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Listen "120: Activate Liz"
Episode Synopsis
John does a funny voice, Alison recoils, and Liz loves big stats and she cannot lie.
An uncorrected transcript of this episode is available here. Please email your letters of comment to [email protected], join our Facebook group, and tag @OctothorpeCast (on X or on Mastodon or on Bluesky) when you post about the show on social media.
Content warnings this episode: Death (chapter 5)
Letters of comment
Abigail Nussbaum
Chris Garcia
Alison closing a parenthesis
Emily January
España Sheriff
Farah Mendlesohn
Ivan Sinha
Nicholas Whyte
Upcoming eclipses
Tammy Coxen
2024 Hugo Voting Statistics
2024 Sankey diagrams
2020 Sankey diagrams
Picks
John: The Substance
Definitely not Subterranea
Alison: UFO 50
Liz: Alien Clay
Credits
Cover art: “Judge Coxon” by Alison Scott
Alt text: Words read ‘Octothorpe 120: Introducing Judge Coxon. “I am the lore”’. They are around a picture of John as a Judge in the style of 2000AD, holding a big stack of books. The logo of the Clarke Award may or may not appear in the artwork.
Theme music: “Fanfare for Space” by Kevin MacLeod (CC BY 4.0)
An uncorrected transcript of this episode is available here. Please email your letters of comment to [email protected], join our Facebook group, and tag @OctothorpeCast (on X or on Mastodon or on Bluesky) when you post about the show on social media.
Content warnings this episode: Death (chapter 5)
Letters of comment
Abigail Nussbaum
Chris Garcia
Alison closing a parenthesis
Emily January
España Sheriff
Farah Mendlesohn
Ivan Sinha
Nicholas Whyte
Upcoming eclipses
Tammy Coxen
2024 Hugo Voting Statistics
2024 Sankey diagrams
2020 Sankey diagrams
Picks
John: The Substance
Definitely not Subterranea
Alison: UFO 50
Liz: Alien Clay
Credits
Cover art: “Judge Coxon” by Alison Scott
Alt text: Words read ‘Octothorpe 120: Introducing Judge Coxon. “I am the lore”’. They are around a picture of John as a Judge in the style of 2000AD, holding a big stack of books. The logo of the Clarke Award may or may not appear in the artwork.
Theme music: “Fanfare for Space” by Kevin MacLeod (CC BY 4.0)
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