52: Who’s Robert Picardo?

John, Alison and Liz have been nominated for a BSFA Award! (Also, Liz is on holiday, naturally.)

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• Letters of comment
  • Chris Garcia
    • The Flying Fantastical Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
  • Peter Sullivan
    • Chris for TAFF
  • Kin-Ming Looi
  • Duncan MacGregor
  • Lori Anderson
• Hugo deadline is March 15th
  • We recommended some things on Cora Buhlert’s blog
  • Tears of the Anaren by C. W. Longbottom
• Eastercon: What do you want from your bids?
  • Liz:
    • Who’s running it and why?
    • Where and why?
      • Are there significant drawbacks?
    • Commitment to having code of conduct/access policies, even if they’re in progress
    • Why will it be particularly fun?
    • What bits of Eastercon tradition don’t you plan to implement (if any)?
    • What are your plans for hybrid/virtual content?
    • Do you have a good presentation that shows you have organisational nous?
  • Alison:
    • Expanding on who’s running the convention a little
    • Are you running at Easter? (See Eastercon tradition)
    • What about real ale?
    • What are your provisions for children?
  • John:
    • How much will it cost?
• Picks
  • Liz: The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years: From The Next Generation to J. J. Abrams: The Complete, Uncensored, and Unauthorized Oral History of Star Trek (hardback, epub, Kindle)
  • John: Android: Netrunner (eBay)
  • Alison: I Didn’t Do the Thing Today by Madeleine Dore (paperback, epub, Kindle)
• The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri (paperback, epub, Kindle)
• Music credits
  • Our theme music is Fanfare for Space by Kevin MacLeod, used under a CC BY 4.0 license