Show Notes
John is at Fantasycon, Alison is wrong, and Liz is right. An uncorrected transcript of this episode is available here. Please email your letters of comment to [email protected], join our Facebook group, and tag @OctothorpeCast (on Bluesky or on Mastodon) when you post about the show on social media. Content warnings this episode: None
Letters of comment
Chris Garcia (email) Paul Weimer (email) Renay! (email) Roseanna Pendlebury (Bluesky) Scott Edelman (email) Simon Bubb (email)
Dismaland & Banksy
We also heard from Heather Rose Jones, Kevin Anderson, Lilian Edwards, Lori Anderson, Shi Lala, and Tero Ykspetäjä.
Fantasycon 2026: Glasgow, UK
British Fantasy Award winners 2026
Worldcon 2027: Montréal, Canada
The WSFS Business Meeting will be virtual Cory Doctorow and Linda Addison have been added as Toastmaster and Guest of Honour respectively Code of Conduct and Policies
SFFCONZ statement on CoNZealand 2
Their website has gone dark but the Wayback Machine sees all
Malcolm Edwards has died
Malcolm Edwards on Fancyclopedia We know there was only one Malcolm Edwards, but there wasn’t a good edit point to take the mistake out!
Picks
John: Hope Alison: Into the Woods Liz: Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
Credits
Cover art: “Cross Stitch” by Roseanna Pendlebury
Alt text: Beautifully cross-stitched depictions of John, Alison and Liz with black, pink and purple Octothorpe T-shirts on. They have a speech bubble above them reading “Octothorpe #171”.
Theme music: “Fanfare for Space” by Kevin MacLeod (CC BY 4.0)
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John, Alison, and Liz have stopped talking about it now. An uncorrected transcript of this episode is available here. Please email your letters of comment to [email protected], join our Facebook group, and tag @OctothorpeCast (on Bluesky or on Mastodon) when you post about the show on social media.