John is a thief, Alison plays games, and Liz is bullied.
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Letters of comment

Andreas Davour
Bella Garcia
Constanze Hoffman
Farah Mendlesohn
Jonathan Cowie
June Young
Mike Scott
Neil Ottenstein
Raj
Tammy Coxen
Zoe O’Connell
We also heard from Bridget Bradshaw, Colin Harris, Meg MacDonald, and Shi Lala


Fan funds

The 2025 TAFF race has begun

Zi Graves, Mikołaj Kowalewski, Jan Vaněk jr.


CUFF comes to an end


Fowler Award
Hugo Awards

2025 spreadsheet of doom
Novels

T**he Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett
The Sentence by Gautam Bhatia
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
The Life Impossible by Matt Haig
Jumpnauts by Hao Jingfang
The Siege of Burning Grass by Premee Mohamed
Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky
House of Open Wounds by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Absolution by Jeff Vandermeer
We Are All Ghosts in the Forest by Lorraine Wilson


Novellas

A Mourning Coat by Alex Jeffers
North Continent Ribbon by Ursula Whitcher


Short Stories

Grottmata by Thomas Ha
Five Views of the Planet Tartarus by Rachael K Jones


Related Works

Track Changes: Selected Reviews **by Abigail Nussbaum
Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the A**lt-Right by Jordan S. Carroll


Series

The Horus Heresy
The Southern Reach
The Tyrant Philosophers


Graphic Stories

Warp Your Own Way by Ryan North and Chris Fenoglio

Abigail Nussbaum’s review at Strange Horizons




Dramatic Presentations

All of Us Strangers
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
I Saw the TV Glow
Late Night with the Devil
My Old Ass
A Quiet Place: Day One
The Substance
Timestalker
Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
The Wild Robot


Games

Tabletop

Arcs
City of Six Moons
Mothership
Undaunted 2200: Callisto


Video

Animal Well
Caves of Qud
Dragon Age: The Veilguard
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdo**m
Slice and Dice 3.0
Star Wars: Outlaws
Tale of the Golden Idol
UFO50


Other

Bridge Command




Poems

Sandra Bond


Fan categories

Artists

Alison Scott
España Sheriff


Podcasts

Fanac Fan History Zooms
Going Rogue
Hugo, Girl!
A Meal of Thorns


Writers

Camestros Felapton
Ersatz Culture
Roseanna Pendlebury


Fanzines

Ancillary Review of Books
Banana Wings
Ornithopter
Unofficial Hugo Book Club




Debut authors

Moniquill Blackgoose


[Alison did not write any of her selections into the show notes and I was sorely tempted not to go through and write them all down for her but I did it for you, listener. I did it for you—John]


Picks [isn’t this a whole episode of picks?—Liz]

John: Earthborne Rangers
Alison: The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
Liz: Horizon Zero Dawn
Sorry Mark


Credits

Cover art: “Waffle of comment” by Bella Garcia

Alt text: A picture of a Belgian waffle that looks like an octothorpe, on a white background, with the words “Octothorpe 126” above and “now with added waffle” below.


Theme music: “Fanfare for Space” by Kevin MacLeod (CC BY 4.0)

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