87: We Didn’t Imagine the Third Option

John isn’t picky, Alison is in a field, and Liz is very hungry.

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Content warnings this episode: None

• Letters of comment
  • Abigail Nussbaum
  • Chris Garcia
  • Karen Schaeffer
  • Malcolm Hutchison
  • Peter Sullivan
  • Raj
  • We might have Tweets of comment but who knows?
• Chengdu is a shower
  • Moar Hugo award delays
  • Now you see them, now you don’t
  • This episode will go live when the Hugo finalists do
• Locus awards
  • From Locus #750: “The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi won with the smallest winning lead this year, just 17 points ahead Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel, which had the most votes and first-place votes, and would have won without the doubling of subscriber points.”
  • Scalzi’s grumpy tweet
• BSFA awards
  • Non-fiction is split into short and long
  • Novella
  • Collection
  • Original audio fiction
  • Translated work of short fiction
• Picks
  • John: Across the Spider-Verse
    • Not Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman
  • Alison: Museum Catalogues (In the Black Fantastic and Science Fiction: Voyage to the Edge of Imagination)
  • Liz: Stealing From the Sky by Adam Roberts
    • In the style of Donald Westlake
• Credits
  • Cover art: “One Moose-Sized Alison” by first-time Hugo Finalist Alison Scott
    • Alt text: John and Liz stand in front of a moose-sized Alison wearing antlers in a cage fight. Alison is saying “BEWARE MY SIGNATURE MOVE THE MOOSE”, John is saying “I THOUGHT THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE SUMMER OF FUN” and Liz is saying “IS IT TOO LATE TO PICK 100 ALISON-SIZED MOOSE?” The words “Octothorpe 87” are at the top.
  • Theme music: “Surf Shimmy” by Kevin MacLeod (CC BY 4.0)