Meetings

Join us for our February meeting, featuring the multi-award winning author Mary Robinette Kowal! The meeting is Friday, February 6 at 8 pm, on Zoom. Email info@psfs.org for the Zoom link. This is a free event!

 
Mary Robinette Kowal is the USA TODAY bestselling author of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus award winning alternate history novel The Calculating Stars, the first book in the Lady Astronaut series. Her latest book features her story Apprehension with Sam Miller’s Red Star Hustle. She is also the author of The Glamourist Histories series, and has received the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, four Hugo awards, the Nebula and Locus awards. Her stories appear in Asimov’s, Uncanny, and several Year’s Best anthologies.
 
Mary Robinette has also worked as a professional puppeteer, is a member of the award-winning podcast Writing Excuses, and performs as a voice actor (SAG/AFTRA), recording fiction for authors including Seanan McGuire, Cory Doctorow, and Neal Stephenson. She lives in Denver with her husband Robert, their dog Guppy, and their “talking” cat Elsie. Visit her online at maryrobinettekowal.com.
 

PSFS meets monthly, usually on the second Friday of the month. Meetings feature a guest speaker known in the SFF community along with lively back-and-forth discussions. 

Recent guests have included Fran Wilde, Carmen Maria Machado, A. C. Wise, Josiah Bancroft, Tom Purdom, Jon McGoran, Madeleine Miller, Fonda Lee, Caitlin Rozakis, 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. 

Our meetings now alternate between 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. 

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