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 future meetings.
Future Meeting
12th
August 2022
Ian R MacLeod
We welcome back multi-award winning SFF
author, Ian R MacLeod. Born in Solihull, he studied law and worked as a
civil servant before going freelance in the early 1990s. His first
publication was his short story, "Through" in Interzone magazine in
August 1989. His subsequent works such as THE GREAT WHEEL, BREATHMOSS,
THE SONG OF TIME, "The Summer Isles" , "The Chop Girl" have won many
prestigious awards such as Locus, Sidewise for Alternative History,
World Fantasy and the Clarke Award. He will be talking to us about "The
Future is Past It" about the difficulties of writing Near Future
Fiction.
Meeting 12th August Doors Open 7.30 pm for 8pm meeting commencement at Gunmakers Arms, Bath Street, Birmingham, B4 6HG (in the Brewery room)
Members £3 entry Non-Members £6 on the door
For BSFG Members a Zoom link will be emailed to you
Non-Members via Zoom book tickets (£3.02) via eventbrite website here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/394090714937
TBA
Meeting News and Book Chat
There will be a Book Chat Zoom on 26th August starting at 7:45pm
Topic: BSFG August Book
Chat 26th August 2022 19:45
Time: Aug 26, 2022 07:00 PM London
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88980949532?pwd=cTRyTE9aWGJJT0NYdEJoUnhyOFhIQT09
Meeting ID: 889 8094 9532
Passcode: 119928
Our Book Chats are informal discussions about the books or films we have enjoyed over the past few weeks, it is interesting to hear what people are reading and what they recommend. These chats are free and open to everyone so you can join in using the above link.
COVID-19 Coronavirus
Reintroduction of In Person Meetings
In April 2022 The Brum Group was very pleased to hold it's first in person meeting for over two years
One of the benefits, perhaps the only benefit, of the Covid pandemic was the use of Zoom to hold our monthly meetings. It allowed us to have authors from other countries, or those for whom travel is difficult. It also allows those members who have limited mobility to participate equally in the group's events. It is for these reasons that we have now started to Zoom broadcast in person meetings. Going forward we will have Zoom only meetings as well as in person meetings. This will allow us to have a more varied program of speakers for our members.
Our previous regular venue has not been able to offer it's meeting rooms since reopening. We are therefore likely to have meetings at different venues over the next few months until we find a venue that is the right fit for the group.
You can follow our twitter or our new instagram feed, where we post updates and items of interest such as new book releases and SF news take a look here @BirminghamSF
