My name’s Andrea Cort. I hate heights, I hate being helpless, and I hate creatures bigger than I am. It was almost exactly twenty years ago that I picked up a copy of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and read “The Tangled Strings of the Marionettes”. The story – set on the planet
“Have we ever been able to conduct any kind of communication with them at all?” “Are you kidding? We haven’t even been able to alert them we’re here.” Long-time fans of author Adam-Troy Castro are probably already familiar with his Andrea Cort series. For everyone else (and for those of us who love getting ahold
Last week the Binary System Podcast was on vacation (check out the BSP Facebook page for pictures taken in and around Niagara Falls), and traveling means picking something I want to read, something out of a list of books I’ve been saving for a special occasion. Adam-Troy Castro’s short story collection Her Husband’s Hands and Other Stories was
Still, there was no denying that his headquarters world, Xana, set an entirely new record for the shortest interval between my arrival at a place I’d never been and the very first attempt on my life there. We’re talking about minutes. Minutes. Things have started to improve for Andrea Cort at last. She’s been given
“Did you kill Warmuth or Santiago?” “No,” he said. “I did not. But you have to keep something in mind.” “What’s that?” “That if I was the killer, I’d be saying the same thing.” It’s a locked-room mystery on a grand scale: two deliberate murders on an enormous artificial habitat so dangerous that you can