You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! No Lore Olympus this week while the webcomic is on a brief hiatus, but fortunately there’s a little show out there called “The Sandman”, and we’ve both watched the first episode already instead of waiting for a few months like we
I saved the short stories for last this year, hoping for a little light summer reading to wrap up the Hugo Award reviews. Things didn’t quite work out as planned, because there’s a surprising amount of death in this year’s finalists. Also transformation, and working through grief, and an in-depth study of a folk song,
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! The Binary System Podcast team is taking it easy this week, talking about finishing up the most recent season of Star Trek: Picard (meh), and a couple of upcoming books we’re looking forward to, and a little about the SDCC photo
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! It’s been a long three years, but San Diego Comic-Con is back! This episode we do a quick recap (masking was good, cosplay was light, Marvel was interesting, IDW was innovative, and DC is copying what Marvel’s doing AS USUAL) before
On its surface, Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Hugo-nominated novella Elder Race sounds like a standard coming-of-age fantasy-adventure. Lynesse Fourth Daughter is the only person in her mother’s court who still believes in the old stories, and the only one who doesn’t want to just wait out the strange demon infestation in the Ordwood and hope it goes
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! It’s a short-ish episode this week since we’re mostly talking about episodes 203 and 204 of Lore Olympus and the pace is moving fast. No spoilers, but one of our predictions at the end of the last episode was right, and
“…nothing.” That is what the fortune teller says when the girl gets up the courage to ask “Will you tell me my fate?” Her favored older brother Zhu Chongba is destined for greatness; the only surviving daughter of the Zhu family is destined to starve to death along with most of her village. But then
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! Welcome to Night Vale is on hiatus this month, so now’s our chance to get caught up on everything else!* *Disclaimer: by “caught up” we mean “a couple episodes” and by “everything else” we mean two shows. Maybe three. First up
“What do you need, and how might I help?” This polite question is the core theme of a series of novellas by Becky Chambers. And yes I know I just did a review of another Becky Chambers Hugo-nominated story, but with *gestures around wildly* everything that’s going on lately I figured we could all use