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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 will be Friday, September 13 at 8 pm. This virtual meeting will feature award-winning author Rosemary Claire Smith as our guest speaker.
Rosemary Claire Smith is the 2023 winner of the Sidewise Award for Alternate History for “Apollo in Retrograde.” She’s been nominated three times for Analog Magazine’s readers’ award. Her book review columns appear in every other issue of Analog Magazine. Somehow, her alternate histories, future romances, time-travel tales, reworked mythologies, horror stories, and essays have snuck onto the pages of Amazing Stories, Fantastic Stories, The Reinvented Heart, The Reinvented Detective, and other periodicals and anthologies. Rosemary’s stories draw upon her fascination with dinosaurs, her experiences as a field archaeologist excavating prehistoric sites around the United States and visiting sites in other countries. Her RPG, T-Rex Time Machine is available from Choice of Games. Follow her on social media @RCWordsmith and RCWordsmith.com to find out what she’s writing now, and her thoughts about recent dinosaur discoveries.
Contact us at info@psfs.org for the Zoom link or any other questions.
