Fan-artist Alan Hunter, illustrator on several BFS publications, has died

November 1, 2012

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

October 12, 2012

Voting is open in the 2012 Nova Awards, which celebrate achievement in British and Irish science fiction fanzines.Â 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

September 24, 2012

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

August 31, 2012

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

August 23, 2012

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

August 20, 2012

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

August 19, 2012

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

August 15, 2012

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

August 10, 2012

A unique genre-bending fantasy / sf epic, Ecko Rising is the astonishing debut from first-time author, Danie Ware (Titan Books, September 2012, paperback, Â£7.99). Ecko [...]

Latest podcasts available from StarShipSofa and Tales to Terrify

August 9, 2012

New audio podcasts are available from both StarShipSofa (science fiction) and Tales to Terrify (horror). StarShipSofa #250 includes fiction by Bruce Sterling, and Tales to [...]