“The saying goes, ‘The black tides of heaven direct the courses of human lives.’ To which a wise teacher said, ‘But as with all waters, one can swim against the tide.’” We start with the the head abbot of the Grand Monastery, climbing the eight hundred steps to the Great High Palace of the Protectorate.
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You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! This episode starts out as our usual Alice Isn’t Dead recap but veers off into a tangent about getting involved in the real world, trying to good, and ways you can change things for the better BUT IF THAT’S NOT YOUR
The crew of the generation spaceship Dormire wakes up in the middle of a zero-gee slaughter. Floating droplets of blood are everywhere, bodies are hanging in mid air roughly wherever they were stabbed, or poisoned, or strangled. The victims are…the crew. The ship is run entirely by clones, who have no memory of the last twenty-six years. Mur Lafferty’s
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! Bet you thought we were kidding when we said we were doing this. Yes, Binary System has now reached full meta status. This week the Welcome To Night Vale recap podcast is recapping the first episode of the podcast that’s recapping
Kim Stanley Robinson’s Hugo-nominated novel is set in a Manhattan where some of the worst fears of sea-level rise have already taken place. Don’t expect a Mad-Max-On-Waterskis type of situation though. The year 2140 is far enough into the future that there are plenty of technological advances to keep a 50-foot sea-level rise from getting into the
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! This week’s episode of Alice Isn’t Dead asked us the question: where would you put a modern-day oracle to talk in riddles while creating a rift in time and space? Why, in a Denny’s of course. (And it works really, really
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! Night Vale ditches the multi-part episode theme (this week, anyway) to bring us a callback episode featuring a couple of familiar villains. (If you’re not sure what’s going on, listen to the episodes “A Story About You” and “A Story About
This is actually the second novella in Nnedi Okorafor’s “Binti” series, but it’s worth it to pick up the first one too in order to get the whole story. (Binti won the Hugo for Best Novella in 2015, and it’s only about a hundred pages. Go on, I’ll wait…) All done? Okay, in the first book, Binti