New Irish Science Fiction Association

The next meeting will take place in the White Horse Inn on the 13th May at 8pm. 

The guest speaker will be Michael Carroll.  Michael has recently published a collection of short stories, "Superhuman" which  are connected to his "New Heroes" series.  You can find out more about these on the official "New Heroes" website www.quantumprophecy.com.  

Just a quick note to remind you of the NISFA meeting on Tuesday 8th April. The meeting is in the White Horse Inn at 8pm and the guest speaker is Derek Gunn, author of Vampire Apocalypse.

This month's meeting of the New Irish Schence Fiction Association will take place tomorrow, Tuesday March 11th at the White Horse Inn.

Feb: CE Murphy will be talking about urban fantasy. She will take a look at how the genre has changed in the last twenty years, discuss what makes a story urban fantasy vs the extremely popular "paranormal romance" that's out there, and then open things up to discussion.

As the White Horse Inn is not open on Jan 1st, our first meeting of 2008 meeting has been moved to January 8th at 8pm. Our esteemed guest will be our own Rory Lennon, possibly the best read person in Science Fiction, will give his predictions for the year... that is the year 5 million!

Following our recent poll, in which the majority of people said they didn't mind changing to the second Tuesday, or in quite a few cases said that it suited them better, from now on NISFA meetings will take place on the second Tuesday of every month.

Yes, Tuesday is NISFA's first Christmas party, so please come along and enjoy yourself.

DJ David Walsh hosts the event. We plan to bring plenty of seasonal delicies. Please feel free to bring along some of your favourite Chrismas foods to add to the party.

Robert from Sub City has some exciting news...

We have David Llyod coming over for a talk on Tuesday 27 of this month and then in Galway on Thursday the 29th. He will be promoting his latest book Kickback. The Dublin talk will take place in the Central hotel on the first floor and begins at seven thirty with a brief talk followed by a Q and A session and then a signing.

On Monday November 12th, John Vaughan's (guest at several Octocons, P-Con 2008, MeCon 2008) short movie Valour is scheduled to shown on RTE2 at 23:55. I've seen this and highly recommend it.

DJ Dave Walsh hosts our Christmas party.

Please bring two gifts, a good one and a rubbish one for random redistribution on the night.

The November meeting of NISFA will take take place on 6th November in the White Horse Inn at 8pm. The speaker will be Peader Ó Guilín, who will read from one of his short stories and his new novel, The Inferior. As well as writimg curious stories for as long as he can remember, Peadar was involved in a project to translate the Linux operating system into Irish.

Our host for this meeting is Brian Macken, chairman of Octocon.

The agenda for the evening is as follows: