The finalists for the 2017 Hugo Awards have been announced, and it’s quite a list. Between best short fiction, best novel, best series, best editor, best fanzine, and everything else, there are 108 entrants battling it out. And I’ve read…six of them. Granted, those six were all pretty amazing, but I feel like I’m missing
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! After eight months it’s finally back: this week brought the season premiere of Alice Isn’t Dead, and we’ve got the recap but what we REALLY WANT TO TALK ABOUT is the season finale of The Walking Dead. Because priorities. So listen in
For the first time I see what must be my own hand. An economy of brass struts wrapped in supple leather. And now I truly begin to understand that I am also a thing in this world. Not like the doll who is writing a few feet away with all the mindfulness of water choosing
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! This week’s Welcome To Night Vale episode offers up a short story. It’s a tale about a family, and a house, and a hole in the nursery wall. Cecil refuses to learn anything from the story, and we’re not entirely sure
There I was, this tiny little thing at the bottom of a hole, lying on my back in the palm of a giant metal hand. Rose was only eleven years old when the ground opened underneath her. The rescuers who arrived on the scene found, not a sinkhole, but a fifty-foot square shaft, covered in
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! “This week we have no plan.” “We kind of have a plan.” “We have a little bit of a plan.” “We have two things to talk about, so, that’s a tiny plan.” “It’s better than no plan at all.” This week
1. Don’t worry about things that you cannot fix. 2. Antelope women are not to be trusted. 3. You cannot change essential nature with magic. – Instructions in a stained-glass window, written on a book carried by a saint wearing purple sneakers Eleven-year-old Summer dreams of adventure…but if she’s honest about it her idea of
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! This week the twins recap the latest episode of Night Vale and talk about how angels can’t have building permits and dragons can’t practice law. (Apparently you can’t just tell somebody that the City said it was okay for you to
It wouldn’t be a comic book convention without a chance to mix with artists and buy some stuff! And while you’re mixing and shopping, it’d be helpful to know what not to bring with you. Or arm yourself with. And if you’re an artist looking to work for one of the big publishers, IDW and