Show Notes
John is a thief, Alison plays games, and Liz is bullied. 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 X or on Mastodon or on Bluesky) when you post about the show on social media. Content warnings this episode: None
Letters of comment
Andreas Davour Bella Garcia Constanze Hoffman Farah Mendlesohn Jonathan Cowie June Young Mike Scott Neil Ottenstein Raj Tammy Coxen Zoe O’Connell We also heard from Bridget Bradshaw, Colin Harris, Meg MacDonald, and Shi Lala
Fan funds
The 2025 TAFF race has begun
Zi Graves, Mikołaj Kowalewski, Jan Vaněk jr.
CUFF comes to an end
Fowler Award Hugo Awards
2025 spreadsheet of doom Novels
T**he Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett The Sentence by Gautam Bhatia The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley The Life Impossible by Matt Haig Jumpnauts by Hao Jingfang The Siege of Burning Grass by Premee Mohamed Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky House of Open Wounds by Adrian Tchaikovsky Absolution by Jeff Vandermeer We Are All Ghosts in the Forest by Lorraine Wilson
Novellas
A Mourning Coat by Alex Jeffers North Continent Ribbon by Ursula Whitcher
Short Stories
Grottmata by Thomas Ha Five Views of the Planet Tartarus by Rachael K Jones
Related Works
Track Changes: Selected Reviews **by Abigail Nussbaum Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the A**lt-Right by Jordan S. Carroll
Series
The Horus Heresy The Southern Reach The Tyrant Philosophers
Graphic Stories
Warp Your Own Way by Ryan North and Chris Fenoglio
Abigail Nussbaum’s review at Strange Horizons
Dramatic Presentations
All of Us Strangers Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga I Saw the TV Glow Late Night with the Devil My Old Ass A Quiet Place: Day One The Substance Timestalker Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl The Wild Robot
Games
Tabletop
Arcs City of Six Moons Mothership Undaunted 2200: Callisto
Video
Animal Well Caves of Qud Dragon Age: The Veilguard The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdo**m Slice and Dice 3.0 Star Wars: Outlaws Tale of the Golden Idol UFO50
Other
Bridge Command
Poems
Sandra Bond
Fan categories
Artists
Alison Scott España Sheriff
Podcasts
Fanac Fan History Zooms Going Rogue Hugo, Girl! A Meal of Thorns
Writers
Camestros Felapton Ersatz Culture Roseanna Pendlebury
Fanzines
Ancillary Review of Books Banana Wings Ornithopter Unofficial Hugo Book Club
Debut authors
Moniquill Blackgoose
[Alison did not write any of her selections into the show notes and I was sorely tempted not to go through and write them all down for her but I did it for you, listener. I did it for you—John]
Picks [isn’t this a whole episode of picks?—Liz]
John: Earthborne Rangers Alison: The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom Liz: Horizon Zero Dawn Sorry Mark
Credits
Cover art: “Waffle of comment” by Bella Garcia
Alt text: A picture of a Belgian waffle that looks like an octothorpe, on a white background, with the words “Octothorpe 126” above and “now with added waffle” below.
Theme music: “Fanfare for Space” by Kevin MacLeod (CC BY 4.0)
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