Octothorpe

40: Very Exuberant and Very Dangerous


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Content warnings this episode: COVID-19 discussion (chapters 3 and 7)

  • Letters of comment
  • Chris Garcia
  • Roman Orszanski
    • Heathers
  • Mark Plummer
    • Edge of the Earth
  • Get your DisCon III virtual membership
  • DisCon III was unopposed
  • Convention COVID-19 policies
    • John forgot to mention the NHS Covid Pass last week
    • NHS page (for England and Wales)
    • Scotland
  • Northern Ireland
  • Eastercon Community Facebook group post about convention COVID-19 policies
  • BristolCon has released a COVID-19 policy
    • Please wear a mask if you can, no requirement for vaccines or negative tests
  • Corflu has updated their website
    • They will announce a policy but not until closer to the time
  • Upcoming conventions
    • FantasyCon
  • FIYAHCON
  • Octocon 2021
  • Picks
    • The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
    • The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories by H. P. Lovecraft (paperback, ebook, Kindle)
  • The Lovecraft Investigations: The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
    • iPlayer
  • RSS for all good podcast apps
  • Alison’s pick
    • The Otherwise Award
  • Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora (paperback, ebook, Kindle)
  • Liz’s pick
    • Star Trek: Lower Decks (on Amazon Prime in the UK)
  • File 770 reports the UK has a new National Film and Sci-Fi Museum
  • The UK’s rocketry programme
    • The Needles Old Battery and New Battery is maintained by the National Trust
    • Alison notes “they are super misleading – the [page] has a photo of Woomera on it."
  • Black Arrow Replica at the Wight Aviation Museum
  • High Down Rocket Test Site
  • Music credits
    • Our theme music is Fanfare for Space by Kevin MacLeod, used under a CC BY 4.0 license
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