Sidetracks - November 26, 2020

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Jodie

1. The annual Ballou book drive has pivoted to become The Books As Refuge list where books will be gifted to the students at home during the pandemic.

2. Mary Wollstonecraft sees her terrible statue.

3. Here's an actually good statue dedicated to the women executed at Prestonpans as part of the witch trials.

4. Time picks 100 Must-Read Books of 2020.

KJ

5. Matt Leacock, creator of the cooperative board game Pandemic, talks about why he made a game for people to play as a team rather than as competitors, and why that's relevant to our current situation. Written in March 2020 but still feels sadly current.

6. Here's an actual play video of Omniblades in the Dark, a mashup of Mass Effect and the Blades in the Dark tabletop RPG, featuring Jennifer Hale and Mark Meer as players.

7. The Disney Corporation is refusing to pay legendary author Alan Dean Foster any royalties for his Star Wars tie-in novels. SFWA is handling his case and has asked for any other SF/F authors with similar complaints to share their stories.