John is demanding, Alison joined a Discord, and Liz knows a lot about the WSFS Constitution.

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Content warnings this episode: Genocide and war (chapter 1), racism and capitalism (chapter 2), sexism (chapter 5)

• Letters of comment

• Liquid of comment from This Never Happens (Cornish branch)

• Fran Dowd: Platoon

• Kindle Direct Publishing took down Ekpeki’s account shortly before having to pay him royalties

• Salon Futura’s write-up of DisCon III

• “Hugo nominations will open later in January, and will run through mid-March. All members of DisCon III and anyone who joins Chicon 8 before the 31st of January 2022 will be eligible to nominate in this year’s Hugo Awards.”

• Nicholas Whyte answers our questions

• Commentary and interesting history courtesy of File 770

• The Incompleat Register 2021

• If you’d like to join then contact the chair, Cliff Dunn

• John: Publish more fanzines and make an app

• Alison’s super nerdy iPad board game challenge

• Alison: Sinopticon: A Celebration of Chinese Science Fiction translated and edited by Xue Christine Ni (epub, Kindle)

• Our theme music is Fanfare for Space by Kevin MacLeod, used under a CC BY 4.0 license