Yes yes, we know we said we’d have an episode of Welcome to Night Vale to recap this week, but in our defense we are BAD AT COUNTING, and we won’t be able to recap the new Night Vale episode until next week. At least we have a few other things to discuss. The good:
Congratulations to all of the Hugo Award winners and nominees! Check the list below for the winning entries and links to all the reviews 2026 Hugo Award Finalists (and Winners!) Best Novel Best Novella Best Novelette Best Short Story Best Series Best Graphic Story or Comic Best Related Work Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form Best
“What better time to listen to a story than when the world is about to end?” It’s the last of the main Hugo-nominated fiction entries – just in time for the award ceremony on August 30 – and what a nominee to finish up with! Nnedi Okorafor’s novel is an Afrofuturist, robot apocalypse, wild family
It’s another flashback episode as Leonard Burton tries to distract us from the fact that Cecil is still missing. This week’s trip to the archives takes us to 1999, where a young Cecil is dipping his toes into the information superhighway and spending way too much on Beanie Babies from the brand-new online auction site:
It was an unfortunate truth that in the Venn diagram of ‘qualified to teach magic’ and ‘still alive,’ the overlap consisted almost entirely of people who had always been much too sensible to accidentally get eaten by a demon… “School of Magicians” is one of my favorite story tropes, right up there with “Let Me
Welcome To Night Vale is back from hiatus! To celebrate (and to cover for the fact that Cecil is missing) guest radio host Leonard Burton is sharing an episode from the archives! So send your Betamax back to the store, grab yourself an Orange Julius, and make sure you have your credit card handy for
See below for a gallery of photos by Nathan Adams from this year’s GalaxyCon Raleigh! Cosplayers from The Amazing Digital Circus featured heavily; thank you to the organizers of the TADC meet-up for inviting us! Let us know in the comments if you spot yourself or someone you know so we can tag you!
This week’s recap of Beastars features multiple instances of the word “weird”. Look, we know this is a fantasy show, and it doesn’t pay to look too closely into how a society of carnivores living side-by-side with potential food would actually work. But Bill the Tiger found a baby chick in his ramen, and him
“Your country needs you, Corporal…” Owen Mallory first fell in love with Sir Una Everlasting when he was nine years old. The centuries-old story of the Hero of Dominion comforted him when he was a lonely, shunned child with a broken alcoholic father. Her legend inspired him to join the army and go off to