42: I‘m Up for Running Controlcon

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