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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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Book Review: Will This Be a Problem? The Anthology: Issue V (edited by Somto Ihezue and Olivia Kidula)
A unique collection of hauntingly engaging and imaginative stories

@annmichelleharris.bsky.social has our review at the NOAF blog:
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Book Review: Will This Be a Problem? The Anthology: Issue V
A unique collection of hauntingly engaging and imaginative stories   In addition to being entertaining, speculative fiction short stories ca...
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January 8, 2026 at 10:25 AM
Realm of the Elderlings Project: The Rain Wild Chronicles, book 4: Blood of Dragons
Sooner or later, there is always war with Chalced
@ergative-abs.bsky.social continues the project at the NOAF blog:
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Realm of the Elderlings Project: The Rain Wild Chronicles, book 4: Blood of Dragons
Sooner or later, there is always war with Chalced I don’t want to call Blood of Dragons a shallow book, but something about it reveals th...
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January 7, 2026 at 10:30 AM
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ICYMI, my second review of the year.
January 5, 2026 at 9:38 PM
Film Review: Eternity
Someone ought to speak to the manager says @carturo222.bsky.social at the blog
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Film Review: Eternity
Someone ought to speak to the manager According to Matthew 22:30, Mark 12:25 and Luke 20:35, when the Saducees asked Jesus about the eternal...
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January 6, 2026 at 10:42 AM
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To start off your Monday and work week, @princejvstin.com reviews ENCHANTING THE FAE QUEEN by Stephanie Burgis
Book Review: Enchanting the Fae Queen by Stephanie Burgis
T he second of the Queens of Villainy series Second in her fantasy series “The Queens of Villainy,”  Enchanting the Fae Queen continues Ste...
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January 5, 2026 at 10:19 AM
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Seeing more discourse around AI, again today, and what it will look like in the future.
@kyliu99.bsky.social presents a future with AI in his ALL THAT WE SEE OR SEEM. I reviewed it for @nerdsofafeather.bsky.social :

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Book Review: All that We See or Seem, by Ken Liu
A challenging novel that fearlessly faces a world full of AI Julia Z is a hacker, and a good one. She has a mysterious past, but now, with t...
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December 26, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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I entirely agree with @carturo222.bsky.social . It's one of the best shows of the year and is absolutely going to go on my Hugo ballot. Read Arturo's piece and find out why.
December 30, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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I wrote about @oliviawaite.com's lovely space detective series. This is the second book in the series, which is coming out later this Spring. You can go grab Book 1, Murder by Memory, while you wait!
December 31, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Book Review: The Gryphon King by Sara Omer
A monster-filled secondary-world fantasy that takes its cues and worldbuilding inspirations from points east of the Bosporus Strait
@princejvstin.com has our review
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Book Review: The Gryphon King by Sara Omer
A monster-filled secondary-world fantasy that takes its cues and worldbuilding inspirations from points east of the Bosporus Strait In a wor...
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January 2, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Book Review: Nobody’s Baby by Olivia Waite
Cozy noir-style space mystery featuring a gender-bending detective and lots of queer characters
@klaxoncomms.com finishes out our year at NOAF with her review
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Book Review: Nobody’s Baby by Olivia Waite
Cozy noir-style space mystery featuring a gender-bending detective and lots of queer characters You are aboard the HMS Fairweather , a space...
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December 31, 2025 at 1:42 PM
There’s no “I” in Plur1bus
The nicest zombie horde you’ve ever met would do anything to make you happy—emphasis on anything

@carturo222.bsky.social has our review
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There’s no “I” in <i>Plur1bus</i>
The nicest zombie horde you’ve ever met would do anything to make you happy—emphasis on anything There’s a wealth of metaphors wrapped up at...
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December 30, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Video Game Review: Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
Exploring a capitalist wasteland one kindness at a time
@stewarthotston.com has our review at the blog:
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Video Game Review: Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
Exploring a capitalist wasteland one kindness at a time Artist: Guillaume Singelin I'm a lover of roleplaying games—especially ones that giv...
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December 29, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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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