75: Optimus Prime But for Books

John wants to play, Alison has met lots of authors, and Liz is a womble.

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Content warnings this episode: Capitalism (chapter 3), China (chapter 4)

• Letters of comment
  • Sandra Bond
  • Lilian Edwards
  • Chris “The Legend” Garcia
  • Duncan MacGregor
  • Dave Mansfield
  • Curt Phillips
  • Kevin Standlee
  • Raj on Twitter
• Magazines
  • The Locus fundraiser is well over target
  • Amazon are stopping doing Kindle Periodical magazine subscriptions
  • Interesting numbers on subscribers/supporters from Michael Damien Thomas
• Chengdu is a shower:
  • Chengdu are finally taking non-Chinese memberships
    • A mere 22 days before the deadline for Hugos
  • Chengdu have not yet produced PR1
  • There is another petition against Sergei Lukyanenko
• Liz is going to do the runalongwomble TBR challenge
• Picks:
  • John: The Moonday Letters by Emmi Itäranta (paperback, epub, audiobook)
  • Alison: Europe in Autumn by Dave Hutchison (paperback, epub, audiobook)
    • Please recommend me (and everyone else) one fantastic 2022 book to read
    • Recommend me one science fiction or fantasy thing from 2022 that you’ve particularly enjoyed that is not a novel
    • Strange Horizons’ 2022 in Review
  • Liz: A Game of Birds and Wolves by Simon Parkin (paperback, epub, audiobook)
• Aftershow:
  • If I Ran the Zoo…Con (NESFA Press, The Book Patch)
• Credits
  • Theme music: “Fanfare for Space” by Kevin MacLeod (CC BY 4.0)