You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! This week we’re recapping the final (?) episode of Night Vale’s “A Door Ajar” story arc. (We’re wondering if there’s still one more episode in the arc, because we’ve got a lot of unanswered questions: what’s Carlos hiding? What exactly killed
R.S. Belcher returns to his popular urban fantasy world with The Night Dahlia, the latest adventure of peerless (and reckless) modern-day wizard, Laytham Ballard. Remember how the book Nightwise ended with Laytham having bartered three years of his life to the Devil? It’s a few years later and things have gotten, if possible, even worse. The former member
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! It’s a Mostly-Marvel episode this week since Kathryn finally saw Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 and we had to fangirl all over the place about it, followed by a lot of speculation about our hopes and fears for Infinity War.
Elizabeth Bear returned this March to the main character from Karen Memory with a brand new novella. Click the jump to learn about a story of spiritualists, mad science, a misplaced mine goblin, and a little of what happens after “and they lived happily ever after.”
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! First off this week we recap Part 2 of Night Vale’s latest arc “A Door Ajar,” and so far the only thing we know for sure is that Carlos is hiding something and it’s making us nervous. (Also Susan Cooper your
It’s that time again, the finalists for the 2018 Hugo Awards have been announced! I’ve only read four of the 114 nominees this year so far, so I have quite a bit of catching up to do… This will be the same format as last year: between now and when the winners are announced on
In 2010, authors Paolo Bacigalupi and Tobias S. Buckell released two intertwined novellas, “The Alchemist” and “The Executioness”. This February, Saga Press re-released both of those novellas along with two brand new stories in the collection The Tangled Lands. All four of these stories are set in the city of Khaim, last remnant of a legendary
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! So the main plan for the week was to talk all about Black Panther, and we do: we get into the fight scenes and the designs and the actors and the story and how Shuri is the most badass Disney Princess
Now we’re playing Hide and Seek. The clock’s ticking. The loser dies. If the first issue of Strangers in Paradise XXV felt like it was starting in the middle of the action, the full-page picture on the first page of issue #2 looks like the moment just before the climactic (and tragic) scene. We find