• 104: Groundbreaking and Great

  • Feb 29 2024
  • Length: 54 mins
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  • John, Alison and Liz discuss what SF they enjoyed from 2023. Please email your letters of comment to comment@octothorpecast.uk, check out our subtitles/transcripts, and tag @OctothorpeCast (on X or on Mastodon or on Bluesky) when you post about the show on social media. Content warnings this episode: None Fanzine The Ancillary Review of BooksIDEANerds of a Feather Fan Artist Alison ScottEspaña Sheriff Fan Writer Camestros FelaptonPaul WeimerSandra Bond Fancast Going Rogue Game/Interactive Work Video games Baldur’s Gate 3Chants of SennaarDredgeThe Legend of Zelda: Tears of the KingdomStar Wars Jedi: Survivor Tabletop games ApiaryEarthborne RangersMoonStar Wars: The Deckbuilding GameINELIGIBLE: Hegemony Galactic Starcruiser Adrian Hon’s write-upCass Morris’s write-up Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form) Blue-Eyed Samurai (Netflix)Doctor Who (BBC iPlayer, Disney+)For All Mankind (Apple TV+)Foundation (Apple TV+)The Last of Us (Now)The Mandalorian (Disney+)Poker Face (Now)Silo (Apple TV+)Star Trek: Lower Decks (Paramount+)Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (Paramount+)The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (Netflix) Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form) Asteroid City (Now Cinema)Barbie (rent or buy)Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (Paramount+)Ghosts, series 5 (BBC iPlayer)Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (Disney+)The Marvels (Disney+)Nimona (Netflix)Polite Society (Now Cinema)Poor Things (rent or buy)Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Now Cinema) Best Related Work 50 Years of Text Games by Aaron A Reed Silverwolf A City on Mars by Kelly and Zach WeinersmithAll These Worlds: Reviews and Essays by Niall HarrisonA Traveller in Time: The Critical Practice of Maureen Kincaid Speller, ed. Nina Allan Best Graphic Story Moon Knight, volume 9 by Jed MacKay, Alessandro Cappuccio, and Rachelle RosenbergWhy Don’t You Love Me? by Paul B Rainey Best Series Dune by Frank Herbert, Brian Herbert and Kevin J AndersonElric by Michael MoorcockImperial Radch by Ann LeckieThe Final Architecture by Adrian TchaikovskyThe Tyrant Philosophers by Adrian Tchaikovsky Best Short Fiction “Spring Woods Spring” by B Pladek“The Year Without Sunshine” by Naomi KritzerFind stories to read at Rocket Stack Rank Best Novella A Theory of Haunting by Sarah MonetteWalking Practice by Dolki Min“On the English Approach to the Study of History” by E Saxey Best Semiprozine GiganotasaurusStrange Horizons wot, no https?! Best Novel Bridge by Lauren BeukesThe Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra ChandrasekeraThe Reformatory by Tananarive DueOur Share of Night by Mariana EnriquezTitanium Noir by Nick HarkawayOrbital by Samantha HarveyIn Ascension by Martin MacInnesHopeland by Ian McDonaldJulia by Sandra NewmanHim by Geoff RymanCahokia Jazz by Francis SpuffordCity of Last Chances and The House of Open Wounds by Adrian TchaikovskySome Desperate Glory by Emily TeshThe Year in Review 2023 by Graham Sleight Credits Cover art: “Favourite Reading Positions” by Sue Mason Alt text: John is in the bottom-left, sitting in a chair, wearing a blue shirt and purple trousers, holding a can, and reading an ebook. Alison is in the upper-middle, lying down upside down, wearing a purple shirt and stripy trousers, and reading an ebook. Liz is in the bottom-right, wearing a pink shirt with green trousers, holding a mug of a hot beverage, and reading a physical book. They are surrounded by floating beer bottles, books, the Moon, a mug with a moose on it, and two cats. The word “Octothorpe” appears in scattered letters around the artwork, against a pinky-purple background. Theme music: “Fanfare for Space” by Kevin MacLeod (CC BY 4.0)
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