July 06, 2023

87: We Didn’t Imagine the Third Option

49 minutes

John isn’t picky, Alison is in a field, and Liz is very hungry.

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Letters of comment

Abigail Nussbaum

Chris Garcia

Karen Schaeffer

Malcolm Hutchison

Peter Sullivan

Raj

We might have Tweets of comment but who knows?

Chengdu is a shower

Moar Hugo award delays

Now you see them, now you don’t

This episode will go live when the Hugo finalists do

Locus awards

From Locus #750: “The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi won with the smallest winning lead this year, just 17 points ahead Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel, which had the most votes and first-place votes, and would have won without the doubling of subscriber points.”

Scalzi’s grumpy tweet

BSFA awards

Non-fiction is split into short and long

Novella

Collection

Original audio fiction

Translated work of short fiction

Picks

John: Across the Spider-Verse

Not Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman

Alison: Museum Catalogues (In the Black Fantastic and Science Fiction: Voyage to the Edge of Imagination)

Liz: Stealing From the Sky by Adam Roberts

In the style of Donald Westlake

Credits

Cover art: “One Moose-Sized Alison” by first-time Hugo Finalist Alison Scott

Alt text: John and Liz stand in front of a moose-sized Alison wearing antlers in a cage fight. Alison is saying “BEWARE MY SIGNATURE MOVE THE MOOSE”, John is saying “I THOUGHT THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE SUMMER OF FUN” and Liz is saying “IS IT TOO LATE TO PICK 100 ALISON-SIZED MOOSE?” The words “Octothorpe 87” are at the top.

Theme music: “Surf Shimmy” by Kevin MacLeod (CC BY 4.0)

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