48: The Things You Nominate Are All Extremely Unpopular

Letters of comment

Farah Mendlesohn asks “but what did you think of DisCon III?”
Doug Faunt asks about the opening ceremony’s Christmas music
Flick asks why we didn’t mention the Xinjiang region
- UK House of Commons motion
- Tahir Hamut Izgil writing at The Atlantic
We’re sorry to Ira Alexandre for mispronouncing their name in episodes 20 and 21

Hugo Awards

Octothorpe was almost nominated for the Hugo Awards
- Octothorpe was the last fancast to be eliminated from the ballot!
- We were surprised and very thrilled and thank you so much for nominating us
E Pluribus Hugo
- Helsinki’s explanation of how this works
Nicholas Whyte analyses the Hugo Awards in detail
Camestros Felaptron’s Hugo posts: 1, 2, 3
The Hugo Awards long list
- It always has delights on it and this year is no exception
  - Best Series: Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London
  - Best Related Work: The Hugo Spreadsheet of Doom 2021 (presumably it was actually 2020 that was nominated now that we think of it)
    - 2022 open for your suggestions now. Get those fanzines and fan writers and fan artists and fancasts that you think are absolutely great on there!
    - Direct link: https://bit.ly/hugoaward2022
  - Fanzines just below the line included Bill Bowers’ Outworlds, William Breiding’s Portable Storage and Chris Garcia’s The Drink Tank

Sponsorship

NASFiC

Picks:

Alison: The Expanse (Amazon Prime)
- OK she is a bit behind but it is a 2022 Plan
Liz: Vita Nostra by Marina and Sergei Dyachenko, translated by Julia Meitov Hersey (paperback, epub, Kindle)
John:
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Coco (Disney+)

Music credits