WELL. The gigantic trash fire of last year’s nominating process sure was a thing, wasn’t it. It sounds like there’s been a house-cleaning in the committee, and maybe we can hope that all the votes are fairly counted this year, and no one’s getting unfairly disqualified, yes? This year will also be slightly different in
“If a civilization is not capable of keeping a book from burning then perhaps it wasn’t ready for whatever knowledge was held within.” Livira is a little girl living in a tiny, unprotected village in the dustlands. Evar Evantari is a young man who’s lived his entire life trapped in one library chamber with four
The first half of Lore Olympus episode 270 is light on dialog. Baby Dionysus starts the most adorable Hero’s Journey ever as he sets off to rescue Hades and Persephone. The cuteness balances out the second half of the episode, with images of Hades dealing with his worst nightmare: being a child at the mercy
Children of the Doors know about being mislaid… Antoinette Ricci, better known as Antsy, returns to the world of the Wayward Children. Only this time she’s dragging along most of the main characters of the previous stories as they break the “No Quests” rule of their school for former fairy tale adventurers. People who have
There’s a great big ceremony that happens every year, you may have heard of it? The Oscars? Anyway, the Binary System Podcast didn’t watch it, but they do have lots of opinions about the winners. (And some of the ones that didn’t win. You guys, have you seen Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse?) And of course
“I have returned. I am one known to you. Please allow me safe passage to bring back those who are lost.” Author Premee Mohamed takes a new look at a familiar fairy tale trope (two children lost in the woods) in her new book The Butcher of the Forest, a frightening combination of horror and
He should be the Iron King, and I should be the Iron Queen. Yet Iron Demon and Iron Widow is all they’ll let us be. It’s back to my reviews of Books I Really Should Have Read Ages Ago, and this week’s review is for Xiran Jay Zhao’s debut novel, Iron Widow. In Huaxia, the
Happy 400th episode! Time flies, right? About ten years ago we started recording our Night Vale discussions because we’re giant nerds and nerds gotta podcast. But here’s the thing: we started with the Night Vale episode that’d just been released, “Renovations,” number 48 in the series. We’ve discussed every episode since then, but not once
The first thing Antoinette Ricci ever lost was her father… Seanan McGuire released a new installment in the Wayward Children series in January and I…hadn’t yet read the one that came before. So, let’s take care of another review in my list of Books I Really Should Have Read Ages Ago. Antsy’s life from age