Most of our meetings are on Sundays at 8pm in Trinity College. We meet in front of Trinity College (entrance at Broad Street) and move inside together just after 8pm (usually to Teaching Room 5). If you are running late ring the plodge and ask to be let in and ask on Discord for access. The venue is wheelchair acessible.
See below for details, sign up for the ousfg-announce mailing list to receive a reminder and details for each meeting, or check on Discord for smaller updates.
Please remember that Sunday is the first day of the Oxford Week, so do check the dates below if you are unsure.
| 18 Jan | Sunday | 1st Week | Trinity | Discussion | Our first discussion of the term has an ambitious goal: create a full family tree (tree?) of SFF subgenres, complete with characterizations and definite reading recs for each of the entries. Come discuss what exactly constitutes an Epic Fantasy or a Space Opera, or maybe even Cyberpunk Cottagecore Thriller (will we find one?). Come argue your definite genre recommendations, discover new niche types and update your reading list. |
| 25 Jan | Sunday | 2nd Week | Trinity | Discussion | Historical SFF |
| 1 Feb | Sunday | 3rd Week | Trinity | Discussion | Tentacular Vikings (Collaborative Storytelling) – Named for a long-forgotten legend, Tentacular Vikings is our termly collaborative story-planning event. Like tentacles grafted onto a viking, we add to an initial prompt until it becomes an outline of a setting, characters and plot. Somebody then proposes actually writing it as a story, and invariably never does; until you arrive, and break the cycle… Previous examples include the environmentalist space-western Tentacular Yaks, the apocalypse of Milton Keynes, and the celebrated time-travelling saga Boom Sticks. A prompt will be provided before or at the event; anyone is free to come up with one. |
| 6 Feb | Friday | 3rd Week | Trinity | Speaker | Join the Sunday Times best-selling author of A Song of Legends Lost, M.H. Ayinde, to talk about her books, ancient artefacts and fantasy. See event for more details. |
| 8 Feb | Sunday | 4th Week | Trinity | Discussion | Ethics in SFF (explicitly explored ethics) – philosophy discussion idea (GOOD) |
| 15 Feb | Sunday | 5th Week | Trinity | Discussion | Vampires |
| 22 Feb | Sunday | 6th Week | Trinity | Discussion | Collaboration with the Poetry Society |
| 1 Mar | Sunday | 7th Week | Trinity | Discussion | Weird Aliens |
| 6 Mar | Friday | 3rd Week | Trinity Garden Room | Speaker | Adrian Tchaikovsky |
| 8 Mar | Sunday | 8th Week | TBA | AGM | We are going elect a new committee (please plan your coup). Optionally followed by a game of Werewolf. |
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