61: That Little Voice in Your Head

John has a hat on, Alison is taking the baton, and Liz twirls. Please email your letters of comment to [email protected] and tag @OctothorpeCast when you post about the show on social media. 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)