Octothorpe

42: I‘m Up for Running Controlcon


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John used to have a different face, Alison is going to Smofcon, and Liz is in disguise.

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Content warnings this episode: COVID-19 discussion (chapter 2)

  • We’re doing Octothorpe Live at Novacon on 1pm at Sunday!
  • Letters of comment
    • COVID: Jonathan Baddeley, Ali Baker, Bill Burns, Chris Garcia, Ang Rosin
    • Dragonmeet’s COVID policy
  • High-school movie round-up: people on Facebook, Bridget Bradshaw, Farah Mendlesohn
    • Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  • Election
  • The Faculty
  • Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion
  • Karen Schaffer
  • Smofcon Europe
    • Cheap flights by Fascinating Aida
  • Douglas Adams content!
    • Chris Garcia
  • Alex Holden
  • Everyone else
  • Liz had these covers
  • The BBC Big Read
  • Dublin 2029 was announced at Octocon
    • File 770
  • Ed Fortune’s Tweet
  • Sara Felix is bidding Texas (in 2031?)
  • The Science Fiction Encyclopedia
    • Edited by friend of the show Dave Langford and John Clute, with Graham Sleight as managing editor and remembering the late Peter Nicholls as founding editor
  • The new fourth edition is now self-published, having moved on from Gollancz and SF Gateway
  • Octothorpe Live will be at Novacon
    • How to get from Thailand to London by train
  • Picks
    • John: Lovecraft Country (on Now)
  • Alison: Foundation (on Apple TV+)
    • Women
  • Liz: Children of Ruin (epub, Kindle, paperback)
    • Arrival (on Netflix)
  • Embassytown (epub, Kindle, paperback)
  • The Embedding (epub, Kindle, paperback)
  • Native Tongue (epub, Kindle, paperback)
  • Music credits
    • Our theme music is Fanfare for Space by Kevin MacLeod, used under a CC BY 4.0 license
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