The fairy tale of Cinderella has been re-told dozens of times, if not hundreds. I’d be willing to bet not many of those versions have androids, hovercrafts, and the part of Cinderella being played by a cyborg in a future version of Beijing where cyborgs are social pariahs. Marissa Meyer’s Cinder is a tale of
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! Night Vale is back with regular episodes! This week the twins recap Welcome To Night Vale episode 71 “The Registry of Middle School Crushes” (and how freaking glad we are that such a thing never existed when we were in Middle School)
People tossed around words like “collapse of civilization” and “post-apocalyptic,” but really everything was the same mess as always. John Joseph Adams and Hugh Howey wrap up their Apocalypse Triptych with 22 tales of the people who survive the destruction of civilization. And if you thought the lead-up to the end of the world was dark, this collection
Even Chinese philosopher/strategists from the 6th century BC can become the target of a modern-day super assassin, and Deadpool isn’t about to let a 2500-year distance keep him from fulfilling a contract. After taking out Sun Tzu (and don’t expect an explanation about the whole time-travel issue, because you aren’t getting one), Deadpool stumbles across
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! For the WTNV bonus episode this week, the voice of Night Vale himself, Cecil Palmer (Baldwin. Whatever.) read an excerpt from the upcoming novel. We went “EEEEEE!” over how perfectly the novel matches the tone of the podcast, and also talked a
Fans of Star Trek: The Original Series will remember the episode “The City on the Edge of Forever”. Fans of Harlan Ellison will probably remember that he wrote the teleplay, which was then altered by several writers. In 2014, IDW published a five-issue version of Ellison’s teleplay, adapted by Scott and David Tipton and with art by
Some of you may remember a British cartoon that ran in the 80s for about ten seasons, a little series called Danger Mouse. The cartoon has a loyal fanbase in the US, but it’s wildly popular in the UK. In welcome news to fans of the the Greatest Secret Agent In The World, the BBC in
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! Binary System (plus Kathryn’s husband Nathan) were lucky enough to catch the Welcome To Night Vale panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2015; we were almost too late to get a place in line, but in the end we were Spared From
Elizabeth and Kathryn joined fans of Transformers to attend the Comic-Con panel “Women in Transformers,” where several members of the creative team talked about the growing presence of both female characters and female creators, and gave the audience some tidbits about upcoming developments in the Transformers universe. (And they also gave accolades to one member