120: Activate Liz

Octothorpe

John does a funny voice, Alison recoils, and Liz loves big stats and she cannot lie.

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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)