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
Karen had to learn to do for herself years ago when her beloved Da died, leaving her orphaned and penniless. Working as a high-class prostitute isn’t exactly what her parents would have wanted, but she’s good at it, and she’s comfortably situated at the finest bordello in Rapid City, where the girls are well fed and protected from
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! The Secret Police’s hunt for the Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home causes chaos all over town, the owner of Lot 37 is still making trouble for a certain radio announcer, and a silverfish crawls into someone’s ear,
Matt Ryan hits the ground running with his debut novel Rise of the Six, first book in The Preston Six series. Joey Foust and his five friends always knew there was something their parents aren’t telling them. How were all six of them born on the exact same day? What happened in the unexplained fire that
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! Cecil has left for the Desert Otherworld, so we’re given a retrospective of Cecil’s best clips. Except, we’ve never heard any of them before. There’s a good chance no one has heard them before. Especially that last one… Join the twins
Happy Star Wars Day! Last month we were able to look forward (via the very nifty movie trailer) to the upcoming movie. Set to be released on Christmas Day. Seven months from now. To get me through the next (checks the calendar) 228 days, this week I chose a book that looks back on several decades of Star Wars. Newly
Ye opened the resulting document, and, for the first time, a human read a message from another world. The content was not what anyone had imagined. It was a warning repeated three times. Do not answer! Do not answer!! Do not answer!!! The term “Hard Science Fiction” refers to any story where the science used
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! This week Night Vale is dealing with another worm infestation (has it really been twelve years since the last one? How time flies…) but all the destruction and chaos and trees being dropped on cars isn’t a big deal compared to the
“Go maire tu’ I bhfad agus rath!” Old Irish wayfarer’s blessing: “Live long and prosper” It occurred to me that I haven’t reviewed a Star Trek book in honor of Leonard Nimoy yet. No excuse for that, really, since I read a lot of Star Trek back in high school. Star Trek: TNG was my drug of