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Our next meeting will be Friday, May 9 at 8 pm on Zoom, and features SFF author Brenda W. Clough as our guest speaker. Email info@psfs.org for the Zoom link.
Brenda W. Clough is the first female Asian-American SF writer, first appearing in print in 1984. She has written over two dozen novels including five series: Edge to Center, Averidan, Cockeyed Optimists, Suburban Gods, and the twelve-book neo-Victorian The Thrilling Adventures of the Most Dangerous Woman in Europe. Her short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, Analog, Amazing, and numerous other magazines and anthologies.
Her latest work is a science fiction novel, His Selachian Majesty Requests. Her historical novel A Door In His Head won the 2023 Diverse Voices Award. Her novella May Be Some Time was a finalist for both the Hugo and the Nebula awards and became the novel Revise the World. Her complete bibliography is up on her web page, brendaclough.net.
Here’s the rest of our 2025 meeting schedule:
- Friday June 13 in person, 8 pm ET, author Alan Smale at St. Mary’s at Penn
- Friday July 18 virtual at 7:30 PM ET, our annual HUGO REVIEW PANEL
- August – no meeting
- Friday Sept 12 in person, guest TBA
- Friday Oct 10 virtual, guest TBA
- Friday Nov 21 at PHILCON
- Friday Dec 12 in person, guest TBA
All meetings start at 8 pm except for the July meeting. Location of September and December meetings TBA.
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, A. C. Wise, Josiah Bancroft, Tom Purdom, Jon McGoran, Madeleine Miller, Fonda Lee, Jeanne Cavelos, Jonathan Lethem, Vandana Singh, PJ Manney, Jason Sanford, John Wiswell, A. T. Greenblatt, 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.