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 ....

SHOULD WE STAY OR SHOULD WE GO ...?  To another day of the week? 
There is nothing intrinsically 'Futurian' about meeting on a Friday night.     We have traditionally met on this night only because in years past we could usually count on the UTS being quiet enough to guarantee us a room on Friday nights.     If you are interested in seeing the Futurians continue to meet please get in touch and let me know if there is a night of the week each month that for you is more convenient than a Friday night.      Comments to Garry ?

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 - Meetings 2008

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.
  • March 14:  Topic:  Women & Girls in SF&F, Archtypes, Stereotypes and Iconoclastic character
  • April 18:    Topic:  Religion and Atheism in SF&F - Meeting Notes  
  • May 16:     Topic:  Police & Law Enforcement in SF&F
  • June 20:    Topic:  Memorable Weapons in SF&F - the Wierd, the Magical, the  Extreme the pathetic or weapons of opportunity
  • July 18: Topic:  Humour in SF&F Stories  
  • August 9: Futurians Invitational Pasta dinner at Garry's Place 
    email Garry to advise of attendance.
  • August 15: Topic:  Terraforming in  SF&F
  • September 19:  Topic: Pirates and Freebooters - Arrrrrrrrrrgh
  • October 17: Topic: Space Stations in SF&F 
  • November 8/9 -  Freecon 2008 at Sydney Mechanics School of the Arts SMSA
  • November 21: Topic: Really Bad ideas is SF&F
  • December 12:  Topic: TIme Travel in SF&F

    2009
    January 19: Topic:Colonising Planets in SF&F
    February 16: Topic: The Best & Worst SF&F of 2008 - Books, Movies, TV, Comics & SF Fan Events

    2010 - NON-Futurian news!!!!!
    September 2-6: AUSTRALIA WINS WORLDCON FOR 2010
    Aussiecon 4 will be held 2-6 September 2010 at the new Melbourne
    Convention & Exhibition Centre. Guests of Honor: Kim Stanley Robinson,
    Robin Johnson and Shaun Tan. Co-Chairs Perry Middlemiss and Rose
    Mitchell.  More - www.aussiecon4. org.au