John is chuckling, Alison is conversing, and Liz is critical.\nPlease email your letters of comment to comment@octothorpecast.uk and tag @OctothorpeCast (on Twitter or on Mastodon) when you post about the show on social media.\nContent warnings this episode: Immigration (chapter 2), COVID (chapter 3)\n\nLetters of comment\n\nAng Rosin\nDave Coxon\nRaj\nChris Garcia\n\nFempire by Honora Talbot\nLost Beyond the Stars by Kayla Arend\nBean Feasa by Daniel Butler\nAlieNation by Ray Raghavan\nI XXXX My Sex Doll by Fay Beck\n\n\n\n\nChengdu is a shower\n\nPR1\nThe USA says \u201creconsider travel\u201d, which is level 3 of a 4-level alert, partly due to COVID which may change before October. They have level 4 alerts which are \u201cdo not travel\u201d\n\n\nConversation COVID policy\n\nLiz thinks Boskone has a nice, straightforward policy\n\n\nPicks:\n\nJohn: Living with Ghosts by Kari Sperring (only available in the US: ebook, Amazon)\nAlison: Spider-Man: Far From Home (Disney+)\nLiz: The Owl Job\n\n\nCredits\n\nCover art: Sqrrl Grrl by Alison Scott\n\nAlt text: John and Liz are squirrels with acorns and Liz is Squirrel Girl, sitting in a tree under the words \u201cOctothorpe 78\u201d.\n\n\nTheme music: \u201cFanfare for Space\u201d by Kevin MacLeod (CC BY 4.0)