PSFS June 2025 Meeting (in person) - Guest speaker Alan Smale

The June 2025 meeting of PSFS will be held in person at Saint Mary's Church, located on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania (Hamilton Village) in Philadelphia. Street and garage parking are nearby, and the location is near SEPTA transit stops. PSFS meetings begin with club business, followed by the author or artist guest talk and Q&A.

The guest speaker for the June meeting will be author Alan Smale.

Alan Smale writes alternate history and hard SF. His novella of a Roman invasion of ancient America, A Clash of Eagles, won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History, and his novels set in the same universe, Clash of Eagles, Eagle in Exile, and Eagle and Empire (2015-2017) are available from Penguin Random House/Del Rey. His “Roman baseball” collaboration with Rick Wilber, The Wandering Warriors, came out from WordFire Press in 2020, and Hot Moon, his alternate-Apollo technothriller set entirely on and around the Moon, was launched by CAEZIK SF & Fantasy in 2022, followed by sequels Radiant Sky (2024) and Burning Night (Sep 2025). Alan has sold 50+ stories to Asimov’s, Galaxy’s Edge, Abyss & Apex and numerous other magazines and anthologies, and his short story “Gunpowder Treason” earned him a second Sidewise Award in 2022. His non-fiction essays have appeared in Lightspeed, Journey Planet, and Galaxy’s Edge.

Alan grew up in Yorkshire, England, and earned degrees in Physics and Astrophysics from Oxford University. Until recently he performed astronomical research at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and served as director of an astrophysical data archive.

You can find additional information on Alan and his works on his website here https://www.alansmale.com or on Amazon here https://www.amazon.com/stores/Alan-Smale/author/B00BAFDPWO.