Birmingham Science Fiction Group

1990-1994

The meeting place changed frequently in the first half of the nineties. They began at the Imperial hotel in 1990 and changed to the Ivy Bush in August of that year until March of 1991. There were two meetings at the Midland Hotel - Anne McCaffrey in March, and Grant and Naylor in April. Then back to the Ivy Bush for a couple of months. Twentycon, the group's 20th anniversary, replaced the regular meeting and ran all weekend at the Holiday Inn on Hill Street rather than the one off Broad Street that had been used for previous meetings. The rest of 1991 was spent at the Australian Bar on Hurst Street. The meetings moved to the White Lion for a year and a half with the exception of a special meeting for Joe Haldeman. That meeting was advertised as being in the brand new Arcade Hotel off Hurst Street but, the night before the meeting, the hotel chain decided that it would be called the Ibis which led to some confusion. From August of 93 the group moved back to the Australian Bar.

	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994
January	AGM	AGM	AGM	AGM, Tom Holt	AGM
February	Matt Irvine	Richard Evans LargeText Editor	Greg Bear, John Brunner	Stephen Baxter	Michael Scott Rohan
March	Robert Rankin	Does The Team Think?, Anne McCaffrey	David Gemmell	Bob Shaw	Glasgow Worldcon
April	Ramsey Campbell	Rob Grant & Dave Naylor	John Jarrold Legend Editor	Joe Haldeman, Graham Joyce	Peter Hamilton
May	Michael Guest Dowser	Graham Joyce	Jack Cohen, Terry Pratchett	Colin Greenland	Gwyneth Jones
June	David Brin	Paul J McAuley	Does The Team Think?	Harry Harrison, Louise Cooper	Amanda Baker & Dave Clements Another rotten night in paradise/astronomy
July	Brian Aldiss	Twentycon at the Holiday Inn.	Ian Stewart	Dave Cox's Pub Quiz	Angus Wells
August	Group Discussion	Freda Warrington	Pam Wells	Garry Kilworth	Christopher Evans
September	Bob Shaw	Anne Gay	Simon Green, Kim Stanley Robinson	Iain Banks	Robert Holdstock
October	Tad Williams	David A Hardy	Ian Watson	Brian Aldiss	John Priest SFX & Animatronix
November	Debate with BUSFS	Dan Simmons	Debate with BUSFS	Debate with BUSFS	Debate with BUSFS
December	Christmas Party at the New Happy Gathering	Christmas Party at the Wagon & Horses	Christmas Party	Christmas Party	Christmas Party at the Samson and Lion