Anyone who knows us knows that the Binary System Podcast is nuts for Generation 1 Transformers. You can find a lot of those at the SDCC Hasbro booth (including this year’s surprise treat: a massive Unicron) but they’re also scattered all over the convention, from Super 7 to Sideshow to Flame Toys to Artists’ Alley
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! After 20 years we know everybody has already said just about everything that can be said about this movie. And that certainly isn’t going to stop us from fangirling all over it some more. (I mean, that never stopped us before,
Dark Horse Books has been releasing a steady stream of stand-alone short stories by Neil Gaiman, each of them illustrated by a prominent artist. The latest one (due out on August 20th) manages to once again do the impossible: it takes a story that I already thought was perfect and makes it even better. Click
WHAT: In anticipation of TBS’s upcoming post-apocalyptic sci-fi thriller Snowpiercer, the network is partnering with EXO for the first and only time to distribute “Bug Bars” at Comic-Con® International via vending machines. Created by EXO, which is owned by Aspire Food Group, these one-of-a-kind protein bars are made out of cricket protein powder. Fans just enter their email address into the vending machines to
By an odd coincidence, all three of the Hugo-nominated novelettes I saved for last are about memory and death. Hard-hitting stuff here. They’re also about the stories we tell and why we tell them: to remember the past, to link us to each other, and to make us reach for something more than just survival.
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! Happy 4th of July! (Or, if you’re somewhere that doesn’t celebrate the 4th, happy Thursday!) We recorded this on Monday and forgot it’d drop on the 4th, so this podcast makes no mention of holidays or politics, and instead is a
“Dr. York. What does the upturn on that chart represent?” “That…that is when the oceans begin to boil.” Mary Robinette Kowal’s Hugo-nominated novel starts in a 1952 America that’s just slightly different from ours. Thomas E. Dewey defeated Harry S. Truman, and then gave famous rocket scientist (and former Nazi) Wernher von Braun the leeway
This last flood, the one you call the Big Water, ended the Fifth World and began the Sixth. It opened the passage for those like myself to return to the world. The climate disaster that left a lot of the world underwater also left the Navajo reservation mostly untouched. Not that the Dinétah is an
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! On this week’s Night Vale recap it’s time to grab a plate of imaginary corn with some theoretical butter and celebrate the birthday of Lee Marvin and…wait, hang on….we’ve been here before. TWICE. Night Vale gave us a treat for their