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b'John isn’t picky, Alison is in a field, and Liz is very hungry.\\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: None\\n\\nLetters of comment\\n\\nAbigail Nussbaum\\nChris Garcia\\nKaren Schaeffer\\nMalcolm Hutchison\\nPeter Sullivan\\nRaj\\nWe might have Tweets of comment but who knows?\\n\\n\\nChengdu is a shower\\n\\nMoar Hugo award delays\\nNow you see them, now you don’t\\nThis episode will go live when the Hugo finalists do\\n\\n\\nLocus awards\\n\\nFrom Locus #750: “The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi won with the smallest winning lead this year, just 17 points ahead Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel, which had the most votes and first-place votes, and would have won without the doubling of subscriber points.”\\nScalzi’s grumpy tweet\\n\\n\\nBSFA awards\\n\\nNon-fiction is split into short and long\\nNovella\\nCollection\\nOriginal audio fiction\\nTranslated work of short fiction\\n\\n\\nPicks\\n\\nJohn: Across the Spider-Verse\\n\\nNot Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman\\n\\n\\nAlison: Museum Catalogues (In the Black Fantastic and Science Fiction: Voyage to the Edge of Imagination)\\nLiz: Stealing From the Sky by Adam Roberts\\n\\nIn the style of Donald Westlake\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nCredits\\n\\nCover art: “One Moose-Sized Alison” by first-time Hugo Finalist Alison Scott\\n\\nAlt text: John and Liz stand in front of a moose-sized Alison wearing antlers in a cage fight. Alison is saying “BEWARE MY SIGNATURE MOVE THE MOOSE”, John is saying “I THOUGHT THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE SUMMER OF FUN” and Liz is saying “IS IT TOO LATE TO PICK 100 ALISON-SIZED MOOSE?” The words “Octothorpe 87” are at the top.\\n\\n\\nTheme music: “Surf Shimmy” by Kevin MacLeod (CC BY 4.0)'