This week we have the wonderful Una McCormack coming to speak to us - she'll be talking about reading SF, writing fanfic, getting published, and writing original fiction (all interspersed with discussion and short readings).
If you're joining her for dinner, you probably have told Carol already. Meet at 6:45pm at the Newnham Plodge.
We have a library in the New Museums site. Our Glorious Lady Librarian Roseanna will not be there at the usual time of Thursday at 4:30 this week, this having nothing whatsoever to do with her work. Friday at 3:30 remains a possibility -- email her (rmp51) if you cannot live without going underground. She might also get books for you if you email her.
Carol informs us that we we will be discussing The Year Of Our War by Steph Swainston later in the term. The society has 4 copies of this novel, though they were purchased over the summer so aren't on the catalogue yet. Carol will bring the two copies that live with her along to the Sunday meeting.
CUSFS (and later Jómsborg the New) has been bringing literary discussion of Science Fiction and Fantasy to students and the general public in Cambridge since 1963. Every week during University Full Term we have a discussion on Sunday evenings, be it on an author, a theme, or the latest bizarre theory explaining why there's nothing good on TV anymore. We tend to alternate between Science Fiction discussions and Fantasy discussions (which, until 1996, were the exclusive preserve of Jómsborg).
If you would like more information on what CUSFS does, please contact the committee at soc-cusfs at lists dot cam dot ac dot uk.
CUSFS now has an official IRC channel, #cusfs on the irc.srcf.ucam.org server. If you're unfamiliar with IRC and the link doesn't work, try the assassins IRC instructions, replacing "#assassins" with "#cusfs".
The library sale is still open, to both members and non-members. Details are on the sale page; get your requests in soon!
This website is updated intermittently. We will try to get it right every time, but if you notice something broken, please mail soc-cusfs at lists dot cam dot ac dot uk. Likewise, please get in touch if you have any suggestions for changes or additions to the site.
Valvepunk, where the transistor was never invented, is being developed by CUSFS as a shared world.
The original artist for the CUSFS Cuddly Alien you see above has been found! Jeremy Henty, take a bow!
