I hate gravity. Haimey Dz is just a humble tugboat operator…in space. She and her fellow crew members – the genetically perfect and utterly charming pilot Connla and the tugboat’s shipmind Singer – are following a lead on a possibly lucrative bit of salvage that could help them get just a little bit more
It’s been a pretty chaotic year, what with family medical emergencies and other craziness (said other craziness being…more family medical emergencies), so I’m pretty happy to see the last of 2019. One good thing that 2019 did have was some fantastic books. Click the jump for a rundown of the five best (“best” here meaning
All these stories take place outside my pre-existing universes – so no Fighting Pumpkins, no October Daye, no Velveteen. They are quick glimpses of another room, with a door that will close in short order. It’s the last day of 2019, and there are so many fantastic books I haven’t gotten around to yet. I
The Great Chaos came for everyone sooner or later. It would come for the whole universe someday. The endermen’s duty was to help it along any way they could. Fans of the game Minecraft will recognize the Endermen: the tall, shadowy creatures who destroy at random and relentlessly pursue the human players who do something
Far beneath the surface of the earth, hidden from the sun and the moon, upon the shores of the Starless Sea, there is a labyrinthine collection of tunnels and rooms filled with stories. One day, the son of the fortune teller is walking home from school when he finds a fantastical door painted on an
North Carolina Comicon: Bull City returns on November 8th for three days of exhibits, workshops, panels, cosplay, vendors, and a chance to meet some of the top creators in the industry. This year’s panels have a little something for everyone! Click the jump for a rundown of all the panels at this year’s convention.
The blue caretakers came for her in the night and they saw her no more. It’s two days until Halloween, and what’s more appropriate for the final week of Spooky Book Month than the latest Stephen King novel? Luke Ellis has what can only be described as the perfect life. At twelve years old he’s
The house was vile. She shivered and thought, the words coming freely into her mind, Hill House is vile, it is diseased; get away from here at once. The Binary System Podcast team (with special guest Hannah Wallace) has already talked at length about the Netflix series “The Haunting of Hill House” here, so for
I twisted myself about like the twisted ones… The timing couldn’t have been better. On the same week that North Carolina finally gets some real fall weather (ie: the temperature dropped below 90 degrees), NC resident T. Kingfisher (also know as Ursula Vernon) released a brand new book, The Twisted Ones. This is her first