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Our next meeting will be Friday, April 11. and will feature Tom Doyle, award-winning author of the American Craftsmen series and more. This meeting is on Zoom—email info@psfs.org for the link.
Tom Doyle is the award-winning author of the American Craftsmen trilogy from Tor Books, a saga of modern-day magician soldiers and psychic spies fighting their way through nightmares from the worlds of Hawthorne and Poe.Tom’s latest work for Graphic Audio is the Agent of Exiles series of supernatural spy adventures in the 6th century BCE. His SF novel Border Crosser follows the far-future journeys of Eris, a psychologically extreme secret agent whose shifting loyalties cause chaos wherever she goes in the galaxy.Many of Tom’s short stories and readings are available on his website: www.tomdoyleauthor.com. He has survived Harvard, Stanford, and cancer.
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, 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.