110: Tom Hanks Bloody Loves the Moon Octothorpe

John is a professor, Alison doesn’t have a bucket list, and Liz is the country’s foremost fan historian.
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Content warnings this episode: More wealth privilege (chapter 2)
Letters of comment
Bridget Bradshaw
Christopher J Garcia
Farah Mendlesohn
Jonathan Cowie
Jonny Baddeley
Kin-Ming Looi
Sandra Bond
Tammy Coxen

Awards
Babel wins “Best Translated Work” at the 2024 Xingyun Awards
Clarke Award finalists
John: 0, Alison: 1, Liz: 3
The winner will be announced on 24 July

2024 Nebula Awards
2023 Nebula Awards
Locus Awards

Glasgow 2024
The Hugo Packet is now available
Joel’s Whisky Zoom is hosting a tour of the Clydeside Distillery on 9 August at 7pm

Picks
John: Sunderland Shorts Film Festival
Soulmate, Beautiful Things, Ensouled, Finger Food, Bisected, Own Home?, R1CO, The First Time I Never Met You
Wes Anderson’s short adaptations of Roald Dahl

Alison: Aurora
Liz’s view on auroras

Liz: A Man on the Moon by Andrew Chaikin [paper, ebook, audiobook, Amazon]

Credits
Cover art: “Explain 2233” by Alison Scott
Alt text: Three photographs of the night sky, labelled Newcastle, Bangkok, and “Quite near London” (the labels were written by a Londoner, which is why it doesn’t just say “London”). Text above reads “Octothorpe 110” and below reads “Local Aurora Snapshots”. The Newcastle and London images show photographs of aurora with some minor bits of vegetation intruding; the Bangkok picture shows a skyline of buildings underneath a thunderstorm.

Theme music: “Fanfare for Space” by Kevin MacLeod (CC BY 4.0)