November 06, 2025

147: What? What?! No!

1 hour 5 minutes

John is ready, Alison had forgotten, and Liz is surprised.

An uncorrected transcript of this episode is available here. Please email your letters of comment to [email protected], join our Facebook group, and tag @OctothorpeCast (on Bluesky or on Mastodon) when you post about the show on social media.

Content warnings this episode: Animal torture (letters of comment)

Letters of comment

Chris Garcia (email)

Ed Morland (BlueSky)

Farah Mendlesohn (Facebook)

Pictcon 2026: PictCon 2 in Perth, 17 October

Finbarr O’Reilly (email)

Kev McVeigh (Facebook)

Kin-Ming Looi (Facebook)

Paul Weimer (BlueSky, email)

Tammy Coxen (Facebook)

Terry Gibbs (Facebook)

Raj (Mastodon)

We also heard from Mike Scott, Neil Ottenstein and Tammy Coxen

2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction

Ebon Moss-Bachrach on the red carpet

Event broadcast on YouTube

LAcon V opens Hugo Awards Base Contest

36th Galaxy Awards

Roderick Leeuwenhart

Tianwen Awards

Ersatz Culture on Mastodon

BKK Comics Art Festival #4

The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF

Belgian comics

Asian Board Games Festival (ABGF)

“Walking The Walk With RPGs In Malaysia” (paywalled on Rascal)

Picks

John: The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship

Shut Up & Sit Down’s review

Board Game Arena

The dice tower

Alison: The Word for World exhibition at the Architectural Association

Secret Maps at the British Library

Liz: Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman

Star Wars is being properly remastered?

Credits

Cover art: “Nepal Spotter’s Guide” by Paul Weimer (text by Alison Scott)

Alt text: A photograph of the mountains of Nepal with text overlaid, reading “Octothorpe 147 Official Octothorpe Nepal Identification Guide* (*apparently never gets old)** (** Liz might like to go to a comics con there)”.

Theme music: “Fanfare for Space” by Kevin MacLeod (CC BY 4.0)

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