Author Posts

Kathryn Adams

Woodworker and reader, artistic fantasy/sci-fi fangirl with the attention span of a magpie.
BinarySystemPodcastHeaderTest 1
Binary System Podcast
Kathryn Adams

Binary System Podcast #165 – The Oscar-Nominated Animated Shorts

You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! In what’s quickly becoming an annual tradition, the Binary System Podcast (with special guest Nathan Adams) watched the Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts at our favorite cinemas, and we’re here to give you the details. Which short do we think will win?

Read More »
BinarySystemPodcastHeaderTest 1
Binary System Podcast
Kathryn Adams

Binary System Podcast #164 – Websites that…help you watch movies?

You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! Technically this podcast is about websites that help you watch movies, but aside from the RunPee app (and what a glorious invention that is) it’s mostly about sites that can give you a heads up about triggers in movies. Here at

Read More »
In an absent dream cover
Books
Kathryn Adams

Review: In An Absent Dream

                              “Be sure.” Every person in Eleanor West’s Home For Wayward Children has their own backstory of the fairytale world they stepped into, and their own reason for desperately wanting to go back. In Seanan McGuire’s latest novella in her Wayward

Read More »
Transformers Historia Banner
Comic Books
Kathryn Adams

Review: Transformers – Historia (IDW Publishing)

The year was 2005. The treacherous Decepticons and their heroic Autobot counterparts descended upon the Earth and unleashed a new era of Transformers comics through IDW publishing. Thirteen years and hundreds of issues later, that universe has come to a close. Transformers historian Chris McFeely distills the entire history into one handy guide as we

Read More »
BinarySystemPodcastHeaderTest 1
Binary System Podcast
Kathryn Adams

Binary System Podcast #163 – WTNV #141 Save Dark Owl Records

You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! Yay, Welcome to Night Vale is back from hiatus! To celebrate, Night Vale is having a party this week at Dark Owl Records! Well, it’s more of a fundraiser than a party (the new music store in town, Burger Barn Gladtown

Read More »
BinarySystemPodcastHeaderTest 1
Binary System Podcast
Kathryn Adams

Binary System Podcast #162 – Convention Disaster Stories

You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! Can we just say for the record that if you’ve attended a convention and been bitterly disappointed, you have our sympathies. THAT BEING SAID, grab some popcorn, because in the wake of the Fyre Festival documentaries (which we adored) we’re going

Read More »
Swordheart banner
Books
Kathryn Adams

Review: Swordheart

Middle-aged Halla has just inherited her great-uncle’s entire fortune, and now she has to seek legal help to defend her inheritance from her in-laws, who are contesting the will. And if you don’t think that’s enough peril to set a fantasy story around, then you haven’t met Halla’s in-laws. Deciding that suicide is the least-worst

Read More »
BinarySystemPodcastHeaderTest 1
Binary System Podcast
Kathryn Adams

Binary System Podcast #161 – Bumblebee and other Transformers topics

You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! It sure doesn’t happen very often: both the East and West Coast branches of Binary System actually saw a movie before it left the theaters. But it was a Transformers movie, and the reviews were great, so how could they NOT

Read More »
Mass Effectg banner
Books
Kathryn Adams

Review: Mass Effect – Annihilation (Andromeda #3)

“I’m not accusing anyone, I’m trying to show you that we don’t even know what we don’t know.” Award-winning author Catherynne Valente gets to play in the Mass Effect sandbox with the latest novel in the Andromeda series. This installment is something of a buddy cop/murder mystery/sci-fi disaster movie. In space. The Quarian ark Keelah

Read More »