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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 #224 – WTNV #170 “To the Family and Friends”, plus The Good Place, Hannibal, and Lore Olympus

You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! First up this week we’re recapping Welcome To Night Vale’s 8-year anniversary episode, a story about life and loss and moving on and getting older and death and OKAY let’s move on to the weekly sitrep with the pandemic and armed

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Review: Exhalation – Stories

Ted Chiang is up for two Hugo awards this year, one novelette (“Omphalos”) and one novella (Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom). I was able to get ahold of the book they’re collected in, so I’m taking an easy week and just reading those two stories. Ha! Just kidding, it’s a short-story collection, of course

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Binary System Podcast #223 – WTNV #169 “Whittler”

You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! This week we’re recapping a Night Vale episode full of wood carving and excellent horoscopes, but first we wanted to mention the week’s events. What can you say about the past week? It sucked, obviously. A man was murdered by the

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Review: The Ten Thousand Doors of January

If we address stories as archaeological sites, and dust through their layers with meticulous care, we find at some point there is always a doorway. Alix E. Harrow is up for two Hugo Awards this year, one for the lovely short story “Do Not Look Back, My Lion” and one for The Ten Thousand Doors

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Review: Gideon the Ninth

Back in its day, at least, it would have been a monument to wealth and beauty. In the present it was a castle that had been killed. The Emperor of the First House (King of the Nine Renewals, the Necrolord Prime) has issued a summons to the other eight Houses. The heir to each House

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2020 Hugo Awards – Two Novelettes and a Novella

Two of this year’s Hugo-nominated stories are only available via short-story collection (the same short story collection. C’mon, Ted Chiang, stop hogging the noms), so this week I’ll be reviewing a tale of an interstellar colony that sends an agent back to the ruined homeworld, a roundabout explanation for why a poet would write an

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Binary System Podcast #221 – We watched some things!

You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! No Night Vale episode to recap, so this week we tried something different. We both said we were going to watch something that’s been on our to-do list…and then we watched them. So Kathryn watched the 2007 movie Sunshine (written by

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Review: A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan Book 1)

Empire was empire – the part that seduced and the part that clamped down, jaws like a vise, and shook a planet until its neck was broken and it died. Next up in the Hugo nominees is Arkady Martine’s novel of interplanetary intrigue, A Memory Called Empire. The book’s cover art of a lone figure

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Binary System Podcast #220 – WTNV #167 “Echo” Part 5 of 5

You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! First up this week we’re recapping the fifth and final part of Night Vale’s latest story arc, as the telepathic cult from the Desert Otherworld has taken over the town. It’s a real feel-good finale, full of betrayal, mind control, and

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