24: You May Not Really Be the Target Audience for Television

John wants Palm Springs to win a Hugo, Alison is lonely, and Liz is not going to buy a Nintendo Switch.

Please email your letters of comment to octothorpecast@gmail.com and use #OctothorpeCast or tag @OctothorpeCast when you post about the show on social media.

• Letters of comment:
  • Duncan MacGregor
    • Anonymous Claire
    • Sheffield SF and Fantasy Society
    • First Thursday Fandom Drinks
    • A party in a Google Sheet
  • Claire Brialey
  • Chris Garcia
  • Mark Plummer
• DisCon III
  • They announced that they were going to make an announcement, but not what it was
  • Then it turned out that the announcement they had announced was an announcement regarding the lack of anything to announce
  • Their hotel is going bust
    • This is not particularly recent news though
• Capricon
  • The 2021 UK filk convention Long (Distance) Play
• Boskone
• Mass Con ’21
• Hugo reading/nominations
  • John’s reading list:
    • The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez
    • The Doors of Eden by Adrian Tchaikovsky
    • Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
    • Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
    • Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
    • Vagabonds by Hao Jingfang (translated by Ken Liu)
    • Network Effect by Martha Wells
    • A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik
    • The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow
    • The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin
  • Movies
    • Palm Springs (coming soon to Amazon Prime)
    • The Vast of Night
    • Ice Cold in Alex **(buy or rent)
  • The big Hugo Spreadsheet of Doom
• Our theme music is Fanfare for Space by Kevin MacLeod, used under a CC BY 3.0 license.
• Dun Dun Dun Brass is by Orange Free Sounds, used under a CC BY NC 4.0 license.