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Meet Otto Redman

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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BFS Online: Crafting Characters – Interview with R.S.A. Garcia

BFS Chair Shona Kinsella interviews Nebula and Sturgeon Award winning author R.S.A. Garcia

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BFS Online: Crafting Characters – Heroes and Villains

Stories are driven by conflict, by the battle between good and evil, and fought in the morally

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BFS Online: Crafting Characters – Supporting Cast

You know who your protagonist and antagonist are, but what about the rest? How do you create

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BFS Online: Crafting Characters – Animals & Environments as Characters

How do you build a character that isn’t human – or humanoid? What if they

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BFS Online: Crafting Characters – Readings

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

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Crypt of the Moon Spider by Nathan Ballingrud

A gargantuan spider once lived on the moon in a vast network of caves under a forest that covers

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Creatures of the Night: Vicious Vampire Tales by Kevin J. Kennedy, Gord Rollo and Simon Clark

Creatures of the Night: Vicious Vampire Tales is a collection of three long short stories about

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Daughters of the Merciful Deep by Leslye Penelope

Jane Edwards is a competent young woman who lives in the all-Black town of Awenasa sometime in the

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Ghostsmith by Nicki Pau Preto

Wren is on the run from her father, discovering that behind the scenes, he has been manipulating

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 THE LAST SHIELD by Cameron Johnston

The Last Shield is one of those rare books that is utterly satisfying and, when finished, leaves a

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The Mercy of Gods by James S. A. Corey

Humans have been on Anjiin for so long that they have forgotten how they arrived there. They live a

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