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Kathryn Adams

Woodworker and reader, artistic fantasy/sci-fi fangirl with the attention span of a magpie.
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Binary System Podcast #321: WTNV #210 “Ten Years Later”

Pop the champagne and throw the confetti, Welcome to Night Vale celebrated their ten year anniversary…two weeks ago. Two weeks and a day, actually. *tiny noisemaker sound* Yay? We started out the podcast this week with a discussion of the recent Supreme Court decision (if you don’t know where the Binary System Podcast falls on

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Review: The Galaxy, and the Ground Within

At last, the boring little rock that spun around the drab little sun was given a use: that of an anchor between the places people actually wanted to visit. The planet Gora is lifeless, airless, and widely considered to be completely useless…except that it happens to be right between five populated systems, conveniently located next

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Review: Fireheart Tiger

Next up for the Hugo Award finalists is Aliette de Bodard’s story of political intrigue, familial conflict, and reckless romance in a fantasy version of pre-colonial Vietnam. Imperial Princess Thanh was sent to the country of Ephteria when she was still a child. Being a royal hostage was one of the only things she was

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Binary System Podcast #317: Doctor Strange: In the Multiverse of Madness

*SPOILER WARNING, WARNING FOR SPOILERS, SPOILING ALL THE THINGS* Yes, the Binary System Podcast team has done the unthinkable, we’ve watched a new movie while it’s still in the theaters, so there’s a chance that a spoiler warning might actually be necessary. “Doctor Strange: In the Multiverse of Madness” is one heck of a ride,

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Review: A Spindle Splintered

Romantic girls like Beauty and the Beast; vanilla girls like Cinderella; goth girls like Snow White. Only dying girls like Sleeping Beauty. Alix E. Harrow is up for two Hugo awards this year, adding to a long list of nominations for her novels and short stories. In her Hugo-nominated novella this year, young Zinnia Grey

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Review: Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky Book #2)

“We are but fevered stars. Here a little while, bright with promise, before we burn away.” – Obregi Book of Flowers Rebecca Roanhorse returns us to Meridian, the fantasy version of Pre-Columbian Americas in the second book of her “Between Earth and Sky” series. Book 1 ended with the slaughter of the entire ruling body

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Binary System Podcast #315: WTNV #208 “Cecil in the Big City”

It’s been a long time since Cecil and Carlos have been able to take a vacation (I’m sure we all know what that’s like) so this week they dropped Esteban off with Cecil’s sister and headed off to the Big City! No, not New York, the other Big City, the one with Middle Park, and

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Review: Light From Uncommon Stars

Souls are cheap. The trick is finding the right soul. Katrina Nguyen, a transgender teenager from a very unaccepting family, decides that her latest beating is one beating too many. She climbs out of her family’s apartment and boards a bus to Los Angeles, bringing along not much more than her laptop and her treasured

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