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The Aldiss Award 2026 Launch - The Aldiss Award Celebrating Excellence in World-Building Across Speculative Fiction & Gaming London, UK – January 5th 2026 Key Facts: The Aldiss Award, dedicated to celebrating exceptional world-building in science f...

The Aldiss Award for speculative worldbuilding has been launched for this year (entries end of March). thealdissaward.com/the-aldiss-a...

A little later than usual - so much to pack it in! - but Foundation 152 is now in press. Amongst the highlights - papers from the Glasgow Worldcon, interview with E.J. Swift, essays by Jeff Noon and Mario Petrucci...

Planets Everywhere

You can now catch up with the latest episode from the Science for Fiction podcast - James Kirk (no, not that one...) on exoplanets. In conversation with our Education Officer, David Clements. open.spotify.com/episode/3S75...

Out of this World: Science Fiction in the Victorian Period: 17 October 2026 A VPFA Study Day Hosted in the historic city of York CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: 31 MAY 2026The ever-popular genre of science fiction can be traced back to ancient Greece, but as a deve…

Cfp on Victorian science fiction in York in October. victorianpopularfiction.org/out-of-this-...

A reminder that Foundation is publishing a special autumn issue on pulp sf to mark the centenary of Amazing Stories. We'd love to have your essays (the deadline is potentially negotiable). call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/08/...

Many congratulations to all the longlisted nominees for this year's BSFA Awards, but in particular Fiona Moore, whose article on The Terror was published in Foundation 150. www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...

Cfp for this year's WisCon. wiscon.net/programming/...

SF Foundation UK News Science Fiction Journal Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction is a critical peer-reviewed literary magazine established in 1972 that publishes articles and reviews ab

We are delighted that Prof Nick Hubble will be the next editor of Foundation. Many congratulations to them and the other candidates, who we hope will also contribute to the journal. www.sf-foundation.org/fresh-about

Final week for entries for this year's Peter Nicholls Essay Prize - deadline is 11 January. call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/06/...

Quick reminder that, not only is Christmas around the corner, the deadline for this year's Peter Nicholls Essay Prize is only six weeks away - 11 January. call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/06/...

A One Day Symposium on Frances Hardinge Politics, Ethics and the Material World: the Interrogative  Fiction of Frances Hardinge.

Farah Mendlesohn is convening a symposium on Frances Hardinge next July at King's College London. All welcome! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-one-day-...

253. Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon — Backlisted Writer and critic Matthew De Abaitua joins Andy, Una and Nicky to discuss  Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future  (1930), the astounding first novel by Olaf Stapledon. The...

The SF Collections at Liverpool host the Olaf Stapledon Archive. We're delighted that SFF trustee Una McCormack was able to discuss Stapledon's landmark debut novel with Matthew De Abaitua and Andy Miller. www.backlisted.fm/episodes/253...

Proud to be sponsoring this event next summer.

A request on behalf of Gold SF. For the first time, the Nebula Award is honouring poetry. They would like to put forward Jessy Randall's latest collection, The Path of Most Resistance. But it can only be nominated by a member of the SFWA. Would someone like to do so? Email Susan.Kelly@gold.ac.uk

SF Foundation UK News Science Fiction Journal Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction is a critical peer-reviewed literary magazine established in 1972 that publishes articles and reviews ab

A reminder that we have two current calls for papers - the Peter Nicholls Essay Prize (deadline: 11 January 2026) and a special issue on pulp sf (deadline: 5 April 2026). Details in the newsfeed. www.sf-foundation.org/fresh-about

Cfp with a sf element. www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/10/call...

The deadline for the 2026 SFRA conference has been extended to 20 November. sfra.org/conferences/...

Talos V - Science Fiction Theatre Festival of London 2025 — Cyborphic Talos, the original science fiction theatre festival of London, the UK, and Europe, is 10 years old! We’re celebrating with our new festival at the Bread & Roses Theatre. Check out our call for applic...

Tickets now available for the 2025 London sf theatre festival. www.cyborphic.com/talos-2025

womenmakesciencefiction.org/podcast/

Critical Friends Episode 17: On Imagining Hopefully Dan Hartland is joined by Paul March-Russell and Jacqueline Nyathi to discuss speculative fiction’s approach to hope and optimism. Where has it gone? How do writers express it? And what are its pit…

Our journal editor, Paul March-Russell, and editorial consultant, Anna McFarlane, have been busily podcasting. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

F151 has landed!

Further apologies for the continued delay which has been due to ill-health. We hope to have copies out in the post next week.

Apologies to members for the delay in sending out the latest issue of Foundation. (Actually, we were a little ahead of schedule.) We hope to have them in the post next week.

Stories of the Quantum Universe micro-fiction competition — Science Gallery London Are you a budding science-fiction writer? Quantum ideas open up boundless opportunities for storytelling. From branching realities to quantum technology gone wrong, create your own quantum universe an...

Microfiction writing competition for anyone 16+. london.sciencegallery.com/sgl-events/s...

SF Foundation Latest Issue | SF Foundation Org

F151 is out! Here's the ToC with pieces from, amongst others, Joy Sanchez-Taylor, Nisi Shawl and Sheree Renee Thomas. And, as an added bonus, membership rates for 2026 have been frozen! So, it's the perfect time to join and support our activities. www.sf-foundation.org/sf-foundatio...

Online exhibition, marking 50 years of the Voyager space probe, co-created by Jonathan Thornton, our Book Reviews Editor. digitalheritagelab.liverpool.ac.uk/voyager

Cheers Dave but we don't seem to be in the LibGen dataset.

Farah Mendlesohn, Melanie Fishbane, Jed Hartman and Emily Tesh in conversation about Joanna Russ. fb.me/e/js9qlm5yL

2-year research post in a sf-adjacent project. www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...

MEMBERSHIP | SF Foundation Org

F151 is off the printers! A special issue on 'women in the black fantastic' with features by Nisi Shawl and Sheree Renee Thomas. If you want to become a member of the SFF, you can join via the website.
www.sf-foundation.org/new-membersh...