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Episode Synopsis
John is a Hugo Award finalist, Alison is a Hugo Award winner, and Liz’s mum got a folk award once.
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Content warnings this episode: classism (chapter 2)
Hugo Awards
We are a finalist for Best Fancast
We are SO EXCITED
John and Alison are almost certainly going to Chicon 8 (Liz is a “maybe”)
We will be thrilled to lose to any of the other finalists (especially Hugo, Girl!)
Letters of comment:
Ali Baker
A whole emergency episode of Fantasy Book swap!
Malcolm Hutchison
DC
Duncan MacGregor
Nick Gibbins
Jonny Baddeley
Eastercon
We are live from Eastercon at 1:30pm on Monday!
The fan funds are having “amazeballs” and a silent auction
Auction catalogue
Register to bid
Place bids
The Hugo Awards
Do these all look Chinese?
Liz has been listening to Lifewriting by Tananarive Due and Stephen Barnes
Brandon Sanderson
Alex Holden’s concertinas
Brandon Sanderson’s YouTube channel
His confession
They backed every publishing Kickstarter
The project on Kickstarter
It made $41m!
Sanderson’s blog post about the Kickstarter
Including details about how he wanted to have an alternative platform away from Amazon dominance
His team is so big he has an HR director, he’s splitting that cash quite a lot of ways
Tolstoy on wax cylinder
Picks
Rossum’s Universal Robots on BBC Radio 4
Liz: Base Notes by Lara Elena Donnelly (paperback, Kindle, John can’t find an alternative ebook vendor)
Nice review from Lee Mandelo
John: Moon Knight vol. 7 (comiXology, Marvel)
Credits
Cover art: WSFS/The Hugo Awards (!)
Theme music: Fanfare for Space by Kevin MacLeod (CC BY 4.0)
Please email your letters of comment to [email protected] and tag @OctothorpeCast when you post about the show on social media.
Content warnings this episode: classism (chapter 2)
Hugo Awards
We are a finalist for Best Fancast
We are SO EXCITED
John and Alison are almost certainly going to Chicon 8 (Liz is a “maybe”)
We will be thrilled to lose to any of the other finalists (especially Hugo, Girl!)
Letters of comment:
Ali Baker
A whole emergency episode of Fantasy Book swap!
Malcolm Hutchison
DC
Duncan MacGregor
Nick Gibbins
Jonny Baddeley
Eastercon
We are live from Eastercon at 1:30pm on Monday!
The fan funds are having “amazeballs” and a silent auction
Auction catalogue
Register to bid
Place bids
The Hugo Awards
Do these all look Chinese?
Liz has been listening to Lifewriting by Tananarive Due and Stephen Barnes
Brandon Sanderson
Alex Holden’s concertinas
Brandon Sanderson’s YouTube channel
His confession
They backed every publishing Kickstarter
The project on Kickstarter
It made $41m!
Sanderson’s blog post about the Kickstarter
Including details about how he wanted to have an alternative platform away from Amazon dominance
His team is so big he has an HR director, he’s splitting that cash quite a lot of ways
Tolstoy on wax cylinder
Picks
Rossum’s Universal Robots on BBC Radio 4
Liz: Base Notes by Lara Elena Donnelly (paperback, Kindle, John can’t find an alternative ebook vendor)
Nice review from Lee Mandelo
John: Moon Knight vol. 7 (comiXology, Marvel)
Credits
Cover art: WSFS/The Hugo Awards (!)
Theme music: Fanfare for Space by Kevin MacLeod (CC BY 4.0)
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