Science Fiction News

This is the master index to Concatenation's SF & science seasonal newscast.
Compared to other SF & science on-line news sources Concatenation provides a Euro-centric perspective
across the genre and science with some key coverage of developments in other continents.

This page provides a detailed index to Concatenation's current season's newscast (enabling you to jump straight to specialist sections within the large page). Lower down this page there are single links to previous editions' news pages.   Once you are in a seasonal edition's news page you will find, between sections, mini-indexes to the other sections within that edition. This saves you having to continually navigate back to this master index page.

The current issue of the SF & science newscast (for the Summer of 2009) contains:-

• Editorial Matters -- Routine in-house stuff (skip this unless interested)
• Headlines -- Major headline links to just some of the key news items across all sections below (so saves you time if rushed and wanting just key news)
• News -- Which contains specialist subsections:-
• Science Fiction and Science Major News -- Includes major awards
• People: Major SF Author, Scientist, Science Writer and Artist News
• Film News -- includes what is being developed and one or two links to films and trailers you can view for free
• SF Book Trade News -- publisher and author related matters
• Television News -- includes what is being developed, renewed and cancelled
• Eurocon/Worldcon News -- international Science Fiction and fantasy convention news
• Fandom and Other News -- news of other events and conventions for fans
• Netwatch -- some of what else has recently been posted on the net of SF or science interest
• Last Season's Science News Summary -- news, discoveries and developments in...
• General Science
• Astronomy and Space
• the Natural Sciences
• Forthcoming Books -- Books due out this season from major UK publishers and some other titles in English available in Western European specialist shops and on-line distributors:-
• Forthcoming Science Fiction Book Releases
• Forthcoming Fantasy & Horror Books
• Forthcoming Science Fact and Non-Fiction Books
• Forthcoming TV & Film Tie-ins Books
• DVDs - Selected releases -- Some recent DVD releases of likely interest
• R.I.P. -- People (SF personalities and scientists) sadly lost to us last season
• Interface: Science & Science Fiction -- Science in fiction, fiction in science and SF becoming science fact
• End Bits -- When the next issue will be out and other odds and ends

In addition to the above newscast, other material is also uploaded this season including articles and reviews. Check out the What's New page.

If you wish to get information onto this site, have a link exchange or contribute an article then click here for guidelines and here to find how to contact us.

The next season's newscast will be compiled in late August 2009 for September 2009 posting. Before then (around July) there will be another one-page SF short story selected from the Nature series.

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Concatenation's previous seasonal newscasts are link-listed below:-

• Spring   2009
• Autumn 2008
• Summer 2008
• Spring   2008
• Autumn 2007
• Summer 2007
• Spring   2007
• Autumn 2006
• Summer 2006
• Spring   2006
• Autumn 2005
• Summer 2005
• Spring   2005
• Autumn 2004
• Summer 2004
• Spring   2004
• Autumn 2003
• Summer 2003
• Spring   2003
• Christmas 2002
• Autumn 2002

Earlier stuff: Concatenation's past annual print editions contain science and SF news, articles and reviews between 1987 and 1997 but we regret that our supply has run out.   Copies do occasionally surface in the dealers room at the UK Eastercon SF convention among other cons.

Other SF news sources: Our news is a seasonal review that covers SF books, film, TV and the SF community as well as has a UK forthcoming books listing.   Though international it has a view of the World from a somewhat European perspective. Other websites featuring SF news have their own focus and include...