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BFS Blog and Reviews

News and Articles

Meet the BFS committee: Lauren McMenemy, PR & Marketing Officer

We love to shine a light on the volunteers who help keep the British Fantasy Society running—this

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Lauren McMenemy

Helping to shape and support future speculative fiction: Why you should apply to be a BFS mentor

Thinking about putting your hand up to be a BFS mentor, but just not sure what it’s all about? We

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Alexandra Beaumont

Live Action Role Play and writing believable fantasy characters, conflict and combat scenes

How can fantasy writers get first-hand experience of worlds and periods either long gone—or

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Meet Andy Hodges

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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Tiffani Angus

Subgenre deep dive: Evil Children

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

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Katie Bruce

The Bog of Eternal Stench, The Pit of Despair & The Nothing: How Man & Witch helped heal the lack of queer representation in my childhood

For this last day of Pride month 2024, Katie Bruce reflects on how a recent cinema experience

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BFS Reviews

The Singularity by Dino Buzzati, translated by Anne Milano Appel

Professor Ermanno Ismani is offered a two-year contract with the Ministry of Defense. What is the

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Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Robot stories are one of the pillars of science fiction, and with the recent developments in

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A Botanical Daughter by Noah Medlock

A Botanical Daughter takes cues from classic botanic horror stories such asThe Flowering of the

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Spitting Gold by Carmella Lowkis

Paris in the 1860’s is the setting for Spitting Gold, a story of two sisters, Sylvie and

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THE DRAGONS OF DEEPWOOD FEN by Bradley P. Beaulieu

All indications were that a sinkhole would soon appear, and Master Korvus, the alchymist, was

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All the Dead Lie Down by Kyrie McCauley

Tragedy strikes young Marin Blythe, leaving her alone, without relatives, but out of the blue, she

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