WHAT a fantastic follow-up to the first Cas Russell book, Zero Sum Game, which was one of my favorites of 2018. Two things I adore in fiction are aftermaths and superheroes being stripped of their superpowers, and Null Set (kinda) has both. Cas and her friends are dealing with the fallout from their takedown of Pithica in Zero Sum Game, and trying to cope with the uptick in crime that Los Angeles is seeing as a result. Rio is God knows where; Arthur and Checker and Cas are chasing down child trafficking rings, while Cas grows more and more frustrated…
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Linear time triumphed over chaos once more: We have attained the weekend! I am sorry to all of you, but especially to the Kurds, for having to experience this fucking week. I know I just said an encouraging thing about linear time, but have we considered just pressing pause on it for a bit? Just to get a break. It wouldn’t have to be for long. How long did Joshua make the sun stand still? Can we have a pause that lasts for that length of time? ….This links round-up has gotten a little conceptual. Please have some links. I…
Leave a CommentWell, friends, Supernatural returns for its fifteenth and final season tomorrow night. I recently finished the seventh season of Supernatural, yet somehow I am not even halfway done. It is, experientially, the longest show that has ever aired on television, the show that launched a thousand gifs, the show that has never let a woman or a black character survive in all its years of running. (I love Supernatural but OMG it’s a mess.) And as it veers into its final season, freeing up its leads to spend all their time making the con circuit and charge $2500 for photographs, we…
1 CommentOnce again we have made it through another week, and this time the weary week has done us a solid by leading us into October. The best of months! Welcome, October, we have been wishing for you. If you measure this week by hours, it has been the normal length, but if you measure it (and this is the trick) by presidential crimes openly committed, it has been ten thousand eons. I did get to play Untitled Goose Game this week, though. So at least there’s that. Anyway, here are some links for you! Call off the dogs; the best…
Leave a CommentSomehow it is October, and though many months of the year have passed, we are ever more convinced that linear time is a collective hallucination. We hope that you are experiencing Autumn, and we welcome in the settingsiest time of year by chatting about our thoughts on book settings. (I am opposed to them, and Whiskey Jenny is in favor.) In this podcast, we welcome the marvelous Ashley Wells, whom we do love but whom I invited to the podcast to punish her for forcing me to read this goddamn Irish book. She made us a game!!! We haven’t had…
Leave a CommentHello, hello! Have you missed me? I have not been telling you about short fiction lately, but I am inspired by the start of a new semester to resume my short fiction reading, even though semesters are meaningless in my life now that I am no longer (thank God) in school. Suitably, though, I am starting with a kind of story that I’m a sucker for, the kind that is written like a pretend piece of scholarship. You know the way to my heart, M. E. Bronstein. “Elegy of a Lanthornist,” by M. E. Bronstein (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 6700 words)…
Leave a CommentHonestly, it’s kind of weird. Why do I have so many links to things that dudes wrote? This isn’t like me at all. WHO AM I. WHERE ARE ALL THE WOMEN. (Don’t worry, y’all, there’s still lots of things that women wrote, because I’m still me and women write amazing things.) Anyway, here are a bunch of links, two of which are about copyright and estate drama, which I adore. Enjoy! Jerry Falwell Jr. runs Liberty University like a dictator. I am SO obsessed with weird shit around writers’ estates and who controls the rights to a writer’s work and…
Leave a CommentWe are back after an unscheduled hiatus to commence the 2019 Hatening, wherein I Haten Whiskey Jenny incredibly successfully — even more successfully, if you can believe such a thing, as the year I forced her to read The Easter Parade. But it’s all in good fun, as mainly we are just really elated to be back podcasting together. We missed it! And you! You can listen to the podcast in the embedded player below, or download it directly to take with you on the go! Episode 122 I say this in the podcast, but please accept content warnings for…
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