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Our next meeting will be our annual Hugo Review Panel, Friday, July 18 at 7:30 pm on Zoom! Email info@psfs.org for the Zoom link.
The Hugo Review Panel offers a lively discussion of the Hugo nominations in all major categories, in a panel format. Panelists who have read or viewed ALL this year’s nominated works share their opinions on the work and pick a favorite in each category. This gives people who are voting in the Hugos (and anyone who attends!) a more informed sense of work they haven’t read, in advance of the voting deadline and the announcement of winners at Worldcon in August.
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.