Octothorpe

24: You May Not Really Be the Target Audience for Television

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John wants Palm Springs to win a Hugo, Alison is lonely, and Liz is not going to buy a Nintendo Switch.

Please email your letters of comment to [email protected] and use #OctothorpeCast or tag @OctothorpeCast when you post about the show on social media.

  • Letters of comment:
  • Duncan MacGregor
  • Anonymous Claire
  • Sheffield SF and Fantasy Society
  • First Thursday Fandom Drinks
  • A party in a Google Sheet
  • Claire Brialey
  • Chris Garcia
  • Mark Plummer
  • DisCon III
    • They announced that they were going to make an announcement, but not what it was
  • Then it turned out that the announcement they had announced was an announcement regarding the lack of anything to announce
  • Their hotel is going bust
    • This is not particularly recent news though
  • Capricon
    • The 2021 UK filk convention Long (Distance) Play
  • Boskone
  • Mass Con ’21
  • Hugo reading/nominations
    • John’s reading list:
    • The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez
  • The Doors of Eden by Adrian Tchaikovsky
  • Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
  • Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
  • Vagabonds by Hao Jingfang (translated by Ken Liu)
  • Network Effect by Martha Wells
  • A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik
  • The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow
  • The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin
  • Movies
    • Palm Springs (coming soon to Amazon Prime)
  • The Vast of Night
  • Ice Cold in Alex **(buy or rent)
  • The big Hugo Spreadsheet of Doom
  • Our theme music is Fanfare for Space by Kevin MacLeod, used under a CC BY 3.0 license.
  • Dun Dun Dun Brass is by Orange Free Sounds, used under a CC BY NC 4.0 license.
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