Welcome to Sydney Futurian site 

Sydney Futurians is a group of individuals who enjoy discussion in Sci-Fi/fantasy literature, movies and TV within genre also Sci-fi-like-science.  Sydney Futurians have a monthly meeting but also promote other groups in Sydney.   Meeting most months of the year on the third Friday of the month, except where that Friday clashes with a public holiday or is ahead of a long weekend. More ....

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The original Sydney Futurian Society started meeting in 1939, three years after the convention or meeting of SF fans in England. We revere and respect them for starting Australian Science Fiction fandom at a time when being a Science Fiction fan was a brave and lonely thing. Currently we have indirect links with the members of that first group.

"For good Science Fiction to be appreciated, imagination must be Free1" Garry Dalrymple .

Sydney Futurians are now a Facebook group

Sydney Futurians - Meetings&Events 2009

The format 2008 Sydney Futurian meetings is participation.  All present are invited to share their news, recent news of SF, Sci-Fi, Science and SF&F fandom people and events, and then we discuss the advertised SF&F topic. All are invited to share their experience of any Books / TV or Movies that they may have read / seen that they feel is relevent to the topic.
Sydney Futurian Meetings are held on the third Friday of the month (excluding March and November) at UTS Tower building, Broadway Sydney - meeting around 6.55pm in the foyer of the Tower building. Futurians may be found wandering around near Basement Books  prior to the meeting.  Meetings usually finish around 8.30pm.
  • January 16: Topic: Colonising Planets in SF&F
  • February 20: Topic: Parasites & Symbiotes + finalising the topic list fo 2009
  • March 20: Topic: Religion & Philosophy
  • April 4: Sydney Futurians - Sydney Bookshop Crawl/Homeless March -->
  • April 17: Topic: Torture, Punishment, Imprisonment and Restraints
  • May 17: Topic: Complexity in SF&F Stories
  • June 19: Topic: Avian Alien Life Forms
  • July 17: Topic: Cyber Prostitution and other intimate services on possible in SF&F Stories
  • August 21: Topic: Fantasy Stories that are Feudal Free or otherwise break the 'Quest Fantasy' mould
  • September 18: Topic: Politics, Money & The Economy - the realistic, the ludicrous & the idealist
  • October 16: Topic: The aspects that a SF Story must have to take it beyond being a Mundane story
  • November 14-15:  FREECON2009  - tentative date - more soon 
  • November 20: Topic: A discussion of the Best and Worst Alien Life forms
  • December 18: Topic: Future pre-occupations for SF?
  • January 15 2010:
     Your Best and Worst SF&F / Sci-Fi etc for 2009