John is exchanging, Alison is rekindling her sensawunda, and Liz is watching the builders.

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• We are fifty! That’s kind of unbelievable.
• Letters of comment
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• Podcast corner:
  • Liz has been listening to the Caribbean SF Podcast
    • Brandon O’Brien Can You Sign My Tentacle?
    • Karen Lord The Plague Doctors
• Convention corner:
  • Redemption has been postponed by a year
  • Corflu Pangloss has been postponed by six months
  • The FAAn awards have not moved
    • The TAFF Free eBooks page
• TAFF voting is here
  • Alison says “Anders for TAFF!”
  • John is pro-Dill Chips (Fia)
• Professor Esther MacCallum-Stewart’s inaugural lecture is on Dungeons and Dragons and is being streamed online
• The BSFA Awards Long List
  • Thank you to whoever nominated us!
• The Vimes Boots index
• Picks
  • John: Leviathan Falls by James S.A. Corey (hardback, epub, Kindle)
  • Alison: The Actual Star by Monica Byrne (hardback, epub, Kindle)
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  • Liz: Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky (paperback, epub, Kindle)
• Music credits
  • Our theme music is Fanfare for Space by Kevin MacLeod, used under a CC BY 4.0 license