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John, Alison and Liz respond to a letter of comment from Tobes.\nPlease email your letters of comment to comment@octothorpecast.uk, check out our subtitles/transcripts, and tag @OctothorpeCast (on X, Mastodon or Bluesky) when you post about the show on social media.\nContent warnings this episode: Chinese censorship (discussion of the Hugo Awards), Jim Crow Florida (Liz\u2019s pick), general socioeconomic inequality (John\u2019s pick)\nGlasgow 2024\u2019s hotel bookings are open\nLetters of comment\nAlex Ingram\nBill Higgins\nChris Garcia\nColin Murtagh\nJersey Gryphon\nKaren Schaffer\nRaj\nTobes Valois\n\nHugo Awards controversy\nFile 770\u2019s roundup\nSome recent writing on these topics:\nAbigail Nussbaum\nCora Buhlert\nGenre Grapevine\n\nAda Palmer on censorship\nReaction from Chinese fans\nA reaction from Zimozi Natsuco\nCheck out Ersatz Culture\u2019s feeds for more information on Chinese reactions (Bluesky, Mastodon)\n\nDave McCarty\nHis apology\nA link to his Facebook\n\nThe Useful Idiot\nIt\u2019s not Lenin, it\u2019s a Western term originating in the 1940s and 1950s\n\nWorldcon Intellectual Property statement about resignations, censures, and reprimands\nGlasgow 2024\u2019s Hugo nominations post\n\nPicks\nJohn: The Kitchen, dir. Daniel Kaluuya and Kibwe Tavares\nAlison: Dangerous Space, designed by Jason Greeno and Jason Tagmire\nLiz: The Reformatory by Tananarive Due (paperback, ebook, Amazon)\n\nCredits\nCover art: \u201cScooby Gang\u201d by Alison Scott\nAlt text: Scooby, Velma and Daphne unmask the panda from last week\u2019s cover art, and the person wearing the panda suit looks a lot like Dave McCarty. They say \u201cIt was old Mister McCarty all along!\u201d and he says \u201cAnd I would have gotten away with it too if it hadn\u2019t been for you meddling Hugo finalists!\u201d He is tied up with rope. The words \u201cOctothorpe! 102\u201d appear at the top of the image.\n\nTheme music: \u201cFanfare for Space\u201d by Kevin MacLeod (CC BY 4.0)