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December 2019

• 29th • SF film • Guardians of the Galaxy 2
• 27th • SF • Mike Shepherd • Indomitable
• 19th • complex systems • John Holland • Complexity: a very short introduction
• 18th • SF • Charles Stross • The Delirium Brief

November 2019

• 26th • SF • Jo Walton • Starlings
• 21st • SF • Ben Aaronovitch • Lies Sleeping
• 14th • SF TV • Astonishing X-Men
• 10th • SF • Diana Rowland • White Trash Zombie Gone Wild
• 2nd • NSC • "Evolving graphs with semantic neutral drift", full paper

October 2019

• 29th • SF • Vivian Shaw • Grave Importance
• 21st • SF • Phillipa Bornikova • This Case is Gonna Kill Me
• 19th • programming • Bruce Tate • Seven Languages in Seven Weeks
• 17th • technology • Bernard Carlson • Understanding the Inventions that Changed the World
• 13th • SF • Sharon Lee, Steve Miller • A Liaden Universe Constellation vol 4
• 13th • SF • Sharon Lee, Steve Miller • Shout of Honor
• 6th • SF • Sharon Lee, Steve Miller • Degrees of Separation
• 5th • SF • Sharon Lee, Steve Miller • Due Diligence
• 4th • SF • Sharon Lee, Steve Miller • Change Management
• 3rd • SF • Jennifer Estep • Protect the Prince

September 2019

• 30th • SF • Katy B. Wagers • There Before the Chaos
• 29th • SF film • The Man from Earth
• 21st • SF film • Predestination
• 21st • SF • Ben Aaronovitch • The Furthest Station
• 20th • SF • Jacqueline Carey • Poison Fruit
• 9th • SF • Adrian Tchaikovsky • Children of Time

August 2019

• 24th • SF film • Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
• 20th • statistics • Gerd Gigerenzer • Risk Savvy
• 13th • SF TV • The One Game
• 12th • SF • Sharon Lee, Steve Miller • Sleeping with the Enemy
• 11th • SF • Seanan McGuire • Once Broken Faith
• 9th • history of technology • James Burke • Connections
• 8th • Latin • Harry Mount • Amo, Amas, Amat … And All That
• 6th • SF TV • Once Upon a Time, season 4
• 6th • physics • Carlo Rovelli • Reality Is Not What It Seems
• 5th • SF • Jennifer Estep • Kill the Queen

July 2019

• 31st • NSC • "A Meta-Atom Based Sub-Symbolic Artificial Chemistry", full paper
• 31st • NSC • "An Object Oriented Implementation of the MetaChem framework", full paper
• 28th • statistics and causality • Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie • The Book of Why
• 25th • NSC • "Evolving, Growing, and Gardening Cyber-Physical Systems", full chapter
• 23rd • literature • Tom Shippey • Heroes and Legends
• 21st • SF • Seanan McGuire • In an Absent Dream
• 15th • NSC • "Evolving Graphs with Horizontal Gene Transfer", full paper
• 13th • SF • William Alexander • Ambassador
• 10th • SF • Sharon Lee, Steve Miller • Neogenesis

June 2019

• 30th • NSC • "UCNC 2018 special issue editorial", full paper
• 29th • management • Christopher Witt • Real Leaders Don't Do Powerpoint
• 27th • programming • Luciano Ramalho • Fluent Python
• 26th • NSC • "A Substrate-Independent Framework to Characterise Reservoir Computers", full paper
• 24th • SF • Jo Walton • Necessity
• 14th • SF • Laura Anne Gilman • Silver on the Road
• 13th • language • John McWhorter • Language Families of the World
• 9th • SF film • Zootopia
• 9th • SF film • Captain Marvel
• 9th • language • David Crystal • Spell It Out
• 6th • NSC • "The role of structure and complexity on Reservoir Computing quality", full paper
• 6th • NSC • "The role of the representational entity in physical computing", full paper
• 4th • NSC • "Co-Designing the Computational Model and the Computing Substrate", full paper
• 2nd • SF film • Wonder Woman
• 1st • SF • Genevieve Cogman • The Burning Page

May 2019

• 31st • NSC • "Probabilistic Graph Programs for Randomised and Evolutionary Algorithms", full paper
• 28th • philosophy • Daniel Dennett • Intuition Pumps
• 26th • SF • Jo Walton • The Philosopher Kings
• 23rd • NSC • "Visualising high-dimensional state spaces with “tuple plots”", full paper
• 17th • survival • Joshua Piven, David Borgenicht • The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook
• 14th • SF TV • Orphan Black, season 5

April 2019

• 30th • SF • J. D. Robb • Dark in Death
• 29th • SF TV • The Good Place, season 2
• 28th • computing • Carlos Bueno • Lauren Ipsum
• 26th • computing/psychology • Sherry Turkle • Alone Together
• 23th • SF • Becky Chambers • Record of a Spaceborn Few
• 14th • NSC • "Dynamical Music with Musical Boolean Networks", full paper
• 14th • NSC • "Evolving Graphs by Graph Programming", full paper
• 11th • philosophy • David Kyle Johnson • Sci-Phi: science fiction as philosophy
• 5th • SF • Seanan McGuire • Beneath the Sugar Sky
• 4th • SF TV • Orphan Black, season 4

March 2019

• 31st • fiction • Donna Andrews • We'll Always Have Parrots
• 31st • music • Leonard Bernstein • The Unanswered Question
• 10th • SF • Jack Campbell • The Sister Paradox
• 3rd • SF • Alastair Reynolds • Slow Bullets

February 2019

• 24th • philosophy • Rebecca Solnit • A Field Guide to Getting Lost
• 18th • biology • Sean B. Carroll • The Serengeti Rules
• 16th • SF TV • Arrow, season 5
• 9th • systems • Russell Ackoff, Herbert Addison, Andrew Carey • Systems Thinking for Curious Managers
• 3rd • SF TV • The Good Place, season 1

January 2019

• 22nd • SF • Seanan McGuire • Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day
• 12th • SF film • Passengers
• 12th • SF • Vivian Shaw • Dreadful Company
• 5th • SF film • A Wrinkle in Time
• 5th • humour • Lynne Truss • Talk to the Hand
• 1st • SF TV • Doctor Who, new season 11

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