55: Beatboxing Champagne

John is a Hugo Award finalist, Alison is a Hugo Award winner, and Liz’s mum got a folk award once.

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Content warnings this episode: classism (chapter 2)

• Hugo Awards
  • We are a finalist for Best Fancast
    • We are SO EXCITED
    • John and Alison are almost certainly going to Chicon 8 (Liz is a “maybe”)
    • We will be thrilled to lose to any of the other finalists (especially Hugo, Girl!)
• Letters of comment:
  • Ali Baker
    • A whole emergency episode of Fantasy Book swap!
  • Malcolm Hutchison
  • DC
  • Duncan MacGregor
  • Nick Gibbins
  • Jonny Baddeley
• Eastercon
  • We are live from Eastercon at 1:30pm on Monday!
  • The fan funds are having “amazeballs” and a silent auction
    • Auction catalogue
    • Register to bid
    • Place bids
• The Hugo Awards
  • Do these all look Chinese?
• Liz has been listening to Lifewriting by Tananarive Due and Stephen Barnes
• Brandon Sanderson
  • Alex Holden’s concertinas
  • Brandon Sanderson’s YouTube channel
    • His confession
    • They backed every publishing Kickstarter
  • The project on Kickstarter
    • It made $41m!
  • Sanderson’s blog post about the Kickstarter
    • Including details about how he wanted to have an alternative platform away from Amazon dominance
    • His team is so big he has an HR director, he’s splitting that cash quite a lot of ways
• Tolstoy on wax cylinder
• Picks
  • Rossum’s Universal Robots on BBC Radio 4
  • Liz: Base Notes by Lara Elena Donnelly (paperback, Kindle, John can’t find an alternative ebook vendor)
    • Nice review from Lee Mandelo
  • John: Moon Knight vol. 7 (comiXology, Marvel)
• Credits
  • Cover art: WSFS/The Hugo Awards (!)
  • Theme music: Fanfare for Space by Kevin MacLeod (CC BY 4.0)