Most of our meetings are on Sundays at 8pm in Balliol College. We will meet at the Balliol Porter's Lodge before making our way to the meeting 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 do check the dates below if you are unsure.
| 14 Jan | Sunday | 1st Week | Balliol | Discussion | In-depth Desert Planet Books |
| 21 Jan | Sunday | 2nd Week | Balliol | Discussion |
Collaborative storytelling discussion, Tentacular Vikings
takes a theme and runs with it as we all work together to write (or at least plan) a story.
Last term, the first sign is impenetrable silence, each time a planet disappears.
Some previous stories have involved
a miners' strike on the surface of the sun,
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. |
| 28 Jan | Sunday | 3rd Week | Balliol | Workshop | Writing Workshop |
| 3 Feb | Saturday 2pm | 3rd Week | Balliol | Library | Bookstore crawl.
This Saturday we are going to explore the many hidden (and cheap!) bookstores in Oxford
and their SFF collections. This might be the time to find new hidden spots,
expand your book collection and if you're feeling generous —
donate your findings into the OUSFG library.
And speaking of the Library, this is exactly the place we will embark afterwards,
to browse our vast collection
(which you can also see here) —
and there will be biscuits!
Feel free to join for any part of our crawl. We will start with the Oxfam bookshop on Turl Street at 2pm. To catch up with us later, please contact Paulina on Discord. |
| 11 Feb | Sunday | 5th Week | Balliol | Discussion | Non-mainstream mythologies/cultures and their influences on SFF |
| 15 Feb | Thursday | 5th Week | Balliol | Quiz | OUSFG will be taking part in the Oxford Geek Quiz. Please join us and help us compete for the crown of 'the one wot won that year'! Details TBA on the WhoSoc termcard. |
| 18 Feb | Sunday | 6th Week | Balliol | Discussion | Philosophy: Society/Morality in SFF |
| 25 Feb | Sunday | 7th Week | Balliol | Speaker | The Uses and Abuses of Archetypes. From the witch in the woods to the paladin in the party, speculative fiction has always been built out of recognizable characters. Historical fantasy author Kate Heartfield draws on examples from old stories and new to show how fiction can shape — or shake up — ideas about how people ought to live. |
| 3 Mar | Sunday | 8th Week | Balliol | AGM & Discussion | General Meeting + Werewolf |
We also plan a viewing party to see Dune Part 2, sometime 1–8 March.
Next term,
A. Y. Chao will be coming to speak to us.
She is the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Shanghai Immortal,
the first in a trilogy following charmingly profane half-fox spirit, half vampire Lady Jing.
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~ousfg/misc/termcard-24ht1.html last modified 1st February 2024 by
