John is ready, Alison had forgotten, and Liz is surprised.
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Content warnings this episode: Animal torture (letters of comment)

Letters of comment

Chris Garcia (email)
Ed Morland (BlueSky)
Farah Mendlesohn (Facebook)

Pictcon 2026: PictCon 2 in Perth, 17 October


Finbarr O’Reilly (email)
Kev McVeigh (Facebook)
Kin-Ming Looi (Facebook)
Paul Weimer (BlueSky, email)
Tammy Coxen (Facebook)
Terry Gibbs (Facebook)
Raj (Mastodon)
We also heard from Mike Scott, Neil Ottenstein and Tammy Coxen


2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction

Ebon Moss-Bachrach on the red carpet
Event broadcast on YouTube


LAcon V opens Hugo Awards Base Contest
36th Galaxy Awards

Roderick Leeuwenhart


Tianwen Awards

Ersatz Culture on Mastodon


BKK Comics Art Festival #4

The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF
Belgian comics


Asian Board Games Festival (ABGF)

“Walking The Walk With RPGs In Malaysia” (paywalled on Rascal)


Picks

John: The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship

Shut Up & Sit Down’s review
Board Game Arena
The dice tower


Alison: The Word for World exhibition at the Architectural Association

Secret Maps at the British Library


Liz: Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman


Star Wars is being properly remastered?
Credits

Cover art: “Nepal Spotter’s Guide” by Paul Weimer (text by Alison Scott)

Alt text: A photograph of the mountains of Nepal with text overlaid, reading “Octothorpe 147 Official Octothorpe Nepal Identification Guide* (*apparently never gets old)** (** Liz might like to go to a comics con there)”.


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

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