Fiction:Science Fiction
John, Alison, and guest Marguerite Smith are live from Novacon 50!
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Content warnings this episode: women’s body shapes (we are very positive about all body shapes but we wanted to let y’all know we touch on it)
- Novacon
- Worldcon
- DisCon III
- Glasgow in 2024
- Dublin in 2029
- Picks
- John: Voting in the Hugo Awards because he’s insufferably smug about having done the reading
- Alison: Daangerous Visions: A Faanfiction Faanthology, 1939–2009
- Marguerite:
- A book by Joseph Elliott-Coleman (and apologies that we got the surname wrong in the episode)
- Burning Brightly: 50 Years of Novacon
- How to pronounce the word “grimace”
- Music credits
- Our theme music is Rattlesnake Railroad by Brett Van Donsel, used under a CC BY 4.0 license
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