Just as I was toying with posting a review of several random short stories (in hopes of getting one that might be nominated for a Hugo Award), the Chengdu Worldcon committee today posted the full list of finalists. I didn’t manage to guess more than one nominated work of short fiction (Catherynne Valente’s excellent novelette),
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! Fair warning, the second episode of Lore Olympus that we review this week ends in a cliffhanger. It’s not one that made us rush to fast-pass more episodes though, since it only involves Kronos. We’ve got our priorities, and the mad
I’m a little late getting to this book, but I think I can be forgiven seeing as how this installment of Hugh Howey’s dystopian series – set in the desert wastes of what used to be Colorado – came out more than eight years after I reviewed the first one. (To be fair, Howey’s been
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! The Welcome To Night Vale writers have occasionally been known to subtly reference current events. This week subtlety is completely out the window as the entire Night Vale community has allowed their fear and rage to be written into law. A
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! To the surprise of absolutely no one, we’ve mixed up the dates again and we have a week with no new Welcome to Night Vale or Lore Olympus. While we wait for the next episodes to drop, we decided to actually
It’s springtime, politics are still an absolute dumpster fire, and several world leaders are using the version of diplomacy best summed up as “Oh Yeah? Come Over HERE And Say That.” Time for some more escapism via a thirty-year-old sci-fi fantasy epic. The Orpheus Machine is the final book in Ray Aldridge’s Emancipator trilogy. And
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel on Spotify! Things are changing fast in Night Vale. Dr. Lubelle and the University of What It Is took out The Weather last week (shock!), and this week they’ve wiped out Invisible Corn (sacrilege!) The doctor’s now set her sights on the local
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel on Spotify! Okay, here’s the Lore Olympus recap: Hades spends two episodes moping because Persephone is avoiding him. Done! That’ll wrap us up for the week, make sure to check out pixelatedgeek.com… KIDDING. There’s more to it than that. (But seriously, two whole
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel on Spotify! Let’s see, in previous episodes Dr. Lubelle from the University of What It Is has managed to “explain” (ie: murder) Sarah Sultan (Fist-Sized River-Rock), The Glow Cloud (all hail), and Station Management (has anyone checked on City Council to see if