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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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Binary System Podcast #506 – WTNV #286 “Hey, Does Anyone Hear That Sound Behind The Sky?” and The Amazing Digital Circus

“Does anyone hear that sound behind the sky?” (Get used to hearing that question if you listen to this week’s Welcome To Night Vale, because Cecil asks it a lot.) There are some updates on the Marcus Vanston murder investigation, cooking tips involving mud, and the Philosophical Society is gonna get you to break your

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May 14, 2026 No Comments
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Review: Hemlock and Silver

I had just taken poison when the king arrived to inform me that he had murdered his wife… It’s one hell of an opening line in T. Kingfisher’s latest reinterpreted fairytale. The king in this case is still grieving a horrific betrayal, and what he had to do in response to that betrayal, and now

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May 12, 2026 No Comments
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2026 Hugo Awards – The Finalists

It’s Hugo nomination time! (Actually the nominees for 2026 were announced almost three weeks ago, but y’know, vacation…) I’ve read one novel and two of the novellas already this year. Check out the full list below with links to the Pixelated Geek reviews (which will be updated on a regular basis as I get around

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May 11, 2026 No Comments
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Binary System Podcast #504 – Pluribus episode 6

We’ve really got to hand it to the creators of Pluribus. This episode took a dark turn; the Hive Mind may be the vanguard of an alien invasion that’s either very efficient, or very much not efficient at all. Either way, steps have been taken to try to keep all seven point something billion hosts

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April 30, 2026 No Comments
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Binary System Podcast #502 – Pluribus episode 4

This week Pluribus continues to break our hearts while also expanding on the impossible situation Carol finds herself in. There are some hard choices made and quite a lot of betrayal (although does it count as betrayal if you’re trying to fix the entire human race? And who exactly gets to make the choice about

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April 16, 2026 No Comments
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Review: Katabasis

Cambridge, Michaelmas Term, October. The wind bit, the sun hid, and on the first day of class, when she ought to have been lecturing undergraduates about the dangers of using the Cartesian severance spell to revise without pee breaks, Alice Law set out to rescue her advisor’s soul from the Eight Courts of Hell. I

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April 14, 2026 No Comments
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Binary System Podcast #500 – Still No Plan!

We never actually pictured getting here, but Binary System Podcast has recorded five hundred episodes! (More or less. Minus some text-only episodes. And of course we had quite a few Welcome To Night Vale recap episodes before we started calling ourselves Binary System…look, it’s too complicated to get into, and we’d really rather celebrate and

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April 2, 2026 No Comments
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Binary System Podcast #496 – WTNV #283 “Work From Home”

A sandstorm in Night Vale means low visibility, accidental mudslides, and murderous doppelgängers roaming the streets. But it also means Cecil and Carlos can work from home today and spend time teaching their adorable spell-casting son how to not tamper with the laws of nature. (No, Esteban, stop it, the avocado tree is already too

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March 5, 2026 No Comments