The Hugo Award finalists for 2022 were announced today, and I somehow managed this year to read three of the novels (got Project Hail Mary read just under the wire), two of the novellas, one of the novelettes, a Lodestar Award candidate, and an entire series! Winners will be announced on Sunday, September 4. Check
The title of the episode pretty much says it all. The moon has gone missing (it’s always in the last place you look for it), and catching a glimpse of the static-filled hole in the Night Vale sky where it used to be is really unpleasant. But do you know what other Earth-shattering events have
Hey, remember that one year at the Oscars when they screwed up the envelopes and announced La La Land as the winner when it was really Moonlight? Gosh, was that uncomfortable, sure hope we never have to watch something that awkward ever again. OH NO. Listen in as we break down the nominees and winners
The nominations for this year’s Hugo Awards will be announced next month, and one book that’s showing up on a lot of Best Of lists is Andy Weir’s latest novel, Project Hail Mary. I’ve somehow missed out on Weir’s previous books (and the movie based on The Martian; I know, no excuses for that), so
Auditions are open for the Night Vale Community Players production of Our Town, and Cecil is trying out for the part of The Stage Manager. The director’s going for more of a traditional interpretation (not like her Tartuffe in the nude, or The Iceman Cometh in space). But after growing up inside and adjacent to
It’s been a few years since I reviewed C.S.E Cooney’s standalone novella Desdemona and the Deep, swimming in all that lovely sculpted prose and wishing there was more of this world of magic and goblins and worlds stacked one on top of each other and people making very inadvisable deals for money and power. Lo
It’s another fun, short-story type of Welcome To Night Vale episode this week. This might be another good introductory episode for someone who isn’t familiar with Night Vale, even if they don’t know who Intern Nazari is, or what this conspiracy theory is about the moon not being real, or why people seem to have
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! So while we’d like to say something glib about the state of the world (global pandemic, political dumpster fire, quickly escalating international conflict) it just doesn’t seem like something we can joke about? So we’re going to go watch some cartoons
“You’re a sensualist, and a stoic, a libertine and a Spartan. You make love and death with equal facility. You are that most intriguing of candidates, a genuine mystery.” So we’re in the third year of a global pandemic and we’ve got what could quickly become a global conflict starting in Ukraine. A little interplanetary