John has bad Internet, Alison is monologuing, and Liz is the long-suffering one.\nPlease email your letters of comment to octothorpecast@gmail.com and use #OctothorpeCast or tag @OctothorpeCast when you post about the show on social media.\n(We know Alison sounds a bit unusual during the first eight minutes or so, but she was very happy in her cave and we felt like it would be mean to make her come out before she was ready.)\nLetters of comment\nJonathan Cowie\nPhil Dyson\nChris Garcia\nFarah Mendlesohn\nRoman Orzanski\nDitmar for Best Cat\n\nMark Plummer\n\nWorldcons\nWinnipeg in 2023\nKevin Standlee\u2019s blog post about this coming to be\n\nMemphis in 2023\nChengdu in 2023\n\nPunctuation 2 is go!\nYou can join here today\nNon-binding consultative referendum\nVolunteer and programme survey\n\nWe spent longer than we intended talking about the WSFS Business Meeting!\nCurious about binge watching? WSFS has you covered\n\nOctopicks\nJohn: A Wizard\u2019s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher\nWhich is actually nominated for a Lodestar Award and not a Hugo Award\n\nAlison: The Mitchells vs the Machines\nLiz: Detransistion, Baby by Torrey Peters\n\nAftershow\nGlasgow in 2024 did an excellent riff on their logo for Star Wars day\n\nMusic credits\nOur theme music is Fanfare for Space by Kevin MacLeod, used under a CC BY 3.0 license