75: Optimus Prime But for Books

Published: Jan. 19, 2023, 6:46 p.m.

b'John wants to play, Alison has met lots of authors, and Liz is a womble.\\nPlease email your letters of comment to comment@octothorpecast.uk and tag @OctothorpeCast (on wandering.shop) when you post about the show on social media.\\nContent warnings this episode: Capitalism (chapter 3), China (chapter 4)\\n\\nLetters of comment\\n\\nSandra Bond\\nLilian Edwards\\nChris \\u201cThe Legend\\u201d Garcia\\nDuncan MacGregor\\nDave Mansfield\\nCurt Phillips\\nKevin Standlee\\nRaj on Twitter\\n\\n\\nMagazines\\n\\nThe Locus fundraiser is well over target\\nAmazon are stopping doing Kindle Periodical magazine subscriptions\\nInteresting numbers on subscribers/supporters from Michael Damien Thomas\\n\\n\\nChengdu is a shower:\\n\\nChengdu are finally taking non-Chinese memberships\\n\\nA mere 22 days before the deadline for Hugos\\n\\n\\nChengdu have not yet produced PR1\\nThere is another petition against Sergei Lukyanenko\\n\\n\\nLiz is going to do the runalongwomble TBR challenge\\nPicks:\\n\\nJohn: The Moonday Letters by Emmi It\\xe4ranta (paperback, epub, audiobook)\\nAlison: Europe in Autumn by Dave Hutchison (paperback, epub, audiobook)\\n\\nPlease recommend me (and everyone else) one fantastic 2022 book to read\\nRecommend me one science fiction or fantasy thing from 2022 that you\\u2019ve particularly enjoyed that is not a novel\\nStrange Horizons\\u2019 2022 in Review\\n\\n\\nLiz: A Game of Birds and Wolves by Simon Parkin (paperback, epub, audiobook)\\n\\n\\nAftershow:\\n\\nIf I Ran the Zoo\\u2026Con (NESFA Press, The Book Patch)\\n\\n\\nCredits\\n\\nTheme music: \\u201cFanfare for Space\\u201d by Kevin MacLeod (CC BY 4.0)'