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John, Alison and Liz discuss what SF they enjoyed from 2023.\nPlease email your letters of comment to comment@octothorpecast.uk, check out our subtitles/transcripts, and tag @OctothorpeCast (on X or on Mastodon or on Bluesky) when you post about the show on social media.\nContent warnings this episode: None\nFanzine\nThe Ancillary Review of Books\nIDEA\nNerds of a Feather\n\nFan Artist\nAlison Scott\nEspa\xf1a Sheriff\n\nFan Writer\nCamestros Felapton\nPaul Weimer\nSandra Bond\n\nFancast\nGoing Rogue\n\nGame/Interactive Work\nVideo games\nBaldur\u2019s Gate 3\nChants of Sennaar\nDredge\nThe Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom\nStar Wars Jedi: Survivor\n\nTabletop games\nApiary\nEarthborne Rangers\nMoon\nStar Wars: The Deckbuilding Game\nINELIGIBLE: Hegemony\n\nGalactic Starcruiser\nAdrian Hon\u2019s write-up\nCass Morris\u2019s write-up\n\n\nBest Dramatic Presentation (Short Form)\nBlue-Eyed Samurai (Netflix)\nDoctor Who (BBC iPlayer, Disney+)\nFor All Mankind (Apple TV+)\nFoundation (Apple TV+)\nThe Last of Us (Now)\nThe Mandalorian (Disney+)\nPoker Face (Now)\nSilo (Apple TV+)\nStar Trek: Lower Decks (Paramount+)\nStar Trek: Strange New Worlds (Paramount+)\nThe Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (Netflix)\n\nBest Dramatic Presentation (Long Form)\nAsteroid City (Now Cinema)\nBarbie (rent or buy)\nDungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (Paramount+)\nGhosts, series 5 (BBC iPlayer)\nGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (Disney+)\nThe Marvels (Disney+)\nNimona (Netflix)\nPolite Society (Now Cinema)\nPoor Things (rent or buy)\nSpider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Now Cinema)\n\nBest Related Work\n50 Years of Text Games by Aaron A Reed\nSilverwolf\n\nA City on Mars by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith\nAll These Worlds: Reviews and Essays by Niall Harrison\nA Traveller in Time: The Critical Practice of Maureen Kincaid Speller, ed. Nina Allan\n\nBest Graphic Story\nMoon Knight, volume 9 by Jed MacKay, Alessandro Cappuccio, and Rachelle Rosenberg\nWhy Don\u2019t You Love Me? by Paul B Rainey\n\nBest Series\nDune by Frank Herbert, Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson\nElric by Michael Moorcock\nImperial Radch by Ann Leckie\nThe Final Architecture by Adrian Tchaikovsky\nThe Tyrant Philosophers by Adrian Tchaikovsky\n\nBest Short Fiction\n\u201cSpring Woods Spring\u201d by B Pladek\n\u201cThe Year Without Sunshine\u201d by Naomi Kritzer\nFind stories to read at Rocket Stack Rank\n\nBest Novella\nA Theory of Haunting by Sarah Monette\nWalking Practice by Dolki Min\n\u201cOn the English Approach to the Study of History\u201d by E Saxey\n\nBest Semiprozine\nGiganotasaurus\nStrange Horizons\nwot, no https?!\n\n\nBest Novel\nBridge by Lauren Beukes\nThe Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera\nThe Reformatory by Tananarive Due\nOur Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez\nTitanium Noir by Nick Harkaway\nOrbital by Samantha Harvey\nIn Ascension by Martin MacInnes\nHopeland by Ian McDonald\nJulia by Sandra Newman\nHim by Geoff Ryman\nCahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford\nCity of Last Chances and The House of Open Wounds by Adrian Tchaikovsky\nSome Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh\nThe Year in Review 2023 by Graham Sleight\n\nCredits\nCover art: \u201cFavourite Reading Positions\u201d by Sue Mason\nAlt text: John is in the bottom-left, sitting in a chair, wearing a blue shirt and purple trousers, holding a can, and reading an ebook. Alison is in the upper-middle, lying down upside down, wearing a purple shirt and stripy trousers, and reading an ebook. Liz is in the bottom-right, wearing a pink shirt with green trousers, holding a mug of a hot beverage, and reading a physical book. They are surrounded by floating beer bottles, books, the Moon, a mug with a moose on it, and two cats. The word \u201cOctothorpe\u201d appears in scattered letters around the artwork, against a pinky-purple background.\n\nTheme music: \u201cFanfare for Space\u201d by Kevin MacLeod (CC BY 4.0)