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The Ottawa Science Fiction Society

Events:

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

  • 2:00 pm - Meeting, Dalhousie Community Centre: Come Game With Us. Gerry Paquette from Algonquin College and his son will provide the program. They'll take about the games side of the SFF genres. This should be as hands on as OSFS gets. Gerry will present his new board game.

    Julian Paquette will put on a Dungeons & Dragons game. Members can play an online version of the game on Facebook: Gerrys says this link will familiarize you with the different races, classes, stats as well as the type of situations they might have to face.

On various Saturday afternoons...

  • c. 4:00 p.m. - On an irregular basis, club members get together to see movies and have dinner afterwards. Those interested should contact our Communications officer, Alex Binkley. A list of upcoming movies is here.


Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Meetings are held at the Dalhousie Community Centre at 755 Somerset St. W. at 2 p.m. on the last Sunday of each month, unless otherwise noted.


Please note that we are now meeting in Room 1, on the ground floor near the main office and the entrance.




About OSFS

The Ottawa Science Fiction Society is an organization of fans of science fiction, fantasy and other speculative fiction in its various forms, whether in prose novels or comics, television or motion pictures, hardcopy or software.

We get our kicks from a lot of things: superhero comics, anime and manga, TV space operas, military and medical fiction ... there is a lot of SF out there you might be surprised to have pointed out to you. Sure, Star Trek and The X-Files are the obvious candidates, but who might think of Tom Clancy's novels or the television show ER as fitting the definition?

We might. If nothing else, we'll hear you out if you think so.

What is SF, anyway?

Obviously, we think SF covers a lot more ground than the stereotypical space-based idea of "Science Fiction." Some hold that SF should stand for "Speculative Fiction" -- fiction that looks forward, asks "what if ...", challenges the status quo through the art of story telling. Others feel that this definition is too broad, that all fiction is speculative. Whatever term you choose, you'll get a lively discussion from us.

OSFS is the oldest operating science fiction club in Ottawa. Founded in 1977 and incorporated in 1979, it is a non-profit organization whose main purpose is the cultivation of interest in all aspects of science, science fiction, fantasy and comics.

Our regular monthly meetings are usually held on the last Sunday of the month, except during summer hiatus. We also organize field trips to local sites and events.


Recent Constitutional Amendments

The Bylaws of the Ottawa Science Fiction Society were amended at the November 2009 Annual General Meeting. The changes are described here.


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