105: Scorching Hot Month-Old Takes Octothorpe

John watches movies, Alison walks on the Moon, and Liz has special bonds.
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Content warnings this episode: Censorship, in the form of more Hugo Award controversy
Letters of comment
Ang Rosin
Andy Openshaw
Chris Garcia
Zodiac Speaking

ErsatzCulture and Raj
España Sheriff
Brighton 1987

Martin Easterbrook
Tammy Coxen
Sandra Bond
Keep an eye out for Poetry Slum!
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Nicholas Jackson on Bluesky
Harry Payne on Bluesky

BSFA Awards shortlist
Hugo Awards
The 2023 Hugo Awards: A Report on Censorship and Exclusion by Chris M Barkley and Jason Sanford
Charting the Cliff: An Investigation Into the 2023 Hugo Nomination Statistics by Camestros Felapton and Heather Rose Jones
More on Other Chinese Hugo Nominations, based on “Charting the Cliff” by Prograft
Recent updates from the MPC/WIP
Journey Planet #79

Picks
John: Monolith dir. Matt Vesely
Alison: Moonwalkers
Liz: FRIENDSHIP

Credits
Cover art: Liz’s Bedtime Reading 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 105” and “Liz has finished reading the latest Hugo Award exposés”.

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