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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
It’s been a wild ride for the Binary System Podcast team as we binged The Amazing Digital Circus over the last two and a half months. Kudos to everyone who’s been following this absolutely stunning animated series for, what, two and a half years? I think everyone can agree that the final episode was worth
…arguing over what could be causing such irregular, constant, chaotic transmissions. All of us dancing about the question of Life, could it be life? A whole civilization with their radios turned up to top volume, down there in the dark… Like Tchaikovsky’s book Alien Clay, the main character of Shroud and all her colleagues are
…It was January 8, 2064. His last recorded memory was from July 31st, 2063.. Waking up from a deep sleep to find yourself in a restaurant that’s about to be flooded by an apocalyptic storm is disorienting enough. Much worse when you and your coworkers are robots, your employers have left town ahead of their
What do you know, we actually managed to finish watching a season of TV less than six months late! And wow, what a season. Pluribus has had some amazing episodes, with a story that’s been both delightful and heartbreaking and which never went where we were expecting. So it really means something to say that
Two of the remaining three novelettes this year could be considered dystopian (depending on how negatively you view the universe of Martha Wells’s Murderbot series), and the third takes place in America in what could be called the Golden Age, just not for everyone. “Never Eaten Vegetables” – H.H. Pak She glides through the night