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John is clever, Alison has lost her composure, and Liz is confused by WSFS.

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• Letters of comment
  
  • Kev McVeigh (on Octothorpe 63)
    
    • Burntcoat by Sarah Hall (epub, hardback, audiobook, Amazon)
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Congratulations to Raj for catching up!
    
    • [Do not listen from the beginning – John]
    
    
    • [It is also okay to skip episodes – Alison]
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Mark Plummer
  
  
  • Chris Garcia
  
  
  • Farah Mendlesohn
  
  
  
  


• British Fantasy Society Awards
  
  • Maureen Kincaid Speller
    
    • Tribute on Strange Horizons
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  


• Glasgow 2024
  
  • Join here!
  
  
  • WSFS Memberships
    
    • These have confused some people
    
    
    • WSFS Memberships let you vote in the Hugo Awards and in Site Selection
    
    
    • But not in the WSFS Business Meeting
    
    
    • Cheryl Morgan at Salon Futura
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  


• Picks:
  
  • John: A Vertical Empire: History of the British Rocketry Programme by CN Hill (ebook, paperback, Amazon)
  
  
  • Alison: Wandavision (Disney+)
  
  
  • Liz: Return to Monkey Island (Steam, Nintendo Switch)
  
  
  
  


• Credits
  
  • Cover art: Glasgow by Sara Felix with kind permission of Glasgow 2024
    
    • Alt text: The Glasgow 2024 logo with black line drawings of John, Alison and Liz on three planets. Alison has a tiara. In place of the words “Glasgow 2024” are the words “Octothorpe 68”. The logo is on a background in Octothorpe’s purple.
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Theme music: “Fanfare for Space” by Kevin MacLeod (CC BY 4.0)