Octothorpe

55: Beatboxing Champagne

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John is a Hugo Award finalist, Alison is a Hugo Award winner, and Liz’s mum got a folk award once.

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Content warnings this episode: classism (chapter 2)

  • Hugo Awards
  • We are a finalist for Best Fancast
  • We are SO EXCITED
  • John and Alison are almost certainly going to Chicon 8 (Liz is a “maybe”)
  • We will be thrilled to lose to any of the other finalists (especially Hugo, Girl!)
  • Letters of comment:
    • Ali Baker
    • A whole emergency episode of Fantasy Book swap!
  • Malcolm Hutchison
  • DC
  • Duncan MacGregor
  • Nick Gibbins
  • Jonny Baddeley
  • Eastercon
    • We are live from Eastercon at 1:30pm on Monday!
  • The fan funds are having “amazeballs” and a silent auction
    • Auction catalogue
  • Register to bid
  • Place bids
  • The Hugo Awards
    • Do these all look Chinese?
  • Liz has been listening to Lifewriting by Tananarive Due and Stephen Barnes
  • Brandon Sanderson
    • Alex Holden’s concertinas
  • Brandon Sanderson’s YouTube channel
    • His confession
  • They backed every publishing Kickstarter
  • The project on Kickstarter
    • It made $41m!
  • Sanderson’s blog post about the Kickstarter
    • Including details about how he wanted to have an alternative platform away from Amazon dominance
  • His team is so big he has an HR director, he’s splitting that cash quite a lot of ways
  • Tolstoy on wax cylinder
  • Picks
    • Rossum’s Universal Robots on BBC Radio 4
  • Liz: Base Notes by Lara Elena Donnelly (paperback, Kindle, John can’t find an alternative ebook vendor)
    • Nice review from Lee Mandelo
  • John: Moon Knight vol. 7 (comiXology, Marvel)
  • Credits
    • Cover art: WSFS/The Hugo Awards (!)
  • Theme music: Fanfare for Space by Kevin MacLeod (CC BY 4.0)
    • ...more
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