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Oxford University Speculative Fiction Group

• New: We usually meet at 8pm on Sundays in Trinity College. See our termcard for details.
• Email ousfg-announce-subscribe@maillist.ox.ac.uk to sign up to our mailing list (details), and
• Join the OUSFG Discord Server.
• OUSFG Library catalogue now completed and books available for loan!

OUSFG

This page lists material provided by and for members of the Oxford University Speculative Fiction Group. If you want more information on OUSFG, please contact the the President, Paulina Smolarova, at ousfg.society@studentclubs.ox.ac.uk .

• To join OUSFG, please register with this form. Membership is free. Please feel free to come along to meetings whether you join or not, but you must be a member to borrow books from the OUSFG Library.
• We have three membership tiers. There is the life membership (for free), eternal membership (for eternity and £10) and, if you're feeling very generous, there is quantum membership (valid in all possible universes, for £25). Having registered members helps us to work with the university admin, and paid memberships allows us to stay more sustainable as a society and invite even more speakers. Paid membership is not required to attend our events or borrow from our library.
• Everyone should feel welcome at OUSFG, and we have long had an inclusivity policy. We have now extended and formalised this with a Code of Conduct (Word) and Complaints Procedure (Word).
• Michaelmas 2025 Termcard.
• Mailing lists for announcements and chat
• Join the OUSFG Discord Server. Contact us for access.
• Freshers' Fair flyer.
• Brief YouTube introduction to OUSFG (made for Michaelmas 2020, but still reasonably current).
• The OUSFG Committee
• The OUSFG Constitution (or Word original), updated Michaelmas 2020.
• The OUSFG By-Laws (or PDF or original LaTeX)
• The OUSFG Library of around 850 books, listed on LibraryThing.

Science Fiction and Fantasy

• Sfinx magazine of Speculative Fiction
• The Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy
• Miscellaneous SF reviews
• Some other SF pages on the Web

Stuff

• We play Werewolf. A lot. These roles and rules have been carefully honed by many generations of OUSFG over many years (decades) into the most perfectly evil game ever developed. We have also developed a Werewolf web app that allows pretty good gameplay over Zoom, or even in person.
• The OUSFG Silly Games List.
• OUSFG's Desert Planet Books.
• Punt Party Productions: scripts of Crash meets Star Wars, Di meets MiB (1998), Oedipus Rennt (2000), Panto 2002, Twelve Angry Bullet-Time-Proof Monkeys (2003), Pirates of the Aegean (2004), and ISBN City (2005), No Title As Yet (2006; LaTeX), Old-Time Prophet to His Mission High (2007; Word), The Wolves of Wall (2008; Word), The Penultimate Perennial Peripatetic Punt Party Panto (2009; Word), Madfest 2010 (Word), Panto 2011 (Word), Battlestar Puntacular (2012; Word, Kindle), The Entendariad (2013), “That's Werewolf Talk!”: The Musical! (2014; Word, Kindle), Secretary: The Last Teabender (2015; Word, Kindle).
• Fundament! (or OpenOffice) resurrected script from the "operatic experience" based on the Foundation trilogy (for which major spoilers!), originally performed at Conine 88.
• Zool and it's latest incarnation, Zool V: The Final Front Ear (Warning: On grounds of literary merit, Zool may be considered to be offensive to nearly everyone. I understand that there's an Uzbek SF fan who quite enjoys it, but he's been shunned by the SF Association of Uzbekistan as an embarrassment to the entire Uzbek nation).
• OUSFG Library book cover quiz
• Gods in SF deathmatch (previous discussion of The Gods of OUSFG).
• The OUSFG Cocktail List
• Old termcards, committee pages, and miscellaneous stuff are in the archive.

If you are an OUSFG member, please contact your friendly Ghost in the Machine if you want to add anything to these pages (talks, articles, photos, stories, etc etc - all most welcome).