British Science Fiction Association

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

🚀 BSFA reps reporting for duty - @emilyinkpen.bsky.social , @stewarthotston.com and @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social - on our way to the Clarke Awards!
Stay tuned for the results!

The shortlist is 👇

We have a new Chair!
After 6 amazing years, Allen Stroud has passed the torch 🚀

Congratulations Stewart!

🚀 Monday caption competition!

(art by grandfailure - you can follow them on insta so go do that!)

6. 🚀 Followed by BSFA AGM at 3pm.
Zoom link provided to BSFA Members via their newsletter.

Sunday will be Allen Stroud’s last day as BSFA Chair, after 6 years! It’s the end of a fabulous era and the start of the next…

5. SFF: Reflections on the 2025 Clarke Award shortlist
Paul March Russell, Sarah Brown, Una McCormack, Nick Hubble, Gautam Bhatia and Faye Lynch all discuss with Jonathan Thornton as Chair
Time: Jun 22, 2025 14:00 PM London
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Meeting ID: 557 738 1294 👇

4. BSFA: Applied Science Fiction Panel
Join Allen Stroud, Ana Sun, Christine Aicardi, Fiona Moore and Stephen Oram for a discussion on how science fiction can be used in different fields.
Time: Jun 22, 2025 13:00 PM London
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3. SFF AGM
Time: Jun 22, 2025 12:00 PM London
Zoom link provided to SFF Members via their newsletter. 👇

2. BSFA: Fission 5 Panel
Writers from the forthcoming Fission #5 anthology discuss their work with editor Eugen Bacon.
Time: Jun 22, 2025 11:00 AM London
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9:45am - Doors Open: Welcome from the BSFA and SFF.
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1. SFF: Paul March-Russell in conversation with E.J. Swift
Time: Jun 22, 2025 10:00 AM London
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🚀 hey people!

Don’t forget great BSFA AGM events today!

These include panels and interviews to entertain and inspire. Some of these are free to members and non-members. See the links below. 👇

AGM Day Activities

The provisional schedule for the day will be 👇

A white mug with the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction logo holds a spray of lavender next to a stack of the eight books shortlisted for this year's prize: North Continent Ribbon by Ursula Whitcher Remember You Will Die by Eden Robins The City in Glass by Nghi Vo Archangels of Funk by Andrea Hairston The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera The West Passage by Jared Pechaček Blackheart Man by Nalo Hopkinson

We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:

Think I can announce that my story "It's Always Your Choice" is in the @bsfa.bsky.social magazine Fission.

It's about a world where there's a quick easy way to go when it's your time, relevant with Assisted Dying Bill and my mum passing last week. #sf #writing

and surprised me by what it said.

Fission #5: An Anthology of Stories from the British Science Fiction Association Amazon.com: Fission #5: An Anthology of Stories from the British Science Fiction Association eBook : Rowe, Gene, Bacon, Eugen: Kindle Store

There’s a lot of trash in space and someone has to take care of it. Read my latest story, “A Feast for the Moon Junker’s Spouse” in @bsfa.bsky.social’s Fission #5.

us.amazon.com/Fission-Anth...

🚀 Hey members!
Just a reminder that Bona Books are running a Writing Queer People, Editing Queer People workshop lonline tomorrow - 7-8:30pm - as part of Pride Month.

The event was over subscribed at Eastercon!

Details of how to sign-up are in the newsletter!

🤣 okay, I snortled.

Ooo nice!

🚀 members!
Don’t forget to complete the events survey in your latest newsletter!

✨Are you a @bsfa.bsky.social member and thinking about @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social?

The BSFA is sponsoring two in person memberships for persons of colour, persons with disabilities and those with financial difficulties for any reason. Details on how to apply are in the latest newsletter.✨

Picture of mountainous landscape with silhouettes/figures of women hovering above. Could be threatening, could be peaceful… you decide!

🚀 Tuesday caption competition!

Art by paul on Adobe

darth vader is dancing in front of stormtroopers and saying `` may the fourth be with you ! '' ALT: darth vader is dancing in front of stormtroopers and saying `` may the fourth be with you ! ''

🚀 May the 4th be with you on this very special day…

I've finally got to hold my my @bsfa.bsky.social award!

It now finally feels real and I'm very thankful for it.

Although the dog has already tried to eat it twice. So it's going on a high shelf where he (hopefully) can't get to it.

Fission #5 by Gene Rowe & Eugen Bacon

Congrats @bsfa.bsky.social Fission #5 authors! Cover by Elena Betti.

My sci-fi story "Mantaro" will be published in Fission #5 by @bsfa.bsky.social. It's a story about coca, corruption and a particularly lethal autonomous quadruped robot roaming the VRAEM in Peru -- the world's densest area of cocaine production. Cover art by Elena Berri.

www.bsfa.co.uk/fission

Congratulations!!!

Congratulations!!!

Sorry about that. Thanks for sharing the link!

Congratulations!!!

🚀 tune in to the BSFA Awards live from 18:30 GMT!

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Hey @bsfa.bsky.social people! If you haven’t voted yet, please consider this tiny but poignant episode of Dex Legacy, about the long-term psychological strain that comes from being a teenage super soldier 👇

Charlie Richard’s performance is amazing.