I first stumbled across Caitlín R. Kiernan in a 2005 collection of satisfyingly nasty short stories (Outsiders: 22 All-New Stories From the Edge, now out of print), and she keeps cropping up in different collections – most recently in one I reviewed in 2017. This year Tachyon Publications has released a book collecting Kiernan’s best
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! It’s that time of year we like to call “The BSP Post-Vacation Catchup,” and if we were smart we would’ve recapped two episodes of Night Vale this week and been all caught up! We’re not that smart. As of the time
I read Natasha Pulley’s first novel back in 2015 during a big family vacation, so I thought it would be appropriate to catch up on her second novel while on this year’s family vacation. (I had a nice surprise when I went to buy the book and found out that I’d already bought a copy a couple
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! Yes we finally did it! We…what? Oh, no we didn’t watch How To Train Your Dragon 3. We watched the Black Mirror episode Bandersnatch, which has technically been out longer so at least we’re going in order? Yay? Heads up: ALL
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! This week we’ve got a quick recap of the Start With This Podcast episode “Towards A Poor Podcast.” No, it’s not “poor” as in “bad,” it’s “poor” as in “broke.” It’s about creating fiction on a budget, basically; writing what you
Someone had to bring back the rains, and apparently it was going to have to be him. All towns have a little magic somewhere, but the luckiest ones have their own mage. A mage is handy to have around to deal with small problems like poison ivy, or gremlins in the mill. It’s been years
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! It’s tough to be starting out in college sometimes. New setting, new routine, on the edge of adulthood, maybe trying to figure out how you feel about the cute boy who was flirting with you at a party. It’s even tougher
“You will need all your wits, Desdemona Mannering, all your scimitar wiles, to bargain with Kalos Kantzaros in Breakers Beyond.” C.S.E. Cooney (author of The Bone Swans: Stories) returns with a brand new stand-alone novella, Desdemona and the Deep, set in the same world from her Dark Breakers series.
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! Back on episode 182 we talked about the Night Vale Presents Podcast “Start With This,” and mentioned the creators assigned the listeners two homework projects: write one story that you destroy immediately, and one story that you share with everybody. To