StarravenMmmm, new kilt smell!
Seattle Worldcon 2025🚨 Attention Glasgow WSFS members! 🚨
Want to nominate for the upcoming awards? Make sure you checked the box to pass your information along! If you missed it, reach out to Glasgow 2024 registration ASAP to get it sorted. ✅ #WSFS #Glasgow2024 #SciFiAwards
🚨 Attention Glasgow WSFS members! 🚨
Want to nominate for the upcoming awards? Make sure you checked the box to pass your information along! If you missed it, reach out to Glasgow 2024 registration ASAP to get it sorted. ✅ #WSFS #Glasgow2024 #SciFiAwards
Blind MapmakerAnyone wants to help me nominate moringmark's #TheOwlHouse fanart for this year's #HugoAwards ?
Wildly different target audiences, I know, but I'd thought I'd throw it out there, especially since the #Glasgow2024 nominations seemed quite eclectic.
Nick HubbleLatest in the blog series: Ken MacLeod, The Restoration Game (2010)
#sf #sff #scottishsff #kenmacleod #therestorationgame #Glasgow2024 #glasgowworldcon
OctothorpeOctothorpe 122 is here! We discuss letters of comment, hybrid conventions, awards and the recent news about Oghenochovwe Donald Ekpeki. Pumpkin carved by our very own Alison Scott. Listen here! https://octothorpe.podbean.com/e/122-topical-pumpkin/
122: Topical Pumpkin | Octothorpe
John is on the periphery, Alison is carving, and Liz went to Japan. An uncorrected transcript of this episode is available here. Please email your letters of comment to [email protected], join our Facebook group, and tag @OctothorpeCast (on X or on Mastodon or on Bluesky) when you post about the show on social media. Content warnings this episode: con artistry, privilege, racism Letters of comment Jake Casella Brookins Sankey diagrams on the Ancillary Review of Books Ali Baker Brooks I’m a Fan of That Christopher J Garcia Emily January Kat Kourbeti SH@25 is a new, year-long interview and feature series that will delve into the archives, celebrate the work of past contributors and staff, and highlight the contributions of Strange Horizons to SFF publishing and the wider community. Caroline Mullan Zoe O’Connell Roman Orszanski Booking flights on a phone Awards World Fantasy Awards The Kitschies Ursula K LeGuin award Strange Horizons review in two parts: one, two Oghenochovwe Donald Ekpeki Erin Cairns has reported that Ekpeki stole a story and passed it off as his own On Bluesky On Google Drive File 770 report Cairns tried to sound this alarm on X in June Reactions Gautam Bhatia L D Lewis (requires Bluesky login) Ekpeki’s response Jason Sanford talks about his reaction to the news: one, two Picks John: Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Alison: Bridge Command Alison was given free tickets by the venue’s PR team Liz: Japan Neat effects like Tokyo Disneyland’s Pepper’s ghost or Shiriki Utundu Liz was not given free tickets but if anyone wants to give me free tickets to Disney parks please get in touch Credits Cover art: “Octothorpe, Octothorpe, Octothorpe” by Alison Scott Alt text: A pumpkin carved with an image of Beetlejuice, with the words “Episode 122” at the top of the image and “Octothorpe, Octothorpe, Octothorpe” at the bottom. Theme music: “Fanfare for Space” by Kevin MacLeod (CC BY 4.0)
Latest in my series of blogposts on Ken MacLeod's fiction. Here, I look in detail at the Engines of Light trilogy, a key work. Also some notes on the Dialectic, Historical Materialism, and the Scottish Programme.
#sf #sff #scottishsff #kenmacleod #RoadtoGlasgow2024 #Glasgow2024 #worldcon #enginesoflight
Road from Glasgow 2024: Ken Macleod, Engines of Light: Cosmonaut Keep (Orbit, 2000), Dark Light (Orbit, 2001) and Engine City (Orbit, 2002)
Including Notes on the Dialectic, Historical Materialism and the Scottish Programme Part of my series of posts on Scottish SFF in the run-up to, and aftermath of, this year’s WorldCon, focusing esp…
In this episode, we do rather fewer letters of comment than last episode, and then we let Liz do her favourite topic of all: STATISTICS. Listen here! https://octothorpe.podbean.com/e/120-activate-liz/
120: Activate Liz | Octothorpe
John does a funny voice, Alison recoils, and Liz loves big stats and she cannot lie. An uncorrected transcript of this episode is available here. Please email your letters of comment to [email protected], join our Facebook group, and tag @OctothorpeCast (on X or on Mastodon or on Bluesky) when you post about the show on social media. Content warnings this episode: Death (chapter 5) Letters of comment Abigail Nussbaum Chris Garcia Alison closing a parenthesis Emily January España Sheriff Farah Mendlesohn Ivan Sinha Nicholas Whyte Upcoming eclipses Tammy Coxen 2024 Hugo Voting Statistics 2024 Sankey diagrams 2020 Sankey diagrams Picks John: The Substance Definitely not Subterranea Alison: UFO 50 Liz: Alien Clay Credits Cover art: “Judge Coxon” by Alison Scott Alt text: Words read ‘Octothorpe 120: Introducing Judge Coxon. “I am the lore”’. They are around a picture of John as a Judge in the style of 2000AD, holding a big stack of books. The logo of the Clarke Award may or may not appear in the artwork. Theme music: “Fanfare for Space” by Kevin MacLeod (CC BY 4.0)
Todd Sundstedworldcon glasgow had a registered tartan created for the event called "landing zone glasgow". unfortunately, they sold out of the first weaving before i could order.
i found out a few days ago that they are taking preorders for a second weaving. this is amazingly great news! a vest is in my future!
We respond to your burning questions in our bumper mailbag episode! We spend a good long time going through your posts, and we briefly discuss the recent allegations against Neil Gaiman before moving onto happier topics. Listen here. https://octothorpe.podbean.com/e/119-only-one-of-them-is-my-bludgeoning-hand-john/
#NeilGaiman #ScienceFiction #Podcast #HugoAwards #Glasgow2024 #Worldcon
119: Only One of Them Is My Bludgeoning Hand, John | Octothorpe
John is not assigning blame, Alison is someone, and Liz is bludgeoning. An uncorrected transcript of this episode is available here. Please email your letters of comment to [email protected], join our Facebook group, and tag @OctothorpeCast (on X or on Mastodon or on Bluesky or on Instagram) when you post about the show on social media. Content warnings this episode: Sexual assault (Neil Gaiman allegations, at 39:28 to 42:02). Letters of comment Niall Harrison On our Hugo win/recusing Andy on Mastodon Chris Garcia Meg MacDonald Perianne Lurie Renay Sandra Bond’s poem On info desk and maps Alan Fleming Doug Faunt Peter Sullivan On communications Chris Garcia Duncan MacGregor on Mastodon On WSFS Business Meeting June Young (email, 9 September) Chris Garcia (email, 29 August) Martin Freeman circa 2001 Post from Nicholas Whyte on consultative vote DC on Mastodon Duncan MacGregor on Mastodon Raj on Mastodon Our brand is now WSFS Commentators and people like it? Laurie Burchell On Worldcon attendance numbers Tero on Mastodon aoanla on Mastodon Miscellaneous Hugo finalists: Raj on Mastodon Programme: aoanla on Mastodon Back to Our Futures We also heard from: Ali Baker Brooks, Angela Rosin, Catherine Pickersgill, Curt Phillips, Damien Warman, Dave Coxon, España Sheriff, Farah Mendlesohn, Fiona Moore, Fran Dowd, Gav Reads, Iain Clark, Jonathan Baddeley, Julie Faith McMurray, Karen Schaffer, Leigh Edmonds, Lilian Edwards, Malcolm Hutchison, Mike Scott, Neil Ottenstein, Phil Dyson, Roseanna Pendlebury, Trish Neil Gaiman File 770 Genre Grapevine Elise Matthesen on Dreamwidth The Guardian Theremina on Patreon Future Worldcons Seattle 2025 Seattle is having a Poetry Hugo Seattle has announced a judged film festival LAcon V looks good Good guests “The LA in 2026 bid received 452 out of 531 votes cast.” Tel Aviv in 2027 Brisbane in 2028 The latest episode of FANAC History Zoom is “The secret history of Plokta”, with Steve Davies, Sue Mason, Alison Scott, and Mike Scott Picks John: Alien: Romulus Alison: KAOS Liz: Control Credits Cover art: “We got a lot of letters” by Alison Scott Alt text: A famous photograph of Margaret Hamilton standing beside printed outputs of the code that took the Apollo spacecraft to the Moon, overlaid with the words “Octothorpe 119” and “Our Listeners Write In”. Theme music: “Fanfare for Space” by Kevin MacLeod (CC BY 4.0)