You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! Happy 250th episode! Way back in June of 2014 we were getting ready to listen to the latest episode of Night Vale and then talk about it over Skype, and we thought “hey, maybe we should record this?” Six and a
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
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
The fifth book in Max Gladstone’s Craft Sequence series came out months ago, and I read it immediately, and then put off writing the review so long I felt I had to re-read it to remember everything I wanted to say. And I didn’t mind one bit. See below for a review of Four Roads
The East Coast branch of Binary System is currently in Florida, but the geeky stuff is still happening even if the recording isn’t, here’s what we’re reading, watching, drinking, and working on.
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! It’s the 50th episode of Binary System Podcast! What do we have planned? Absolutely nothing! Seriously, are you surprised? After 50 episodes if you think we’ve got a game plan we’d like to talk to you about this section of prime
Whelp, it’s that time of year again. Time to look back on fifty-two weeks of book reviews and decide which ones were our favorites. Not gonna lie here, this was a tough decision. Even when ruling out anything that was published before 2015, there were still more than a dozen books that fell into the
She was only a passing student of golemetrics, which required more dealing with demons than she liked. Not that Elayne had anything against demons per se – but her conversations with them often reminded her of a vicious joke in which she herself might well be the punchline. Perhaps the demons felt the same. It’s
Happy New Year, book readers! As you probably already know, there’s not nearly enough time to read all the amazing books that came out last year. Between the two of us, though, we tried to get as big a sampling as we could. Here’s each of our picks for our three favorite science-fiction/fantasy books of