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Lauren McMenemy & The BFS Discord Community

How To Make The Most of Your BFS Membership: by the community!

We asked our members for tips about making the most of your BFS membership. Here’s what they said.

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Andrew Knighton

Writing From Arthurian Legends

Andrew Knighton takes his mind back to Fantasycon 2024, consults his notes, and brings us this

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The BFS Book Club is Reading: The Outcast Mage

Yet another perk of joining the BFS: get to know some of the best new speculative fiction reads,

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Meet Luna Profir

Every Friday, we meet a member of the BFS and peer deep into their soul (or, at least, a form they

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Helen Rose Thwaite

What the Heck is SFF Romance?!

Ahead of the international day of commercial lurve, we asked our resident mistress of paranormal

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Tiffani Angus

Subgenre deep dive: Psychological Horror

In this latest edition of her regular column, Tiffani Angus—co-author of Spec Fic for

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BFS Reviews

The Escher Man by T.R. Napper 

Endel ‘Endgame’ Ebbinghaus is head of security for vicious Macau mob boss, Mister

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House of Odysseus By Claire North

Odysseus is missing – lost at sea, assumed by many to be dead. His wife, Penelope remains in

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Starling House by Alix E Harrow

The haunted house is a stock setting in gothic fiction, instantly familiar to readers in and

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The Outcast Mage by Annabel Campbell

In Amoria, the great glass city, Naila is a prospective mage of the Academy of Amoria. She passed

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Warlords of Wyrdwood by RJ Barker

Cahan du Nahere was Cowl-Rai, chosen as a god’s saviour, though he shunned that future and

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Solarpunk: Short Stories from Many Futures (Beyond and Within) Editied By Francesco Verso

Fourteen short stories examining possible near and distant futures set in the aftermath of our

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