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Book Review: Atacama by Jendia Gammon
A pulse-pounding SF/Thriller hybrid that feels like a modern day episode of The X-Files.Fiona Hawthrone has a problem. Her best friend Alva, a researcher in the titular Atacama desert in South America...
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Nanoreviews: Star Wars Outlaws, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Ratchet &...
A roundup of video games The G has been playing lately.Star Wars Outlaws (Series X/S, PS5, PC)Haley reviewed this one back in September—and her take mostly holds for me too. So instead of reinventing...
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Film Review: Love Me
An interesting look at the remnants of humanity as filtered through the lonely AIs we leave behindLove Me is a quirky little film set long after the demise of humanity, in which two human-made pieces...
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TV Review: Squid Game 2
Thematic changes, familiar characters, and lots of social commentary lead to a more predictable season two of the iconic showNetflix’s Squid Game is an immensely popular exploration of the class...
View ArticleNerds of a Feather Contributor 2025 Awards Eligibility
Awards season is well underway! Hopefully you're finding our Recommended Reading parts 1, 2, 3 and 4 useful in your potential nominations.While we remind you that Nerds of a Feather itself is recused...
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Review: The Sentence by Gautam Bhatia
Gautam Bhatia’s The Sentence is a secondary science fictional world whose protagonist, and her world, turns on matters of justice, and law.Nila is an ambitious student of law in the city of Peruma....
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Nanoreviews: Uncharted 4: A Thief's End; Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty; Stray
The G catches you up on some quality titles Uncharted 4: A Thief's End - Remaster (PS5, PC) I went straight into this remastered PS4 classic after finishing the excellent Indiana Jones and the Great...
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Game Review: Squirrel Stapler
I am never going to be able to look at a squirrel in the same way ever again - and there are a lot of squirrels near me There are many squirrels in the neighborhood I grew up in and still live in. They...
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Film Review: The Gorge
What can be more romantic than jumping over the pit of hell to meet the right one?As the old song goes:he was a mercenary manhunter with PTSD-induced nightmares and nothing to live forshe was a trained...
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Nanoreviews: The Martian Contingency, Tidal Creatures
The Martian Contingency, by Mary Robinette KowalWhile getting ready to write about The Martian Contingency I listened to the Hugo, Girl pod on Red Mars, obviously, that’s a very different novel...
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Book Review: The Scourge Between Stars
You'll wish that space were a little more emptyWe like to refer to the vastness of space, of space as a gulf, a maw, an expanse. All of these bring into stark relief the scale of the universe, so much...
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Book Review: Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
Nnedi Okorafor’s ambitious new novel tackles major global issues from AI to the power of storytelling.The title alone, Death of the Author, sets up this novel to engage with how we think about...
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Book Review: One Message Remains by Premee Mohamed
A short collection of stories in a grim and engaging world mired in perpetual war. Major Tzajos of Treotan is doing his grim duty in the aftermath of the war. It’s an honor, really, to find and...
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Review: The Monkey
A darkly funny adaptation of the classic Stephen King short story about a demonic toy—from the director who you brought you LonglegsOne of the all-time classic horror tropes is haunted or cursed...
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Film Review: Captain America: Brave New World
Neither brave enough nor new enough There has always been a tension in how a particular sort of liberal-leaning-leftist viewer has perceived the character of Captain America (and I absolutely include...
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Book Review: Jamaica Ginger and Other Concoctions
Imaginative fiction, Jamaican vibes, and random musings on life create a quirky anthology of speculative fiction In her latest science fiction anthology, Jamaica Ginger and Other Concoctions, Nalo...
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Film Review: Flow
A breathtakingly beautiful tale about a determined cat, his idiosyncratic animal companions, and the devastating effects of a catastrophic flood on an alien worldFor a short-ish animated feature that...
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Review: Future's Edge by Gareth Powell
At its heart, this standalone space opera epic is the story of three people coming to terms with each otherOf all the Gin joints for him to walk into, he had to walk into *hers*.¹ Ursula Marrow,...
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Double Feature: Forms of love in the future
Love is not a creed, or an aesthetic, or a quest, or a program. But then what is it?In Phaedrus, Socrates calls love a form of madness. By our current definition, he's not wrong: it's something we keep...
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Graphic Novel Review: The Power Fantasy by Kieron Gillen, Caspar Wijngaard,...
What if your cold war was six people each with superpowers equivalent to a nuclear arsenal? And they're each of them a total mess of a person.In his new graphic novel series, Kieron Gillen is once...
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