Still time to come along to tonight meeting and meet award-winning author @zenaldehyde.bsky.social From 7:45 pm at Birmingham Friends of Earth Warehouse or join us via Zoom

Project Hanuman has its launch at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social two weeks before it's in shops. There will be cake, wine and merch. 2pm on the Friday of the convention (31st October). I'm petrified of launching this thing alone so please come along and eat my cakes There may also be special guest

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OCTOBER EVENT: This Fri 10th Oct, we are very excited to welcome award-winning fantasy & romance author @zenaldehyde.bsky.social. Come and join us at The Warehouse, Birmingham Friends of the Earth, or join us on Zoom. Tickets available on the door or via Eventbrite: eventbrite.co.uk/e/1774794641549

Our honorary president and most recent guest, Alastair Reynolds, will soon be running the Cardiff Half Marathon 2025 in support of @cancerwales.bsky.social. See the link below if you're interested in finding out more and donating to his fundraiser: cardiffhalf25.enthuse.com/pf/alastair-...

A bit early for Halloween but The Mockingbird Cinema in Birmingham are showing the 4K restored version of THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN on 2nd October (this Thursday) mockingbirdcinema.com/MockingbirdC...

For the entire month of October, The Warrior is on sale. My shortest pitch is The Wizard of Oz in the Upside Down. Four very different people go on a quest to a dark world that has been tainted.

Delighted to reveal 'Magic, Maps, and Mischief'. This has had quite the journey to publication. Want stories about neurodivergent people finding one another in a world trying to limit them, writing *by* and autistic person. Pre-order now: mybook.to/magicmapsand... Cover by @lizdelton.bsky.social

Great night out last night with @birminghamsfgroup.bsky.social at #Biil’s restaurant in Birmingham.

Our next meeting of @birminghamsfgroup.bsky.social is with Alastair Reynolds from 7.45pm on 12 Sept at the FoE Warehouse, 54-57 Allison Street, Birmingham B5 5TH. Tickets £6 on the door for non-members or online available at the Eventbrite link below. All very welcome to what should be a great event

We are excited to reveal that we will be hosting an in-person event with @orainejohnson, author of Lucid 🌙

Short walk through Birmingham last night and enjoyed seeing some of the Birmingham Bull statues

Great session with @jamesbrogden.bsky.social at @birminghamsfgroup.bsky.social followed by a well earned beer at Kielder in the heat!

I had a great evening - thanks everyone for having me!

Yes! Hello! Also very excited!

JULY EVENT: We are very excited to welcome horror and dark fiction author @jamesbrogden.bsky.social as our guest for 11th July. Come and join us at the Warehouse, Birmingham Friends of the Earth, or join us online. Tickets available via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1443683850259

Born on this day in 1920 (d. 2013), Happy Birthday, RAY HARRYHAUSEN! 🎉

We’re delighted to share that ANNIE BOT by Sierra Greer, and published by The Borough Press, has been announced as the 39th winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award science fiction book of the year!

Check out artist @thelightdreams.bsky.social new book - a visual history of the Blackpool Doctor Who exhibition, BLACKPOOL REMEMBERED . Great memories for those who visited and for those who didn't it's a fascinating look at classic Doctor Who thelightdreams.wordpress.com/2025/05/24/b...

Pleased to see Blackpool Remembered at number 10 in Amazon's Science Fiction History & Criticism chart!

TOMORROW, @strangeupnorth.bsky.social returns to Leeds Waterstones! Grab your ticket and the chance to meet fantastic authors - including our very own @samkhorton.bsky.social and @emmanewman.bsky.social! bit.ly/4iT1QPD (And keep an eye out for some Solaris treats in your goodie bag 😜)

Congratulations @sennydreadful.bsky.social on the publication of your latest novel, THE SLEEPLESS (from #FirstInk @panmacmillan.bsky.social)- a new fantasy where gods and monsters roam the earth. Looks great fun 🤩

On Mon 9th June I'll be interviewing Sebastien de Castell about his latest book The Malevolent Eight. Copies of several Broken Binding specials will be available. Tickets available below. shorturl.at/vdoWn @birminghamsfgroup.bsky.social @britfantasysoc.bsky.social @fantasyfaction.bsky.social

Tonight. Watchable on YouTube as well as I person

Congratulations to @emilytesh.net on the publication of her latest novel, THE INCANDESCENT - a #DarkAcademia book but this time from the harassed teachers’ viewpoint. Really looking forward to reading it

The audiobook version of The Strandling is now available to download, and it sounds bloody gorgeous. www.amazon.co.uk/Audible-The-...

✨The Shortlist 2025!✨ PRIVATE RITES by Julia Armfield THE MINISTRY OF TIME by Kaliane Bradley EXTREMOPHILE by Ian Green ANNIE BOT by Sierra Greer SERVICE MODEL by Adrian Tchaikovsky THIRTEEN WAYS TO KILL LULABELLE ROCK by Maud Woolf This year’s winner will be announced on Weds 25 June.

The SECOND Genre Creators for Trans Rights auction is now live through June 7th, proceeds this time to Gender Intelligence UK and Gender DynamiX in SA. bit.ly/genrefortrans. We've got some very special things incoming, and if you'd like to donate, get in touch with me or @ngjeannette.bsky.social

Really looking forward to hearing @xuetingni.bsky.social tomorrow at @birminghamsfgroup.bsky.social talking about SINOPHAGIA: A Celebration of Chinese Horror (@[email protected])

filling time on air until the new pope is announced is known as "pontiffication"

Are you in London TODAY evening?

Still brings a smile to my face every time I see this - can’t believe it was 8 years ago m.youtube.com/watch?v=jPCJ...

Congratulations to @nickwells451.bsky.social and #FlameTreePress on the launch of their new podcast. #SFF www.buzzsprout.com/2446704

I know it's tempting to do the 'EVERY SINGLE WORLDCON IS TRASH' thing. But imo the Glasgow team hosted a genuinely great event & deserve better. They quashed an attempted vote rigging, they established transparent Hugo processes, and their programming was thoughtful, accessible and exciting 1/3

Season 2 of Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones (@eightdaysofdiana.bsky.social) is officially Coming Soon and I am so so excited.

Happy #IndiePressDay - hard workers vital to supporting new and established authors @elsewhen.press @lunapress.bsky.social #FlameTree @wtpress.bsky.social @booksonthehill.bsky.social @bonabooks.bsky.social @solarisbooks.bsky.social #NewConPress #AlchemyPress @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social

Redditch Library (which isn’t too far from Brum!) has three great #SFFauthor events in August featuring #ChrisBeckett @stephenaryan.bsky.social and @benaaronovitch.bsky.social And they’re free - to book send email to [email protected]

It’s the last day of April and you know what that means? We set sail for a month of #WyrdAndWonder tomorrow!

Great to see a new book from @emmanewman.bsky.social coming out soon.

I haven't had a chance to announce, but I'm delighted to be Guest of Honour for Glasgow Eastercon in 2027! I've never been a guest of honor to a con in the UK or US before, so this is really lovely. easterconglasgow.org

We are thrilled to announce the acquisition of the Arkship Trilogy, from internationally renowned, bestselling, author Peter F. Hamilton. 🎉 Publishing for the first time in physical print, the Arkship Trilogy will come out throughout 2026, starting with A HOLE IN THE SKY in January 2026. ⬇️

💥 Here's a great short review of Evolution of the Toy Dalek in @sfxmagazine.bsky.social (not sure who Alex Storey is, though?! 🤨)

Last October I was involved in an exciting anthology project called True Voyage is Return. A number of contributors and I, from across Birmingham and the Black Country, created something based on the four-word quote from Ursula K. Le Guin’s iconic novel The Dispossessed. 1/3

Next year's Eastercon (the long-running UK Science Fiction convention) will be called Iridescence 2026. It will be at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole Hotel, 3-6 April 2026. Guests of Honour include: @rjbarker.bsky.social , @emmanewman.bsky.social & @drkarenlord.bsky.social

Don't forget to.folliw the #BrumGroup bluesky account

Fantastic evening at the #RoyalShakespeareCompany in Stratford. #FreemaAgyeman as Beatrice and #NickFlood were excellent in particular. Very funny 🤣

MAY EVENT: We are very excited to welcome back writer, editor and translator @xuetingni.bsky.social as our guest on Friday 9th May. Come and join us at the Warehouse, Birmingham Friends of the Earth, or join us online. Tickets available via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1331184601979

Birmingham Science Fiction Group welcomes Xueting C. Ni Date: 9 May • 19:45 Location: Warehouse - Birmingham FoE, Allison Street, Birmingham, B5 5TH Online tickets (free for members) available at: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bsfg-welco...

Loved DRAGONFALL and looking forward to reading EMBERCLAW 🐉😍

Best wishes to all at @easterconuk.bsky.social EasterconBelfast.org #Reconnect - this weekend from Novacon 54. Unfortunately I won’t be there but other committee members will be at our fan table so feel free to drop by, chat and learn about us and our great Guest of Honour, author @emilytesh.net