105: Scorching Hot Month-Old Takes

Published: March 14, 2024, 9:59 p.m.

John watches movies, Alison walks on the Moon, and Liz has special bonds.\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: Censorship, in the form of more Hugo Award controversy\nLetters of comment\nAng Rosin\nAndy Openshaw\nChris Garcia\nZodiac Speaking\n\nErsatzCulture and Raj\nEspa\xf1a Sheriff\nBrighton 1987\n\nMartin Easterbrook\nTammy Coxen\nSandra Bond\nKeep an eye out for Poetry Slum!\nClick here to see the cover\n\nNicholas Jackson on Bluesky\nHarry Payne on Bluesky\n\nBSFA Awards shortlist\nHugo Awards\nThe 2023 Hugo Awards: A Report on Censorship and Exclusion by Chris M Barkley and Jason Sanford\nCharting the Cliff: An Investigation Into the 2023 Hugo Nomination Statistics by Camestros Felapton and Heather Rose Jones\nMore on Other Chinese Hugo Nominations, based on \u201cCharting the Cliff\u201d by Prograft\nRecent updates from the MPC/WIP\nJourney Planet #79\n\nPicks\nJohn: Monolith dir. Matt Vesely\nAlison: Moonwalkers\nLiz: FRIENDSHIP\n\nCredits\nCover art: Liz\u2019s Bedtime Reading by Alison Scott\nAlt text: A famous photograph of Margaret Hamilton standing beside printed outputs of the code that took the Apollo spacecraft to the Moon, overlaid with the words \u201cOctothorpe 105\u201d and \u201cLiz has finished reading the latest Hugo Award expos\xe9s\u201d.\n\nTheme music: \u201cFanfare for Space\u201d by Kevin MacLeod (CC BY 4.0)