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

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

Content warnings this episode: classism (chapter 2)

• Hugo Awards

• We are a finalist for Best Fancast

• We are SO EXCITED

• Ali Baker

• A whole emergency episode of Fantasy Book swap!

• We are live from Eastercon at 1:30pm on Monday!

• Auction catalogue

• Do these all look Chinese?

• Alex Holden’s concertinas

• His confession

• It made $41m!

• Including details about how he wanted to have an alternative platform away from Amazon dominance

• Rossum’s Universal Robots on BBC Radio 4

• Nice review from Lee Mandelo

• Cover art: WSFS/The Hugo Awards (!)