The book titled "Linear Time Series With Matlab and Octave" written by Víctor Gómez is forthcoming in the Statistics and Computing Series of Springer Verlag. The motivation of this book is to provide time series students and researchers with a software package called SSMMATLAB, written in MATLAB, that will allow them to work with general state space models. Since many time series models used in practice can be put into state space form, special functions have been written for the most usual ones, such as multiplicative ARIMA and VARMA models, cointegrated VARMA models, VARMAX models in echelon form, transfer function models, univariate structural models, like those considered by Harvey (1993) or Kitagawa and Gersch (1996), and ARIMA model-based (AMB) unobserved components models (Gómez and Maravall 2001). However, if the user intends to work with more sophisticated state space models that are not available in standard commercial packages for time series analysis or econometrics, he can program his own model in SSMMATLAB and carry out model estimation, interpolation, forecasting and smoothing. All the programs contained in SSMMATLAB can also run in the free software OCTAVE platform. The series can be univariate or multivariate and the state space model can be very general. It may have time-varying system matrices, exogenous inputs, regression effects, incompletely specified initial conditions, such as those that arise with nonstationary VARMA models, and missing values. A brief description of SSMMATLAB appeared in Gómez (2015).