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John wants Palm Springs to win a Hugo, Alison is lonely, and Liz is not going to buy a Nintendo Switch.\nPlease email your letters of comment to octothorpecast@gmail.com and use #OctothorpeCast or tag @OctothorpeCast when you post about the show on social media.\nLetters of comment:\nDuncan MacGregor\nAnonymous Claire\nSheffield SF and Fantasy Society\nFirst Thursday Fandom Drinks\nA party in a Google Sheet\n\nClaire Brialey\nChris Garcia\nMark Plummer\n\nDisCon III\nThey announced that they were going to make an announcement, but not what it was\nThen it turned out that the announcement they had announced was an announcement regarding the lack of anything to announce\nTheir hotel is going bust\nThis is not particularly recent news though\n\n\nCapricon\nThe 2021 UK filk convention Long (Distance) Play\n\nBoskone\nMass Con \u201921\nHugo reading/nominations\nJohn\u2019s reading list:\nThe Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez\nThe Doors of Eden by Adrian Tchaikovsky\nMinistry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson\nPiranesi by Susanna Clarke\nHarrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir\nVagabonds by Hao Jingfang (translated by Ken Liu)\nNetwork Effect by Martha Wells\nA Deadly Education by Naomi Novik\nThe Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow\nThe City We Became by N. K. Jemisin\n\nMovies\nPalm Springs (coming soon to Amazon Prime)\nThe Vast of Night\nIce Cold in Alex **(buy or rent)\n\nThe big Hugo Spreadsheet of Doom\n\nOur theme music is Fanfare for Space by Kevin MacLeod, used under a CC BY 3.0 license.\nDun Dun Dun Brass is by Orange Free Sounds, used under a CC BY NC 4.0 license.