Memorial Day weekend is the perfect time to sit back, relax, and finish reading one of the longer novels I’ve got in my to-be-read pile. …so of course I decided to skip that plan and read a bunch of short stories instead. Click the jump for a look at this year’s Hugo Award nominees for
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! The latest episode of Welcome to Night Vale features the triumphant return of radio host Leonard Burton, all on his lonesome in the radio booth. And the town. And possibly the universe. Get yourself something comforting to drink – and possibly
Next up on our Hugo Awards coverage is two more of the Best Novella nominees. Click the jump for a review of Martha Wells’ “Artificial Condition” and P. Djèlí Clark’s “The Black God’s Drums”.
“From the ground, we stand. From our ships, we live. By the stars, we hope.” Becky Chambers’s Hugo Award nominee for Best Novel may be the third book in the Wayfarers series, but I think it works extremely well as a standalone book too. Hundreds of years ago, humanity used up the last of the
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! We now know why the internet was kind of going crazy after the latest Night Vale episode dropped. It wasn’t just the very on-the-nose metaphor for what veterans go through when coming back from active duty, or the blistering take on
The date of the Hugo Awards (August 15th in Dublin, Ireland) is coming up fast, time to get moving on these reviews. Click the jump for a review of two candidates for Best Novella.
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! Elizabeth: Good lord, they threaded a lot of needles there. Kathryn: (Grabs a bullhorn, climbs a step ladder, takes a deep breath) RIGHT?! Both the East and West Coast branches of the podcast have seen Avengers: Endgame, during opening week no less.
The newcomers, who’s reality had betrayed them. Here they all were, crash-landed. Resented and resentful. Universally Displaced Persons. They’re called the One Hundred and Fifty-Six Thousand: refugees who used an experimental machine to escape an alternate version of America on the brink of nuclear war. Chosen by lottery, leaving behind friends and family and taking
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! The scene: an elegant sitting room. Elizabeth: My dear twin, what did you accomplish this week?Kathryn: Why I caught up on that show you recommended. And you?Elizabeth: Oh I finished that book you suggested!Kathryn: We’re so productive!Elizabeth: We should celebrate by