John is a thief, Alison plays games, and Liz is bullied.
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- Letters of comment
- Andreas Davour
- Bella Garcia
- Constanze Hoffman
- Farah Mendlesohn
- Jonathan Cowie
- June Young
- Mike Scott
- Neil Ottenstein
- Raj
- Tammy Coxen
- Zoe O’Connell
- We also heard from Bridget Bradshaw, Colin Harris, Meg MacDonald, and Shi Lala
- Fan funds
- The 2025 TAFF race has begun
- Zi Graves, Mikołaj Kowalewski, Jan Vaněk jr.
- CUFF comes to an end
- The 2025 TAFF race has begun
- Fowler Award
- Hugo Awards
- 2025 spreadsheet of doom
- Novels
- T**he Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett
- The Sentence by Gautam Bhatia
- The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
- The Life Impossible by Matt Haig
- Jumpnauts by Hao Jingfang
- The Siege of Burning Grass by Premee Mohamed
- Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- House of Open Wounds by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Absolution by Jeff Vandermeer
- We Are All Ghosts in the Forest by Lorraine Wilson
- Novellas
- A Mourning Coat by Alex Jeffers
- North Continent Ribbon by Ursula Whitcher
- Short Stories
- Related Works
- Track Changes: Selected Reviews **by Abigail Nussbaum
- Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the A**lt-Right by Jordan S. Carroll
- Series
- The Horus Heresy
- The Southern Reach
- The Tyrant Philosophers
- Graphic Stories
- Warp Your Own Way by Ryan North and Chris Fenoglio
- Dramatic Presentations
- All of Us Strangers
- Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
- I Saw the TV Glow
- Late Night with the Devil
- My Old Ass
- A Quiet Place: Day One
- The Substance
- Timestalker
- Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
- The Wild Robot
- Games
- Tabletop
- Arcs
- City of Six Moons
- Mothership
- Undaunted 2200: Callisto
- Video
- Animal Well
- Caves of Qud
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard
- The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdo**m
- Slice and Dice 3.0
- Star Wars: Outlaws
- Tale of the Golden Idol
- UFO50
- Other
- Tabletop
- Poems
- Fan categories
- Artists
- Alison Scott
- España Sheriff
- Podcasts
- Fanac Fan History Zooms
- Going Rogue
- Hugo, Girl!
- A Meal of Thorns
- Writers
- Camestros Felapton
- Ersatz Culture
- Roseanna Pendlebury
- Fanzines
- Ancillary Review of Books
- Banana Wings
- Ornithopter
- Unofficial Hugo Book Club
- Artists
- Debut authors
- Moniquill Blackgoose
- [Alison did not write any of her selections into the show notes and I was sorely tempted not to go through and write them all down for her but I did it for you, listener. I did it for you—John]
- Picks [isn’t this a whole episode of picks?—Liz]
- John: Earthborne Rangers
- Alison: The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
- Liz: Horizon Zero Dawn
- Sorry Mark
- Credits
- Cover art: “Waffle of comment” by Bella Garcia
- Alt text: A picture of a Belgian waffle that looks like an octothorpe, on a white background, with the words “Octothorpe 126” above and “now with added waffle” below.
- Theme music: “Fanfare for Space” by Kevin MacLeod (CC BY 4.0)
- Cover art: “Waffle of comment” by Bella Garcia