48: The Things You Nominate Are All Extremely Unpopular

John and Alison are watching cutting-edge TV, and Liz is hungry.

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Content warnings this episode: genocide (chapter 2); war and defence contracting (chapter 4)

• Letters of comment
  • Farah Mendlesohn asks “but what did you think of DisCon III?”
  • Doug Faunt asks about the opening ceremony’s Christmas music
  • Flick asks why we didn’t mention the Xinjiang region
    • UK House of Commons motion
    • Tahir Hamut Izgil writing at The Atlantic
  • We’re sorry to Ira Alexandre for mispronouncing their name in episodes 20 and 21
• Hugo Awards
  • Octothorpe was almost nominated for the Hugo Awards
    • Octothorpe was the last fancast to be eliminated from the ballot!
    • We were surprised and very thrilled and thank you so much for nominating us
  • E Pluribus Hugo
    • Helsinki’s explanation of how this works
  • Nicholas Whyte analyses the Hugo Awards in detail
  • Camestros Felaptron’s Hugo posts: 1, 2, 3
  • The Hugo Awards long list
    • It always has delights on it and this year is no exception
      • Best Series: Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London
      • Best Related Work: The Hugo Spreadsheet of Doom 2021 (presumably it was actually 2020 that was nominated now that we think of it)
        • 2022 open for your suggestions now. Get those fanzines and fan writers and fan artists and fancasts that you think are absolutely great on there!
        • Direct link: https://bit.ly/hugoaward2022
      • Fanzines just below the line included Bill Bowers’ Outworlds, William Breiding’s Portable Storage and Chris Garcia’s The Drink Tank
• Sponsorship
  • Shaun Duke points out that Raytheon was one of the contractors that was employed in launching the James Webb Space Telescope
• NASFiC
  • File 770 reports that Winnipeg are pivoting to a 2023 NASFiC
  • Orlando in 2026 is also pivoting to a 2023 NASFiC
    • File 770
    • Official site
    • This leaves the 2026 field
      • Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
      • Los Angeles, CA, USA
      • Nice, France
        • Brice de Nice
• Glasgow has launched a lovely "move 500 miles poster
  • John can walk 804.672 kilometres
  • Earworm
  • A fantastic edit
  • Play along on Strava
• Picks:
  • Alison: The Expanse (Amazon Prime)
    • OK she is a bit behind but it is a 2022 Plan
  • Liz: Vita Nostra by Marina and Sergei Dyachenko, translated by Julia Meitov Hersey (paperback, epub, Kindle)
  • John:
    • Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Coco (Disney+)
• Music credits
  • Our theme music is Fanfare for Space by Kevin MacLeod, used under a CC BY 4.0 license