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Thursday Feb 29, 2024
104: Groundbreaking and Great
Thursday Feb 29, 2024
Thursday Feb 29, 2024
John, Alison and Liz discuss what SF they enjoyed from 2023.
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- Fanzine
- Fan Artist
- Fan Writer
- Fancast
- Going Rogue
- Game/Interactive Work
- Video games
- Tabletop games
- Galactic Starcruiser
- Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form)
- Blue-Eyed Samurai (Netflix)
- Doctor Who (BBC iPlayer, Disney+)
- For All Mankind (Apple TV+)
- Foundation (Apple TV+)
- The Last of Us (Now)
- The Mandalorian (Disney+)
- Poker Face (Now)
- Silo (Apple TV+)
- Star Trek: Lower Decks (Paramount+)
- Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (Paramount+)
- The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (Netflix)
- Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form)
- Asteroid City (Now Cinema)
- Barbie (rent or buy)
- Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (Paramount+)
- Ghosts, series 5 (BBC iPlayer)
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (Disney+)
- The Marvels (Disney+)
- Nimona (Netflix)
- Polite Society (Now Cinema)
- Poor Things (rent or buy)
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Now Cinema)
- Best Related Work
- 50 Years of Text Games by Aaron A Reed
- A City on Mars by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith
- All These Worlds: Reviews and Essays by Niall Harrison
- A Traveller in Time: The Critical Practice of Maureen Kincaid Speller, ed. Nina Allan
- Best Graphic Story
- Moon Knight, volume 9 by Jed MacKay, Alessandro Cappuccio, and Rachelle Rosenberg
- Why Don’t You Love Me? by Paul B Rainey
- Best Series
- Dune by Frank Herbert, Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson
- Elric by Michael Moorcock
- Imperial Radch by Ann Leckie
- The Final Architecture by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- The Tyrant Philosophers by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Best Short Fiction
- “Spring Woods Spring” by B Pladek
- “The Year Without Sunshine” by Naomi Kritzer
- Find stories to read at Rocket Stack Rank
- Best Novella
- A Theory of Haunting by Sarah Monette
- Walking Practice by Dolki Min
- “On the English Approach to the Study of History” by E Saxey
- Best Semiprozine
- Giganotasaurus
- Strange Horizons
- wot, no https?!
- Best Novel
- Bridge by Lauren Beukes
- The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
- The Reformatory by Tananarive Due
- Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez
- Titanium Noir by Nick Harkaway
- Orbital by Samantha Harvey
- In Ascension by Martin MacInnes
- Hopeland by Ian McDonald
- Julia by Sandra Newman
- Him by Geoff Ryman
- Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford
- City of Last Chances and The House of Open Wounds by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
- The Year in Review 2023 by Graham Sleight
- Credits
- Cover art: “Favourite Reading Positions” by Sue Mason
- Alt text: John is in the bottom-left, sitting in a chair, wearing a blue shirt and purple trousers, holding a can, and reading an ebook. Alison is in the upper-middle, lying down upside down, wearing a purple shirt and stripy trousers, and reading an ebook. Liz is in the bottom-right, wearing a pink shirt with green trousers, holding a mug of a hot beverage, and reading a physical book. They are surrounded by floating beer bottles, books, the Moon, a mug with a moose on it, and two cats. The word “Octothorpe” appears in scattered letters around the artwork, against a pinky-purple background.
- Theme music: “Fanfare for Space” by Kevin MacLeod (CC BY 4.0)
- Cover art: “Favourite Reading Positions” by Sue Mason
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