Short notice, for which my apologies: it’s fifty years since John Wyndham died, and David Ketterer and Ken Smith are leading a commemoration of his life at the Penn Club, 21-23 Bedford Place, London WC1 (near the British Museum) at 6.00 pm on Monday, 11 March.
Please note that the March 2019 London meeting will be on Wednesday the 20th, not the 27th.
We will be discussing the forthcoming BSFA Awards. Participants are invited. Please get in touch if you would like to take part.
The BSFA’s Monthly London Meetings are FREE!
For November’s meeting, on Wednesday the 28th, bestselling fantasy author F. D. Lee will be interviewed by Andrew Wallace.
When:
Usually the 4th Wed of each month (excl Dec). Fans meet from 18:00 in the main downstairs bar upstairs start at 19:00 -though some regulars go upstairs earlier. Interview starts ~19:15.
Where:
You can find us upstairs at:
The Artillery Arms, 102 Bunhill Row, London, EC1Y 8ND
Nearest Tube/NatRail: Old St-exit 3 (->Barbican). Brewery: Fullers. Hot food available. SF Book raffle* (tickets 5 for £1)
_Some attendees join the Speaker/Meeting Organisers later for an informal (usually Thai) meal.
If you can’t make it along, remember that Chad Dixon livestreams the meetings, and he makes the audio and video files available to view afterwards as well. Find Chad on Twitter at @lapswood8.
The estimable Chad Dixon once again provides audio and video recording’s of last month’s London event.
The BSFA’s Monthly London Meetings are FREE!
This meeting is the reverse of the June meeting where Naomi was interviewed by Dan!
Dan Jones is signed with Snowbooks and his debut novel, Man O’War, is out now!
By day, Dan Jones works for the UK Space Agency to deliver strategic technology roadmaps for the aerospace, space robotics and cyber security sector. Find out more about Dan and his writing here.
Naomi Foyle is the author of cyberchiller Seoul Survivors (2013), named by the Guardian as ‘among the best of recent SF’, and The Gaia Chronicles, an eco-science fantasy quartet set in a post-fossil fuel Mesopotamia. Astra, Rook Song and The Blood of the Hoopoe are currently available from Jo Fletcher Books, with Stained Light due in Sept 2018.
Born in London UK, raised in Hong Kong, Liverpool and Saskatchewan, Naomi currently lives in Brighton and works as a Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at the University of Chichester. Also an award-winning poet, editor and human rights activist, she has travelled widely in the Middle East, Americas, Europe and Asia and is a non-Muslim Fellow of the Muslim Institute. For her essays and poetry about Ukraine she was awarded the 2014 Hryhorii Skovoroda prize.
When:
Usually the 4th Wed of each month (excl Dec). Fans meet from 18:00 in the main downstairs bar upstairs start at 19:00 -though some regulars go upstairs earlier. Interview starts ~19:15.
Where:
You can find us upstairs at:
The Artillery Arms, 102 Bunhill Row, London, EC1Y 8ND
Nearest Tube/NatRail: Old St-exit 3 (->Barbican). Brewery: Fullers. Hot food available. SF Book raffle* (tickets 5 for £1)
Some attendees join the Speaker/Meeting Organisers later for an informal (usually Thai) meal.
If you joined the BSFA around Easter 2018 (including rejoining or renewing your membership), you might have subsequently tried to make changes using the website. You’ll have found that you were unable to. Most likely, you will not have been able to log on.
During that period (approximately 28th March to 12th April) we launched a new version of the website with features allowing members to maintain their own details such as their address. Subsequent problems meant that we had to switch back to an older version of the site, without those features.
The key difference is that your membership is no longer directly linked to an account on the website. This is back to the way it has been for as long as we have had a website, where a user account on the site is completely independent of membership. That’s not ideal, and not the way we want it to be, but is the reality for now.
At some point we want to reintroduce the new capabilities, but for now, please continue to use the following ways to get in touch with the committee.:
Change of address: use the “Change your address” form. Please include your membership number if you know it, and if not, then your name and post code.
Membership payments, including renewals: use the “Join the BSFA” form
Other membership queries: email membership@bsfa.co.uk
Enquiries about Vector magazine: email vector.editors@gmail.com
General enquiries: use the general “Contact Us” form
Creating a user on the website: this lets you comment on posts or use the (largely moribund) forums. We had to disable the ability to do this yourself because of spam. Please use the contact form, as above, and I’ll set up an account for you.
You can also contact us via Twitter or our Facebook group
That there is Vic James and Lucy Hounsom at July’s London BSFA meeting, wherein they interviewed each other in a “Twenty Questions” style (but luckily they weren’t restricted to yes/no answers).
As ever Chad Dixon was recording, both audio and video. Hit the links for your preferred format.