Listen "75: Optimus Prime But for Books"
Episode Synopsis
John wants to play, Alison has met lots of authors, and Liz is a womble.
Please email your letters of comment to [email protected] and tag @OctothorpeCast (on wandering.shop) when you post about the show on social media.
Content warnings this episode: Capitalism (chapter 3), China (chapter 4)
Letters of comment
Sandra Bond
Lilian Edwards
Chris “The Legend” Garcia
Duncan MacGregor
Dave Mansfield
Curt Phillips
Kevin Standlee
Raj on Twitter
Magazines
The Locus fundraiser is well over target
Amazon are stopping doing Kindle Periodical magazine subscriptions
Interesting numbers on subscribers/supporters from Michael Damien Thomas
Chengdu is a shower:
Chengdu are finally taking non-Chinese memberships
A mere 22 days before the deadline for Hugos
Chengdu have not yet produced PR1
There is another petition against Sergei Lukyanenko
Liz is going to do the runalongwomble TBR challenge
Picks:
John: The Moonday Letters by Emmi Itäranta (paperback, epub, audiobook)
Alison: Europe in Autumn by Dave Hutchison (paperback, epub, audiobook)
Please recommend me (and everyone else) one fantastic 2022 book to read
Recommend me one science fiction or fantasy thing from 2022 that you’ve particularly enjoyed that is not a novel
Strange Horizons’ 2022 in Review
Liz: A Game of Birds and Wolves by Simon Parkin (paperback, epub, audiobook)
Aftershow:
If I Ran the Zoo…Con (NESFA Press, The Book Patch)
Credits
Theme music: “Fanfare for Space” by Kevin MacLeod (CC BY 4.0)
Please email your letters of comment to [email protected] and tag @OctothorpeCast (on wandering.shop) when you post about the show on social media.
Content warnings this episode: Capitalism (chapter 3), China (chapter 4)
Letters of comment
Sandra Bond
Lilian Edwards
Chris “The Legend” Garcia
Duncan MacGregor
Dave Mansfield
Curt Phillips
Kevin Standlee
Raj on Twitter
Magazines
The Locus fundraiser is well over target
Amazon are stopping doing Kindle Periodical magazine subscriptions
Interesting numbers on subscribers/supporters from Michael Damien Thomas
Chengdu is a shower:
Chengdu are finally taking non-Chinese memberships
A mere 22 days before the deadline for Hugos
Chengdu have not yet produced PR1
There is another petition against Sergei Lukyanenko
Liz is going to do the runalongwomble TBR challenge
Picks:
John: The Moonday Letters by Emmi Itäranta (paperback, epub, audiobook)
Alison: Europe in Autumn by Dave Hutchison (paperback, epub, audiobook)
Please recommend me (and everyone else) one fantastic 2022 book to read
Recommend me one science fiction or fantasy thing from 2022 that you’ve particularly enjoyed that is not a novel
Strange Horizons’ 2022 in Review
Liz: A Game of Birds and Wolves by Simon Parkin (paperback, epub, audiobook)
Aftershow:
If I Ran the Zoo…Con (NESFA Press, The Book Patch)
Credits
Theme music: “Fanfare for Space” by Kevin MacLeod (CC BY 4.0)
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