“Time is a ring. Everything and everyone gets squished under the wheel.” Today’s the first day of October, time for another month of Spooky Book Reviews! The rules are simple: while sticking as close as possible to the horror genre, over the course of the month I have to review at least one new book,
Burn before reading. The West Coast branch of Binary System Podcast usually gets dibs on any new Gladstone book. However, Elizabeth’s in the process of reviewing The Empress of Forever this time, so his latest one is mine, all mine, Mwaa haa haa haa! Ahem. Anyway, Max Gladstone
I first stumbled across Caitlín R. Kiernan in a 2005 collection of satisfyingly nasty short stories (Outsiders: 22 All-New Stories From the Edge, now out of print), and she keeps cropping up in different collections – most recently in one I reviewed in 2017. This year Tachyon Publications has released a book collecting Kiernan’s best
I read Natasha Pulley’s first novel back in 2015 during a big family vacation, so I thought it would be appropriate to catch up on her second novel while on this year’s family vacation. (I had a nice surprise when I went to buy the book and found out that I’d already bought a copy a couple
The San Diego Union-Tribune had their third Festival of Books this year, and I had to stop by to get pictures of crowds, books, booths, and more! (Including all the dog attendees I could find, because who doesn’t want to stop and say hi to the dogs?)
Someone had to bring back the rains, and apparently it was going to have to be him. All towns have a little magic somewhere, but the luckiest ones have their own mage. A mage is handy to have around to deal with small problems like poison ivy, or gremlins in the mill. It’s been years
“You will need all your wits, Desdemona Mannering, all your scimitar wiles, to bargain with Kalos Kantzaros in Breakers Beyond.” C.S.E. Cooney (author of The Bone Swans: Stories) returns with a brand new stand-alone novella, Desdemona and the Deep, set in the same world from her Dark Breakers series.
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! We’ve got a slightly longer episode this week, since there was a slightly big event going on in California last week. You may have heard about it…San Diego ComicCon 2019, which also happened to be the big convention’s 50th anniversary! Elizabeth
“Yes. Erm. Ms. Arkin.” He coughed. “I’m afraid you don’t have any magical infusion whatsoever. Your entire education here has been a huge mistake.” This is how nineteen-year-old Alison Arkin finds out that – despite what the recruiters told her – she doesn’t have magical powers. All she has is an (admittedly impressive) eidetic memory