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John went to Reno, Alison went to San Francisco, and Liz went to Chicago.\nPlease email your letters of comment to comment@octothorpecast.uk, check out our subtitles/transcripts, and tag @OctothorpeCast (on Twitter or on Mastodon) when you post about the show on social media.\nContent warnings this episode: Murder and sexual violence (chapter 4)\nLetters of comment\nChris Garcia\nDave Mansfield\nDuncan MacGregor\nErsatz Culture\nIrwin Hirsch\nJuan Sanmiguel\nNick Hubble\nPeter Sullivan\n\nConFrancisco\nAnsible 75 (October 1993)\nFile 770\u2019s Worldcon Wayback Machine:\nThursday\nFriday\nSaturday\nSunday\nMonday\n\n\nChengdu is a shower\nThe Hugo Voter Packet still doesn\u2019t have Best Fanzine or Best Fan Writer\nErsatz Culture\u2019s page on the Hugo Voter Packet now contains downloads for both\nArthur Liu/Heaven Duke has two pages in Chinese covering similar ground: one, two\n\nGlasgow 2024\nProgress Report 2 is now out\nThey\u2019ve got a big organ\nJohn is moderating \u201cThe Media of Storytelling: Print v Screen\u201d for Glasgow Presents\n21 September at 19:00 BST\nDan Hanks, A M Justice, Jim Mcleod, and R W W Greene\nTickets are free\n\n\nPicks\nJohn: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956 and 1978)\nAlison: The Thin Man (1934) and The Island of Doctor Moreau by H G Wells (1896)\nLiz:\n\nCredits\nCover art: \u201c1993 Time Machine\u201d by Alison Scott\nAlt text: A drawing of Espa\xf1a Sheriff with \u201cgosh wow oh boy oh boy\u201d in a thought bubble to the left of a drawing of Alison saying \u201cdisplays include Hugo history and antique vibrators\u201d behind an info desk. Computer monitors display the text \u201cComing soon! Websites!\u201d and \u201cTry Virtual Reality, it\u2019s the next big thing\u201d. A Dalek and the Golden Gate Bridge adorn the scene. Above, the words \u201cMoscone North\u201d are below the words \u201cWe travel to a land that photography forgot\u201d which are in turn below \u201cOctothorpe 92\u201d.\n\nTheme music: \u201cSurf Shimmy\u201d by Kevin MacLeod (CC BY 4.0)