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December 2012

• 31st • SF film • Moon
• 30th • SF TV • Medium, season 7
• 29th • SF TV • Sanctuary, season 4
• 29th • SF • Tanya Huff • The Wild Ways
• 27th • SF film • How to Train Your Dragon
• 26th • SF film • Alice in Wonderland
• 26th • computers • Steven Levy • In the Plex
• 25th • SF film • Shrek Forever After
• 25th • SF • Steven Gould • 7th Sigma
• 21st • SF film • An Unexpected Journey
• 20th • SF • Lois McMaster Bujold • Captain Vorpatril's Alliance
• 17th • SF • Ryk E. Spoor • Digital Knight

November 2012

• 30th • NSC • "TRUCE: A Coordination Action for Unconventional Computation", full paper
• 22nd • SF • Jasper Fforde • The Woman Who Died a Lot
• 8th • SF • Ben Aaronovitch • Moon Over Soho

October 2012

• 28th • NSC • "Reflecting on Open-Ended Evolution", full paper
• 28th • NSC • "Embodied copying for richer evolution", full paper
• 28th • NSC • "Controlling legged robots with coupled Artificial Biochemical Networks", full paper
• 28th • NSC • "Energy as a driver of diversity in open-ended evolution", full paper
• 28th • NSC • "Embodied genomes and metaprogramming", full paper
• 28th • NSC • "Degeneracy enriches Artificial Chemistry binding systems", full paper
• 28th • SWE • "CoSMoS 2012 workshop", full proceedings
• 28th • SWE • "A Pattern Language for Scientific Simulations", full paper
• 28th • SWE • "Simulation as a Scientific Instrument", full paper
• 20th • SF film • Surrogates
• 20th • SF TV • Eureka, season 3
• 14th • SF • Madeleine E. Robins • The Sleeping Partner
• 13th • SWE • "Engineering simulations for cancer systems biology", abstract
• 13th • NSC • "Programming Unconventional Computers: dynamics, development, self-reference", abstract
• 13th • NSC • "Unconventional Computer Programming", full paper
• 13th • NSC • "TRUCE: A Coordination Action for Unconventional Computation", abstract
• 6th • SF TV • Warehouse 13 , season 2
• 3rd • SF • Matthew Woodring Stover • Heroes Die

September 2012

• 26th • SF film • Brave
• 20th • SF • Wil McCarthy • To Crush the Moon
• 9th • psychology • Meryl Runion • How to Use Power Phrases
• 3rd • SF • J. A. Pitts • Honeyed Words
• 1st • SF TV • Once Upon a Time, season 1

August 2012

• 28th • SF • Eric Flint, K. D. Wentworth • The Crucible of Empire
• 26th • SF • J.D. Robb • Celebrity in Death
• 25th • SF • J.D. Robb et al • The Unquiet
• 19th • SF • Sharon Lee, Steve Miller • Ghost Ship
• 18th • SF • Gail Carriger • Timeless
• 12th • psychology • William Poundstone • How Would You Move Mount Fuji?
• 12th • SWE • "Simulation validation: exploring the suitability of a simulation of cell division and differentiation in the prostate", full paper
• 12th • SWE • "Multiple model simulation: modelling cell division and differentiation in the prostate", full paper
• 12th • SWE • "CoSMoS process, models, and metamodels", full paper
• 11th • crime • Josh Bazell • Beat the Reaper
• 6th • NSC • "Heterotic Computing", full paper
• 4th • design • Donald Norman • The Design of Future Things

July 2012

• 29th • SF • Charles Stross • The Apocalypse Codex
• 23rd • SF • Eric Flint, K. D. Wentworth • The Course of Empire
• 21st • psychology • Gavin de Becker • The Gift of Fear
• 16th • SWE • "A Pattern Language for Scientific Simulations", abstract
• 16th • SWE • "Simulation as a Scientific Instrument", abstract
• 14th • SF film • John Carter
• 12th • SF • Diana Pharaoh Francis • Shadow City
• 6th • SF • John Scalzi • Fuzzy Nation
• 3nd • SF TV • Andromeda, season 4

June 2012

• 28th • SF • Diana Rowland • Mark of the Demon
• 24th • SF • Karl Schroeder • Ventus
• 23rd • NSC • "Unconventional Computer Programming", abstract
• 23rd • NSC • "Gardening Cyber-Physical Systems", abstract
• 23rd • NSC • "Heterotic computing examples with optics, bacteria, and chemicals", abstract
• 13th • education • John Barell • Developing More Curious Minds
• 9th • fonts • Simon Garfield • Just My Type
• 4th • SF film • District 9
• 4th • computing • Eric Evans • Domain-Driven Design
• 3rd • SF • Nathan Long • Jane Carver of Waar

May 2012

• 12th • psychology • Amanda Ripley • The Unthinkable
• 12th • SF film • Primer
• 6th • SF film • Tintin
• 4th • philosophy/physics • David Deutsch • The Beginning of Infinity

April 2012

• 29th • SF film • Coraline
• 28th • NSC • Specification of the stringmol chemical programming language version 0.2, full report
• 8th • SF • Kage Baker • The Children of the Company
• 2nd • SF TV • Eureka, season 2

March 2012

• 31st • SF TV • Sanctuary, season 3
• 22nd • SF • Diana Pharaoh Francis • Crimson Wind
• 19th • SF • J. D. Robb • New York to Dallas
• 18th • SF • David Weber • A Rising Thunder
• 11th • SF • Diana Pharaoh Francis • Bitter Night
• 7th • SF • Sharon Lee • Carousel Tides
• 4th • cartoons • Zach Weiner • The Most Dangerous Game
• 3rd • SF • Seanan McGuire • One Salt Sea

February 2012

• 19th • SF • Jon Courtenay Grimwood • neoAddix
• 15th • language • Guy Deutscher • Through the Language Glass
• 13th • SF • Sharon Lee, Steve Miller • Mouse and Dragon
• 11th • SF TV • Eureka, season 1
• 5th • SF • Jack Campbell • Stark's Crusade
• 1st • NSC • "Evolved Artificial Signalling Networks for the Control of a Conservative Complex Dynamical System", abstract
• 1st • NSC • "Using Artificial Epigenetic Regulatory Networks To Control Complex Tasks Within Chaotic Systems", abstract

January 2012

• 30th • SF • Jack Campbell • Stark's Command
• 21st • SF TV • Stargate Universe, season 2
• 19th • SF • Lilith Saintcrow • Reckoning
• 6th • SF film • The Golden Compass
• 2nd • SF • Mike Shepherd • Daring
• 1st •  English • original version of The Chaos

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