The first day of the end of the world started entirely without incident. C. Robert Cargil – author of We Are Where The Nightmares Go and screenwriter for “Doctor Strange” and “Sinister” – spun a tale of the aftermath of the Robot Apocalypse in Sea Of Rust. His latest book Day Zero tells the story
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! Seriously you guys we’re not kidding this time, ALL THE SPOILER WARNINGS this episode because we’re breaking down the final season of Bojack Horseman and we’re going to spoil everything. (…yes okay the final episode dropped a year and a half
Next up for the Hugo awards, three of the stories nominated for Best Novelette. For this group we’ve got a dystopian commentary on body image (and how society’s treatment of it is so much more poisonous than “don’t you want to be healthy?”), a tale of high school friendship mixed with genetic tampering and revenge,
The third book in Mary Robinette Kowal’s “A Lady Astronaut” series is up for a Hugo award this year, and it’s an absolute cracker. Book One told the story of a world-ending disaster and humanity reaching for the stars from the point of view of the women fighting for their place aboard the spaceships. Book
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! “Why are you pretending you wrote this?” Not gonna lie, the Night Vale folks had us going for a bit when they said they had to change plans for the episode at the last minute and just answer some fan-submitted questions.
You will never remember the great if you do not remember the small. Nghi Vo’s Hugo-nominated debut novella is set in a fantasy-version of Imperial China, and tells the story of an exiled Empress and her loyal, rabbit-toothed servant girl. Both of them were too lowly to be kept around the palace, but too important
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! The Night Vale recap is very quick this week, partly because it’s a very cerebral episode about life and identity and carving forgotten languages into insanely tall monoliths, but mostly because Elizabeth finally watched all of 2017’s Twin Peaks: the Return
The third book in Mary Robinette Kowal’s A Lady Astronaut trilogy is up for a Hugo award this year and I…still hadn’t read Book 2, The Fated Sky. Time to get on that. It’s been nine years since a meteorite wiped out most of the Eastern US and destroyed the Earth’s climate. In that time
This year’s list of nominated short stories covers a pretty wide range of themes. In this group there are two re-told fairy tales, a portal to another world via a book-loaning program, ruminations on wholesale slaughter by a sentient house, a day in the life (well, week in the life) of a couple of brand