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John wants new gloves, Alison is foreshadowing, and Liz scrolls past spiders.\nPlease email your letters of comment to comment@octothorpecast.uk and tag @OctothorpeCast (on Twitter or on Mastodon) when you post about the show on social media.\nContent warnings this episode: Spiders (chapter 6)\n\nLetters of comment\n\nRaj\nBridget Bradshaw\nChris Garcia\n\nBigbug (Netflix)\nOSS 117 (Amazon)\nBrice de Nice (Hoopla)\n\n\nLori Anderson\nCurt Phillips\n\n\nChengdu is a shower (but not as bad as the BBC)\n\nThey have opened Hugo nominations\nConversions for Chinese language nominees: \u201cA factor of 1.6 will be used when converting from English words to Chinese characters. As such the fiction category breakpoints will be: 1) Short Story: fewer than 7,500 English words or 12,000 Chinese characters. 2) Novelette: between 7,500/12,000 and 17,500 English words or 28,000 Chinese characters. 3) Novella: between 17,500/28,000 and 40,000 English words or 64,000 Chinese characters. 4) Novel: greater than 40,000 English words or 64,000 Chinese characters.\u201d\n\n\nNebula nominees are out\n\nStrange Horizons argues erroneously that Our Flag Means Death is fantasy, actually\n\n\nBSFA nominees are also out\nEverything Everywhere All at Once prop auction(s)\n\nEverything Everywhere All at Once shop\n\n\nPicks:\n\nJohn: Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky (ebook, paperback, Amazon)\n\nForce Majeure Outer Dark Trilogy Part 2 Episode 1 - \u201cIn Space, No-One Can Smell Your Frog\u201d\nThe Dark Room by John Robertson\n\n\nAlison: Allegiance by George Takei\n\nLight Perpetual by Francis Spufford (ebook, paperback, Amazon)\n\n\nLiz: Los Espookys **(HBO, Now TV)\n\n\nCredits\n\nCover art: \u201dMidJourney Into Space\u201d by Alison Scott\n\nAlt text: Three adorable little rockets with faces corresponding to John, Alison and Liz above the text \u201cOctothorpe 79\u201d.\n\n\nTheme music: \u201cFanfare for Space\u201d by Kevin MacLeod (CC BY 4.0)\n\u201cAnnouncement\u201d from Orange Free Sounds (CC BY-NC 4.0)