After braving a packed trolley ride, massive SDCC crowds, and a map we couldn’t quite figure out, the three of us (Jada, Elizabeth, and Kathryn) managed to be the very last people into the Cosplay 101 panel before they closed the doors. We had to stand for the whole panel; totally worth it. From the
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! Lotta numbers in that title. Confused yet? God knows we are… The Welcome to Night Vale crew must have known that we’re all busy getting ready for San Diego Comic-Con, because the Bonus Episode we recap this week was maybe eight minutes
The Pixelated Geek crew is prepping for Comic-Con, so there’s just enough time for a quick book review before the festivities start. And since there may be an upcoming podcast on fan-fiction, the review this week will be for something that’s every fan-fic’s writer’s dream: fan-fiction that’s been published with permission from the author of the original work. Hugh
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! This week we’re ditching the formula and just rambling some rambles, since a new Night Vale episode dropped (*checks watch*) yesterday, which didn’t leave us enough time to listen to it, record a recap, and post it without the aid of
Readers of Chuck Palahniuk’s comic book sequel to Fight Club might see his recently released short-story collection Make Something Up and think “Oh hey, it’s the guy who wrote the book that the Brad Pitt film was based on. I’ll probably love this.” Whoa. Slow down. Hold up. Hang on just a minute. Palahniuk is
There have been cases of mysteriously abandoned ships recorded throughout history. They even have a poetic name: ships without a soul. The Marie Celeste is just the most famous of a whole list of ghost vessels; derelict ships with no signs of a struggle, just a logbook that ends for no reason, and sometimes food still
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! That’s right, this week’s recap is two episodes for the price of one! Cecil had big plans last episode to leave Night Vale for good and move to the Desert Otherworld. The twins both figured that was going to go horribly wrong,
Naomi Kritzer is an extremely prolific writer of short stories (my favorite format), and her collection Comrade Grandmother made me curious to see what she can do when she has an entire novel’s worth of room. In Freedom’s Gate – the first book in The Dead River’s trilogy – Kritzer expands on the world hinted at in her short story “Spirit Stone”.
The final book of Charlie N. Holmburg’s The Paper Magician trilogy opens with Ceony just weeks away from the end of her apprenticeship as a Paper Magician. Having to prepare for the Folder’s exam would be stressful enough even without the secret she’s keeping about being able to break her bond with Paper and work with other