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Microreview [video game]: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Following the PathThe Witcher 3 is great, and you should play it immediately.The Witcher 3 follows closely after the events of The Witcher 2: Assassin of Kings. Geralt is a witcher (not a witch, or...
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Thursday Morning Superhero: My SDCC Schedule
It boggles my mind that San Diego Comic Con is only one week away. While there are a lot of loose ends I need to tie up before my trip, I am feeling more excited about my annual excursion with each...
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Summer Reading List 2015 - Vance
I find myself in one of the most creatively busy periods of my life at the moment (scoring a film, finishing an album, writing, blogging, repairing the house, and also, the kids are out of school), so...
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THE MONTHLY ROUND - A Taster's Guide to Speculative Short Fiction, 06/2015
Welcome back. Let me tell you, June was a crazy month for short fiction. It has caused me to break my unofficial rule of featuring only one story from a publication per month. This month's special...
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Microreview [TV] : a return to Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - series(2015)
Spoilers, including how they spoilt the recipe From the rare advantage of having already seen the whole series here in the U.K. and knowing BBC America is only 4/7 of the way through, I don't wish to...
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Thursday Morning Superhero: SDCC Games Edition
San Diego Comic Con has something for all fandoms, and with the rise in table top gaming it is no surprise that the games programming has seen recent growth. This year the games are taking over the...
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Summer Reading List 2015 - brian
Summer doesn't mean much to me anymore, besides the changing of the seasons. I work a corporate job, so my hours don't change, and neither does my workload. No more time to read, but also no less time...
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Dean's (Mostly) Indie Reading (and Review!) List
You guys. I love parentheses. Not as much as commas, and perhaps a little more than ellipses, but as punctuation goes, I mean, look at that title. Love'em. A little bit of whimsy, a little extra...
View ArticleOn the "Classics"
Been thinking about Renay's excellent column in Strange Horizons, as well as Nina Allan's equally good follow-up, and the questions they raise about the alleged centrality of science fiction "classics"...
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Summer Reading List: Charles
I will admit that my To Be Read queue at the moment is incredibly long. I tend to buy books about a year in advance of when I'll be able to read them, and this year I've definitely fallen behind....
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Summer Reading List 2015: The G
Like Charles, I have a "to be read" pile that is exceedingly tall and exceedingly heavy. And I'm a slow reader too. That said, I do mean to get through as many of them as possible. Here are the first...
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Thursday Morning Superhero: Top 3's of SDCC
I am nearing my three year anniversary writing for Nerds of a Feather and so it seems appropriate to provide my San Diego Comic Con recap in a list of Top 3's as I have done so in the past. As usual,...
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Microreview [book] Dark Orbit by Carolyn Ives Gilman
Deep UndergroundEchopraxia is a hard act to follow. I was extremely impressed by it, and thought about the story for several days after I finished it. Dark Orbit features several interweaving plots,...
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11 Tips for Surviving Our Current Dystopia
Congratulations, Friends! Social, economic, political, and environmental forces have all coalesced to form the dystopia we've long been promised in the pages of science fiction...and we got here...
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Micoreview [book]: Tough Times All Over by Joe Abercrombie (Rogues #1)
Short Story #1 in the Rogues anthology edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner DozoisI recently presented my overly ambitious summer reading list, and when I put this list together I didn’t take into...
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6 Books with Science Fiction Author James L. Cambias
James Cambias is author of the highly-regarded science fiction novels A Darkling Sea and Corsair. He is also an accomplished writer of short fiction and the founder of Zygote Games--a company that...
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Thursday Morning Superhero
Today we finally return to our normal Thursday Morning Superhero programming, but we do so on a bittersweet note. I spent the better part of ten hours today loading up my family's belongings into a...
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Microreview: Humans [TV] part two
The action accelerates but the emotional logic falls behindLeo and Max, hunted whilst on the huntTelevision reviewing is an easy task in many ways. A short, intense burst of culture means for the...
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Microreview [book]: So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson
This book should be the official Twitter user manualTo be honest, Jon Ronson's new book isn't right in line with the nerd/geek-theme of this site, but we nerds aren't exactly known for our calm,...
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Microreview [book]: European Monsters, eds. Jo Thomas and Margrét Helgadóttir
Behind every continent, there are a few good monsters.There's something primal about monsters, about those things that seem to lurk in the darkness, just out of sight. Horror was largely founded on...
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