John is listening to podcasts, Alison is reading stories, and Liz is watching TV.
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Content warnings this episode: COVID-19 discussion (chapters 3 and 7)
- Letters of comment
- Chris Garcia
- Roman Orszanski
- Mark Plummer
- Edge of the Earth
- Get your DisCon III virtual membership
- DisCon III was unopposed
- Convention COVID-19 policies
- John forgot to mention the NHS Covid Pass last week
- NHS page (for England and Wales)
- Scotland
- Northern Ireland
- Eastercon Community Facebook group post about convention COVID-19 policies
- BristolCon has released a COVID-19 policy
- Please wear a mask if you can, no requirement for vaccines or negative tests
- Corflu has updated their website
- They will announce a policy but not until closer to the time
- Upcoming conventions
- FantasyCon
- FIYAHCON
- Octocon 2021
- Picks
- The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
- The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories by H. P. Lovecraft (paperback, ebook, Kindle)
- The Lovecraft Investigations: The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
- iPlayer
- RSS for all good podcast apps
- Alison’s pick
- The Otherwise Award
- Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora (paperback, ebook, Kindle)
- Liz’s pick
- Star Trek: Lower Decks (on Amazon Prime in the UK)
- File 770 reports the UK has a new National Film and Sci-Fi Museum
- The UK’s rocketry programme
- The Needles Old Battery and New Battery is maintained by the National Trust
- Alison notes “they are super misleading – the [page] has a photo of Woomera on it."
- Black Arrow Replica at the Wight Aviation Museum
- High Down Rocket Test Site
- Music credits
- Our theme music is Fanfare for Space by Kevin MacLeod, used under a CC BY 4.0 license