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Kathryn Adams

Binary System Podcast #377 – WTNV #233 “Citizen Spotlight: The Vampire of Lombardi Street”

Rationalization is one of man’s most clever and most dangerous inventions. Night Vale has a vampire in town. Well, had, anyway. In this week’s episode Cecil talks about Luca and his long, long life. It’s a story about mistaking “comfortable” for “happy”. It’s about being okay with getting older, and learning to love the life

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Kathryn Adams

Review: 2023 Hugo Award Finalists – Two Short Stories and a Novella

It’s an interesting situation with this year’s fiction nominations. We’ve already seen that one of the nominated novelettes isn’t available in English. It turns out that four of the nominated short stories are also only available in Chinese. I haven’t been able to find a reason why these either weren’t released in English or weren’t

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Kathryn Adams

Review: The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

God had entrusted her father with the labor of perfecting creation and delivering us all from sin, and thus the doctor had created the hybrids. Dr. Moreau was therefore a prophet, a holy man. Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Hugo-nominated book takes a new look at H.G. Wells’s classic. The island setting has now been moved to a

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Review – The Magic Order Volume 4, #6

“…we were raised to protect the human race. Not make a fast buck while we can.” Keep reading for a review of The Magic Order 4, issue #6. Warning, I’m spoiling just about everything in this review. After a two-month hiatus, The Magic Order is back with the final issue of the 4th arc, and

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Review – Blue Beetle

Directed by Angel Manuel Soto, Blue Beetle follows recent college graduate Jaime Reyes (Xolo Maridueña) who, after returning to his hometown Palmera City, suddenly finds himself in possession of an ancient relic of alien biotechnology called the Scarab (Becky G). When the Scarab chooses Jaime to be its symbiotic host, he’s bestowed with an incredible

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Binary System Podcast #374 – M3GAN

With no Lore Olympus or Night Vale this week, it was a perfect opportunity to get caught up on Star Wars, Marvel, and Good Omens. We of course did none of that and watched a horror movie from last year instead. NO ONE IS SURPRISED. Heads up for great big spoilers as we discuss M3GAN,

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Kathryn Adams

2023 Hugo Awards – Three More Novelettes (sort of)

The last three Hugo-nominated novelettes for 2023 are something of a mixed bag. You’ve got a real-life problem that’s almost guaranteed to get worse, a future technology that highlights the very best that humanity has to offer to its descendants, and one more that I can’t actually describe because no one knows how to find

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