Top 10 Sci-Fi Films (Movies) ever!

The membership have spoken!

However as it was at the Christmas party there could be some element of alcoholic confusion involved.

1. 2001 - A Space Odyssey (1968)
2. Blade Runner - The Final Cut (1982)
3. Alien (1979)
4. Star Wars (1977)
5. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
6. District 9 (2009)
7. The Terminator (1984)
8. Forbidden Planet (1956)
9. The Thing (1982)
10. Body Snatchers (1956)

It being the BSFFG we also were presented by the Worst 10

1. Star Wars - The Phantom Mess (1999)
2. Star Wars - Attack of the Clowns (2002)
3. Star Wars - Revenge of the Sh1t (2005)
4 Highlander Deux : The Quackening (1991)
5. Planet of the Japes (2004)
6. Indiana Jones and the Perspex Skull (2008)
7. Kink Konk (2005)
8. War of the Wierds (2005)
9. Batman 4evah (1995)
10. The Island of Dr. Moron (1996)

Liberties may have been taken with some titles but we were in a bit of a state by this time.

One good apple

At a meeting long, long ago in a reality far, far away the Grand High Poobar of the BSFFG commanded a script, treatment or layout for a two minute sci-fi, fantasy or horror production.

The assembled cohorts must have heard the command, digested the information and immediately have forgotten it in time honoured club fashion. Except for one good apple where the synapses fired a little more deeply.

The happy result is as follows.

Classic £5 book cover

The 'Five Ping Pong Balls and a handful of Paperclips' competition was inspired by similar covers to the one below. Note the 'cunningly' disguised ping-pong balls and crinkly cellophane. Blue Peter, come back, all is forgiven.

5 Ping Pong Balls and a handful of Paperclips (Part Deux)

Part Deux

Having discussed the evolution of sci-fi book covers since the '60's and discovering that the average fee for a cover picture from that time could have been as low as £5 it was not surprising to see an example picture consisting of a few ping pong balls and some wire. It was decided to give the membership a chance to create something from this oeuvre. The rules of the competition were sufficiently slipshod to allow a wide range of submissions.

Quatermass Town Planning II

1st in the category 'Armageddon out of here'

Spot 'Clippy' planting the Microsoft flag on the little white asteroid.

1st in the category 'Where did Granny's Boa go? or 'Trouble with Tribbles'

1st in the category 'Cat-o-Vision' or 'No cats were harmed in the making of these goggles but I can't rule it out if that Ginger Tom from next door keeps crapping in my borders'

The inventor

...now with the optional long range wireless nose adapter

5 Ping Pong Balls and a handful of Paperclips Competition

Having discussed the evolution of sci-fi book covers since the '60's and discovering that the average fee for a cover picture from that time could have been as low as £5 it was not surprising to see an example picture consisting of a few ping pong balls and some wire. It was decided to give the membership a chance to create something from this oeuvre. The rules of the competition were sufficiently slipshod to allow a wide range of submissions.

1st. in the category "Less is more"

1st. in the category "It's a million to one they said"

1st. in the category "Quatermass town planning"

1st. in the category "Cosmic Conkers"

1st. in the category "No worms were hurt in this model"

1st. in category "I am not a number"

Haiku, schmaiku or just Sci-Faiku

Being all New Men and aspiring to the ideals of polymaths like the Renaissance giants Leonardo and Galileo we occasionally touch on the more cultural side. The last competition was a Sci-Fi or Fantasy haiku and /or limerick. As the competitiveness within the group stumbles from negative to exponential some of us let their creative juices flow.

From W.

Springing from the pod,

on my face and down my throat,

can you hear me scream!

Out of the Tardis,

is he regenerating?

ask not why but Who.

Flying out at dusk,

seeking blood from innocents,

back in crypt by dawn.

The bolt necked monster

receives a heaven sent jolt.

'Oh God- it's alive!'

The Monolith stands,

what can release it's secrets?

a hairy finger.

Look to the night sky,

what do the heavens reveal?

infinite wonders.

From I.

There was a young Jedi called Skywalker
Who wasn't as good as he ought'er
He killed his own dad
But that wasn't as bad
As his sister, he wanted to pork her

From P.


Frankenstein’s monster
Demands mate from creator
But they belong dead.

 Dracula seeks blood
Van Helsing’s group opposes
Chase, staked beheaded.

 Cursed forbidden love
Failing reincarnation
Kharis turns to dust

 Wolfsbane curse bitten
Talbot seeks shelter from moon
Silver bullet cures

 Black Lagoon disturbed
Creature awakened with lust
Spurned, poisoned, speared - dead?

 Alter ego doctor
Hyde becomes dominant
Jekyll back in death.

 Obelisk at dawn
Moons signal to Jupiter
It’s full of stars Dave.

 First flight into space
One man and something mutates
Electrified end

 Stones from space hold life
Stored by slaves in great hive domes
Oxygen destroys.

 Hobbs End uncovered
Mars race memory released
Demon earthed to ground

 Cornwall grave robbing
Zombie labour for tin mine
Great conflagration

 Replicants on run
Deckard blindly in pursuit
An electric dream?

 Mars flares towards Earth
Tripods and weed attack man
Microbes fight back.

 Freighter diverted
Face hugger inseminates
Xenomorph blasted

 Film crew capture King
Kong’s love leads to fatal fall
Beauty killed the beast.

 Inaccessible
Plateau holds lost dinosaurs
Challenger proved right.

 Mysterious plague
Raises night flesh eating dead
For fun at the farm.

 Thief stops at motel
Sliced and diced in the shower
Mother controls son.

 Silver Shamrock masks
Laced with evil Stonehenge chips
Primed to crush kids heads.

 Abduction predicts
Encounter in Wyoming
To play the five tones.

 Dark side is so bad
But what makes poor Luke so mad?
Darth Vader’s his dad.

 Teens losing cherries
Ignore cries from drowning boy
Butchered by his mum.


(more to come)

Archivist (BPSFC) out.

Who are we?

We're a diverse group including authors, illustrators, artists and modelers within our number. We have a wide range of interests including all the usual suspects of film, comics, modeling, dinosaurs, historical re-enactment, Dalek building etc etc. We have no affiliations to the cults and sects* of the SF world like Trekkies, Dr. Whoists, Blakes 7, Red Dwarves and their ilk but we acknowledge that people's private beliefs are to be respected. Just don't expect us to sit around with pasties** on our foreheads saying "Hab SoSlI' Quch!" (Your mother has a smooth forehead! A powerful insult). We do NOT dress up.

We do however meet at a convivial hostelry, consume alcoholic beverages and cholesterol enhanced comestibles. The club's size is regulated to that which will fit round a large pub table so all can share in the conversation. It must not grow in size so it needs officers or two pub tables (for thus are cliques born) or that a round of drinks is not too expensive.

While membership is not closed a prospective new member must undertake a quest before being considered as a candidate. That quest, perilous and long though it may be, is to find us to present your application. The club name, historical as it is, can be somewhat misleading!

My daughter calls us the 'Nerd Club' and from the viewpoint of a late teenage girl she may well be correct.

* This is not misspelled. If we are truly nerds then we don't get a lot!
** We'd eat them

Archivist (BPSFC) out.