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Microreview [film]: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is the latest installment in J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World. Written and produced by her, it follows Newt Scamander (author of the textbook of the same name) as...
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NERD MUSIC: Interview with Vampire Step-Dad
NERD MUSIC is excited to present an interview with Vampire Step-Dad, a high-concept synthwave act by an up-and-coming artist in the scene. [Disclaimer: The G mastered Vampire Step-Dad's last two...
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[microreview] Ghost Summer: Stories by: Tananarive Due
Beauty and horrors.... In her introduction, to Tananarive Due’s collection Ghost Summer: Stories, Nalo Hopkinson writes about the unease caused by the...
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Nanoreviews [video games]: Broforce, Slain: Back from Hell, Call of Duty:...
Free Lives. Broforce [Devolver Digital, 2015] Broforce is a non-stop action platformer in the vein of Contra. It takes all of your favorite action heroes from the last 30 years, gives them copyright...
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Thursday Morning Superhero
After enjoying a week off for some delicious food and time with family, I have returned with your post-Thanksgiving Thursday Morning Superhero. As we approach the end of another great year of comics,...
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Microreview [book(s)]: 2/3 of An Affinity for Steel, by Sam Sykes
Going from not so great to pretty good (to better?)Sykes, Sam. An Affinity for Steel. Orbit, 2016.You can buy it here.Remember when The Phantom Menace came out? I was a teenager at the time, and was...
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Microreview [film]: Arrival (2016)
Astonishing and humane sci-fi, respectfully adapted from the Chiang storyGiven all the largely-positive reviews already out there on the deeply-disturbing-internet, I'm wary of merely placing another...
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Why This Matters: "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose"
What can we do in the face of fate? When I was growing up, I was obsessed with The X-Files, like wanting to be an FBI agent level obsessed, like getting the...
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Thursday Morning Superhero
Not to step on the toes of our impending holiday gift guides, I wanted to introduce today's post and suggest that you give your loved one the gift of Sweet Tooth by Jeff Lemire. I am just finished my...
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Nanoreviews: Elysium, Hammers on Bone, A City Dreaming
Brissett, Jennifer Marie. Elysium [Aqueduct Press, 2014]I wonder if reading the publisher's description would have reset my expectations for Elysium. Pun intended. "A computer program etched into the...
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Microreview [book]: Babylon's Ashes, by James S.A. Corey
The Expanse continues to delight, even in the darkness.Cover Art by Daniel DociuBabylon's Ashes is an interesting entry into the world of The Expanse. As the sixth volume of the series, Corey has moved...
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Microreview [TV]: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
It turns out, everything does end up connecting Approaching this review of the first season of BBC America’s Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency(adapted from the Douglas Adam...
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Microreview [video game]: Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare by Infinity Ward
Lost in SpaceThe further away from modern warfare the Call of Duty series gets, the more I enjoy it. I've had enough modern warfare in my lifetime, but I'm still into pew-pew lasers and cyborgs and...
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Thursday Morning Superhero
As I am starting to write this post I am reminded that this is one of the last editions of Thursday Morning Superhero in 2016. Our annual Holiday Gift Guides will grace our page next week and then it...
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THE MONTHLY ROUND - A Taster's Guide to Speculative Short Fiction, 11/2016
The year is almost over. And 2016 has been…an interesting year. Full of highs and lows. Especially November. So it might be no surprise that this month's tasting flight is a mix of dark and brash with...
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Holiday Gift Guide: Books and Comics
Welcome to our annual Holiday Gift Guide where the flock takes a break from talking about all the awesome and not so awesome things to, well, talk about some more of the awesome things that you might...
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Holiday Gift Guide: Gadgets, Electronics, and Apps
It's that time of year again, where we struggle to buy the perfect gift for that special [fill in the blank] in your life. This year, the Nerds of a Feather, Flock Together crew is teaming up to bring...
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Holiday Gift Guide: Games (of all types!)
Winter is the perfect time for gaming. It's cold and wet outside. You've got time off for the holidays. Friends and family are around. So get together and enjoy some games of all types! We've got some...
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Holiday Gift Guide: Toys and Novelties
Welcome to our annual Holiday Gift Guide where the flock takes a break from talking about all the awesome and not so awesome things to, well, talk about some more of the awesome things that you might...
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Holiday Gift Guide: TV, Film & Movies
Welcome to our annual holiday gift guide, where the flock takes a break from talking about all the awesome and not so awesome things to... talk some of the awesome things you might want to consider for...
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