The Binge Reading Bookclub

In this month’s episode of Speed Binges, Hugo and Nicholas delve into the SCP Foundation, the internet-born horror universe built around a secret organisation tasked with securing, containing and protecting humanity from things that shouldn’t exist. They explore some of their favourite stories, including SCP-173, the terrifying Sculpture that moves whenever nobody is watching, and SCP-2718, a deeply disturbing tale that asks what happens after we die.

In a podcast first, the boys say they will do something and actually follow through with it. This month we welcome speculative fiction author Eliza Chan ( HARBOUR OF HUNGRY GHOSTS, The Drowned World Duology). Eliza shares with us one of her favourite recent novels, The Last Contract of Isako by Fonda Lee that explores a cyberpunk future set on a far of planet that has lost contact with earth 2 centuries ago. Eliza breaks down how Lee does characterization so well - through intimate und...

In this months episode of Speed Binges, Hugo and Nicholas discuss Mouthwashing, the unsettling indie horror game that uses non-linear storytelling, shifting perspectives, and player complicity to explore guilt, trauma, and responsibility. They examine why its story could only work as a video game—and why its disturbing world stays with you long after playing. Now don't write off Moutwashing as just some some spookfest horror nonsense - this game is truly a masterpiece and takes story telling ...

After a summer hiatus that felt like an age, Hugo and Nicholas Binge are back with aplomb covering the blockbuster Gamelit/RPGlit hit Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman. In a shocking break from tradition we also take a meta view of authorship and examine how Dinniman managed to capture a multitude of cultural zeitgeists to produce the perfect literary embodiment of an RPG video game. We discuss which genre one should write if all they wanted to do was make money (turns out its erotica -...

And we are back! After a forced hiatus in the month of July (which Nicholas formerly appologises for and explains in this episode) we return with a banger of a book in this episode of Speed Binges. Friend of the Pod Sunyi Dean blessed us with presser copies of her latest novel The Girl with a Thousand Faces. We explore how an ancient germanic tribe got wrapped up in literature (gothic that is), we chat time skips and story telling and whether it would be the same novel were it told in ...