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John has a hat on, Alison is taking the baton, and Liz twirls.

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Content warnings this episode: COVID-19 (chapter 2)

• Letters of comment
  
  
  
  • Chris Garcia
    
    
    
    • The Drink Tank
    
    
    • Sci-Fi Short of the Week
    
    
    • DUST
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Andrew January
  
  
  • Roman Orszanski
  
  
  • Duncan McGregor and cDave on Twitter
  
  
  • Raj sent a nice message on Twitter as well
  
  
  • Fran Dowd
    
    
    
    • Celluloid Screams
    
    
    • Fear2000
    
    
    • Sheffield DocFest
    
    
    • The Festival of Fantastic Films
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Farah Mendlesohn
    
    
    
    • Science Fiction Research Association
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  


• Octothorpe COVID Round-Up
  
  
  
  • WisCon’s post-con COVID report
  
  
  • Andrew Plotkin’s write-up of Scintillation
  
  
  
  


• The Hugo Awards’ 25% rule
  
  
  
  • WSFS Constitution (see §3.12.2)
  
  
  • Olav Rokne and Amanda Wakaruk’s proposal to remove this clause
  
  
  
  


• Picks
  
  
  
  • John: Elgato Stream Deck Mini
  
  
  • Alison: Cricket
  
  
  • Liz: Kevin
  
  
  
  


• Interactive Fiction
  
  
  
  • Spider and Web
  
  
  
  


• Credits
  
  
  
  • Cover art: Robots by Alison Scott
    
    
    
    • Alt text: Three round robot vacuum cleaners on a wood panel floor in a triangle formation. The lower-left one has glasses like John’s and looks like it’s open-mouthed; the upper-centre one has glasses like Alison’s and looks like it’s smiling; the lower-right one has no glasses like Liz and looks like it’s smiling. The text “Octothorpe 61” appears above the robots.
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Theme music: ‘Fanfare for Space’ by Kevin MacLeod (CC BY 4.0)