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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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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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