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
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Yes, we know we said on the previous episode that we would have a Welcome to Night Vale recap this week. But there wasn’t a new episode posted, because Welcome to Night Vale is on hiatus in July. Welcome to Night Vale is always on hiatus in July. Twelve years on and you’d think we’d
“We are here, exactly where we should be, at exactly the right moment, because we are the Raven, and we are magnificent.” As the longest of the Hugo-nominated novels, I gave myself an extra week to get through all 643 pages of The Raven Scholar. I shouldn’t have worried, because I finished the whole thing
Really good short stories, or at least the ones I like the most, hold up a mirror to something going on now, and either act as a cautionary tale, or an inspirational one. This year’s Hugo-nominated short stories cover the range from dystopian, to near-dystopian, to utterly weird futuristic situations that everyone except the protagonist