Octothorpe

75: Optimus Prime But for Books

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John wants to play, Alison has met lots of authors, and Liz is a womble.

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

Content warnings this episode: Capitalism (chapter 3), China (chapter 4)

  • Letters of comment
    • Sandra Bond
    • Lilian Edwards
    • Chris “The Legend” Garcia
    • Duncan MacGregor
    • Dave Mansfield
    • Curt Phillips
    • Kevin Standlee
    • Raj on Twitter
    • Magazines
      • The Locus fundraiser is well over target
      • Amazon are stopping doing Kindle Periodical magazine subscriptions
      • Interesting numbers on subscribers/supporters from Michael Damien Thomas
      • Chengdu is a shower:
        • Chengdu are finally taking non-Chinese memberships
          • A mere 22 days before the deadline for Hugos
          • Chengdu have not yet produced PR1
          • There is another petition against Sergei Lukyanenko
          • Liz is going to do the runalongwomble TBR challenge
          • Picks:
            • John: The Moonday Letters by Emmi Itäranta (paperback, epub, audiobook)
            • Alison: Europe in Autumn by Dave Hutchison (paperback, epub, audiobook)
              • Please recommend me (and everyone else) one fantastic 2022 book to read
              • Recommend me one science fiction or fantasy thing from 2022 that you’ve particularly enjoyed that is not a novel
              • Strange Horizons’ 2022 in Review
              • Liz: A Game of Birds and Wolves by Simon Parkin (paperback, epub, audiobook)
              • Aftershow:
                • If I Ran the Zoo…Con (NESFA Press, The Book Patch)
                • Credits
                  • Theme music: “Fanfare for Space” by Kevin MacLeod (CC BY 4.0)
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