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
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