Show Notes
John is gaming, Alison is a pirate, and Claudia is dancing. An uncorrected transcript of this episode is available here. Please email your letters of comment to [email protected], join our Facebook group, and tag @OctothorpeCast (on X or on Mastodon or on Bluesky) when you post about the show on social media. Content warnings this episode: It’s a live recording! Also, we say the words “dicks” and “moist” a lot; sorry about that.
Claudia Rapp:
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The Hay lecturer was Tasha Phillips, and the lecture was “Stranger than Fiction: Creatures of the Deep” John was wrong about that sketch, it was on the radio and is also on YouTube Eurocon 2026: Metropol Con 2026 in Berlin, Germany
Gamma Rats Die Leere im Kern deiner Hoffnung
Worldcon 2028: Bid for Nuremberg, Germany Worldcon 2028: Bid for Brisbane, Australia Picks
John: World on a Wire/Welt am Dracht Alison: The Eastercon Business Meeting Claudia: Lyneham by Nils Westerboer
Athos 2643 by Nils Westerboer A movie is underway!
Credits
Cover art: “Best panel confirmed” by Simon Bubb
Alt text: A picture of John, Alison and Claudia sitting behind the panel tables during the live recording. A thread from the convention Discord is being projected onto the screen behind them, with messages reading “Malcolm H: Song for Alison… Da Da Da”, “Roseanna: We’ve passed the discord comment count for the highest other item!! Best panel confirmed [rocket emoji]”, “Meg MacDonald: Teach us your wisdom”, “Frances Dowd: Drink drink drink your Heineken, oodles and oodles for everyone!”. Words have been added to the top reading “Octothorpe 157” and to the bottom reading ‘Live from Iridescence: “Best panel confirmed”’.
Theme music: “Fanfare for Space” by Kevin MacLeod (CC BY 4.0)
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