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Review — Season 1 of The Power
The television adaption of this speculative fiction novel raises questions about the nature of the power, imagining a world where women and girls develop the ability to produce electricity in their...
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Review: Lords of Uncreation by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The epic quest to defeat the enigmatic Architects now extends beyond this realityConfession time: I hate cosmic horror. I detest it with a fervent passion. I find its conceptual foundations...
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Review: Witch King by Martha Wells
The Murderbot author returns to fantasy with a double-headed story of a freed prisoner’s story forward and backward...who happens to be a powerful demon.In Witch King, Martha Wells returns to secondary...
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The Big Door Prize will make you reconsider your life choices
Since we already let machines run our daily affairs, why not let them run our lifepaths?In the remote town of Deerfield, the place where grand aspirations go to die, people could use a jolt of...
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Mrs. Davis, or how googling is just like praying
Beneath the absurdist humor, this series builds a lofty tower of nested metaphors about the many meanings of loveMrs. Davis couldn't have arrived at a better moment in the discussion about artificial...
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6 Additional Books with Stina Leicht
Stina Leicht writes science fiction, horror, and fantasy. Her newest novel, Loki’s Ring is a Feminist Space Opera released in March 2023 by Saga Press. Her first SF novel was Persephone Station. She...
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Review: The Mother by B. L. Blanchard
A sequel that fails to measure up to the quality of its predecessorThe least interesting type of alternate history is the turning of tables. Novels such as The Mirage by Matt Ruff and Through Darkest...
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Review: A Clockwork River, by J. S. Emery
A rambling, Dickensian stroll through a world of secrets, intrigue, and hydraulicsCover design by Micaela AlcainoSome books are flirts, entertainers, beggars for attention. They are constructed to...
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Nerds of a Feather is an Ignyte finalist for the Critics Award!
On Wednesday evening, Nerds of a Feather was nominated for the Ignyte Awards, in the Critics Award category “for reviews and analysis of the field of speculative literature.” To say we are thrilled...
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Festival View: Fudgie Freddie
Creators and Creations are deeply tied, and sometimes it gets dark...One of my all-time favorite musicals is 1990’s City of Angels. It’s an amazing story of a mystery writer and his detective creation....
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Review: Master of Samar by Melissa Scott
Melissa Scott’s Master of Samar brings us a rich story of a secondary world Venice.You can’t go home again. Or maybe you can, but you have changed, your home has changed, and your hometown has changed....
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Review: Suzume
A universal coming of age story that resonates across culturesWritten and directed by Makoto Shinkai, Suzume is the journey movie we need right now. The trailer may evoke the idea of a romantic...
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Review: Hybrid Heart by Iori Kusano
An intimate look at the interior life of a pop idol in a near future world where technology only makes the competition fiercer, and more isolating.Cover art by Natsujirushi夏じるしIn Hybrid Heart, we...
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6 Books with Matt Wallace
Photo by Edward Earl NewtonMatt Wallace is the Hugo nominated author of Rencor: Life in Grudge City and the Sin du Jour series, and he won a Hugo Award alongside Mur Lafferty for the fancast Ditch...
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Review: The Little Mermaid
Modern twists make The Little Mermaid succeed in this latest retelling of the classic taleI first saw the original Disney’s The Little Mermaid in theaters at a time when my adult life was just...
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Review
Across the Spider-Verse is exactly what a sequel should beThe follow-up to the critically acclaimed 2018 hit Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse swings into theaters with a heavy burden to bear: simply...
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Microreview: In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune
After robots have learned from humanity to love, can a lone human then learn it from robots?With the word robot coming from the Czech for "servitude," it seems inevitable that stories about artificial...
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Our Retellings are Dull - the Problem of the Modern Mythical Reimagining
Most of the myth retellings we have right now are bland.There are several reasons for it, not least because most of them are retelling a relatively small subset of the stories from primarily one...
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Microreview [book]: The Book of Gems by Fran Wilde
The Gem Universe trilogy concludes with academic shenanigans and more talking rocksThis is the third novella in the intriguingly disparate Gem Universe series, in which the magical power held within...
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Microreview: Mordew, by Alex Pheby
A dense, richly Gothic tale full of vibes and inventiveness, but short on characterizationCover illustration by James NunnAhh, Gormenghast—such an odd duck of a book! So Gothic, so moody, so...
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