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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

Review: Monstress – Vol. 2: The Blood

The second volume of Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda’s ongoing series Monstress is up for a Hugo Award this year for best graphic story, just like volume 1 was up for a Hugo last year, and volume 3 (due out this September) will probably be up for a Hugo next year. This series is just that good. Volume 2 neatly contains

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Binary System Podcast #138 – Catching up! (Except not really.)

You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! You know, when other podcasts say they’re going to catch up on all the movies and TV they’ve been missing lately, they usually mean “movies and TV within the past year.” Not THIS podcast. Listen in as we fangirl about Pacific

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The Transformers: The Movie returns to theaters September 27!

Fathom Events, Hasbro Studios and Shout! Factory are teaming up to bring the classic 1986 Transformers: The Movie back to theaters nationwide, remastered, restored, and in glorious HD. That sound you hear is the Binary System Podcast team hyperventilating. Click the jump for details about this one-day event in September.

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Review: Provenance

Whew, made it! All entries in the first four categories of the 2018 Hugo nominees read and reviewed before the award ceremony on August 19. Short stories, novelettes, novellas, and novels, including the novel Provenance by Ann Leckie. And in a list of stories that include murder mysteries, con artist capers, incomprehensible alien etiquette, races

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Binary System Podcast #136 – Now With Even Less Planning!

You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! San Diego Comic-Con is happening today! As you’re reading this! And while we’d like to say we spent so much of Sunday getting everything ready for the convention that we didn’t have time for a regular podcast…the truth is we forgot

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Review: The Black Tides of Heaven

“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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IDW panels and signings San Diego Comic-Con 2018

Booth #2743 Hosts the Superstars of Comics and Entertainment Every Day at SDCC!  Once again making a splash at Comic-Con, IDW Publishing today announces the company’s action-packed signing schedule, featuring exclusive appearances with such fan-favorite talent as Berkeley Breathed, Kevin Eastman, Mike Mignola, Bobby Moynihan, Lynn Johnston, Nate Powell, the full cast of Wynonna Earp,

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