On this week's Night Vale recap, modern-day Cecil is back with some divine revelations from a god with a super underwhelming name. (Also the trees are being gross and they can knock that off RIGHT NOW...

Robert Jackson Bennett returns with another installment in his award-winning series featuring the detective Ana Dolabra and her long-suffering assistant Dinios Kol. The third book in the series involv...

Special guest star Hannah Wallace was visiting the East Coast branch of Binary System Podcast this week, and to celebrate we watched a movie together, just like we planned! Well, sort of planned. We d...

Yes yes, we know we said we'd have an episode of Welcome to Night Vale to recap this week, but in our defense we are BAD AT COUNTING, and we won't be able to recap the new Night Vale episode until nex...

Congratulations to all of the Hugo Award winners and nominees! Check the list below for the winning entries and links to all the reviews 2026 Hugo Award Finalists (and Winners!) Best Novel A Drop of C...

It's finally here, the last two episodes of the very last season of Beastars and......okay, we're not gonna lie, it's not great. Spoiler warnings for everything, including the rest of this description...

"What better time to listen to a story than when the world is about to end?" It's the last of the main Hugo-nominated fiction entries - just in time for the award ceremony on August 30 - and what a no...

“Mr. Lux, is everyone safe now?”“There’s six people with Superpowers on the planet. Of course not.” When I heard that volume one of Kieron Gillen’s The Power Fantasy had been nominated for a Hugo awar...

I was very happy to get back to San Diego Comic-Con, both inside the convention center and in the Gaslamp, and I appreciate everyone who let me take a photo of their amazing creations, not to mention ...

It's another flashback episode as Leonard Burton tries to distract us from the fact that Cecil is still missing. This week's trip to the archives takes us to 1999, where a young Cecil is dipping his t...

Welcome To Night Vale is back from hiatus! To celebrate (and to cover for the fact that Cecil is missing) guest radio host Leonard Burton is sharing an episode from the archives! So send your Betamax ...

Despite being hellaciously jetlagged from flying back to the US the day before, I had a fantastic time at San Diego Comic-Con. Between the cosplay and the artwork on display, there's so much creativit...

See below for a gallery of photos by Nathan Adams from this year's GalaxyCon Raleigh! Cosplayers from The Amazing Digital Circus featured heavily; thank you to the organizers of the TADC meet-up for i...

Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, Spider-Man: Brand New Day takes place four years after the events of No Way Home, and follows Peter Parker (Tom Holland), who is now living entirely alone, having vo...

Last weekend Binary System went to ALL THE CONVENTIONS. Well, two of them. But they were big ones! This week we're recapping GalaxyCon in Raleigh and Comic-Con in San Diego, going over the good (Cospl...

Here's another gallery of photos I took at this year's San Diego Comic-Con. I can never get enough of all the amazing cosplay, and my friends and I loved attending in cosplay too (but wow was it hot t...

This was another great year at Comic-Con, I had so much fun wandering the sales floor, taking pictures of cool toys and cosplay, and dressing in my own cosplay too! In no particular order, here's my f...

See below for a gallery of photos from Saturday's San Diego Comic-Con! There was a lot more fantastic cosplay roaming around today, plus some excellent merch. (Premium Collectibles Studio is always wo...

See below for a gallery of photos from Friday's San Diego Comic-Con, featuring cosplay, merch, the sales floor, and more! Let us know in the comments if you spot yourself or someone you know so we can...

The San Diego photo galleries continue, see below for a gallery from Thursday. This year's Thursday cosplay was on the light side, but what we did see was amazing. And we always have to get photos of ...

Welcome to the San Diego Comic-Con 2026 photo galleries! First up is Preview Night: usually light on the cosplay, so it’s a great time to see some of the amazing merch on the sales floor, including th...

"Your country needs you, Corporal..." Owen Mallory first fell in love with Sir Una Everlasting when he was nine years old. The centuries-old story of the Hero of Dominion comforted him when he was a l...

Our plan tonight was to recap episode 17 of the final season of Beastars (you call THAT a "disguise", Louis? Really?? Also, we're really hoping Juno gets a happily ever after, but man alive it doesn't...

Yes, we know we said on the previous episode that we would have a Welcome to Night Vale recap this week. But there wasn't a new episode posted, because Welcome to Night Vale is on hiatus in July. Welc...

“We are here, exactly where we should be, at exactly the right moment, because we are the Raven, and we are magnificent.” As the longest of the Hugo-nominated novels, I gave myself an extra week to ge...

Really good short stories, or at least the ones I like the most, hold up a mirror to something going on now, and either act as a cautionary tale, or an inspirational one. This year's Hugo-nominated sh...

Well, The Amazing Digital Circus has come to a close. It's been two weeks, and we're still in mourning. So you know there's only one thing to do now. Overdose on fan art!!!Below is a small selection o...

It's been a wild ride for the Binary System Podcast team as we binged The Amazing Digital Circus over the last two and a half months. Kudos to everyone who's been following this absolutely stunning an...

...arguing over what could be causing such irregular, constant, chaotic transmissions. All of us dancing about the question of Life, could it be life? A whole civilization with their radios turned up ...

We've missed DesignerCon since it moved from Anaheim to Las Vegas, so we were thrilled when they announced a second show this year in Pasadena. While smaller in scale than the last time it was at the ...

...It was January 8, 2064. His last recorded memory was from July 31st, 2063.. Waking up from a deep sleep to find yourself in a restaurant that's about to be flooded by an apocalyptic storm is disori...

We're so glad we actually went to see Backrooms while it was still in the theater, partly because it's exactly the kind of horror movie we like: scary, light on the gore, smart, just enough jump scare...

What do you know, we actually managed to finish watching a season of TV less than six months late! And wow, what a season. Pluribus has had some amazing episodes, with a story that's been both delight...

On this week's Night Vale recap, Jalen is being awfully understanding about being in jail for a murder his dead doppelganger (probably) committed. But a secret ally is sending clues that could help Ce...

How does a house, lacking flesh, feel fury? I went into Freya Marske's novella completely cold, and I thought maybe this was going to be a humorous retelling of Cinderella. Ha ha, a poor house that ha...

The investigation into the murder of Marcus Vanston is moving ahead at breakneck speed. And for this week only, Cecil's covering the latest developments in a hard-boiled, film noir style that only get...

Let's take a break from hard-hitting topics for a while and bring in some frikkin' whimsy. The novellas by Amal El-Mohtar and Olvia Waite have wildly different settings: a small town on the border of ...

If we had to recap the last three episodes of The Amazing Digital Circus VERY quickly, we'd say episode 6 is delightfully violent, episode 7 is a kick in the heart, and episode 8 is terrifying. We men...

Helmed by Dario Scardapane, Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 follows Matt Murdock, aka Daredevil (Charlie Cox), as a fugitive leading a resistance against Mayor Wilson Fisk (Vincent D'Onofrio), who has ...

"Does anyone hear that sound behind the sky?" (Get used to hearing that question if you listen to this week's Welcome To Night Vale, because Cecil asks it a lot.) There are some updates on the Marcus ...

I had just taken poison when the king arrived to inform me that he had murdered his wife... It's one hell of an opening line in T. Kingfisher's latest reinterpreted fairytale. The king in this case is...

It took ten years, but both the East Coast and West Coast branches of the podcast got to meet up in Manhattan once again for a weekend of museums, comic book shops, subway ficus, fancy islands, sidewa...

On this week’s Night Vale recap, when the creepy ice cream truck appeared we thought it was one of those awful stories about creepy ice cream guys preying on people. It’s not. IT’S SO MUCH WORSE. Afte...

This week Pluribus continues to break our hearts while also expanding on the impossible situation Carol finds herself in. There are some hard choices made and quite a lot of betrayal (although does it...

Cambridge, Michaelmas Term, October. The wind bit, the sun hid, and on the first day of class, when she ought to have been lecturing undergraduates about the dangers of using the Cartesian severance s...