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Get Into The Minds of Our Competition Judges…

To help us get the year started right, we’re highlighting some of the amazing work done by

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Meet Geoff Holder

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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Shown is a graphic that has a background of a mountainous landscape, seen through clouds. In the middle is an old book with the pages open and a river spilling out. On the top right and left is the BFS logo, a black dragon design curling around the letters ‘BFS’. Photos: Susan Maxwell (top left); Reitha Pattison (top right); Stephen Oram (middle left); Amal Singh (middle right); Elizabeth Broadbent (bottom left); M V Melcer (bottom right).

BFS Online: Worldbuilding – Readings

We have six readings from a range of authors – fantasy, science fiction and horror –

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Shown is a graphic that has a background of a mountainous landscape, seen through clouds. In the middle is an old book with the pages open and a river spilling out. On the top right and left is the BFS logo, a black dragon design curling around the letters ‘BFS’. Photos: Sarah Rees Brennan (left); David Green (right).

BFS Online: Worldbuilding – Interview with Sarah Rees Brennan

BFS Secretary David Green interviews Sarah Rees

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Allen Ashley

Afternoon into Evelyn

Allen Ashley reviews “Painted Dreams; The Art of Evelyn De Morgan”, an in-person

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Shown is a graphic that has a background of a mountainous landscape, seen through clouds. In the middle is an old book with the pages open and a river spilling out. On the top right and left is the BFS logo, a black dragon design curling around the letters ‘BFS’. Photos: Yvonne Battle-Felton (top left); Justin Lee Anderson (top right); Tiffany Morris (bottom left); Lauren McMenemy (bottom right).

BFS Online: Worldbuilding, Politics & Social Conventions

Anywhere you have people you have politics and society, so what system to choose? Monarchy or

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BFS Reviews

The House of Frost and Feathers by Lauren Wiesebron

Deliciously dark, bold, and vivid, The House of Frost and Feathers is an imaginative tale of hope,

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Ninth Life by Stark Holborn

An evocative dystopian novel that will stay in your mind for some time afterwards. The book is

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Apostles of Mercy by Lindsay Ellis

This is an absorbing slow burner, but once it gets going, thrilling and compelling. Cora Sabino has

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Flight from the Dark by Joe Dever

You are the sole survivor of the Kai, the protectors of Sommerlund; all your comrades and teachers

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Discontinue If Death Ensues edited by Carol Gyzander and Anna Taborska

This collection of feminist horror stories is beautifully presented in a metallic hardback with

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Achtung! Cthulhu: Operation Oberon

Agents must go through Axis-occupied China, collect intel, and get out. It would be easy if it

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