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138: A Tedious Number of Questions About What It’s Like to Run a Games Shop
Octothorpe
1 hour 5 minutes 16 seconds
4 months ago
138: A Tedious Number of Questions About What It’s Like to Run a Games Shop
John chaired, Alison is off on holiday, and Liz has the agenda.
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Worldcon 2027: Montreal bid
Terry Fong has stepped down
There has been some news since, but we’ll discuss it next episode…
Worldcon 2025: Seattle
The results of the consultative votes
The Business Meeting agenda
Instructions on how to attend the virtual Business Meeting
Kate Secor’s annotated Business Meeting agenda
Picks
John: All the Ghosts in the Forest by Lorraine Wilson
Alison: A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
Liz: Old Soul by Susan Barker
Credits
Cover art: “Whizz-Fizz Agenda Time” by Alison Scott
Alt text: A famous photograph of Margaret Hamilton standing beside printed outputs of the code that took the Apollo spacecraft to the Moon, overlaid with the words “Octothorpe 138” and “Whizz-Fizz Agenda Time!”.
Theme music: “Fanfare for Space” by Kevin MacLeod (CC BY 4.0)