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Microreview [book]: Empress of Eternity by L.E. Modesitt Jr
An ambitious deep time story of three far future Earth civilizations revolving around an enigmatic and seemingly imperishable wonder of the world.The Canal.We here in our present don’t know, can’t even...
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I have seen hell, and its name is Space Jam: A New Legacy
This production is an insult to the art of moviemaking and an act of violence upon the viewerWhen I joined the team at Nerds of a Feather, the editors explained the blog's official policy to me as...
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Questing in Shorts, July 2021: Lovely Weather for Shorts
Ahoy, fellow readers! Welcome to July’s Questing in Shorts, where I round up another month in short fiction reading and tell you all about the things I enjoyed (or sometimes didn’t). This month, I’m...
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New Books Spotlight
Welcome to another edition of the New Books Spotlight, where each month or so we curate a selection of 6 new and forthcoming books we find notable, interesting, and intriguing. It gives us the...
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Six Books with J.P Oakes
J.P. Oakes is a writer and creative director living on Long Island, where he drinks too much tea, overthinks dumb action movies, and indulges in profound nerdery. Follow him on social media @jp_oakes...
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Thinking about Invisible Sun and The Merchant Princes
And so concludes not only the Empire Games trilogy, but the larger Merchant Princes series. My thoughts and feelings about Invisible Sun are tied up in my complicated and conflicted feelings about the...
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Thursday Morning Superhero
July just wrapped and I would normally be writing a recap of San Diego Comic Con, yet despite it wrapping up its second SDCC at Home last month, I realized that I am suffering what I will dub virtual...
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Removing He-Man from his own show was exactly what the franchise needed
The sequel to the classic 80s cartoon fixes its main problem: its protagonistWhen your character is defined plainly as "the most powerful man in the universe," there's no such thing as narrative...
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Interview: Hugo nominee John Wiswell
It's been a great year for author John Wiswell. A first-time nominee, his Hugo nominated short story "Open House on Haunted Hill" won the Nebula and is a Locus and World Fantasy Award finalist. The...
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The Suicide Squad is silly, morbid, gory, hilarious, and surprisingly topical
In contrast with the MCU's cowardice, the DCEU has no problem portraying America as the bad guyIt took a second try and years of waiting, but we finally got a decent Suicide Squad movie.To summarize:...
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Microreview [book]: A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
A cozy walk through the woods with Socratic dialogue over teaIn the moon Panga, which orbits the planet Motan, humans lived and worked and burned oil and built factories and used robots. One day, the...
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Microreview [book]: The Councillor by E. J. Beaton
A lowborn scholar takes on a dangerous political role in this rich Machiavellian Fantasy Lysande Prior has a problem. She’s a scholar, and a good one, having been rescued from an orphanage by Queen...
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Hugo Nominee Interview: Lynell George
It is with great joy that I welcome journalist Lynell George to Nerds of a Feather. Her book A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E. Butler (Angel City Press 2020) is a Hugo...
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WE RANK 'EM: The Films of Godzilla's Heisei Era
I don’t know if you know this, but 2021 is the year of Godzilla. Oh, it’s not an official anniversary year for the franchise and there are no special events since we are still three years away from...
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Novella FIles: Local Star by Aimee Ogden
Subject: Local Star by Aimee Ogden [Interstellar Flight Press, 2021]Accolades: N/AGenre: Space OperaExecutive Summary: Triz is a guttergirl, an engineer who has risen from living in the uninhabitable...
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Novella Files: Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw
Subject: Cassandra Khaw. Nothing But Blackened Teeth [Nightfire, 2021]Accolades: N/AGenre: HorrorExecutive Summary: A Heian-era mansion stands abandoned, its foundations resting on the bones of a...
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Microreview: Cage of Souls by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Cage of Souls by Adrian Tchaikovsky takes the skills of the prolific author of a variety of subgenres and turns them to one new to him: Dying Earth Science fantasy.The city of Shadrapar has a...
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Free Guy is so chock-full of allegories that it gets its messages confused
Guy's journey mirrors step by step the perils of far-right radicalization, and at times the movie doesn't seem to know where it standsFree Guy is a comedy about a videogame character who, after gaining...
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Interview: Davis Liss, author of The Peculiarities
As I was reading the promotional blurb for David Liss's new novel The Peculiarities, everything sounded fairly straight forward (for supernatural sci-fantasy values of straight forward) until I got to...
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Superman & Lois season 1 feels like a fix fic of the Snyderverse
It's like the producers watched the first two DCEU entries and said, "OK, let's do that, but let's also give it heart"As the latest addition to the already sizable Arrowverse, Superman & Lois...
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