You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! Yep, you read that right. We’d usually be recapping the latest episode of Welcome To Night Vale at this point, but instead we decided to spend an entire episode discussing Spider-Man: No Way Home which we FINALLY watched after, what, three
Three more novelettes, these ones by Caroline M. Yoachim, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and John Wiswell, and I can safely say that these are quite a bit darker in tone than the first three. We’ve got a dreamlike trip through time as seen by the eyes of an immortal painter (immortality in this case granted by
This is sort of a travel-edition of my usual reviews; I’m away from home for a few days and needed something suitable for reading on a plane. The first three Hugo-nominated novelettes fit the bill nicely. This year we have stories of an exclusive boutique clothing store run entirely by fairies, a tiny robot who’s
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm “Call me Cecil…” Our favorite podcast is getting all-out literary as this week’s episode takes a few pages from Moby Dick and spins a tale about a hunt for a gigantic Librarian roaming the desert, occasionally pausing to reflect about the
My mother died screaming my name. Isabel Ibañez’s latest Young Adult novel starts just minutes before a tragedy that changes 18-year-old Zarela Zalvidar’s life forever. Her beautiful mother, a talented flamenco dancer, is killed in a terrifying mishap, and Zarela and her arena-fighting father are left to run their family’s arena of La Giralda without
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! Since Lore Olympus and Peaky Blinders aren’t back yet and the next issue of Saga doesn’t drop till next week, we’re going to catch up on Raised By Wolves, finish up some fan art, and watch Beastars with the Spanish audio
Mrs. Whitaker found the Holy Grail. It was under a fur coat. The latest collaboration between author Neil Gaiman and artist Colleen Doran starts in a flourish of flowers and calligraphy as a kind-natured pensioner buys the Holiest of Holies for 30p from a secondhand shop. The next day she’s visited by Galaad – knight
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
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm 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