You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! This was another grab-bag kind of episode, as we start out with the weekly SitRep and a few moments on the passing of Chadwick Boseman. After that we jump into happier nerd content: heads up for some MEGA spoilers for Lore
I’d really enjoyed Camille Griep’s 2015 novel Letters to Zell, so when I was looking for something to distract myself from, well, everything, I decided to try her 2016 novel New Charity Blues. This book is a dystopian fantasy in a United States that’s been devastated by a pandemic and NO WAIT HANG ON IT’S
It’s time yet again to Social Distance the heck out of this epidemic and watch a movie together while still staying in three different states: North Carolina, Florida, and California. Next up for the Tri-State Watch Party, Little Shop of Horrors! The Netflix Watch Party app ended up being a little complicated, so we just set
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! This week’s welcome to Night Vale has an interesting little thought experiment. Say that you could ask – and have answered – any question you want. Anything at all, the sky’s the limit. What would you ask? What? Well jeez, not
“Harrowhark Nonagesimus – I really think you should consider the idea that you might also be haunted.” The sequel to Tamsyn Muir’s Hugo-nominated debut novel is out, and if anything Harrow the Ninth is even more Gothic, decadent, weird, violent, gruesome, and gorgeous than the first book. Gideon the Ninth ended with Harrowhark becoming a
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! So after the usual SitRep with beers (North Carolina started with a hurricane and ended with an earthquake SO THAT’S PRETTY NORMAL FOR 2020) we touched on bad sports movies and dietary supplement horror stories, and then we jumped straight into
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! Finally, a brand new episode of Welcome to Night Vale to recap! …which takes us about five minutes, since it’s something of an experimental episode that doesn’t have a plot so much as an overwhelming atmosphere of dread. The recap is
The winners of the 2020 Hugo Awards were announced this weekend, and while the award ceremony needs a lot of improvement (mispronouncing names in a live ceremony would be careless; doing it repeatedly in a prerecorded video is just bizarre), there were some amazing stories in all the categories, and the wins were well-deserved. Click
“Has the Castle changed much?” “Nah, it schtill thinks it’s fonny.” “Oh come on,” the Castle said, “this is hilarious.” It’s been a few years since we’ve had a new Girl Genius novelization, but it’s been worth the wait. This latest installment of the adventures of Agatha Girl Genius finds us once again in the