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John went to Reno, Alison went to San Francisco, and Liz went to Chicago.

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Content warnings this episode: Murder and sexual violence (chapter 4)

• Letters of comment
  
  • Chris Garcia
  
  
  • Dave Mansfield
  
  
  • Duncan MacGregor
  
  
  • Ersatz Culture
  
  
  • Irwin Hirsch
  
  
  • Juan Sanmiguel
  
  
  • Nick Hubble
  
  
  • Peter Sullivan
  
  
  
  


• ConFrancisco
  
  • Ansible 75 (October 1993)
  
  
  • File 770’s Worldcon Wayback Machine:
    
    • Thursday
    
    
    • Friday
    
    
    • Saturday
    
    
    • Sunday
    
    
    • Monday
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  


• Chengdu is a shower
  
  • The Hugo Voter Packet still doesn’t have Best Fanzine or Best Fan Writer
  
  
  • Ersatz Culture’s page on the Hugo Voter Packet now contains downloads for both
  
  
  • Arthur Liu/Heaven Duke has two pages in Chinese covering similar ground: one, two
  
  
  
  


• Glasgow 2024
  
  • Progress Report 2 is now out
  
  
  • They’ve got a big organ
  
  
  • John is moderating “The Media of Storytelling: Print v Screen” for Glasgow Presents
    
    • 21 September at 19:00 BST
    
    
    • Dan Hanks, A M Justice, Jim Mcleod, and R W W Greene
    
    
    • Tickets are free
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  


• Picks
  
  • John: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956 and 1978)
  
  
  • Alison: The Thin Man (1934) and The Island of Doctor Moreau by H G Wells (1896)
  
  
  • Liz:
  
  
  
  


• Credits
  
  • Cover art: “1993 Time Machine” by Alison Scott
    
    • Alt text: A drawing of España Sheriff with “gosh wow oh boy oh boy” in a thought bubble to the left of a drawing of Alison saying “displays include Hugo history and antique vibrators” behind an info desk. Computer monitors display the text “Coming soon! Websites!” and “Try Virtual Reality, it’s the next big thing”. A Dalek and the Golden Gate Bridge adorn the scene. Above, the words “Moscone North” are below the words “We travel to a land that photography forgot” which are in turn below “Octothorpe 92”.
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Theme music: “Surf Shimmy” by Kevin MacLeod (CC BY 4.0)