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
- 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:
- 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