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Novella Project: To the Woman in the Pink Hat
A futuristic exploration of contemporary race and gender issues woven into a both disturbing and relatable tale. Set in a near future America, which feels futuristic and as well as current, To the...
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Microreview: The Briar Book of the Dead, by A. G. Slatter
Witches, deadly families, and dead bodies in ample profusion A. G. Slatter’s books tend to run to type: supremely confident female characters wielding power of one sort or another in a richly...
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Novella Project: Closing Post
And with that, our novella project is over. Or... well... is it? Is it really?As with many things, the real work isn't actually in the big initial push, when it's exciting and current and easily...
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Review: Womb City by Tlotlo Tsamaase
Womb City is a fusion of body horror, cyberpunk, dystopia, and a crime thriller all wrapped in an Afrofuturist setting. Think Handmaid's Tale meets Minority Report meets Get Out. (No spoilers).In Womb...
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Microreview [Video Game]: Inscryption by Daniel Mullins Games
Say cheese and die.A wooden table lies before you, darkness all around. A door creaks, and from the void peer two eyes. “Another Challenger… It has been ages,” reads the text above. The menacing music...
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Review: Lisa Frankenstein
Journey back to the 80s with a black horror comedy "coming of rage" story featuring a script by Diablo Cody and an impressive retro vibe and soundtrack.Diablo Cody, writer of Jennifer's Body, and Zelda...
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Review: Out of Darkness
Prehistoric life was nasty, brutish, and shortI imagine, on some level, it is cheating to set a work of historical fiction in the stone age. Historical fiction is by definition set during a historical...
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Nerds of a Feather 2024 Awards Eligibility
Awards season has once again begun. We began by looking at all the works we collectively have in our sights for nominations in our Recommended Reading Lists (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4), and so...
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Review: Mothersound: The Sauútiverse Anthology
An eclectic collection of African-futuristic stories blending myth, magic, and technology in bold new waysMothersound: The Sauútiverse Anthology is an anthology of short stories written by a range of...
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Microreview: The Thucydides Trap by Melinda Snodgrass
Bringing a close to the Imperials space opera saga with the greatest tests yet for the protagonists.The Imperials saga, which started life at a traditional publisher before Melinda took the entire...
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The Hugo Awards Crisis Deepens - Where We Stand and How to Save the Awards
Previously Nerds of a Feather, Flock Together issued a joint statement of concern about the administration of the 2023 Hugo Awards and the inexplicable disqualification of several nominees, including...
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Review: Finding Echoes by Foz Meadows
A novella with a distinctive voice in a distinctive city, that knows how to focus in on what really matters.There is a story in this novella - a good one, as it happens, well crafted, well paced and...
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Review: Extraordinary Visions: Stories Inspired by Jules Verne
A curious experiment in probing the minds of fansMore or less a year and a half ago, the North American Jules Verne Society posted a call for submissions to a planned anthology of short stories...
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Review: True Detective Season 4
The dark and icy fourth season of True Detective is the first deserving follow-up to the incredible first season, and Jodie Foster & Kali Reis help showrunner Issa Lopez stick the landing in the...
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Microreview: The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi, by Shannon Chakraborty
The gang is reunited to buckle some swashes, but they sure took their time getting to the good bitsThe hook of S. A. Chakraborty’s newest offering ticks all my boxes: Piracy and magic and spirits and...
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Microreview: Dragons of Deepwood Fen by Bradley P. Beaulieu
Introducing a new fantasy world, filled with the intrigues of an empire, its unwilling vassal state, a grasping church, and oh yes, dragons.Rylan Holbrooke has a problem. Well, a bunch of problems. He...
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Review: The Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed
A creepy fairytale story with its eye on more than the just magic, mystery and missing children.When the cover of a book has animals with their skulls out on it, I feel like the audience is probably...
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With the new Avatar series, one has to ask: What do we really want from an...
This version isn't perfect. It isn't horrible either. The world is at balance again.Before anyone watched 2005's Batman Begins, one strong argument for its existence was that audiences' definitive...
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Cool Books I Read While I Was Too Sad to Review
If a review copy lands in the inbox when the reviewer is too overwhelmed to read it, does it even get a review?Well, no, obviously it doesn't. Despite my fervent hopes, the review fairy did not visit...
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6 Books with Bogi Takács
Bogi Takács (e/em/eir/emself or they pronouns) is a Hungarian Jewish agender trans person and an immigrant to the US. E is a winner of the Lambda award for editing Transcendent 2: The Year's Best...
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