This year’s list of nominated short stories covers a pretty wide range of themes. In this group there are two re-told fairy tales, a portal to another world via a book-loaning program, ruminations on wholesale slaughter by a sentient house, a day in the life (well, week in the life) of a couple of brand
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! Big news in Night Vale this week! The Secret Police were given one year to provide the life of Frank Chen back to his family, an impossible task that they somehow managed to accomplish way before the deadline! Yes indeed, Frank
The Hugo Award finalists for 2021 were announced by DisCon III on April 13, 2021. This year’s award ceremony will take place in person (I know, right?) at the 79th Word Science Fiction Convention in Washington DC on December 15-19, 2021. Due to (gestures vaguely in all directions) everything, the award ceremony has been pushed
There’s always a later, I know that now. At least until we die. Then I guess it’s all before that. Jamie Conklin is a little boy who can see dead people. And let’s just deal with the comparisons to the Bruce Willis and Haley Joel Osmet movie right now, because really, this story is nothing
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! It’s a beautiful day in Night Vale, and it’s time once again to run around in circles and PANIC because the Librarians have escaped their cages. Fortunately, heroic teen militia leader Tamika Flynn is here to save the day by…helping the
It was a morning unlike any other. It was simply that no one had realized it yet. It was supposed to be an ordinary day at school for two ordinary children who were the same age and lived on the same street and were never destined to meet. Instead the both of them climbed a
We’ve been saying for weeks we were going to do this: a whole post of WandaVision fan art! Each image links back to the artist’s Instagram or Twitter feed, make sure to check out all their amazing work! Wanda by Loraine (RainJeanne.) “Wanda, Welcome Home” by Valentin Romero. Wanda by Noah Eisenman. Darcy and Jimmy
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