“The unique layout of LitenVärld encourages wormholes to form between universes. These wormholes connect our stores to LitenVärlds in parallel worlds.” Nino Cipri’s story Finna is the last novella that was left for me to read in the Hugo nominations for 2021. At 92 pages it’s also the shortest novella, and the most weirdly lighthearted.
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! With all of the amazing content that we need to get caught up on, it’s no surprise to anybody that we’re taking the time to watch TV and movies that we’ve already seen. Multiple times. But, you know, pandemic, serotonin, comfort
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! It’s a pretty quick recap of Welcome to Night Vale This Week (TL:DR Consultants are annoying even in Night Vale, and Elizabeth can do a very passable imitation of the “You’ve got a message” sound effect on Slack). And that’s good,
…when people joke and call me Riot Baby for being born when I was, it ain’t with any kind of affection, but something more complicated… Tochi Anyebuchi’s Hugo-nominated novella starts in Los Angeles just before the Rodney King riots. Kev is born in a Los Angeles hospital in the middle of the riot, almost dying
Home office renovations played havoc with our recording schedule this week, so here’s a fan art gallery of all the things that have been distracting us lately (“lately” being “pretty much always.”) Beastars fanart by Eva Donado Beastars fanart by @ktandoku
A god will return When the earth and sky converge Under the black sun Rebecca Roanhorse’s previous Hugo-nominated novel (and debut book) was set in a dystopian future of climate disaster and Navajo legends come to life. Her latest book has also been nominated for Best Novel, and this one is set in the distant
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! You know those dreams, the ones where you’re watching a movie you really really love, except your favorite character is played by a different actor, and the plot has changed, and the soundtrack sounds like owls hissing and there’s a strange
She belonged with the Librarians, and she would prove it. My first experience with Sarah Gailey’s Wild West novellas was the Hugo-nominated hippo-themed caper, River of Teeth. Gailey’s latest Hugo-nominated novella, Upright Women Wanted, is also set in the Wild West, although a lot further removed from 1890’s Louisiana than you may at first realize.
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! We may have mentioned this before, but the Binary System Podcast team loves a good time-travel story. We especially enjoy it when the writers use the side-effects of time travel to really mess with longtime fans who know that none of