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6 Books with Thea Guanzon
Thea Guanzon holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies, with a specialization in international Politics and Peace Studies. When she's not writing, she can be found traveling, running a Dungeons...
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Recap — Ahsoka Episode 8: The Jedi, The Witch, and The Warlord
The season finale is a blast to watch, but where do we go from here?We open on a special day — Morgan Elsbeth's promotion! The Great Mothers thank her, she who heard their dreams from across the stars....
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Adri and Joe Read the Hugos: Novel
Joe: I don’t want to oversell what’s going to go down here, but I almost began this by cracking my knuckles and neck like we’re about to scrap. Not that I actually know anything about scrapping, but...
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Microreview [Video Game]: Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered by Insomniac Games
A Thwipping good time.It took the impending release of Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 to make me realize that I hadn’t played the original in five years. The original release was my favorite game in the...
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Microreview: Spring's Arcana by Lilith Saintcrow
Lilith Saintcrow brings her own unique ideas to an American Gods sort of universe, where a sheltered young woman is much more than she appears or even realizes.Nat Drozdova has a problem she knows...
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Review: Kakistocracy
It's about rule by the worst, but it's written by the bestIn the introduction to the anthology Down These Strange Streets, George R. R. Martin defined urban fantasy as the confluence of the hard-boiled...
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Review: Menewood by Nicola Griffith
A vividly beautiful story rooted in nature and landscape and a woman who uses it as her lens through which to view the world.And absolutely stunning cover art by Anna and Elena BalbussoHild was...
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Film review: The Creator
Nice America you got there—shame about your AsiaI became intent on seeing The Creator as soon as I saw that it was from the man who directed Rogue One, my favorite piece of media Disney Star Wars has...
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Nanoreview: The Little Red Wolf by Amélie Fléchais
A small change to the tale makes all the differenceYou know how it goes: there's a curious child, a worried mother, a meal to deliver to a frail grandmother. An errand through the forest. A chat with a...
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INTRODUCING: Star Wars Subjectivities
No one ever gets what they wantNo commercial property has ever meant as much to me as Star Wars. It is my first and still deepest cinematic love. Indeed, from the first time I saw that angled, yellow...
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Star Wars Subjectivities: Why We Love Star Wars (Roundtable)
I'm joined here today by NOAF superstars Vance, Paul, Haley and Alex. Our mission: to unpack why Star Wars has so captured our collective imaginations. The NOAF staff on a typical WednesdayG - Let me...
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Microreview [VideoGame]: Death's Door by Acid Nerve
The little crow that could.Death’s Door tasks crows with reaping the souls of those who find themselves at the transition between life and death. As a crow, one can live forever so long as they...
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Star Wars Subjectivities: Why We Don't Love Star Wars (Roundtable)
Yesterday, I moderated a discussion about how great the Star Wars franchise is - and how meaningful it has been to our development as nerds. Today I am joined by Iby NOAF luminaries Roseanna and...
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Review: The Fall of Gondolin, by J R R Tolkien (edited by Christopher Tolkien)
The last of the Christopher Tolkien volumes on the work of his father, is a fascinating look at one of the key stories of the Legendarium, but one not suited to audio.Christopher Tolkien had made a...
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Review: War of the Maps by Paul McAuley
The story of an investigator who lives on an artificial world, whose Javert-like pursuit of his quarry leads him on a picaresque adventure.Remfrey He has a problem. Although to be fair, he doesn't...
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Nerds of a Feather is an Ignyte Award Winner!
On Saturday, the SFF world had a double bill of award winner announcements of the Hugos and the Ignytes, and we are utterly delighted, grateful, shocked and amazed to be able to say that we were one of...
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Review: Space Craze
A sojourn through the history of star-spangled science fictionGene Roddenberry called outer space ‘the final frontier,’ and those three words have become an iconic tagline of his most famous creation;...
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Star Wars Subjectivities: The Phantom Menace
Bad. So, so bad. Gather 'round, kids, and let me tell you the story of a boy who loved Star Wars with all his heart and soul. A boy who, when it was announced that a new Star Wars film was coming to...
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Star Wars Subjectivities: Attack of the Clones
In the first of the Star Wars prequels, The Phantom Menace,, we meet lil' Anakin Skywalker, the young, mop-topped ragamuffin who can sure fly a pod racer and who will grow up to be Darth Vader. Here,...
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Star Wars Subjectivities: Revenge of the Sith
It is a truth universally acknowledged that most people don't love the Star Wars prequels.The exception to this, of course, is Revenge of the Sith. Or so the common discourse runs. I actually disagree...
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