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PSFS meets monthly, usually on the second Friday of the month. Meetings usually feature a guest speaker known in the SFF community along with lively back-and-forth discussions.
Recent guests have included Carmen Maria Machado, Josiah Bancroft, Tom Purdom, Jon McGoran, Madeleine Miller, Fonda Lee, Jeanne Cavelos, Jonathan Lethem, Vandana Singh, PJ Manney, Jason Sanford, John Wiswell, Cat Rambo, Jo Walton, Stephanie Feldman, Ray Nayler, Premee Mohamed, Randee Dawn, Ellen Datlow, Walter Hunt, and Gregory Frost.
Since Covid, our meetings have been a combination of remote (via Zoom) and in-person. Locations for in-person meetings are either at St. Mary’s Church at Penn, 3916 Locust Walk, Philadelphia PA 19104, or the Rotunda, 4014 Walnut Street, Philadelphia PA 19104.
Our next meeting is on Friday, October 25 at 8 pm on Zoom, and will feature author Scott Edelman as our guest speaker.
Contact us at info@psfs.org for more information.
More on Scott’s long and fascinating career:
Scott Edelman has published 125+ short stories in magazines such as Lightspeed, Analog, Apex, and The Twilight Zone, and in anthologies such as Why New Yorkers Smoke, Crossroads: Southern Tales of the Fantastic, and MetaHorror. His collection of zombie fiction, What Will Come After, was a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Memorial Award, and was followed by a collection of zombie novelettes, Liars, Fakers, and the Dead Who Eat Them. His science fiction short stories have been collected in What We Still Talk About.
His most recent collections include Tell Me Like You Done Before: and Other Stories Written on the Shoulders of Giants and Things That Never Happened, the latter of which caused Publishers Weekly to write, “his talent is undeniable.” He has been a Stoker Award finalist eight times, both in the category of Short Story and Long Fiction. He is also the author of the Lambda Award-nominated novel The Gift.
Edelman also worked for the Syfy Channel for 13+ years as editor of Science Fiction Weekly, SCI FI Wire, and Blastr. He was the founding editor of Science Fiction Age, which he edited during its entire eight-year run. He also edited SCI FI magazine for more a decade, as well as Sci-Fi Universe and Sci-Fi Flix. He has been a four-time Hugo Award finalist for Best Editor.
Additionally, he is the host of the Eating the Fantastic interview podcast, which since February 2016 has allowed listeners to eavesdrop on his meals with creators of science fiction, fantasy, horror, comics, and more.