Most of our meetings are on Sundays at 8pm in Balliol College's Massey Room.
See below for details, and sign up for the ousfg-announce mailing list to receive a reminder and details for each meeting.
Please remember that Sunday is the first day of the Oxford Week, so please check the dates below if you are unsure.
| 23 Apr | Sunday | 1st Week | Balliol | Discussion |
Collaborative storytelling discussion, Tentacular Vikings
takes a theme and runs with it as we all work together to write a story.
Last term told of palace intrigue around the annual sacrefice of one ruler to make way for the next.
The previous epic documented a miners' strike on the surface of the sun.
Earlier stories have involved
Boom Sticks,
the St Giles' Fair's role in keeping freshers
from disappearing into parallel dimensions,
and finally an explanation for why we keep crashing on that dratted desert planet.
Oh yes, and tentacular Vikings. |
| 30 Apr | Sunday | 2nd Week | Balliol | Discussion | Gender and sexuality in SF. |
| 7 May | Sunday | 3rd Week | Balliol | Discussion | Space Opera and its technology and empires |
| 14 May | Sunday | 4th Week | Balliol | Discussion | Artificial lifeforms and genetics in SF |
| 21 May | Sunday | 5th Week | Balliol | Quiz | For the first time, OUSFG will be hosting in the Oxford Geek Quiz! Please join us and help us compete for the crown of 'the one wot won that year'. Every society needs ideally at least 2 rounds: if you are willing to donate rounds (on the condition that you cannot answer them during the Quiz), send them through to Emily or on Discord at any point before Saturday, 20th May. Meet at 8pm Balliol Lodge. The quiz will take place in Lecture Room 23. |
| 28 May | Sunday | 6th Week | Balliol | Discussion | Post-apocalyptic scenarios in SF (+ Book Swap Day?) |
| 4 June | Sunday | 7th Week | Balliol | Discussion | Collaboration with Horror Soc, following on from last term's discussion on the intersection of Horror and SF&F. |
| 11 Jun | Sunday | 8th Week | Balliol | Discussion | Immortality and ageing in SF |
We also plan an afternoon of punting, picnicking, and pantomime sometime in 8th or 9th Week.
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