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Kathryn Adams

Woodworker and reader, artistic fantasy/sci-fi fangirl with the attention span of a magpie.

Binary System Podcast #14 – WTNV Episode 76 “An Epilogue”

You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! Wow, a lot’s been going on in Night Vale over the past few weeks, hasn’t it? Just so much exciting stuff and revelations and fallout from big things happening. But Cecil doesn’t need to go over the details about The Man

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Review: The Silent Girls

He’d always wondered why people in rural areas, when interviewed after appalling violence, said, “This isn’t supposed to happen here.” As if violence had forgotten to keep itself within some prescribed geographic boundary. It’s a pretty appropriate opening chapter for a book I’m reviewing in the middle of October: a hapless housewife, a ghoulish trick-or-treater, and

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Review: Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus

Do you duty towards me, and I will do mine towards you and the rest of mankind. If you will comply with my conditions, I will leave them and you at peace: if you refuse, I will glut the maw of death, until it be satiated with the blood of your remaining friends. I posted

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Binary System Podcast #13 – WTNV Episode 75 “Through the Narrow Place”

You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! Oo, the 13th episode of BSP falling on the first week of October! That’s so appropriately creepy, you’d almost think we planned it that way. Fall is here, and so is the Night Vale annual charity marathon: twenty-six miles through the

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Review: “The Elder Ice” and “Broken Meats”

Then they saw the trickles of blood running from under his hat. They crowded round and persuaded Waters to stand still while one of the men took off his hat, stiff with blood, to inspect the injury. The back of Waters’ head came off with it. Now that October has officially begun, it’s time for

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Review: Speak Easy

Mr. Puss-Boots dreams a story like this, a story where a prince goes creeping down into the underworld after twelve dancing princesses because some king decided the girls were having too much fun and wanted to rub their faces in how hard he owns them. Like several of her previous books and short-stories, Catherynne Valente’s latest

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Binary System Podcast #12 – WTNV Episode 74 “Civic Changes”

You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! We’re back, for the second podcast in as many weeks! This time we’re listening to a Welcome To Night Vale episode that calls back to a lot of old favorites (The Dog Park, Emergency Press Conferences, the big hole in the vacant lot

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Review: Angela: Asgard’s Assassin Vol. 1 – “Priceless”

I’ve been curious about the Angela: Asgard’s Assassin for a while now, since the Comic Issues folks have such glowing things to say about the series on their podcast. The release of the first graphic novel collecting the story of Thor’s long-lost sister seemed like a really good place to jump on board the bandwagon. First two impressions:

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Binary System Podcast #11 – WTNV Episode 73 “Triptych”

You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! We’re back from vacation and just a liiiitle bit late on listening to the September 1st WTNV episode. “Triptych” was worth the wait though; the episode heavily features Kevin from Desert Bluffs, with a totally new perspective on the notorious StrexCorp

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