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Thursday Jan 20, 2022
49: Not Sufficiently Sassy
Thursday Jan 20, 2022
Thursday Jan 20, 2022
John is demanding, Alison joined a Discord, and Liz knows a lot about the WSFS Constitution.
Please email your letters of comment to octothorpecast@gmail.com and tag @OctothorpeCast when you post about the show on social media.
Content warnings this episode: Genocide and war (chapter 1), racism and capitalism (chapter 2), sexism (chapter 5)
- Letters of comment
- Liquid of comment from This Never Happens (Cornish branch)
- Jonathan Baddeley: “Tedious NPC” would make a great badge ribbon
- Ali Baker
- Dave Coxon
- Chris Garcia
- Kat Tanaka Okopnik says Nice is not bidding for 2026
- Crying movies
- Fran Dowd: Platoon
- Farah Mendlesohn: Fried Green Tomatoes
- Ang Rosin: Dead Poets Society
- Alison very much appreciated this sponsor read on Podside Picnic
- Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction edited by Otherwise Award-winning author Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
- The DisCon III Site Selection fiasco
- Chicon 8 says:
- “Hugo nominations will open later in January, and will run through mid-March. All members of DisCon III and anyone who joins Chicon 8 before the 31st of January 2022 will be eligible to nominate in this year’s Hugo Awards.”
- Section 3.7.1 of the WSFS constitution, fact fans
- Awards!
- Nicholas Whyte answers our questions
- Nerds of a Feather has recused itself from the 2022 Hugo Awards
- We listened to Hugo, Girl!, a fancast in which feminists read and discuss SF
- The FAAn Achievement Awards 2022
- The Incompleat Register 2021
- “A ‘fanzine’, for our purposes, is defined as an immutable artefact, once published not subject to revision or modification. The fanzine might not exist in a physical form. A PDF, for example, is an artefact.”
- “[A perzine is a] fanzine which typically has few, if any, contributors other than its editor(s).”
- Alison has joined the Hugo Award Study Committee which is a Discord server
- New Year’s resolutions
- John: Publish more fanzines and make an app
- Alison: Have at least one SFF book a month ready to talk about on Octothorpe.
- Liz: Read 80 books on Goodreads (maybe)
- Picks
- Alison: Sinopticon: A Celebration of Chinese Science Fiction translated and edited by Xue Christine Ni (epub, Kindle)
- Liz: She Who Became The Sun by Shelly Parker-Chan (epub, Kindle, hardback, paperback pre-order)
- John: The Expanse (Amazon Prime)
- Music credits
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