Science Fact & Science Fiction Concatenation

Including author, film, book, TV, awards science and science-SF interface news, this large news page is divided into specialist interest subsections to provide an easy reference overview of the i...

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Snippets that might mildly amuse or even raise a wry smile...

http://www.concatenation.org/science/gaia24.html

The full listing by date of posting of the site's contents including many SF & F fiction book reviews that are not included in this rss feed as well as non-fiction SF and popular science book rev...

http://www.concatenation.org/whatsnew.html

England and N. America are separated by a common language. Given the 2024 Worldcon is goming to Britain and that there will be a couple of thousand attending from N. America, this guide could be ...

http://www.concatenation.org/english-dictionary-for-visiting-americans.html

The 2024 Worldcon is being held in Glasgow, Great Britain. This is an introduction to the city for visiting SF folk.

http://www.concatenation.org/conrev/glasgow-2024.html

The 2023 Fantasycon is reviewed

http://www.concatenation.org/conrev/fantasycon-2023.html

There is a move by some convention organisers for the annual SF Worldcon to ditch paper publicatiosn altogether and go solely electronic. Yet paper can be more useful and not everyone has a smart...

http://www.concatenation.org/glasgow-2024-publications-policy.html

New Worlds was Britain's leading SF magazine from the late 1940's to 1980s when it morphed into a paperback anthology series.

http://www.concatenation.org/articles/new-worlds-magazine.html

Including author, film, book, TV, awards science and science-SF interface news, this large news page is divided into specialist interest subsections to provide an easy reference overview of the i...

http://www.concatenation.org/news/news4~24.html

The 33rd Festival is reviewed, but was Manchester's Pendulum Hotel management taking the Michael?.

http://www.concatenation.org/conrev/festival-fantastic-films-2023.html

The full listing by date of posting of the site's contents including many SF & F fiction book reviews that are not included in this rss feed as well as non-fiction SF and popular science book rev...

http://www.concatenation.org/whatsnew.html

It is the end of the world, there is not much left. Yet there is still money to be made...

http://www.concatenation.org/futures/tighe-change-your-view.pdf

A listing of the 2024 national level SF conventons and also a 2024 UK SF film releases for the year, together with trailers (if there is one at the time of posting)

http://www.concatenation.org/conls.html

The 2023 UK Science Fiction cinematic box office chart plus other SF releases with links to trailers.

http://www.concatenation.org/vidrev/film24.html

The 2022 Loscon - Los Angeles SF convention - is reviewed.

http://www.concatenation.org/conrev/loscon-48-2022.html

We were asked to trial a new Doctor Who guided walk/guided tour prior to it being rolled out.

http://www.concatenation.org/articles/doctor-who-waterloo-guided-walk.html

A preview of the new British Library Fantasy exhibition prior to its tour of the UK and USA in 2024 and 2025

http://www.concatenation.org/articles/fantasy-british-library-2023.html

Including author, film, book, TV, awards science and science-SF interface news, this large news page is divided into specialist interest subsections to provide an easy reference overview of the i...

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This year the SF Worldcon is held outside N. America. As is usual in such years, a NASFic is held. This is what happened.

http://www.concatenation.org/conrev/nasfic-2023.html

This year's annual London science fiction film festival is reviewed.

http://www.concatenation.org/conrev/sci-fi-london-2023.html

Including author, film, book, TV, awards science and science-SF interface news, this large news page is divided into specialist interest subsections to provide an easy reference overview of the i...

http://www.concatenation.org/news/news9~23.html

The 2023 British national SF convention is reviewed.

http://www.concatenation.org/conrev/conversation-2023-eastercon.html

Indiana Jones is a fun, adventure franchise. But does it make any sense? And Indie's supporting side-kick is decidely and uncharacteristically evi...

http://www.concatenation.org/indiana-jones-and-the-dial%20of-destiny.html

Those seraching for likely planets with intelligence seek out habitable planets. But you can employ a similar methor to seek out times and places where the environment was conducive to the emerge...

http://www.concatenation.org/science/cowie-first-human-evolution.html

Following the Event, the valley remained cut off from the rest of the world. But as the letter column in the local paper reveals, other things are happening...

http://www.concatenation.org/futures/jones-response-to-reader.pdf

Short science and whimsy news items from across the past 12 months.

http://www.concatenation.org/science/gaia23.html

A review of the 2022 Festival of Fantastic Films, Manchester.

http://www.concatenation.org/conrev/festival-fantastic-films-2022.html

An examination of the various rocket launchers currently employed and being tested.

http://www.concatenation.org/science/lunan-rocket-launch-costs.html

Best Science Fiction Novels Then (1987) and Now (2022) surveys compared.

http://www.concatenation.org/articles/best-sci-fi-books-then-now.html

With the boon of immortality, there came a problem. Population. Still, there's a way around that, isn't there...?

http://www.concatenation.org/futures/tessmer-resilience-humanity.pdf

What were the SF/F box office hits of 2022? SF2 Concatenation conducts its usual analysis of 52 weekly box office top tens for 2022 to devise an SF/F cinematic top ten for the year with links to ...

http://www.concatenation.org/vidrev/film23.html

The Sci-Fi London Film Fest is not like a residential convention, but you can approach it almost as if it is. Jonathan Cowie explains how in the context of the 2022 Sci-Fi London.

http://www.concatenation.org/conrev/sci-fi-london-2022.html

Ian Hunter reviews the 2022 British Fantasycon.

http://www.concatenation.org/conrev/fantasycon-2022.html

Worldcons rarely have a programme track devoted to SF in another language than English. Marcin “Alqua” Klak was asked to create a Polish track for the virtual (on-line) aspect to the 2022 SF ...

http://www.concatenation.org/conrev/worldcon-2022-polish.html

Author Sue Burke reports on the 2022 SF Worldcon.

http://www.concatenation.org/conrev/worldcon-2022.html

A new high-definition edition of _Star Trek: The Motion Picture_ has been released, and this particular edition is surprisingly good. Is it time to reappraise the film Mark Yon wonders?

http://www.concatenation.org/articles/re-appraise-star-trek-motion-picture.html

The Science Museum, London, has just opened an exhibition dedicated to science and science fiction.

http://www.concatenation.org/science/science-fiction-museum-exhibition-2022.html

A look back at some of the key moments in space exploration from 2022.

http://www.concatenation.org/science/space-exploration-2022.html

A tribute to the recently departed SF fan, convention runner, fanzine and semi-prozine fan editor as well as Knight of St. Fantony.

http://www.concatenation.org/articles/charles-partington.html

Christmas trees of the future may have more personality, and not just for Christmas...

http://www.concatenation.org/futures/lowd-christmas-tree-barn.pdf

Global warming has become critical and it is time to leave...!

http://www.concatenation.org/futures/tessmer-venetian-blinds.pdf

The 2022 British Eastercon 15th-18th April 2022, Radisson Conference Centre, Heathrow, London. Arthur Chappell reports.

http://www.concatenation.org/conrev/reclamation-2022-eastercon.html

Ian Hunter reports on the Chillercon UK Convention in Scarborough, Great Britain, 26th – 29th May 2022

http://www.concatenation.org/conrev/chillercon-2022.html

Despite increasingly technological success science may be undergoing a slow shooting of itself in the foot…

http://www.concatenation.org/science/science-destroying-itself.html

SF writer and physicist J. W. Armstrong cites the scientists and engineers born in the 20th Century who have influenced him.

http://www.concatenation.org/science/armstrong-scientist.html

There are ghosts in Asia too as Steven French finds out reviewing Flame Tree Press' latest genre anthology 'Asian Ghost Short Stories'

http://www.concatenation.org/articles/hui-asian-ghost-stories.html

With the latest film in the collection just been to the cinema (eventually!) and now available on DVD, Bluray and on the usual platforms as The Batman, Mark thought he would look at the rather lo...

http://www.concatenation.org/articles/batman-cinematic-portrayals.html

Including author, film, book, TV, awards science and science-SF interface news, this large news page is divided into specialist interest subsections to provide an easy reference overview of the i...

http://www.concatenation.org/news/news9~22.html

The 47th Chicago-region convention, Windycon is reviewed by Sue Burke

http://www.concatenation.org/conrev/windycon-2021.html

We in the west can feel powerless as to what to do about Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Yet there is something those of us with contacts in Russia can do. It is free and only takes 10 minutes.

http://www.concatenation.org/europe/ukraine-what-you-can-do.html

SF/F author and epigeneticist Ian Green reveals the scientists who isnspired him

http://www.concatenation.org/science/green-scientist.html

Boris Sydiuk together with some of Ukraine's leading SF professionals and academics makes an appeal to western SF professionals

http://www.concatenation.org/seurope/sidyuk-ukraine-artists.html

Russia's war against Ukraine did not happen overnight. The Russian state's rationale that the Ukraine is run by the far right and needs saving has been building for a few years. This building of ...

http://www.concatenation.org/europe/putin-using-sf-for-progaganda.html

Arthur Chappell reviews the 2021 Novacon which was the 50 iteration of that convention: Britain's second-longest running SF convention series

http://www.concatenation.org/conrev/novacon-2021.html

Sue Burke reviews what happened at the 2021 SF Worldcon, which almost never happened.

http://www.concatenation.org/conrev/worldcon-2021.html

Annual whimsical SF and/or science snippets and exotica.

http://www.concatenation.org/science/gaia22.html

Including author, film, book, TV, awards science and science-SF interface news, this large news page is divided into specialist interest subsections to provide an easy reference overview of the i...

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They detected an alien signal and so called Derek. First contact literally comes at a price...

http://www.concatenation.org/futures/evans-freemium.pdf

With quantum uncertainty affecting people, a potential victim and murderer vie for reality...

http://www.concatenation.org/futures/drang-wavefunction.pdf

Our annual national and international-level SF convention listing and also listing of forthcoming SF/F/H films.

http://www.concatenation.org/conls.html

Concatenation's annual calculation looking at the British Isles (and Malta), 52 weekly film (movie) box office charts across 2022 that accounts for only fantastic films (SF and fantasy).

http://www.concatenation.org/vidrev/film22.html

Ian Hunter reports on the 2021 British Fantasy Convention in Birmingham, Great Britain, 24th September – 26th September 2021.

http://www.concatenation.org/conrev/fantasycon-2021.html

Darrell Buxton reviews the event at the Pendulum Hotel, Manchester, 29th – 31st October 2021.

http://www.concatenation.org/conrev/festival-fantastic-films-2021.html

SF author and neuroscientist Timothy J. Gawne cites the scientists and engineers born in the 20th Century who have influenced him.

http://www.concatenation.org/science/gawne-scientist.html

Chronic overcrowding of 2010s European Worldcons, the 'need' for codes of conduct, petulant award short-listers and intolerant political correctness, where is it going?

http://www.concatenation.org/articles/tyers-whither-worldcons.html

After Dan Dare, The Trigan Empire is surely the most famous mid-20th century SF comic strip for those of a certain age (millennials). Alas, younger generations of SF aficionados risk missing out....

http://www.concatenation.org/articles/trigan-empire.html

Mark Yon compares the novel with both the films.

http://www.concatenation.org/articles/dune-novel-films-compared.html

SF author Sue Burke takes us step-by-step through the publication process for an SF novel.

http://www.concatenation.org/articles/burke-sue-getting-published.html

Including author, film, book, TV, awards science and science-SF interface news, this large news page is divided into specialist interest subsections to provide an easy reference overview of the i...

http://www.concatenation.org/news/news1~22.html

A long departed generation ship represents a commercial opportunity...

http://www.concatenation.org/futures/nikel-intersection.pdf

A best of 'Futures' short story from the science journal 'Nature' War was coming, but we could protect our children by putting them in stasis. But there is a cost...

http://www.concatenation.org/futures/lingen-press-play.pdf

A best of 'Futures' short story from the science journal 'Nature' The aliens are more advanced and occasionally like to give a helping hand with things like, say, understanding the nature of the ...

http://www.concatenation.org/futures/tighe-universes.pdf

2017 saw the Solar System's visitor from the interstellar beyond, an oddly-shaped object. Since then there have been a number of explanations as to what it might have been, including some that ar...

http://www.concatenation.org/science/lunan-oumuamua-visitor.html

A number of politicians have misrepresented and even plain lied regarding the SARS-CoV-2 CoVID-19 pandemic. Biologist Jonathan Cowie says they need to be held to account.

http://www.concatenation.org/science/politicians-covid-lies-criminal.html

The award-winning SF author and zoologistreveals the scientists that inspire him.

http://www.concatenation.org/science/macleod-scientist.html

Including author, film, book, TV, awards science and science-SF interface news, this large news page is divided into specialist interest subsections to provide an easy reference overview of the i...

http://www.concatenation.org/news/news9~21.html

A best of 'Futures' short story from the science journal 'Nature' Being chased by the robots is a bit of a pain considering they were not exactly rebelling...

http://www.concatenation.org/futures/robson-the-game.pdf

The SF author and astrophysicist reveals the scientists that inspire him.

http://www.concatenation.org/science/reynolds-scientist.html

Including author, film, book, TV, awards science and science-SF interface news, this large news page is divided into specialist interest subsections to provide an easy reference overview of the i...

http://www.concatenation.org/news/news4~21.html