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+)
- 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