Ted Chiang is up for two Hugo awards this year, one novelette (“Omphalos”) and one novella (Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom). I was able to get ahold of the book they’re collected in, so I’m taking an easy week and just reading those two stories. Ha! Just kidding, it’s a short-story collection, of course
It’s time yet again to Social Distance the heck out of this epidemic and watch a movie together while still staying in three different states: North Carolina, Florida, and California. Next up for the Tri-State Watch Party, we’re going with The Shining. (With multiple references to the Simpsons’ version too.) The Netflix Watch Party app ended
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! This week we’re recapping a Night Vale episode full of wood carving and excellent horoscopes, but first we wanted to mention the week’s events. What can you say about the past week? It sucked, obviously. A man was murdered by the
“…in my vast experience, anybody who says they’ve got everything under control… …is full of it.” We’re six issues in on a series about a woman who used to be a cop until she reported her coworkers for police brutality, and now she’s a Green Lantern on a planet who’s police force just opened fire
If we address stories as archaeological sites, and dust through their layers with meticulous care, we find at some point there is always a doorway. Alix E. Harrow is up for two Hugo Awards this year, one for the lovely short story “Do Not Look Back, My Lion” and one for The Ten Thousand Doors
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It’s time yet again to Social Distance the heck out of this epidemic and watch a movie together while still staying in three different states: North Carolina, Florida, and California. Next up for the Tri-State Watch Party, we’re going with the Coen Brothers’ O Brother, Where Art Thou? The Netflix Watch Party app ended up being
Since Kathryn is handling all the Hugo Awards news, I thought I’d post the Nebula finalists! Here’s the press release we just received today, including all the nominees, the partnership with Podium Audio, and how the Awards will be presented online: May 27, 2020 – SFWA’s 2020 Nebula Awards will be one of the
Back in its day, at least, it would have been a monument to wealth and beauty. In the present it was a castle that had been killed. The Emperor of the First House (King of the Nine Renewals, the Necrolord Prime) has issued a summons to the other eight Houses. The heir to each House