6 Books with Bradley Beaulieu
The author of Twelve Kings in Sharakhai, Bradley P. Beaulieu's novels have garnered many accolades and most anticipated lists, including two Hotties–the Debut of the Year and Best New Voice–on Pat’s...
View ArticleThe Life and Times of the Fourteenth Doctor
The 60th anniversary episodes celebrate the show's history, but also change all the rulesRussell T Davies is back at the head of Doctor Who. When his return was first announced, in mid-2021,...
View ArticleReview: Paladin's Faith by T. Kingfisher
Come for the plot drama, stay for the intriguing developments in fantasy world theology.I am, unapologetically, a slightly over the top fan of Ursula Vernon (whether as herself or under her T....
View ArticleInterview with Malka Older
The Astounding-nominated author spoke with Nerds of a Feather about her writing process, her preferred readings, and our civilizational momentArturo Serrano: First of all, congratulations on the...
View ArticleThe first Chicken Run set the bar so high that even a subpar sequel is still...
It's just... OK. It's fine. It tastes like chicken.Twenty-four years after the incomparably funny Chicken Run, the stars finally aligned for us to get a sequel. There was a brief moment of worry that...
View ArticleMicroreview: The Mystery at Dunvegan Castle, by T. L. Huchu
A slightly lackluster mystery in a brilliantly realized Scotland, narrated by one of the best voices in modern fantasy.The third of T. L. Huchu's Edinburgh Nights series (see Adri’s review of the first...
View ArticleMicroreview: Noumenon Ultra by Marina J Lostetter
An ambitious epic space opera series comes to a conclusion in its third and final volume.It's been quite an adventure across the first two volumes of the Noumenon saga. The discovery of subdimensions...
View ArticleRebel Moon is the most Snyder that Snyder has ever been
Lucasfilm dodged a glowing, blurry, vaguely yellowish, excessively slowed-down bulletOne could summarize Rebel Moon as "the Zack Snyder of Star Wars," which would sound mean-spirited if it weren't its...
View ArticleBaldur's Gate 3
A game with heart, soul and um... well definitely some other body parts too. It may be horny but there's plenty of good story underneath all the outrageous flirting.Unless you've been living under a...
View ArticleOn the bittersweet sincerity of Carol & the End of the World
Yes, yes, we know, the world is ending, but do you really need that bucket list?In the world where Carol Kohl lives, the days of humankind are numbered. A rogue planet will crash against Earth in just...
View ArticleReview: The Gods Awoke by Marie Vibbert
A fantasy world where, much to the surprise of the characters, the gods they have long worshipped become manifest. Oh, and the gods too, are rather surprised...Illoehenderen has a problem. Illoe is a...
View ArticleNovella Project - Kick-Off Post
Happy New Year, welcome to 2024 and a brand new Nerds of a Feather project!You may remember, a few years ago, we ran The Novella Files, a project aiming to shine a light on the oft-overlooked novella...
View ArticleThe October Daye Re-Read: Once Broken Faith
Welcome back, dear readers. Today we’re going to revisit the tenth novel in Seanan McGuire’s October Daye series: Once Broken Faith. We are making a real push on this series, though if 2023 is the only...
View ArticleNovella Project: The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar
A thoughtful meditation on memory, identity, and coming of age, which does not quite deliver on the promised dragonsCover illustration by Tran NguyenWith novellas, there simply isn’t enough space to do...
View ArticleMicroreview: Talonsister by Jen Williams
A world of lost titans, a grasping empire, and schemes within schemes from the courts of queens to the aeries of griffins.From the jungles of the south and a mysterious lost city, to a grasping central...
View ArticleNovella Project: Francesca Barbini Interview
Today for the novella project we're speaking to Francesca Barbini:Francesca Barbini is the owner of award-winning Luna Press Publishing, a small Scottish press of SFF in fiction and academia. Roseanna...
View ArticleMicroreview: The Mars House, by Natasha Pulley
A political thriller that suffers from the strictures of science fiction as a genreNatasha Pulley’s work tends to run to type: Delicately drawn queer relationships, exquisite images evoking the...
View ArticleNovella Project: A. Z. Louise Interview
Today for the novella project we're speaking to A. Z. Louise:A.Z. Louise is a lover of birds, a writer of words, and a believer in the healing powers of peppermint tea. After leaving their job as a...
View ArticleNovella Project: Phoebe Wagner Interview
Today for the novella project we're talking to our very own Phoebe Wagner:Phoebe Wagner is an author, editor, and academic writing at the intersection of speculative fiction and climate change. Their...
View ArticleNanoreviews (Modesitt Edition): From the Forest, Contrarian
From the Forest, by L.E. Modesitt, JrFrom the Forest introduces another chapter in Modessit’s Recluce Saga and is the twenty third novel in the sequence and the first in a four volume sequence focusing...
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