Birmingham Science Fiction Group

1985-1989

The 1985 AGM would be tha las meeting at the Ivy Bush for a while. Then meetings moved back to the Imperial until the end of 1986. After that meetings moved to the Ladbroke International which was renamed the Penguin in July 1988. During this time, most Christmas Parties were held somewhere else.

	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989
January	AGM, Anne McCaffrey Dinosaur Planet 2	AGM	AGM	AGM	AGM
February	Robert Rankin Brentford - 8th wonder of the world	Anne McCaffrey	Dr Bob Lambourne Techno-fiction	Freda Warrington	Terry Pratchett
March	Frank Herbert Elections & Governments	Richard Evans Futura Editor	Jonathan Wylie	Bob Shaw	Chris Morgan How to write SF
April	Brian Aldiss Helliconia Winter	Michael Scott Rohan Fantasy - Good & Bad	Greg & Linda Pickersgill World of fandom	Galactic University Challenge	Jack Cohen, C J Cherryh
May	Maxim Jakubowski My life in SF	The future of the BSFG / Charades	Patrick Tilley	Sheri S Tepper	David Gemmell
June	Ramsey Campbell Funny lines in Horror	Excursion, Kim Stanley Robinson	Peter Warrington Watch the skies - UFOs	Professor Jeffrey Knight Robots	Booksellers Forum
July	Dr. John Davies Astronomer	S F Masterteam - Quiz	Storm Constantine	Maureen Porter & Paul Kincaid BSFA	David A Hardy Space in movie SFX
August	Matt Irvine BBC SFX	Dr. John Davies Astronomer	David Brin	Iain Banks	Stephen Lawhead
September	Josephine Saxton SF/Feminism/"The Power of Time"	Toby Roxburgh Futura Editor	Patrick Collins	John Jarrold Futura Editor	Neil Gaiman
October	Snoo Wilson "Inside Babel"	Brian Aldiss	Bob Shaw	Debate with BUSFS	Debate with BUSFS
November	Debate with BUSFS	Debate with BUSFS	Harry Harrison	Gwyneth Jones	Harry Harrison
December	Christmas Party at Bacchos, Marston Green	Christmas Party	Christmas Party at Forbidden City	Christmas Party at Aston University	Christmas Party at Aston University

"The March meeting, at which Frank Herbert was our guest, was a resounding success, with an attendance of almost 100" ... "After a very late start, due to Frank Herbert's late departure from London" ... "his talk began around 10:15". (newsletter April 1985).

APA-B

"On Tuesday the 9th of July, The Organization (aka APA-B) split from the BSFG. It is now a seperate, autonomous entity, and will receive no further funds from the BSFG. A full report should appear in next month's newsletter." (Newsletter July 1985) The "full report" never appeared. The Organization continued until 2003.