93: The Good Thing About the Hugos

Published: Sept. 28, 2023, 12:32 p.m.

b'John is husky, Alison is a dingo, and Liz is a ridgeback.\\nPlease email your letters of comment to comment@octothorpecast.uk, check out our subtitles/transcripts, and tag @OctothorpeCast (on X or on Mastodon) when you post about the show on social media.\\nContent warnings this episode: None\\nLetters of comment\\nAbigail Nussbaum\\nChris Garcia\\nErsatz Culture\\n\\nChengdu is a shower\\nRelevant Pixel Scrolls:\\nFanzine and Fan Writer added; videos of the construction\\nPanoramic views of the convention site\\n\\nArthur Liu\\u2019s post on Weibo\\n\\nGlasgow 2024\\nGlasgow 2024 Presents: The Media of Storytelling: Print v Screen\\n\\nHugo discussion\\nGUFF\\nLEGO postcards from Australia\\nYou can donate \\xa35 or \\xa310 to guffeurope@gmail.com to get a personalised postcard from Alison\\nPostcard from Australia for \\xa35\\nPhoto postcard from the Internet for \\xa35\\nSpecial surprise exclusive GUFF 2023 Art postcard for \\xa310\\nPostcard with an \\u201cunreasonable special request\\u201d for \\xa310 [don\\u2019t ask me what this means, I just wrote down the words Alison said\\u2014John]\\n\\n\\nPicks\\nWe did a lot of talking about our opinions of SF this episode, so picks return in future!\\n\\nCredits\\nCover art: \\u201cFlying to Australia\\u201d by Alison Scott\\nAlt text: A photograph of Alison\\u2019s Apple Watch on a plane to Australia. This episode of Octothorpe is playing on that Apple Watch, which is on her wrist.\\n\\nTheme music: \\u201cSurf Shimmy\\u201d by Kevin MacLeod (CC BY 4.0)'