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
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! Yes there is definitely an Alice Isn’t Dead recap this week full of abandoned hotels and creepy nightmare creatures BUT SERIOUSLY we need to finally talk about Infinity War, which we do right after the recap. Because we have thoughts on
I wanted to give myself some extra time to catch up with all the Hugo Nominees, just in case one of my favorite authors decides to release something between now and August 19 (or if I wanted to take a week off to just read comic books. I’M ONLY HUMAN.) so this week’s review will
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! The Blood Matter From Space is finally here, and the battle between Our Dana and Other Dana is taking place in a literal lake of blood. Not to worry though, all of Cecil’s broadcasting equipment floats, so he’ll keep broadcasting while
It starts with an interrupted mutiny, and the death of an Emperor; two unrelated events taking place in the sprawling mass of humanity that is the Interdependency. What we start to realize though is that these are just the first steps in a dance that’s eventually going to lead to the end of the Interdependency,
Kathryn Hey all! Trying to think of how to start this Black Mirror conversation. It occurred to me that I used to think Black Mirror stories were about how technology damages humanity. After watching the first two seasons I now think that they’re about how technology allows humanity to damage ITSELF, faster. Hannah Yeah, I