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a Hugo and Ignyte Award-winning fanzine covering fantasy, science fiction, video games, comics, cult movies, and other realms of nerddom since 2012.

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Today at @nerdsofafeather.bsky.social I reviewed The Wolf and his King by Finn Longman. It's a gorgeously prosey retelling of Bisclavret, and one that feels deeply embedded in the stories of its 12th century inspiration.
Book Review: The Wolf and His King by Finn Longman
Second person present tense is the sexiest way to tell a story. If you've not come across it before, Bisclavret is a 12th century poem, one ...
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December 22, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Book Review: Making History by K. J. Parker
Another novella set in Parker's mainline secondary universe, about a group of academics tasked with a seemingly impossible task by a tyrant.
@princejvstin.com has our Boxing Day review
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Book Review: Making History by K. J. Parker
A nother novella set in Parker's mainline secondary universe, about a group of academics tasked with a seemingly impossible task by a tyrant...
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December 26, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Festival View: The Ugly Chickens
@johnnyeponymous.bsky.social takes a look at the short film based on the Waldrop story
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Festival View: The Ugly Chickens
Every now and then, there’s a short that comes across my desk that plays on each and every one of my things. The Ugly Chickens happened to b...
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December 24, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Not much changed when the Fire Nation attacked
The Avatar saga remains faithful to its tried and true formula: visually breathtaking, narratively uninspired
@carturo222.bsky.social has our review of Avatar: Fire and Ash at the blog
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Not much changed when the Fire Nation attacked
The  Avatar  saga remains faithful to its tried and true formula: visually breathtaking, narratively uninspired There are truly interesting ...
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December 23, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Book Review: The Wolf and His King by Finn Longman
Second person present tense is the sexiest way to tell a story.
A long and meaty review at the blog from @chloroformtea.bsky.social today:
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Book Review: The Wolf and His King by Finn Longman
Second person present tense is the sexiest way to tell a story. If you've not come across it before, Bisclavret is a 12th century poem, one ...
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December 22, 2025 at 1:54 PM
TV Review: The Legend of Lara Croft, Season 2
The gods watch over humans, but who watches the watchers?
@carturo222.bsky.social continues his review from Thursday with a look at Season 2
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TV Review: The Legend of Lara Croft, Season 2
The gods watch over humans, but who watches the watchers? Previously  on The Legend of Lara Croft , we saw Lara learn to stop trying to save...
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December 19, 2025 at 10:31 AM
TV Review: The Legend of Lara Croft, Season 1
For what does it profit you to raid all the tombs and forfeit your soul?
@carturo222.bsky.social has our review at the NOAF blog
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TV Review: The Legend of Lara Croft, Season 1
For what does it profit you to raid all the tombs and forfeit your soul? With the tiniest lip service to the ethical problems related to tom...
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December 18, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Anime Review: My Hero Academia — The Final Season
It’s the end of an era --but does it stick the landing? @annmichelleharris.bsky.social tells all in her NOAF piece:

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Anime Review: My Hero Academia — The Final Season
It’s the end of an era and My Hero Academia sticks the landing in the final season It’s hard to believe the iconic anime My Hero Academia ...
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December 17, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Book Review: Rumor Has It by Cat Rambo
The Disco Space Opera (a.k.a. You Sexy Thing) universe continues with more relationship-based SF, this time at an amazing space station

@princejvstin.com has our review!

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Book Review: Rumor Has It by Cat Rambo
The Disco Space Opera (a.k.a.  You Sexy Thing ) universe continues with more relationship-based SF, this time at an amazing space station ...
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December 16, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Book #Review: Wrath by Shäron Moalem and Daniel Kraus
Imagine Pinky and the Brain, minus the comedy, plus lots and lots of gore

@carturo222.bsky.social has our review at the NOAF blog for your Monday
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Book Review: Wrath by Shäron Moalem and Daniel Kraus
Imagine Pinky and the Brain , minus the comedy, plus lots and lots of gore Rats are fast learners, can survive on almost any food, can adapt...
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December 15, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Well I am LATE to the game with this, but now following everyone! (Hi all, I want to do more to write specifically about Canadian SFF at @nerdsofafeather.bsky.social!)
✨ I have started a broad #CanSpec starter pack!

This isn’t JUST writers, authors, editors…

It’s also stores, booksellers, community organizers.

ANYONE in CanSpec (Canlit + Specfic) !

Reply for an add ✨ It’s very much only a rough beginning right now !

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December 11, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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Today I take on the sale of Warner Bros. over at @nerdsofafeather.bsky.social. Whoever wins, the audience loses, and Hollywood will be changed forever. “Hollywood is Dead. Long Live Hollywood.” www.nerds-feather.com/2025/12/holl...
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December 11, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Book Review: Babylonia by Constanza Casati
Imagining the life of a historical figure whose life has been imagined and reimagined far more than the actual historical facts about her: Semiramis.
@princejvstin.com has the review at the NOAF blog
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Book Review: Babylonia by Constanza Casati
Imagining the life of a historical figure whose life has been imagined and reimagined far more than the actual historical facts about her: ...
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December 12, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Hollywood is Dead. Long Live Hollywood.
Netflix's Potential Purchase of Warner Bros. and the End of Hollywood (As We Know It… Now)
NOAF co-founder @scifiromance.bsky.social has a piece on this at the NOAF blog
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Hollywood is Dead. Long Live Hollywood.
Netflix's Potential Purchase of Warner Bros. and the End of Hollywood (As We Know It… Now) Last week, on December 4, 2025, news broke that N...
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December 11, 2025 at 10:43 AM
TV Review: Zomvivor
An entertaining succession of jump scares and survival stress.
@annmichelleharris.bsky.social has our review at the NOAF blog
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TV Review: Zomvivor
An entertaining succession of jump scares and survival stress. Horror stories have been abundant in 2025, providing a cathartic outlet fo...
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December 10, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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im OBSESSED with the new season
December 8, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Something pretty unique and a continuation of my love of Ram V’s work.
December 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Graphic Novel Review: The One Hand and The Six Fingers, by V, Campbell, Watters, Kumar, Loughridge, Bidikar and Muller
The Left hand can't know what the Right hand is doing says @stewarthotston.com (one of the new members of the flock) at the blog: www.nerds-feather.com/2025/12/grap...
Graphic Novel Review: The One Hand and The Six Fingers, by V, Campbell, Watters, Kumar, Loughridge, Bidikar and Muller
The Left hand can't know what the Right hand is doing Cover Artist: Anand Radhakkrishnan I don't read many graphic novels - mainly because ...
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December 9, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Stranger Things Season 5: Part One
Hawkins residents assemble! @cestlahaley.bsky.social of @hugogirlpodcast.bsky.social has a rich and spoilery review at the NOAF blog today:
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Stranger Things Season 5: Part One
Hawkins residents assemble! The final season's first part starts off slow but delivers the goods in the form of more needle drops, more char...
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December 8, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Review: Bloodtide by Sophie Burnham
@princejvstin.com has our review for your Friday
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"Sargassa and Bloodtide are the queer forward alternate history/future history SF novels you may not have known you wanted, but are here for you."
Review: Bloodtide by Sophie Burnham
Sophie Burnham’s Bloodtide continues the Ex Romana trilogy started in Sargassa, peeling back more the story of Selah, her companions and ri...
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December 5, 2025 at 10:43 AM
TV Review: Talamasca
The world’s most clueless spy, working for the world’s most ineffective spy agency… what could go wrong?
@carturo222.bsky.social has our review at the Blog:
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TV Review: Talamasca
The world’s most clueless spy, working for the world’s most ineffective spy agency… what could go wrong? Our guy has a problem: his name is ...
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December 4, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Realm of the Elderlings Project: The Rain Wild Chronicles, book 3: City of Dragons
Memory defines dragons and Elderlings, but humans need less of it
@ergative-abs.bsky.social has our review
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Realm of the Elderlings Project: The Rain Wild Chronicles, book 3: City of Dragons
Memory defines dragons and Elderlings, but humans need less of it When last we left our intrepid band of misfits, they had finally arrived a...
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December 3, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Film Review: Zootopia 2
The city of talking animals reveals a wider world in its past and its future
@carturo222.bsky.social has the review at the NOAF blog:
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Film Review: Zootopia 2
The city of talking animals reveals a wider world in its past and its future Some movie premises, like “How did Han Solo get his last name?”...
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December 2, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Great, insightful review of We Who Hunt Alexanders by @princejvstin.com on @nerdsofafeather.bsky.social. "I look forward to more voices in Sanford’s fugue of resistance and response to violent patriarchy and the forces that nurture it." @apexmag.bsky.social www.nerds-feather.com/2025/11/book...
Book Review: We Who Hunt Alexanders by Jason Sanford
A dark fantasy contemplation of family, and monsters, and darker subjects still. Amelia lives with her mother. Driven out of their village ...
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November 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM