24: You May Not Really Be the Target Audience for Television

John wants Palm Springs to win a Hugo, Alison is lonely, and Liz is not going to buy a Nintendo Switch. Please email your letters of comment to [email protected] and use #OctothorpeCast or tag @OctothorpeCast when you post about the show on social media. Letters of comment: Duncan MacGregor Anonymous Claire Sheffield SF and Fantasy Society First Thursday Fandom Drinks A party in a Google Sheet Claire Brialey Chris Garcia Mark Plummer DisCon III They announced that they were going to make an announcement, but not what it was Then it turned out that the announcement they had announced was an announcement regarding the lack of anything to announce Their hotel is going bust This is not particularly recent news though Capricon The 2021 UK filk convention Long (Distance) Play Boskone Mass Con ’21 Hugo reading/nominations John’s reading list: The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez The Doors of Eden by Adrian Tchaikovsky Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson Piranesi by Susanna Clarke Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir Vagabonds by Hao Jingfang (translated by Ken Liu) Network Effect by Martha Wells A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin Movies Palm Springs (coming soon to Amazon Prime) The Vast of Night Ice Cold in Alex **(buy or rent) The big Hugo Spreadsheet of Doom Our theme music is Fanfare for Space by Kevin MacLeod, used under a CC BY 3.0 license. Dun Dun Dun Brass is by Orange Free Sounds, used under a CC BY NC 4.0 license.