John is a Hugo Award finalist, Alison is a Hugo Award winner, and Liz’s mum got a folk award once.
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Content warnings this episode: classism (chapter 2)
- Hugo Awards
- We are a finalist for Best Fancast
- We are SO EXCITED
- John and Alison are almost certainly going to Chicon 8 (Liz is a “maybe”)
- We will be thrilled to lose to any of the other finalists (especially Hugo, Girl!)
- We are a finalist for Best Fancast
- Letters of comment:
- Ali Baker
- Malcolm Hutchison
- DC
- Duncan MacGregor
- Nick Gibbins
- Jonny Baddeley
- Eastercon
- We are live from Eastercon at 1:30pm on Monday!
- The fan funds are having “amazeballs” and a silent auction
- The Hugo Awards
- Do these all look Chinese?
- Liz has been listening to Lifewriting by Tananarive Due and Stephen Barnes
- Brandon Sanderson
- Alex Holden’s concertinas
- Brandon Sanderson’s YouTube channel
- The project on Kickstarter
- It made $41m!
- Sanderson’s blog post about the Kickstarter
- Including details about how he wanted to have an alternative platform away from Amazon dominance
- His team is so big he has an HR director, he’s splitting that cash quite a lot of ways
- Tolstoy on wax cylinder
- Picks
- Rossum’s Universal Robots on BBC Radio 4
- Liz: Base Notes by Lara Elena Donnelly (paperback, Kindle, John can’t find an alternative ebook vendor)
- John: Moon Knight vol. 7 (comiXology, Marvel)
- Credits
- Cover art: WSFS/The Hugo Awards (!)
- Theme music: Fanfare for Space by Kevin MacLeod (CC BY 4.0)