Birmingham Science Fiction Group

Birmingham Science Fiction Group

Founded in 1971, meeting monthly and still going strong, the B.S.F.G. is a non-profit-making organisation that provides an informal atmosphere in which SF fans can meet one another and professionals in the field. You can find out more about us elsewhere on this website, meanwhile here are some details of our next two meetings.

Friday 8th June Graham Joyce Graham Joyce has long been a Brum Group favourite speaker and has appeared here more often than almost anyone else, Graham is the four times winner of the British Fantasy Award for his novels DARK SISTER (1993), REQUIEM (1996), THE TOOTH FAIRY (1997) and INDIGO (2000). His novel THE FACTS OF LIFE won the World Fantasy Award in 2003. He was recently appointed acting chairperson of the British Fantasy Society after the recent controversy over their annual awards and in 12 weeks the membership of the society increased by 30%.

PLACE: Briar Rose Hotel, Bennett's Hill

TIME: Doors open at 7.30 pm for an 8pm start.

Admission : £4 or £3 for members

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Next month 13th July 2012 Jo Fletcher Jo Fletcher is a writer, ghost-writer, poet, critic, journalist and publisher who recently launched her own imprint, Jo Fletcher Books, under the umbrella of Quercus Books, an independent publishing house. For sixteen years she ran Victor Gollancz, the award-winning fantasy and science fiction imprint of the Orion Publishing Group, where her authors included such giants of the field as Sir Terry Pratchett, the late Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Charlaine Harris, Stephen Donaldson, Robert Rankin and Ursula K. Le Guin. The new imprint will publish several new authors of the coming months including new fantasy series and an alternate history. The first novel, published in January, was described as "a cross between Rosemary’s Baby and Dennis Wheatley". More of these stories and more at this meeting.

PLACE: Briar Rose Hotel, Bennett's Hill

TIME: Doors open at 7.30 pm for an 8pm start.

Admission : £4 or £3 for members

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The Iain Banks Novacon special is available, please see the NOVACON page for more details

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