Joe Sherry
@joesherry.bsky.social
Minnesota State Fair Enthusiast. Awards Connoisseur. Senior Editor at Nerds of a Feather. Hugo and Ignyte Award Winner. He / Him.
Hey all! The Sidewise Awards are looking to broaden their group of judges to recognize some really dope and transformative alternate history.
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Sidewise Award Judge Application
The Sidewise Award for Alternate History is looking for new judges to join the award committee. Established in 1995, the Sidewise Award honors excellence in fiction that explores “what if” scenarios t...
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August 22, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Hey all! The Sidewise Awards are looking to broaden their group of judges to recognize some really dope and transformative alternate history.
Apply here forms.gle/Qv5UdJzkCJN9...
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Nanoreviews: Demon Daughter. Installment Immortality, Overcaptain. Senior Editor @joesherry.bsky.social has a trio of short reviews at the blog
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Nanoreviews: Demon Daughter. Installment Immortality, Overcaptain
Demon Daughter, by Lois McMaster Bujold A very gentle story, one of my favorites of the series. In Demon Daughter a young girl, Atta, is wa...
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July 22, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Nanoreviews: Demon Daughter. Installment Immortality, Overcaptain. Senior Editor @joesherry.bsky.social has a trio of short reviews at the blog
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Hey @aidanis.fun you mentioned Nintendo Force on your pod. How’s the print edition?
July 11, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Hey @aidanis.fun you mentioned Nintendo Force on your pod. How’s the print edition?
I’m really digging Mira Grant / Seanan McGuire’s new novel Overgrowth.
It’s *very* McGuire and feels like a successor to Newsflesh. Overgrowth is a different sort of book, but, like, it tracks that the same person wrote them.
Basically it’s my gross, uncomfortable comfort read.
It’s *very* McGuire and feels like a successor to Newsflesh. Overgrowth is a different sort of book, but, like, it tracks that the same person wrote them.
Basically it’s my gross, uncomfortable comfort read.
June 11, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I’m really digging Mira Grant / Seanan McGuire’s new novel Overgrowth.
It’s *very* McGuire and feels like a successor to Newsflesh. Overgrowth is a different sort of book, but, like, it tracks that the same person wrote them.
Basically it’s my gross, uncomfortable comfort read.
It’s *very* McGuire and feels like a successor to Newsflesh. Overgrowth is a different sort of book, but, like, it tracks that the same person wrote them.
Basically it’s my gross, uncomfortable comfort read.
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The October Daye Reread: A Killing Frost
Senior editor @joesherry.bsky.social continues his Seanan McGuire re-read at the NOAF blog
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Senior editor @joesherry.bsky.social continues his Seanan McGuire re-read at the NOAF blog
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The October Daye Reread: A Killing Frost
Welcome back, dear readers. Today we’re going to revisit the fourteenth novel in Seanan McGuire’s October Daye series: A Killing Frost. We a...
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June 10, 2025 at 9:58 AM
The October Daye Reread: A Killing Frost
Senior editor @joesherry.bsky.social continues his Seanan McGuire re-read at the NOAF blog
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Senior editor @joesherry.bsky.social continues his Seanan McGuire re-read at the NOAF blog
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Are you ready to follow Nancy Whitman back through her pomegranate-gate, into the Halls of the Dead?
Hope so.
Hope so.
May 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Are you ready to follow Nancy Whitman back through her pomegranate-gate, into the Halls of the Dead?
Hope so.
Hope so.
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Book Review: When the Moon Hits Your Eye, by John Scalzi
Senior editor @joesherry.bsky.social has our review on whether it is gouda or not, as always at the NOAF blog.
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Senior editor @joesherry.bsky.social has our review on whether it is gouda or not, as always at the NOAF blog.
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Book Review: When the Moon Hits Your Eye, by John Scalzi
I have a confession to make: when I first heard of When the Moon Hits Your Eye I was *deeply* skeptical. I’ve been riding with John Scalzi ...
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April 1, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Book Review: When the Moon Hits Your Eye, by John Scalzi
Senior editor @joesherry.bsky.social has our review on whether it is gouda or not, as always at the NOAF blog.
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Senior editor @joesherry.bsky.social has our review on whether it is gouda or not, as always at the NOAF blog.
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Nanoreviews: The Martian Contingency, Tidal Creatures
Senior editor @joesherry.bsky.social has a pair of Nanoreviews at the NOAF blog:
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Senior editor @joesherry.bsky.social has a pair of Nanoreviews at the NOAF blog:
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Nanoreviews: The Martian Contingency, Tidal Creatures
The Martian Contingency, by Mary Robinette Kowal While getting ready to write about The Martian Contingency I listened to the Hugo, Girl po...
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February 19, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Nanoreviews: The Martian Contingency, Tidal Creatures
Senior editor @joesherry.bsky.social has a pair of Nanoreviews at the NOAF blog:
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Senior editor @joesherry.bsky.social has a pair of Nanoreviews at the NOAF blog:
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2025 Nerds of a Feather Awards Recommended Reading, Part 2: Visual Work Categories
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2025 Nerds of a Feather Awards Recommended Reading, Part 2: Visual Work Categories
Welcome to our continuing presentation of the Nerds of a Feather 2025 Award Recommendation List. Today will look at Graphic Story, Dramatic ...
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January 21, 2025 at 10:04 AM
2025 Nerds of a Feather Awards Recommended Reading, Part 2: Visual Work Categories
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And if you missed it, Part I, recommended reading
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2025 Nerds of a Feather Awards Recommended Reading, Part 1: Fiction Categories
The new year is upon us, and so, the wheel of the eternal cycle of awards turns once again to the spoke marked "recommendations". As in ever...
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January 21, 2025 at 10:04 AM
And if you missed it, Part I, recommended reading
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Lucy van Pelt has finally gone too far. But she will be brought to justice
November 19, 2024 at 3:28 PM
Lucy van Pelt has finally gone too far. But she will be brought to justice
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BLACK WOLVES has just been re-released in e-book by Open Road Media (same book, new publisher) and it is ON SALE at Kindle (USA) for a mere $2.99. Go to it!
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Black Wolves
Amazon.com: Black Wolves eBook : Elliott, Kate: Kindle Store
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January 12, 2025 at 9:52 PM
BLACK WOLVES has just been re-released in e-book by Open Road Media (same book, new publisher) and it is ON SALE at Kindle (USA) for a mere $2.99. Go to it!
www.amazon.com/Black-Wolves...
www.amazon.com/Black-Wolves...
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The October Daye Reread: The Unkindest Tide
Senior Editor @joesherry.bsky.social continues his re-read of McGuire's urban fantasy series.
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Senior Editor @joesherry.bsky.social continues his re-read of McGuire's urban fantasy series.
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The October Daye Reread: The Unkindest Tide
Welcome back, dear readers. Today we’re going to revisit the thirteenth novel in Seanan McGuire’s October Daye series: The Unkindest Tide. I...
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December 23, 2024 at 10:05 AM
The October Daye Reread: The Unkindest Tide
Senior Editor @joesherry.bsky.social continues his re-read of McGuire's urban fantasy series.
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Senior Editor @joesherry.bsky.social continues his re-read of McGuire's urban fantasy series.
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I’m in a weird reading funk. Finished one book, a sequel to a delightful novel, and found it tedious.
Started another by a fav author and it’s ambitious but is not landing for me right now.
Started another by a fav author and it’s ambitious but is not landing for me right now.
December 21, 2024 at 9:55 PM
I’m in a weird reading funk. Finished one book, a sequel to a delightful novel, and found it tedious.
Started another by a fav author and it’s ambitious but is not landing for me right now.
Started another by a fav author and it’s ambitious but is not landing for me right now.
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Nanoreviews: Alliance Unbound, Nuclear War, Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear
Senior editor @joesherry.bsky.social has our quick hits of 3 reviews today at the NOAF blog
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Senior editor @joesherry.bsky.social has our quick hits of 3 reviews today at the NOAF blog
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Nanoreviews: Alliance Unbound, Nuclear War, Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear
Alliance Unbound , by C.J. Cherryh and Jane S. Fancher Follow up to 2019’s Alliance Rising ( my review ) and only the second Alliance / Unio...
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December 10, 2024 at 10:04 AM
Nanoreviews: Alliance Unbound, Nuclear War, Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear
Senior editor @joesherry.bsky.social has our quick hits of 3 reviews today at the NOAF blog
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Senior editor @joesherry.bsky.social has our quick hits of 3 reviews today at the NOAF blog
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Also next up: the forthcoming Mary Robinette Kowal novel The Martian Contingency. New Lady Astronaut book. If you like the series you’ll like this.
November 26, 2024 at 1:59 PM
Also next up: the forthcoming Mary Robinette Kowal novel The Martian Contingency. New Lady Astronaut book. If you like the series you’ll like this.
Next up: Samantha Mills’ The Wings Upon Her Back.
November 26, 2024 at 1:36 PM
Next up: Samantha Mills’ The Wings Upon Her Back.
I truly dug Breath of Oblivion. It’s chock full of adventure and dealing with shit, but it very much has the middle book thing where it doesn’t so much end as it does set up the next / presumably concluding book.
November 26, 2024 at 1:36 PM
I truly dug Breath of Oblivion. It’s chock full of adventure and dealing with shit, but it very much has the middle book thing where it doesn’t so much end as it does set up the next / presumably concluding book.
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*deep sigh* Anyway, I did my round-up post of award-eligible work for the year! Nothing much, just one novel, three novellas, one novelette, and seven short stories, ha ha, I am going to go lie down now
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November 24, 2024 at 4:09 AM
*deep sigh* Anyway, I did my round-up post of award-eligible work for the year! Nothing much, just one novel, three novellas, one novelette, and seven short stories, ha ha, I am going to go lie down now
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Connie Willis may have a new Oxford Time Travel novel coming out next year: The Spanner in the Works - though I just realized I have my date from goodreads so…we’ll see.
November 19, 2024 at 3:41 PM
Connie Willis may have a new Oxford Time Travel novel coming out next year: The Spanner in the Works - though I just realized I have my date from goodreads so…we’ll see.
Next up: The Breath of Oblivion, by Maurice Broaddus. It’s the follow up to 2022’s excellent Sweep of Stars. It’s a bold and ambitious space opera. Absolutely a series to check out.
November 18, 2024 at 6:44 PM
Next up: The Breath of Oblivion, by Maurice Broaddus. It’s the follow up to 2022’s excellent Sweep of Stars. It’s a bold and ambitious space opera. Absolutely a series to check out.
Finished up He Who Drowned the World. Impressive novel, and since I don’t know anything of China’s Ming Dynasty it was all new to me.
November 18, 2024 at 6:40 PM
Finished up He Who Drowned the World. Impressive novel, and since I don’t know anything of China’s Ming Dynasty it was all new to me.
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The October Daye Reread: Night and Silence
Our senior editor
@joesherry.bsky.social
continues his read ofMcGuire's Urban Fantasy series at the NOAF blog
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Our senior editor
@joesherry.bsky.social
continues his read ofMcGuire's Urban Fantasy series at the NOAF blog
www.nerds-feather.com/2024/11/the-...
The October Daye Reread: Night and Silence
Phew! Friends, I have a confession to make. I have felt quite motivated the last couple of weeks and I think I’m back on the horse in terms ...
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November 18, 2024 at 5:01 PM
The October Daye Reread: Night and Silence
Our senior editor
@joesherry.bsky.social
continues his read ofMcGuire's Urban Fantasy series at the NOAF blog
www.nerds-feather.com/2024/11/the-...
Our senior editor
@joesherry.bsky.social
continues his read ofMcGuire's Urban Fantasy series at the NOAF blog
www.nerds-feather.com/2024/11/the-...