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John has a button, Alison has a venue, and Liz once saw a computer that had been in Chris’s car.

Please email your letters of comment to comment@octothorpecast.uk and tag @OctothorpeCast when you post about the show on social media.

Content warnings this episode: COVID (chapter 2), death at a young age (chapter 6).

• Letters of comment
  
  
  
  • Chris Garcia
  
  
  • Roman Orszanski
  
  
  • Paul Weimer
  
  
  • Bridget Bradshaw
  
  
  
  


• FantasyCon
  
  
  
  • It was cancelled
    
    
    
    • They had sold 200 memberships, but needed 400 and were £24k short
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • It was uncancelled
    
    
    
    • You can join the new iteration here
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  


• Arthur C Clarke Awards
  
  
  
  • The shortlist is out
  
  
  • The Scotsman reviewed Deep Wheel Orcadia
  
  
  
  


• Conversation has a venue now!


• Chicon Fringe


• Picks
  
  
  
  • John: Star Wars: The Knights of the Old Republic (Steam, Switch, Xbox, iPad)
    
    
    
    • No PlayStation version, probably because of the coming remake?
      
      
      
      • The remake has been “paused indefinitely”
      
      
      
      
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Alison: “In the Black Fantastic” at the Hayward Gallery
    
    
    
    • Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Liz: The Great Potato War
  
  
  
  


• Credits
  
  
  
  • Cover art: “Assorted Jedi” by Alison Scott
    
    
    
    • Alt text: Three humanoid figures hold lightsabers and stand against a futuristic cityscape reminiscent of Coruscant. The leftmost looks like John, but is clad in the clothes of Luke Skywalker. The middle figure looks like Alison, but she’s green and looks quite a lot like Yoda. The rightmost looks like Liz, clad in the clothes of Rey Skywalker. The words “Octothorpe 63” adorn the top of the image in the distinctive typeface of Star Wars.
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Theme music: “Fanfare for Space” by Kevin MacLeod (CC BY 4.0)