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BSFA Lecture at Eastercon
The 2012 BSFA Lecture at Eastercon will be given by Dr Marc Morris, and is entitled ‘Regime Change in England, 1066′. It draws on his recently-published book The Norman Conquest. The lecture will be given at 2.30 on Saturday April 7th, in the Commonwealth Hall of the Radisson Edwardian Hotel, Heathrow. The lecture is open to any members of Eastercon (if you’re not already a member, I’m afraid membership is now closed). Marc is a mediaeval historian and broadcaster. He presented the television series Castle in 2003,...
read moreMarch BSFA London Meeting: The BSFA Awards Discussion
With the BSFA Awards imminent (Olympus, Eastercon 2012, registration closes at 6 pm TODAY/Tuesday) we have arranged for a panel at the monthly London meeting to discuss this year’s nominations. This takes place on Wednesday 28th March 2012. Our esteemed panellists this year are Duncan Lawie (aka Hoopoes, reviewer for Strange Horizons and The Zone), and Dave Hutchinson, (aka Hutch, science fiction writer and editor, shortlisted for the 2009 BSFA Best Short Fiction Award for ‘The Push’) and Donna Scott – BSFA Award...
read moreBSFA Awards coming up – how to vote!
The British Science Fiction Association is delighted to announce the shortlists for the 2011 BSFA Awards. The 2011 awards will be held at Olympus 2012, The 2012 Eastercon, which takes place from 6th – 9th April 2012 at the Radisson Edwardian Hotel, Heathrow, London, and will be presented by acclaimed author, John Meaney. The winner in each of the categories will be presented with a specially commissioned artwork created by Northampton Skulls and Robots artists, Dan Brodie and Lauren Hubbard. Members of the BSFA and Eastercon will now have...
read more2012 Arthur C. Clarke Awards Announced
This year’s shortlist for the Arthur C. Clarke Awards has been announced today – with just ne title matched by the BSFA’s 2011 Awards shortlist, China Mieville’s Embassytown: The six shortlisted books are: Greg Bear, Hull Zero Three (Gollancz) Drew Magary, The End Specialist (Harper Voyager) China Miéville, Embassytown (Macmillan) Jane Rogers, The Testament of Jessie Lamb (Sandstone Press) Charles Stross, Rule 34 (Orbit) Sheri S.Tepper, The Waters Rising (Gollancz) The winner will be...
read moreVector 270, Focus 58 and BSFA Awards booklet 2011…oh my
It is official. The BSFA’s March mailing has hit the printers. The magazines will be dropping through letter boxes around the world very soon. Here is a quick insight into what you will find in our latest offering: Free to all members. Join now and don’t miss out. Option UK Resident £29.00 UK Resident Unwaged £20.00 Joint/Family £31.00 Non UK Resident £40.00 BSFA Patron £500.00 BSFA AWARDS BOOKLET 2011 Featuring all the shortlisted short stories… The Silver Wind by Nina Allan The Copenhagen...
read moreTWEETFICTION TWEETSTREAM #TBSFA
UPDATE: see the latest news on this competition. … Good SF and Fantasy written in less than 140 characters? Impossible! – Or is it? Take the challenge, take part in the @BSFA’s TWEETFICTION TWEETSTREAM DURING OLYMPUS – EASTERCON 2012 And get your tweet considered for reading out at the BSFA Awards and inclusion in future BSFA publications! Follow the FICTION search on #TBSFA during the Con! The Tweetstream is free to enter each author is allowed multiple entries is open to writers of any age and nationality,...
read moreClarke Awards – Guess the Shortlist Competition
At long last, the submissions list for the 2012 Arthur C Clarke Award is out! Torque Control and the BSFA are again delighted to be hosting a competition in conjunction with the release of the submissions list, to guess the short list. The winner will received copies of all the shortlisted books, due to be announced at the end of March. For full details – and to enter the contest – see the separate contest details post over on Torque Control. This year, the five members of the jury read 60 books from 25 imprints in order to narrow it down...
read moreScience Fiction Foundation SF Criticism Masterclass 2012
The application deadline is approaching for the 2012 Science Fiction Foundation SF Criticism Masterclass (28 February). I’ve been on three of the six Masterclasses, and found them extremely useful in learning about the craft of writing about sf, and in making new contacts in the sf community. This year has a particularly good set of class leaders. The Masterclass is good value, and I highly recommend it. Details: http://www.sf-foundation.org/masterclass/criticism2012 Science Fiction Foundation SF Criticism Masterclass 2012 Class...
read moreBSFA London Meeting – January 25th: LIZ WILLIAMS interviewed by Ian Whates
On Wednesday 22nd February 2012* from around 7pm: Liz Williams (author of The Ghost Sister, Empire of Bones, The Poison Master, Nine Layers of Sky, Banner of Souls, the Inspector Chen series (Snake Agent, The Demon and the City, Precious Dragon, The Shadow Pavilion, The Iron Khan, Morningstar), Darkland, Bloodmind, and Winterstrike, among others) http://mevennen.livejournal.com/ will be interviewed by Ian Whates (BSFA Chair) Location: Cellar Bar, The Melton Mowbray Public House 18 Holborn, London EC1N 2LE View Larger Map (Note that this is...
read moreJohn Christopher, 1922-2012
Sam Youd, better known to the science fiction community as John Christopher, died on 3 February, a couple of months short of his ninetieth birthday. He is best known for his classic post-war apocalyptic novel The Death of Grass (1956) and his children’s series The Tripods (original trilogy 1967-1968, with a prequel published in 1988). Paul Kincaid writes: The only time I ever actually met John Christopher was at an event in London a few years ago. I remember he looked old, though nowhere near as old as he actually must have been....
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