - Jonathan Barnes
• Resplendent: Destiny's Children Book Four - Stephen Baxter
• Battlestar Galactica - Jeffrey A. Carver
• Fat - Rob Grant
• Dead Witch Walking - Kim Harrison
• Every Which Way But Dead - Kim Harrison
• A Fistful of Charms - Kim Harrison
• The Good The Bad And The Undead - Kim Harrison
• The Summoner: Book One, Chronicles of the Necromancer - Gail Martin
• Sorcerer's Moon - Julian May
• Changelings: Book One of the Twins of Petaybee - Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Anne Scarborough
• Maelstrom: Book Two of the Twins of Petaybee - Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Anne Scarborough
• Galactic North - Alastair Reynolds
• Gradisil - Adam Roberts
• Keeping It Real - Justina Robson
• Roadside Picnic - Arkady & Boris Strugatsky

v17(3) 2007.4.25 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• What We Believe But Cannot Prove - John Brockman
• The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
• HP Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life - Michel Houellebecq
• American Science Fiction TV - Jan Johnson-Smith

v17(3) 2007.4.25 -- Graphic Novel Reviews

• Hellblazer: All His Engines - Mike Carey and Leonardo Manco
• Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere - Mike Carey and Glenn Fabry
• Albion - Leah Moore, John Reppion, Shane Oakley and George Freeman
• 28 Days Later: The Aftermath - Steven Niles et al
• Checkmate: A King's Game - Greg Rucka and Jesus Saiz
• Judge Dredd: The Hunting Party - John Wagner, Henry Flint et al

v17(2) 2007.2.27 -- New story from the Nature Futures series

• A Brief History of Death Switches by David Eagleman
  Short Story (1 page PDF). As the end of the World nears, and there are few humans left, will there be an afterlife? Sort of...
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature 'Futures' stories.

v17(1) 2007.1.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Spring 2007

• Newscast for the Spring 2007. 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 index that covers all the news sub-sections
• SF in Bulgaria -- A current profile
• The 2006 Hispacon, Spain, reviewed
• The 2006 Festival of Fantastic Films reviewed
• Diary of national and international conventions and film releases (The 2008 diary will be compiled mid-December 2007)

v17(1) 2007.1.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Capacity - Tony Ballantyne
• Genetopia - Keith Brooke
• The Sirens of Titan - Philip K. Dick
• The Zap Gun - Philip K. Dick
• Sagramanda - Alan Dean Foster
• Zootsuit Black - Jon George
• The Forever War - Joe Haldeman
• Old Twentieth - Joe Haldeman
• Peace and War - Joe Haldeman
• Lisey's Story - Stephen King
• The Night Watch - Sergei Lukyanenko
• Throne of Jade - Naomi Novic
• Paragaea - Chris Roberson
• Fifty Degrees Below - Kim Stanley Robinson
• Air - Geoff Ryman
• Macrolife - George Zebrowski

v17(1) 2007.1.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• Stargate SG1: The Ultimate Visual Guide - Kathleen Ritter
• Counterfeit Worlds: Philip K. Dick on Film - Brian J. Robb
• Roger Corman: Metaphysics on a Shoestring - Alain Silver and James Ursini

v17(1) 2007.1.15 -- Graphic Novel Reviews

• Hellblazer: Stations of the Cross - Mike Carey
• Lucifer: Morningstar - Mike Carey
• Lenore: Wedgies - Roman Dirge
• Desolation Jones: Made In England - Warren Ellis
• The Batman Chronicles vol.2 - Bill Finger and Bob Kane
• Infinite Crisis - Geoff Johns
• JSA: Mixed Signals - Geoff Johns
• Justice vol.1 - Jim Krueger
• Superman/Batman: Vengeance - Jeph Loeb
• The Ballad of Halo Jones - Alan Moore & Ian Gibson
• Batman: Gotham County Line - Steve Niles and Scott Hampton
• Tom Strong Book Six - Alan Moore
• The Exterminators: Bug Brothers - Simon Oliver and Tony Moore
• Jonah Hex: Face Full of Violence - Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray
• Batman: Face the Face - James Robinson
• Birds of Prey: The Battle Within - Gail Simone
• Buddha vol.1: Kapilavastu - Osamu Tezuka
• Star Wars Omnibus: X-Wing Rogue Squadron vol.1 - various
• Superman: Infinite Crisis - various
• Pride of Baghdad - Brian K Vaughan and Niko Henrichon
• Batman and the Monster Men - Matt Wagner
• The Complete P. J. Maybe - John Wagner et al
• Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall - Bill Willingham

v16(7) 2006.12.10 -- New story from the Nature Futures series

• Speak, geek by Eileen Gunn
  Short Story (1 page PDF). So a dog's a man's best friend, but there may be a flipside to species uplift...
• Christmas gift idea for yourself or a friend, and it will help support Concatenation too.
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature stories.

v16(6) 2006.10.8 -- New 'Special' Article for the Tripoli Six

• Libya's SF Scandal - A fiction out of science has been created to provide scapegoats for those really responsible for the infection of hundreds of Libyan children with HIV. Meanwhile foreign health workers (international HIV researchers consider innocent) have been imprisoned, tortured and sentenced to death. The politicians, concerned with their own agendas, have failed. There is a now call for bloggers to rally on the internet! Should scientists who enjoy 'real' science fiction add their weight?

v16(5) 2006.9.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Autumn 2006

• News for the Autumn 2006. Which includes: SF News, SF Book Trade News; Major SF Author and Artist News; Eurocon/Worldcon News; Fandom; and also Film, Graphic Novel & TV News, Net Watch, Forthcoming Summer Science Fiction Book Releases, Forthcoming Fantasy & Horror Books, Forthcoming Science Fact and Non-Fiction Books, Forthcoming TV & Film Tie-ins Books and Computer Games, and the Last Quarter's Science News Summary which contains subsections on: General Science; Astronomy and Space, the Natural Sciences, Science & Science Fiction.
• The 2006 European SF Convention -- Ukraine
• A Retrospective on the First (1972) European SF Convention -- Italy
• The 2005 Ibercon -- Spain

v16(5) 2006.9.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Genetopia - Keith Brooke
• Sunstorm - A Time Odyssey: Book 2 - A. C. Clarke & Stephen Baxter
• The Cosmic Puppets - Philip K. Dick
• A Maze of Death - Philip K. Dick
• Against Gravity - Gary Gibson
• End of the World Blues - Jon Courtenay Grimwood
• Cell - Stephen King
• Temeraire - Naomi Novik
• The Toyminator - Robert Rankin
• Pushing Ice - Alastair Reynolds
• Keeping It Real - Justina Robson
• How Noble in Reason - Alyn Rockwood
• Accelerando - Charles Stross

v16(5) 2006.9.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Fact Book Reviews

• The Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos - Eric Chaisson
• The Cult of Alien Gods: H. P. Lovecraft and Extraterrestrial Pop Culture - Jason Colavito
• Heroes & Monsters - Jess Nevins
• The Science of Dr Who - Paul Parsons

v16(5) 2006.9.15 -- Graphic Novel Reviews

• JLA Classified: New Maps of Hell - Warren Ellis and Jackson Guice
• The Authority: The Magnificent Kevin - Garth Ennis and Carlos Ezquerra
• Top 10: Beyond the Farthest Precinct - Paul Di Filippo and Jerry Ordway
• Power Girl - Paul Levitz and Geoff Johns
• Superman: The Greatest Stories Ever Told - various
• Judge Dredd: Brothers of the Blood - John Wagner et al
• Judge Dredd: The Art of Kenny Who? - John Wagner et al
• Fables: Arabian Nights (and Days) - Bill Willingham and Mark Buckingham

v16(4) 2006.8.10 -- New story from the Nature Futures series

• Ringing Up Baby by Ellen Klages
• New potential Futures authors guidelines for the Nature series

v16(3) 2006.5.10 -- New Columns & Articles for the Summer 2006

• News for the Summer 2006
• Where are the Robots? - Tony Chester
• The Hidden History of the Universe - by David Clements
• 2005/6 (year to Easter) SF Film Top Ten Chart and Other Worthies
• 2006 Major SF Convention and Forthcoming SF Film Diary
• Gaia - Annual Whimsical SF and/or Science Snippets and Exotica

v16(3) 2006.5.10 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• The Blade Itself - Joe Abercrombie
• The Crown Rose - Fiona Avery
• Quantico - Greg Bear
• Titan - Ben Bova
• Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury
• Rendezvous With Rama - Arthur C. Clarke
• Rama II - Arthur C. Clarke
• Galactic Pot-Healer - Philip K. Dick
• The Complete Chronicles of Conan - Robert E Howard
• The Lies of Locke Lamora - Scott Lynch
• Polaris - Jack McDevitt
• The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
• Starship: Mutiny - Mike Resnick
• Hyperion - Dan Simmons
• The Endymion Omnibus - Dan Simmons
• Out of the Darkness - Harry Turtledove
• Spin - Robert Charles Wilson
• Macrolife - George Zebrowski

v16(3) 2006.5.10 -- Graphic Novel Reviews

• Lex Luthor: Man of Steel - Brian Azzarello
• The Steel Claw: The Vanishing Man - Ken Bulmer & Jesus Blasco
• Hellblazer: Staring at the Wall - Mike Carey
• Road to Perdition 2 - On the Road - Max Allan Collins
• Batman/Ra's al Ghul - Devin Grayson
• DC Universe: The Stories of Alan Moore - Alan Moore
• The Complete D.R. & Quinch - Alan Moore et al
• Seven Soldiers of Victory vol.1 - Grant Morrison
• The (Spider:) King of Crooks - Jerry Siegel et al
• The Superman Chronicles - Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster
• Conan: Riders of the River-Dragons - Roy Thomas
• Swamp Thing: Spontaneous Generation - Rick Veitch
• Judge Dredd: The Chief Judge's Man - John Wagner et al
• Judge Dredd: Satan's Island - John Wagner et al
• Judge Dredd: Total War - John Wagner et al
• RoboHunter: Play it Again Sam - John Wagner et al
• Fables: Homelands - Bill Willingham
• Star Wars: Empire vol.4 - various

v16(3) 2006.5.10 -- Non-Fiction/Art Book Reviews

• The Art of Discworld - Terry Pratchett and Paul Kidby

v16(2) 2006.4.15 -- Introducing Nature SF Futures stories Easter 2006

• An introduction to the Concatenation's Nature SF Futures story selection.
• The index to all of the Concatenation selection of Nature stories.

v16(1) 2006.1.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Spring 2006

• News for the Spring 2006
• Major SF Convention and Forthcoming SF Film Diary

v16(1) 2006.1.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• The Crown Rose - Fiona Avery
• Transcendent - Stephen Baxter
• The Healer - Michael Blumlein
• Ghost From The Grand Banks - Arthur C. Clarke
• Mission of Gravity - Hal Clement
• 9 Tail Fox - Jon Courtenay Grimwood
• Camouflage - Joe Haldeman
• The Road to Dune - Frank Herbert, Brian Herbert, & Kevin J. Anderson's
• Dean Koontz's Frankenstein - Dean Koontz & Kevin J. Anderson
• Provender Gleed - James Lovegrove
• King Kong - Delos W. Lovelace
• Learning the World - Ken MacLeod
• Firethorn - Sarah Micklem
• Woken Furies - Richard Morgan
• The Anubis Gates - Tim Powers
• The Glamour - Christopher Priest
• Century Rain - Alastair Reynolds
• Pushing Ice - Alastair Reynolds
• The McAtrix Derided - Adam Roberts
• Star Warped - Adam Roberts
• Accelerando - Charles Stross
• Settling Accounts: Drive To The East - Harry Turtledove
• Haint - Joy Ward
• Spin - Robert Charles Wilson

v16(1) 2006.1.15 -- Science Fact & Non-fiction SF Book Reviews

• Eurekas and Euphorias - Walter Gratzer
• Catastrophes and Lesser Calamities: The Causes of Mass Extinctions - Tony Hallam
• The Labyrinth of Time: Introducing the Universe - Michael Lockwood
• Whose View of Life? - Embryos, cloning and stem cells - Jane Maienschein

v16(1) 2006.1.15 -- Non-Fiction/Art Book Reviews

• Mythology, the DC Comics Art of Alex Ross - Alex Ross

v16(1) 2006.1.15 -- Graphic Novel Reviews

• Star Trek - To Boldly Go - Mike W. Barr
• The Authority: Revolution Book One - Ed Brubaker
• Hellblazer: Black Flowers - Mike Carey
• Lucifer: The Wolf Beneath the Tree - Mike Carey
• King of Crooks - Ted Cowan
• Bloody Mary - Garth Ennis
• Dan Dare: Prisoners of Space - Frank Hampson
• Green Lantern: Rebirth - Geoff Johns
• Superman/Batman: Absolute Power - Jeph Loeb
• Identity Crisis - Brad Meltzer
• Promethea Book Five - Alan Moore
• Terra Obscura vol. 2 - Alan Moore & Peter Hogan
• The Omac Project - Greg Rucka
• Conan: Brothers of the Blade - Roy Thomas
• Ex Machina: Tag - Brian K Vaughan
• A History of Violence - John Wagner
• Trinity - Matt Wagner
• Thessaly: Witch for Hire - Bill Willingham

v15(3) 2005.9.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Autumn 2005

• News for the Autumn 2005
• HarperCollins' Voyager editor Jane Johnson interviewed
• The 2005 Eurocon and World SF Con (Glasgow) - Jonathan Cowie
• A Decade of Eurocons 1995 - 2005 - Jonathan Cowie
• Britain's 2005 Eastercon (Paragon 2) SF convention - Tony Chester
• Festival of Fantastic Film, Leicester - Tony Chester

v15(3) 2005.9.15 -- Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews

• Abarat II: Days of Magic, Nights of War - Clive Barker
• Time's Eye - Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter
• Under A Blood Red Sky - Richard Collins
• Mary and the Giant - Philip K Dick
• Galileo's Children - Gardner Dozois (ed)
• The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 17 - Gardner Dozois (ed)
• Pattern Recognition - William Gibson
• Replay - Ken Grimwood
• The Lonely Dead - Michael Marshall
• Mind's Eye - Paul McAuley
• Market Forces - Richard Morgan
• Ringworld - Larry Niven
• Batman Begins - Dennis O'Neil
• The Brightonomicon - Robert Rankin
• Here, There & Everywhere - Chris Roberson
• The Va Dinci Cod - Adam Roberts
• Dying Inside - Robert Silverberg
• Olympos - Dan Simmons
• In the Night Room - Peter Straub
• Double Vision - Tricia Sullivan
• The Risen Empire - Scott Westerfeld

v15(3) 2005.9.15 Science Fact & Non-fiction SF Book Reviews

• Fred Hoyle's Universe - Jane Gregory
• Backyard Ballistics: Build Potato Cannons, Paper Match Rockets, Cincinnati Fire Kites, Tennis Ball Mortars and more Dynamite Devices - William Gurnstelle
• The Science of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Michael Hanlon
• The Science of Discworld 3 - Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart & Jack Cohen
• Body Snatchers in the Desert - Nick Redfern

v15(3) 2005.9.15 -- Non-Fiction/Art

• Imago - Jim Burns
• Batman: Cover to Cover - DC Comics

v15(3) 2005.9.15 -- Graphic Novel Reviews

• The Dark Horse Book of the Dead - Scott Allie (Ed)
• Broken City - Brian Azzarello
• Hellblazer: Red Sepulchre - Mike Carey
• Lucifer: Exodus - Mike Carey
• Bite Club - Howard Chaykin
• DC: The New Frontier vol.2 - Darwyn Cooke
• Ministry of Space - Warren Ellis
• Planetary: Leaving the 20th Century - Warren Ellis
• The Authority: Kev - Garth Ennis
• Dan Dare: Operation Saturn - Frank Hampson
• The Batman Chronicles vol.1 - Bob Kane
• Superman: Infinite City - Mike Kennedy
• Superman/Batman: Supergirl - Jeph Loeb
• Battlestar Galactica - Saga of a Star World - Roger McKenzie
• Batman: Year One - Frank Miller
• Sin City - Frank Miller
• Promethea Book Four - Alan Moore
• Tom Strong Book Four - Alan Moore
• Skizz - Alan Moore & Jim Baikie
• WE3 - Grant Morrison
• Gotham Central: Half A Life - Greg Rucka
• The Chronicles of Conan: The Curse of the Golden Skull - Roy Thomas
• Star Wars: Visionaries - various artists
• Fables: The Mean Seasons - Bill Willingham

v15(2) 2005.4.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Summer 2005

• News for the Summer 2005
• Science Fiction in Film Serials - Adrian James
• Feed Me! Food, SF & Technology - Tony Chester
• Noreascon 4: 2004 World SF Convention report - Peter Tyers
• Glasgow for visiting SF folk and the 2005 Worldcon
• Redemption '05: Blake's 7 & Babylon V Convention report - Peter Tyers
• Dixseption, the 2005 British Filk SF Convention report - Peter Tyers
• 2005 SF film top ten chart and other worthies
• 2005 SF DVD/video top ten chart
• Major convention diary 2005/6 & Forthcoming SF films 2005
• Gaia - Annual whimsical snippets and exotica

v15(2) 2005.4.15 -- Science Fiction Book Reviews

• A Forest of Stars: The Saga of the Seven Suns II - Kevin J. Anderson
• Stories of Your Life and Others - Ted Chiang
• Code Noir - Marianne de Pierres
• Ice Tomb - Deborah Jackson
• The Dark Tower Vol.7 - Stephen King
• Omega - Jack McDevitt
• River of Gods (paperback) - Ian McDonald
• Here, There & Everywhere - Chris Roberson
• Forty Signs of Rain - Kim Stanley Robinson
• Idlewild - Nick Sagan
• Edenborn - Nick Sagan
• Heaven - Ian Stewart & Jack Cohen

v15(2) 2005.4.15 Science Fact & Non-fiction SF Book Reviews

• Alien Vs. Predator: The Creature Effects of A.D.I. - Alec Gillis & Tom Woodruff jnr
• Fabulous Science - John Waller

v15(2) 2005.4.15 -- Graphic Novel Reviews

• John Constantine, Hellblazer: All His Engines - Mike Carey and Leonardo Manco
• DC: The New Frontier vol.1 - Darwyn Cooke
• Justice League of America: Another Nail - Alan Davis and Mark Farmer
• John Constantine, Hellblazer: Rare Cuts - Jamie Delano and others
• Swamp Thing: Bad Seed - Andy Diggle and Enrique Breccia
• Global Frequency: Detonation Radio - Warren Ellis
• Judge Dredd: Judgement Day - Garth Ennis et al
• Dan Dare: Marooned on Mercury - Frank Hampson
• Ghost in the Shell 1&2 - Shirow Masamune
• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Vol. 2) - Moore and O'Neill
• Arkham Asylum 15th Anniversary edition - Grant Morrison and Dave McKean
• The Authority: Fractured Worlds - Robbie Morrison
• Constantine: The Hellblazer Collection - Steven T Seagle, Ron Randall and Jimmy Palmiotti
• Ex Machina - Brian Vaughan
• Swamp Thing: Regenesis - Rick Veitch and Alfredo Alcala
• The Matrix Comics vol.2 - Larry and Andy Wachowski
• Robo-hunter: Verdus - John Wagner & Ian Gibson
• Tales of the Vampires - Joss Whedon and others

v15(1) 2005.1.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Spring 2005

• News for the Spring 2005.
• Eurocon 2004 - Bulgaria
• Festival of Fantastic Films 2004

v15(1) 2005.1.15 -- Science Fiction & (some) Fantasy Book Reviews

• The Algebraist- Iain Banks
• Inside the Worlds of Star Wars Trilogy - Richard Chasemore and Hans Jenssen
• Robophobia - Richard Evans
• Stargate SG1 - The Essential Scripts - Sharon Gosling (Ed)
• The Blood Series - Tanya Huff
• Ringworld's Children - Larry Niven
• Singularity Sky - Charles Stross

v15(1) 2005.1.15 -- Graphic Novel Reviews

• Creatures of the Night - Neil Gaiman and Michael Zulli
• The Originals - Dave Gibbons
• Tom Strong's Terrific Tales book 1 - Alan Moore
• Superman: Birthright - Mark Waid, Leinil Francis Yu and Gerry Alanguilan

v15(1) 2005.1.15 Science Book Review

• James Hutton and the Discovery of the Earth's Antiquity - Jack Repcheck

v15(1) 2005.1.15 Non-Fiction (Art) Review

• Amazona - Chris Achilleos

v14(3) 2004.9.15 -- New Columns & Articles for the Autumn 2004

• News for the Autumn 2004
• Robert Sheckley -- Interview (next year's Eurocon/Worldcon non-European Guest of Honour)
• Conflux the 2004 Australian Natcon -- Review by Rose Mitchell et al
• 13th Festival of Fantastic Films 2003 -- Review by Darrell Buxton
• War! What is it good for? -- Article by Tony Chester
• Eastern European SF meets west: Report of the 2000 Science & SF cultural exchange -- A late elaboration of the Locus published report of the Eastern European, two-week visit to the UK & Eastercon, plus SF author welcomes
• Scientists' Public Understanding of Science -- Article by Ted Neild
• Koi Mil Gaya India's first SF film -- Article by 'Hari' Srinarahari

v14(3) 2004.9.15 -- Science Fiction & (some) Fantasy Book Reviews

• Cowl - Neal Asher
• Line of Polity - Neal Asher
• Karloff's Circus - Steve Aylett
• Coalescent - Stephen Baxter
• The Dalek Survival Guide - BBC
• Darwin's Children - Greg Bear
• Dead Lines - Greg Bear
• Beyond Infinity - Gregory Benford
• Time's Eye - Arthur C Clarke & Stephen Baxter
• The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 16 - Gardner Dozois (ed)
• Felaheen - Jon Courtenay Grimwood
• The Mammoth Book of 20th Century Science Fiction - David G. Hartwell (ed)
• Song of Susannah - Stephen King
• River of Gods - Ian McDonald
• The Well of Stars - Robert Reed
• Cavalcade - Alison Sinclair
• The Affinity Trap - Martin Sketchley
• The Day After Tomorrow - Whitley Streiber
• Maul - Tricia Sullivan
• The Year of Our War - Steph Swainston
• Jaws of Darkness - Harry Turtledove
• Five Great Novels - HG Wells

v14(3) 2004.9.15 -- Graphic Novel Reviews

• Gotham Central: In the line of duty - Ed Brubaker & Greg Rucka
• Global Frequency: Planet Ablaze - Warren Ellis
• Orbiter - Warren Ellis
• Planetary: Crossing Worlds - Warren Ellis
• On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Ian Fleming
• Dan Dare: Voyage to Venus pt.1 - Frank Hampson
• Teen Titans: A Kid's Game - Geoff Johns
• Superman/Batman: Public Enemies - Jeph Loeb
• Tomorrow Stories Book 2 - Alan Moore
• Tom Strong Book 3 - Alan Moore
• The Filth - Grant Morrison
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: A Stake to the Heart - Fabian Nicieza
• Smallville - Mark Verheiden
• The Matrix Comics - L & A Wachowski
• Dredd Vs Aliens - John Wagner et al
• Fables: Storybook Love - Bill Willingham

v14(3) 2004.9.15 -- Science Book Reviews

• Explanations: Styles of Explanation in Science - John Cornwell (ed)
• The Future is Wild - Dougal Dixon & John Adams
• Edward Teller: The Real Dr Strangelove - Peter Goodchild
• A Clone of Your Own: The Science and Ethics of Cloning - Arlene Klotzko

v14(3) 2004.9.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & F Art Book Reviews

• Raw Spirit - Iain Banks
• Trinity - Dorian Cleavenger
• DC Comics - Les Daniels
• Comics Creators on Spider-Man - Tom DeFalco
• Deadly Seductions - Jose del Nido
• Girl Crazy - Michal Dutkiewicz
• Digital Art of the 21st Century: Renderosity - John Grant & Audre Vsiniauskas
• Kingsgate - Keith Parkinson

v14(2) 2004.4.15 -- New Editorial & Articles for the Summer 2004

• Editorial 2004
• SF News, SF Fan News, and Forthcoming Fact & Fiction Books for the Summer 2004
• The Year's Top Ten SF Videos to Easter 2004
• Greg Bear interviewed
• SF, Globalization and China -- Lavie Tidhar
• Gaia 2004 -- Whimsy from 2003/4

v14(2) 2004.4.15 -- Fiction & Graphic Novels

• Vitals: Never Say Die - Greg Bear
• The Other Side of the Sky - Arthur C. Clarke
• The Wind From the Sun - Arthur C. Clarke
• Slide - Michael Day
• Nylon Angel - Marianne De Pierres
• Death Stalker Legacy - Simon Green
• The Mammoth Book of Future Cops - Maxim Jakubowski & M Christian (eds.)
• The Birthday of the World - Ursula K. LeGuin
• Context - John Meaney
• White Devils - Paul McAuley
• Tom Strong Book 1 - Alan Moore et al
• Stone - Adam Roberts
• Humans - Robert J. Sawyer
• American Empire: The Centre Cannot Hold - Harry Turtledove
• Judge Dredd: The Complete America - John Wagner et al
• Judge Dredd: Necropolis vols 1 & 2 - John Wagner et al

v14(2) 2004.4.15 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Book Reviews

• Futures - 50 Years in Space: The Challenge of the Stars - David Hardy and Patrick Moore
• Uncertain Science: Uncertain World - Henry Pollack

v14(1) 2004.1.2 -- New Science Fiction News for the Spring 2004

• SF News, SF Fan News, and Forthcoming Fact & Fiction Books for the Spring 2004

v14(1) 2004.1.2 -- New Diary of Principal SF Films & Happenings

• Principal International SF Convention & Film Release Listing

v14(1) 2004.1.2 -- Convention Review

• The French National Convention 2003 - Alain de Bussy

v14(1) 2004.1.2 -- Fiction and Graphic Novels

• Solar Lottery - Philip K Dick
• The Dark Tower, A Concordance vol.1 - Robin Furth
• Light Music - Kathleen Ann Goonan
• Misspent Youth - Peter F. Hamilton
• Nobody True - James Herbert
• Wolves of the Calla - Stephen King
• Dark Heavens - Roger Levy
• Bread, Butter and Paradoxine - Roberto Quaglia
• The Future War - S. M. Stirling
• Darker Than You Think - Jack Williamson

v14(1) 2004.1.2 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Book Reviews

• When Life Nearly Died - Michael J. Benton
• Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe - Simon Conway Morris
• Artcore #2 - Ralf Heinrich
• The Art of Jon Hul - Jon Hul
• The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction - Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn (eds)
• Mystica - The Art of Monte M Moore - Monte M Moore
• The New Discworld Companion - Terry Pratchett and Stephen Briggs
• Angel: Hollywood Vampire - Keith Topping
• Vital Signs: The Trends That Are Shaping Our Future 2003/4 - Worldwatch Institute

v13(2) 2003.11.30 -- New Science Fiction News for the Autumn 2003

• SF News, SF Fan News, and Forthcoming Fact & Fiction Books for the Autumn 2003

v13(2) 2003.11.30 -- New articles

• 2003 Worldcon Review
• 2003 Worldcon - A Personal Log
• Robert J. Sawyer interview

v13(2) 2003.11.30 -- Fiction and Graphic Novels

• Blind Lake - Robert Charles Wilson
• Hominids - Robert Sawyer
• Ilium - Dan Simmonds
• Roma Eterna - Robert Silverberg
• Tom Strong Book 1 - Alan Moore et al

v13(2) 2003.11.30 -- Non-Fiction SF and Science Book Reviews

• Sci Fi & Fantasy Collectibles - Phil Ellis

v13(1) 2003.6.30 -- New Science Fiction News for the Summer 2003

• SF News, SF Fan News, and Forthcoming Fact & Fiction Books for the Summer 2003

v13(1) 2003.6.30 -- New articles

• SARS Science Review 2003
• Reading SF Blind
• SF in Bulgaria
• 2002 Worldcon: A Russian in a Strange Land
• Toronto - for visiting SF folk
• Utopiales 2002 Reviewed
• 2nd International Week of SF (2003) Reviewed

v13(1) 2003.6.30 -- 2002 SF Video/DVD Top ten

• What were the Top ten SF Videos/DVDs of 2002?

v13(1) 2003.6.30 -- Fiction and Graphic Novels

• Dummyland - Steve Aylett
• Dead Air - Iain Banks
• Kil'n People - David Brin
• White Apples - Jonathan Carroll
• Cantata-140 - Philip K Dick
• The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - Philip K Dick
• Matrix Warrior - Jake Horsley
• The Mammoth Book of Future Cops - Maxim Jakubowski & M Christian (eds.)
• The Shrinking Man - Richard Matheson
• Broken Angels - Richard Morgan
• Falling Out of Cars - Jeff Noon
• Redemption Ark - Alastair Reynolds
• Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days - Alastair Reynolds
• The Chronoliths - Robert Charles Wilson
• Son of Man - Robert Silverberg
• Hellblazer: Hard Time - Brian Azzarello & Richard Corben
• A Dalliance with the Damned - Mike Carey
• Transmetropolitan: Spider's Thrash - Warren Ellis
• Skreemer - Peter Milligan
• Nemesis the Warlock: Death to All Aliens - Pat Mills & Kevin O'Neill
• The Absolute League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Alan Moore & Kevin O'Neill
• Promethea Book 2 - Alan Moore
• Tom Strong Book 1 - Alan Moore - awaiting file to upload

v13(1) 2003.6.30 -- Non-Fiction SF & Science Book Reviews

• The Art of John Bolton - John Bolton
• The Art of Clyde Caldwell - Clyde Caldwell
• The New Works and Visions of Dorian Cleavenger - Dorian Cleavenger
• A Full Colour Gallery - Steve Fastner & Rich Larson
• The Frank Collection vol.2 - Jane & Howard Frank
• The Art of Walter Girotto - Walter Girotto
• Skin Tight - The Art of Marcus Gray - Marcus Gray
• Metamorphosis - The Art of Matt Hughes - Matt Hughes
• Art Fantastix Select #3: Jennifer Janesko - Jennifer Janesko
• Sheer Desire - The Art of Michael Möbius - Michael Möbius
• Wicked Intentions - The Art of Dave Nestler - Dave Nestler
• Noda - Portraits of Pleasure - Shinichi Noda
• The Art of Drew Posada - Drew Posada
• The Art of Brian Rood - Brian Rood
• The Art of Lorenzo Sperlonga - Lorenzo Sperlonga

v12(7) 2002.12.22 -- New Science Fiction News for Spring 2003

• SF News, SF Fan News, and Forthcoming Fact & Fiction Books for the Spring 2003

v12(7) 2002.12.22 -- New Diary of Principal SF Happenings for 2003

• Principal International SF Convention & Film Release Listing

v12(7) 2002.12.22 -- New Science Fiction & Fantasy Reviews

• Hidden Empire: The Saga of the Seven Suns - Kevin J Anderson
• The Velocity Gospel - Steve Aylett
• Abarat - Clive Barker
• Coldheart Canyon - Clive Barker
• Origin - Stephen Baxter
• The Illustrated Man - Ray Bradbury
• New York Blues - Eric Brown
• New York Nights - Eric Brown
• Lucifer: Children and Monsters - Mike Carey
• The Ancient - Muriel Gray
• Pashazade - Jon Courtenay Grimwood
• Effendi - Jon Courtenay Grimwood
• The Coming - Joe Haldeman
• Once... - James Herbert
• The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer - Stephen King
• Everything's Eventual - Stephen King
• From a Buick 8 - Stephen King
• The Call of Cthulhu - HP Lovecraft
• Passage - Connie Willis

v12(7) 2002.12.22 -- New Non-Fiction Book Reviews

• Paper Tiger Fantasy Art Gallery - Paul Barnett (ed)
• Life on Other Worlds: The 20th Century Extraterrestrial Life Debate - Steven J. Dick
• What Just Happened - James Gleick
• Worlds Without End:The Historic Search for Extraterrestial Life - R. A. S. Hennessey
• Astrobiology: The quest for the conditions of life - Gerda Horneck & Christa Baumstark-Khan (eds)
• Perceptualistics - Jael
• Atom - Lawrence M Krauss
• Redesigning Humans: Choosing Our Children's Genes - Gregory Stock
• Vital Signs 2002-2003 - Worldwatch Institute

v12(6) 2002.10.20 -- New news

• November 2002 News
• Progress Report 2 for 2nd International Week of Science and Science Fiction.

v12(6) 2002.10.20 -- New Convention Reports

• Eurocon 2002 - Chotebor, Poland - Jim Walker
• The 13th Festival of Fantastic Films 2002 - Jonathan Cowie

v12(6) 2002.10.20 -- New SF Article

• Hatfield PSIFA and Warwick SF Re-union 2002 - Jonathan Cowie

v12(6) 2002.10.20 -- New Nonfiction Review

• Evolving the Alien - Jack Cohen & Ian Stewart

   

v12(5) 2002.8.10 -- New news

• Forthcoming Book News to December 2002

v12(5) 2002.8.10 -- New articles

• State of UK SF Publishing - Jonathan Cowie (2002)
• Is Biology a Science - Jack Cohen (2002)
• Are Scientists Expecting the Impossible - Ted Nield (2002)
• Should We Trust Scientists - Peter Cotgreave (2002)

v12(4) 2002.6.30 -- New news

• Progress Report 1 for 2nd International Week of Science and Science Fiction. Don't forget to also check out the Preliminary Announcement below if you have not already read it.
• New Expanded Links Page.

v12(3) 2002.4.10 -- New news

• Don't forget to check out the Preliminary Announcement for the 2nd International Week of Science and Science Fiction, May, 2003. A major new guest will be announced with Progress Report 1 in June/July (2002)

v12(3) 2002.4.10 -- New Non-Fiction review

• Deep Future - Stephen Baxter

v12(3) 2002.4.10 -- New Science Fiction book reviews

• Only an Alligator - Steve Aylett
• Redemolished - Alfred Bester
• Voice of Our Shadow - Jonathan Carroll
• A Fall of Moondust - Arthur C Clarke
• Schild's Ladder - Greg Egan
• I am Legend - Richard Matheson
• Ares Express - Ian McDonald
• Altered Carbon - Richard Morgan
• Calculating God - Robert J Sawyer
• Frameshift - Robert J Sawyer
• The Emperor of Dreams - Clark Ashton Smith
• Wheelers - Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen
• T2: Infiltrator - S.M.Stirling
• Bios - Robert Charles Wilson

v12(3) 2002.4.10 -- New Graphic Novels and SF Art Books

• Offerings - Brom
• Lucifer: Devil in the Gateway - Mike Carey, Scott Hampton, et al
• Transmetropolitan: Year of the Bastard - Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson, Rodney Ramos
• Stormwatch: Final Orbit - Warren Ellis et al
• Judge Dredd: Goodnight Kiss - Garth Ennis et al
• The Science Fiction Art of Vincent Di Fate - Vincent Di Fate
• Angel: Hunting Ground - Christopher Golden et al
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Food Chain - Christopher Golden et al
• Hardyware - David Hardy
• Promethea book 1 - Alan Moore, JH Williams III, Mick Gray
• Swamp Thing: A Murder of Crows - Alan Moore et al
• Top 10 book 1 - Alan Moore, Gene Ha, Zander Cannon
• Mirage - Boris Vallejo
• Sketchbook - Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell
• Dreams - Boris Vallejo
• Judge Dredd featuring Judge Death - John Wagner and Brian Bolland

v12(2) 2002.3.12 -- New news

• Preliminary Announcement for the 2nd International Week of Science and Science Fiction, May, 2003

v12(2) 2002.3.12 -- New SF convention reviews

• Eurocon 2001 - Capidava, Romania - Jonathan Cowie
• Utopiales 2001 - Nantes, France - Andy Sawyer
• 1st International Week of Science and Science Fiction, 99 - Roberto Quaglia

v12(1) 2002.1.21 -- New non-fiction review

• Writing Fantasy and SF - Lisa Tuttle

v12(1) 2002.1.21 -- New fiction reviews

• Artifact - Gregory Benford
• From the Dust Returned - Ray Bradbury
• Troublemakers - Harlan Ellison
• American Gods - Neil Gaiman
• Emergence - Ray Hammond
• Dark Light - Ken MacLeod
• The Secret of Life - Paul McAuley
• Black House - Stephen King
• The Complete Roderick - John Sladek
• Zeitgeist - Bruce Sterling
• Sensing Others - Frank Tallis

v11(3) 2001.12.15 -- New editorial for 2002

• Editorial 2002
• Diary of Principal SF Conventions
• The Year's Top Ten SF Videos to Easter 2001
• Climate and Human Change: Disaster Or Opportunity?
• Gaia 2002 - Science whimsy for 2000/1

v11(3)2001.12.15 -- New fiction reviews

• Toxicology - Steve Aylett
• Titan - Stephen Baxter
• Moonwar - Ben Bova
• Things Unborn - Eugene Byrne
• dervish is Digital - Pat Cadigan
• Impakto - Richard Calder
• Ender's Shadow - Orson Scott Card
• The Wooden Sea - Jonathan Carroll
• The Night of the Triffids - Simon Clark
• Something More - Paul Cornell
• Valis - Philip K Dick
• Stardust - Neil Gaiman
• Carter Beats the Devil - Glen David Gold
• Dark Terrors 4 -- Stephen Jones & David Sutton
• Dream Chaser - Stephen King
• Freezer Burn - Joe R Lansdale
• Four Ways to Forgiveness - Ursula K leGuin
• Cosmonaut Keep - Ken Macleod
• The Stone Canal - Ken Macleod
• The Collapsium - Wil McCarthy
• Deepsix - Jack McDevitt
• The Dreamthief's Daughter - Michael Moorcock
• Seven Stars - Kim Newman
• Chasm City - Alastair Reynolds
• Marrow -- Robert Reed
• Mappa Mundi - Justina Robson
• Oracle - Ian Watson

v11(3) 2001.12.15 -- new non-fiction reviews

• E=mc² - David Bodanis
• Paradigms Regained - John L Casti
• The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of - Thomas Disch
• Mendeleyev's Dream - Paul Strathern
• Universality - Mark Ward

v11(2) 2001.3.19 -- updated fiction reviews

• Kissing the Beehive - Jonathan Carroll
• The Marriage of Sticks - Jonathan Carroll

v11(2) 2001.3.19 -- new fiction reviews

• Non-Stop - Brian Aldiss
• Tau Zero - Poul Anderson
• Atom - Steve Aylett
• Look to Windward - Iain M. Banks
• Space - Stephen Baxter
• Eater - Gregory Benford
• The Machineries of Joy - Ray Bradbury
• The Light of Other Days - Arthur C Clarke & Stephen Baxter
• Killing Time - Caleb Carr
• Three Early Novels - Philip K Dick
• Beyond Lies the Wub - Philip K Dick
• Second Variety - Philip K Dick
• The Father-Thing - Philip K Dick
• Minority Report - Philip K Dick
• We can remember it for you wholesale - Philip K Dick
• Now wait for last year - Philip K Dick
• The Jesus Incident - Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom
• Others - James Herbert
• Kingdom Come - Carl Huberman
• Reckless Sleep - Roger Levy
• Mike and Gaby's Space Gospel - Ken Russell

v11(2) 2001.3.19 -- new non-fiction reviews

• Preacher: Dead or Alive - Glenn Fabry
• Journeyman - Chris Moore
• The Art of Rowena - Rowena Morrill

v11(1) 2001.01.14 -- Concat Core SF Collection Checklists

• Books
• Films

v10(3) 2000.11.16 -- new Convention reviews

• The 11th Festival of Fantastic Films, 2000 - Jonathan Cowie
• Eurocon 2000 - Gydinia, Poland - Jim Walker

v10(2) 2000.7.28 -- new non-fiction reviews

• The Sandman Companion - Hy Bender
• Profiles of the Future - Arthur C. Clarke
• Conspiracy Theories - David Southwell & Sean Twist

v10(2) 2000.7.28 -- new fiction reviews

• Bicentennial Man - Isaac Asimov
• The Twist - Richard Calder
• Foursight - Ed. Peter Crowther
• The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon - Stephen King
• Slow Lightning - Jack McDevitt
• Vast - Linda Nagata
• Needle in the Groove - Jeff Noon
• Revelation Space - Alastair Reynolds
• Mike and Gaby's Space Gospel - Ken Russell
• 999 - Ed. Al Sarrantonio
• What You Make It - Michael Marshall Smith
• Chasing Dogma - Kevin Smith and Duncan Fegredo

v10(2) 2000.7.28 -- new video reviews

• Video Index

v10(1) 2000.3.21 -- new fiction reviews

• Buy Jupiter - Isaac Asimov
• The Gods Themselves - Isaac Asimov
• The Business - Iain Banks
• Finity - John Barnes
• Time - Stephen Baxter
• Titan - Stephen Baxter
• Headcase - Jay R. Bonansinga
• Moonwar - Ben Bova
• Kissing the Beehive - Jonathan Carroll
• The Marriage of Sticks - Jonathan Carroll
• Point of Origin - Patricia Cornwell
• Time on my Hands - Peter Delacorte
• Ubik - Philip K. Dick
• Luminous - Greg Egan
• Teranesia - Greg Egan
• Midnight Days - Neil Gaiman and various artists
• Stardust - Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess
• Dark Terrors 4 - Jones & Sutton
• Four Ways to Forgiveness - Ursula LeGuin
• Moonfall - Jack McDevitt
• The Sky Road - Ken MacLeod
• The Kingdom - Mark Waid and various artists
• Oracle - Ian Watson

Prior to 1997 The Science Fact & Fiction Concatenation was an annual print magazine (nos 1 - 9) distributed to the UK national (Eastercon and the then Easter Elydore) as well as Eurocon SF conventions. Concat's first issue was in 1987 at BECCON (that year's Eastercon) for the 50th anniversary of the World's first SF convention.
(BECCON = BECCON'sEasterCon CONvention. Prior to 1987 it stood for the London region biennual convention the Basildon Essex Crest (formerly Centre) CONvention.)

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