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E3 News
Jordan Pollock

The Highs and Lows of EA’s E3 2018 Press Conference

It’s the most wonderful time of year to be a gamer! E3 2018, aka Christmas for Gamers, as many like to refer to it, has kicked off with a decent press conference from Electronic Arts (EA). Although everything EA showed wasn’t exactly what we were all expecting, they did have a few nice surprises. Hit

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Binary System Podcast
Kathryn Adams

Binary System Podcast #130 – WTNV #129 A Matter of Blood, Part 3

You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! The Blood Matter From Space is finally here, and the battle between Our Dana and Other Dana is taking place in a literal lake of blood. Not to worry though, all of Cecil’s broadcasting equipment floats, so he’ll keep broadcasting while

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Comic Books
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Review – Dark Nights Metal: Deluxe Edition

Continuing my game of catch-up with last year’s “Dark Nights” event from DC, this week I read the Dark Nights Metal: Deluxe Edition. (In comic shops today and bookstores June 12.) The series was every bit as explosive and world-encompassing (and sometimes goofy) as I’d been told, but it’s a pretty deep wade for anyone

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Review: The Collapsing Empire (The Interdependency #1)

It starts with an interrupted mutiny, and the death of an Emperor; two unrelated events taking place in the sprawling mass of humanity that is the Interdependency. What we start to realize though is that these are just the first steps in a dance that’s eventually going to lead to the end of the Interdependency,

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Kathryn Adams

A Conversation about Black Mirror

Kathryn Hey all! Trying to think of how to start this Black Mirror conversation. It occurred to me that I used to think Black Mirror stories were about how technology damages humanity. After watching the first two seasons I now think that they’re about how technology allows humanity to damage ITSELF, faster. Hannah Yeah, I

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Binary System Podcast #129 – Alice Isn’t Dead part 3 chapter 3

You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! This week we’re (“bark”) recapping the latest episode of Alice Isn’t Dead and (“bark!”) wondering if someone can be pathologically protective and (“bark bark!”) planning our Hugo Awards coverage (“bark!”) and wondering if we can psychically shut up the neighborhood (“bark!”)

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2018 Hugo Awards – The Novelettes

Longer than a short-story but shorter than a novella, six entries and each one packed with as much world building as you can fit into 15000 words or so. Click the jump for a review of this year’s Hugo Award finalists for Best Novelette.

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