I somehow missed the news of Tanith Lee’s passing for several months. Ms. Lee’s career as an author started with her novel The Birthgrave back in 1975, and on through ninety-three books that included fantasy, horror, gothic romance, science-fiction, and works that felt like a mix of a few different genres (Biting the Sun, anyone?) Tanith was also
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! The twins have both finally seen Star Wars: The Force Awakens and SPOILERS! Holy cow the SPOILERS ALL OVER THE PLACE. For this and for Sherlock: The Abominable Bride. (Hey, if you’re gonna spoil things, spoil all the things.)
A tale may have exactly three beginnings: one for the audience, one for the artist, and one for the poor bastard who has to live in it. The plot of Catherynne Valente’s latest novel Radiance centers around the mysterious disappearance of a woman – Severin, who’s origin is also something of a mystery – during her investigation
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! Without a Night Vale episode this week, we set off to do a short podcast about what we’ve got coming up for January. It quickly spiraled into a discussion about X-Files, book authors, spoiler warnings, fan fiction, Warehouse 13, Mission Impossible,
Happy New Year, everyone! Time to start looking forward to everything coming in 2016, including the brand-new The X-Files miniseries set to start in (checks imdb) twelve days?! Good grief, I’m way behind on my fangirling here. It’s been more than thirteen years since the last episode aired (seven since the second movie. Which I haven’t
Whelp, it’s that time of year again. Time to look back on fifty-two weeks of book reviews and decide which ones were our favorites. Not gonna lie here, this was a tough decision. Even when ruling out anything that was published before 2015, there were still more than a dozen books that fell into the
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! Happy Christmas Eve, y’all! Don’t forget to say Merry Christmas to the government agents running 24-hour surveillance on your business and home. (But avoid saying their name out loud when you’re on the radio. That’s just rude. Jeez, Cecil, were you
“Evil?” Plagueis repeated. “What is that? Moments ago you defined yourself as a storm. You said you were death itself. Are you evil, then, or are you simply stronger and more awake than others?” The question that Darth Sidious’s Master asks his new apprentice is probably the simplest demonstration of the difference between the Light
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! To give everybody a break from all the hype surrounding a certain movie that comes out at midnight tonight, the twins will spend today’s podcast talking instead about Existentialism in literature, and the differences between Solipsism and subjective relativism. (pause) AHAHAHAHAHAHA! Just