Octothorpe

45: A Fistful of Dongles


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John, Alison, and guest Marguerite Smith are live from Novacon 50!

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Content warnings this episode: women’s body shapes (we are very positive about all body shapes but we wanted to let y’all know we touch on it)

  • Novacon
  • Worldcon
    • DisCon III
  • Glasgow in 2024
  • Dublin in 2029
  • Picks
    • John: Voting in the Hugo Awards because he’s insufferably smug about having done the reading
  • Alison: Daangerous Visions: A Faanfiction Faanthology, 1939–2009
  • Marguerite:
    • A book by Joseph Elliott-Coleman (and apologies that we got the surname wrong in the episode)
  • Burning Brightly: 50 Years of Novacon
  • How to pronounce the word “grimace”
  • Music credits
    • Our theme music is Rattlesnake Railroad by Brett Van Donsel, used under a CC BY 4.0 license
    ...more
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