More comfort reading time! This week I’m only going back to 2012 (or forward to the 2400’s) with John Scalzi’s Redshirts. (Courtesy of a free ebook from Tor Books this month. Thanks guys!) It’s Ensign Andrew Dahl’s first posting, and as luck would have it a position just opened on the Intrepid, flagship of the
So, anyone up for some comfort reading? BECAUSE I SURE AM. This week we’re going all the way back to 1991, and a book I’ve been meaning to read for a while now: Ray Aldridge’s first novel, The Pharaoh Contract, book 1 of The Emancipator series. It follows reluctant enforcer Ruiz Aw, who’s been sent
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! It’s the Welcome to Night Vale episode that Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor described as “maybe the most upsetting thing we’ve ever written.” Listen in as we recap a one-person show featuring unearthly roommates, really cruel pranks, and something called “the
It took five years for us to get a sequel to Natasha Pulley’s The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, but it was worth it. This book was everything I wanted out of a return to the British translator with synesthesia, and the eccentric Japanese watchmaker who can remember the future. The plot of Book 1 was
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! On this week’s Night Vale recap we discuss theater etiquette when attending a show at an insane asylum, and then move on to cosplay problems, adventures in 3D printing, and whether or not the pretty, pretty effects in Picard outweigh all
The last night had lasted six months in Britain: half an old year of madness, and mayhem, and near-starvation in the dark. And then, agonizingly slowly, the sun had crawled back into the sky as the planet cruised to a stop, the boundaries of day and night locked forever. As apocalypses go, this was one
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! This week’s Night Vale recap is full of ambitious moms, genius daughters, mysterious voices, missing planes and REALLY STARTLING WEATHER. Plus Kathryn wants to rewatch Snowpiercer (because Parasite) and Elizabeth rewatched Looper (because Knives Out) and we’re both finishing up Bojack
For all of human existence, mankind has been dancing on the edge of eternity. We’ve courted the Grim Reaper – against our own interest, even – for the entire duration. Every year we come closer to finally tipping the balance and tumbling over that edge. It feels like the governments of Earth are in a
The movie opens with an establishing shot of a Gothic mansion in the woods, the dark and sprightly string music letting the audience know that this is an odd place with a lot of creepy energy. We follow the housekeeper as she carries a breakfast tray through a house that’s stuffed to the rafters with