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The Creative Fix: Social Justice Through Writing – Readings

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

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The Creative Fix: Social Justice Through Writing – Writing as Activism

Examining social justice isn’t new for many writers, but what impact does this have? How can SFFH

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Best of 2025, According To The BFS’s Volunteers

We asked our committee, events organisers, reviewers, and other volunteers who help us keep the

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Meet Charlotte Langtree

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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The Creative Fix: Social Justice Through Writing – Mirror Worlds

Fiction has always held up a mirror to reality, but how do you build a secondary world that

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Ask an Expert: December 2025

In this monthly column, we pose your questions to an expert in a specific field of speculative

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BFS Reviews

Death on the Caldera by Emily Paxman

Davina, Kellen, and Morel Linde are travelling incognito by the cross-continental train from Balter

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These Dreaming Spires: A Dark Academia Anthology ed by Marie O’Regan and Paul Kane

This anthology follows the earlier dark academia collection In These Hallowed Halls. Apart from

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The Sword Triumphant by Gareth Hanrahan

Old Alf of Mulladale is regarded as a solid man. Dependable, reliable, strong, if a bit dim. But he

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The Assassin’s Wrath by R.S. Moule

Disowned and blamed for his brother’s death at the hands of the vampyre Solis Deadhand,

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The Gentleman and his Vowsmith by Rebecca Ide

The Gentleman and his Vowsmith is an interesting blend of genres. Primarily a historical gothic

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Tor By Terry Grimwood

This is the third novel set in the universe he created in Interference, and we find out what

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