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Kathryn Adams

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

Binary System #5 – WTNV Bonus Episode #4

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

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Review: Scavenger – Evolution

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

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Binary System #4 – Getting Ready for Comic-Con

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

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Review: Make Something Up – Stories You Can’t Unread

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

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Review: The Last Passenger

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

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Review: Freedom’s Gate

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”.

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Review: The Master Magician

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

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Review: Bryony and Roses

Everyone should be familiar with the fairytale of Beauty and the Beast: a father takes refuge in an abandoned castle and picks a rose without permission, so his beautiful daughter must come live with the Beast, who she restores to humanity when she agrees to marry him. You’ve probably seen quite a few versions, all with the

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