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Kathryn Adams

Woodworker and reader, artistic fantasy/sci-fi fangirl with the attention span of a magpie.
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Kathryn Adams

Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle Book 4)

“I’m going home to the Singing Hills abbey…” Nghi Vo’s latest installment in the Singing Hills Cycle is a bit of a departure from the previous novellas. Cleric Chih isn’t travelling to an exotic location to collect new stories. Instead, they’re returning to the Singing Hills abbey to be reunited with their old friend Cleric

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Binary System Podcast #411 – Lore Olympus episode 278 and 279

Only three episodes left of Lore Olympus, and there is a lot going on. We’re not sure how many of the unresolved plot threads are gonna get wrapped up in the series finale (Eros and Psyche? Zeus’s millennia of betrayal? Leto finally getting her comeuppance?), but in the two episodes we’re recapping this week we

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Binary System Podcast #410 – WTNV #247 “Rerun”

It’s another Travel Edition this week as we brave the wilds of Southeast North America (otherwise known as our parents’ place in Bradenton.) First up is a lightning quick recap of Night Vale as Cecil revisits a very strange kids show and correctly answers the daily puzzle. (It’s entropy. The answer is always entropy.) After

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2024 Hugo Awards – Three More Novelettes

The last three of the 2024 Hugo-nominated novelettes go from dystopian to near-utopian (with a lot of work from devoted neighbors), to a fantasy set in the outskirts of the jazz area. I AM AI – Ai Jiang My hands shake at the prospect of finally getting rid of the one thing outside of my

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Review: Starter Villain

John Scalzi’s Hugo-nominated novel Starter Villain is a surprisingly light-hearted look at the section of the population with the kind of power and money that can make changes on a global scale and not bother with pesky little things like rules. And we see all of this through the eyes of former business journalist and

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Review: “Thornhedge” and “Rose/Hall”

It’s the end of April, there’s less than fifteen weeks until this year’s Hugo Award ceremony, and I’ve got nineteen entries in the main fiction categories to read. So what the heck, we’re doing two novellas this week instead of one. And I swear, I didn’t deliberately pick these two based on similar themes in

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Binary System Podcast #408 – Lore Olympus episode 274 and 275

The Lore Olympus comic tackles a lot of issues about abuse: spousal, parental, generational. The latest two episodes are no exception, but they also don’t really need trigger warnings because the focus here is the response to that abuse. Rachel Smythe gives a balanced look at how abuse victims can overcome the feeling of guilt

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Review: Translation State

Ann Leckie expands the universe of the Imperial Radch series (first introduced in the best-selling and Hugo-Award winning Ancillary Justice) in her latest novel Translation State. Three entirely separate lives intersect in a story about finding purpose, finding family, and finding out what it means to be human. We start with Enae Athtur; the book-jacket

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