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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Binary System Podcast #160 – Happy New Year…two weeks late

You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! Well, that didn’t take long, did it? Not that we’ve fallen behind on our podcasts by accident, oh no. We knew it would freak out our listeners if we actually stayed ahead of schedule for too long, so we went back

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Kathryn Adams

Review: Elevation

Hands on a clock, numbers on a bathroom scale, weren’t they only ways of trying to measure invisible forces that had visible effects? A feeble effort to corral some greater reality beyond what mere humans thought of as reality? Stephen King’s latest work is more of a modern-day fable than a novel.  It’s also a

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Binary System Podcast Fanart Roundup – Tumblr edition

Due to the recent Tumblr ban of all adult content (and all the snafus with the algorithm flagging posts by mistake) a lot of artists are heading out for greener pastures. This may or may not be the end for the platform, so just in case, here’s a fanart roundup featuring pieces we first found

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Kathryn Adams

The Best Books of 2018

2018 was a year that produced a staggering number of excellent books. Some of them were by my usual favorite authors, and some were by authors I only recently discovered. The good news is that I always had plenty to choose from whenever I needed something new to read. The bad news is that there

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