John chaired, Alison is off on holiday, and Liz has the agenda.

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• Letters of comment
  
  
  
  • Ang Rosin (Facebook)
    
    
    
    • Andrea Bell and Derek Hockridge
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Bridget Bradshaw (Facebook)
  
  
  • Chris Garcia (email)
  
  
  • Farah Mendlesohn (email, Facebook)
  
  
  • Jake Casella Brookins (Bluesky)
  
  
  • Louise Hughes (Bluesky)
  
  
  • Neil Ottenstein (Facebook)
  
  
  • Paul Weimer (email)
  
  
  • Roseanna Pendlebury (Bluesky)
  
  
  • Shi Lala (Facebook)
  
  
  
  


• 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)