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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!
    
    
    • Click here to see the cover
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • 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)