You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! Raise a glass, or a can (of beer), or a cup (of hot cider), because the COVID-19 pandemic in the USA is officially one year old. To distract us from this grim milestone we have a new Night Vale episode (featuring
To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles – this they name empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace. Arkady Martine’s sequel to her Hugo-winning novel A Memory Called Empire picks up two months after the end of Book 1. The hardliners at Lsel Station have gotten exactly what they
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! Okay, so according to the latest Night Vale episode Director’s Notes (which you can get if you sign up to their Patreon, hint hint), Kathryn may have misspoken a little. The episode wasn’t “weird for weird’s sake”, but it still doesn’t
“Welcome to the Hooflands, ” said Pansy. “We’re happy to have you, even if you being here means something’s coming.” Seanan McGuire is up to Book 6 in Wayward Children, the series where children stumble across one of an infinite number of doors, each one opening to a different magical realm. This installment features the
The Chicago Review of Books website this month published a fantastic resource, 28 Stories You Can Read Online For Black History Month. The items on the list cover a whole range of genres, and include links both to the story and to the collections they come from. This week I decided to take a look
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! Over in Night Vale, Cecil and Carlos are (probably) suffering from a little cabin fever, so this week they decided to take their young son Esteban to go hiking! It was a wonderful trip, they made so many good memories. It’s
I was looking for something new to read for Black History Month, and one name that kept coming up was Colson Whitehead, award-winning author of several novels including The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys. Since I haven’t had a chance to read any of Whitehead’s books up until now, I decided to start with
“I don’t have a plan. But now I have a goal. The plan I just have to make up as I go along.” Loretta signed and leaned back, rolling her eyes so hard I thought she might detach her retinas. “Of course. Why did I even get my hopes up? Imagine a star pilot being
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! Okay you need to count the number of asterisks in the title, because it’s not the word you think it is. (Unless we’re the only ones who went there? We listen to a lot of off-color Brit podcasts and they use