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Fan-artist Alan Hunter, illustrator on several BFS publications, has died
Andrew Porter reports that British fan-artist Alan Hunter died on 1 August 2012 after a long illness. Porter published many pieces of Hunter’s artwork in Algol/Starship [...]
Online voting is open for 2012 Nova Awards
Voting is open in the 2012 Nova Awards, which celebrate achievement in British and Irish science fiction fanzines. Voting is open to all members of Novacon 42, and to any [...]
Ghosts and Other Worlds: A short course in writing horror and SF tutored by Simon Kurt Unsworth
World Fantasy Award-nominated author Simon Kurt Unsworth will be running a short course in writing horror and SF entitled “Ghosts and other Worlds”. It will run [...]
2011 Nebula Award winner Ken Liu in the next issue of Interzone
These are exciting times for author Ken Liu. First, a new baby. His wife gave birth to their second child a few days before his short story, The Paper Menagerie, won the 2011 [...]
Latest StarShipSofa and Tales To Terrify podcasts available
StarShipSofa‘s latest podcast (#252) is available now with fiction from Adam Roberts along with a look at the anthology Solaris Rising: The New Solaris Book of Science [...]
Birmingham Science Fiction Group welcome Simon R. Green to their September meeting
The Birmingham Science Fiction Group was founded in 1971 to enable fans to get together to discuss science fiction and related topics. The prolific fantasy and SF author, [...]
Ken MacLeod appointed Writer in Residence at Edinburgh Napier University
Award-winning SF author Ken MacLeod has been appointed Writer in Residence at Edinburgh Napier University. His role will be to provide guidance and advice to students on the [...]
Award-winning SF novelist Harry Harrison dies aged 87
The BFS is sad to learn that legendary science fiction writer Harry Harrison has died at the age of 87. The award-winning author penned numerous novels throughout his career, [...]
Debut fantasy / sf novel from Danie Ware coming soon from Titan Books
A unique genre-bending fantasy / sf epic, Ecko Rising is the astonishing debut from first-time author, Danie Ware (Titan Books, September 2012, paperback, £7.99). Ecko [...]