John is doing Discord, Liz is doing programme, and Alison isn’t working on the Worldcon.

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• Letters of comment
  • Karen Schaffer
    • Peach and bourbon pie
  • Chris Garcia
  • Peter Sullivan
  • Kat Kourbeti
  • Facebook
    • Farah Mendlesohn
    • Mike Scott
      • The Great Paladin Hunt by Mike Brunton
    • Malcolm Hutchison
    • Jonny Baddeley
• Glasgow 2024
  • Glasgow 2024 Worldcon Community Group on Facebook
  • Cerebus
    • Humble Bundle
    • Reviews by Tom Ewing
  • Why is Alison collecting a big pile of con badges?
    • The Streisand Effect
      • (I know I got it slightly wrong in the episode!)
• Awards
  • 2024 Locus Award winners
  • 2024 Nebula Award winners
• Antipodes
  • Brisbane in 2028
    • File 770 report (with details of their socials/mailing list)
    • Worldcon 1939
    • Minneapolis in 2073: Progress Report 11
    • Torched by Alissa Walker
  • Continuity 2024
    • The 2024 New Zealand NatCon
    • John spent ages assuming that the above was just the online portal, but it is in fact the convention website
    • There is some backstory on this at SFFANZ
• Picks
  • John: Alan Wake 2
    • Saga Anderson’s sweater
    • I didn’t mention it on the podcast at all and it’s just for you, the show note reader, but I was watching this sketch when I was waiting for Alison and Liz this morning: ”Beavis and Butt-Head” from SNL
  • Alison: Animal Well
  • Liz: Will Anderson’s YouTube channel about Scrabble
• Credits
  • Cover art: “Massive Lizard” by Alison Scott
    • Alt text: Three stick figures run from Godzilla, who is depicted in the style of Godzilla Minus One. The words “Octothorpe 113” used to be at the top of the art, but Godzilla has knocked off the letters “O C T O”, is holding “H”, and is trying to eat “T”.
  • Theme music: “Fanfare for Space” by Kevin MacLeod (CC BY 4.0)