John wants to play, Alison has met lots of authors, and Liz is a womble. Please email your letters of comment to [email protected] and tag @OctothorpeCast (on wandering.shop) when you post about the show on social media. Content warnings this episode: Capitalism (chapter 3), China (chapter 4) Letters of comment Sandra Bond Lilian Edwards Chris “The Legend” Garcia Duncan MacGregor Dave Mansfield Curt Phillips Kevin Standlee Raj on Twitter Magazines The Locus fundraiser is well over target Amazon are stopping doing Kindle Periodical magazine subscriptions Interesting numbers on subscribers/supporters from Michael Damien Thomas Chengdu is a shower: Chengdu are finally taking non-Chinese memberships A mere 22 days before the deadline for Hugos Chengdu have not yet produced PR1 There is another petition against Sergei Lukyanenko Liz is going to do the runalongwomble TBR challenge Picks: John: The Moonday Letters by Emmi Itäranta (paperback, epub, audiobook) Alison: Europe in Autumn by Dave Hutchison (paperback, epub, audiobook) Please recommend me (and everyone else) one fantastic 2022 book to read Recommend me one science fiction or fantasy thing from 2022 that you’ve particularly enjoyed that is not a novel Strange Horizons’ 2022 in Review Liz: A Game of Birds and Wolves by Simon Parkin (paperback, epub, audiobook) Aftershow: If I Ran the Zoo…Con (NESFA Press, The Book Patch) Credits Theme music: “Fanfare for Space” by Kevin MacLeod (CC BY 4.0)