John wants new gloves, Alison is foreshadowing, and Liz scrolls past spiders. Please email your letters of comment to [email protected] and tag @OctothorpeCast (on Twitter or on Mastodon) when you post about the show on social media. Content warnings this episode: Spiders (chapter 6) Letters of comment Raj Bridget Bradshaw Chris Garcia Bigbug (Netflix) OSS 117 (Amazon) Brice de Nice (Hoopla) Lori Anderson Curt Phillips Chengdu is a shower (but not as bad as the BBC) They have opened Hugo nominations Conversions for Chinese language nominees: “A factor of 1.6 will be used when converting from English words to Chinese characters. As such the fiction category breakpoints will be: 1) Short Story: fewer than 7,500 English words or 12,000 Chinese characters. 2) Novelette: between 7,500/12,000 and 17,500 English words or 28,000 Chinese characters. 3) Novella: between 17,500/28,000 and 40,000 English words or 64,000 Chinese characters. 4) Novel: greater than 40,000 English words or 64,000 Chinese characters.” Nebula nominees are out Strange Horizons argues erroneously that Our Flag Means Death is fantasy, actually BSFA nominees are also out Everything Everywhere All at Once prop auction(s) Everything Everywhere All at Once shop Picks: John: Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky (ebook, paperback, Amazon) Force Majeure Outer Dark Trilogy Part 2 Episode 1 - “In Space, No-One Can Smell Your Frog” The Dark Room by John Robertson Alison: Allegiance by George Takei Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford (ebook, paperback, Amazon) Liz: Los Espookys **(HBO, Now TV) Credits Cover art: ”MidJourney Into Space” by Alison Scott Alt text: Three adorable little rockets with faces corresponding to John, Alison and Liz above the text “Octothorpe 79”. Theme music: “Fanfare for Space” by Kevin MacLeod (CC BY 4.0) “Announcement” from Orange Free Sounds (CC BY-NC 4.0)