Nerds of a Feather

Oh look, a new book review from me, reviewing Jenn Lyon's GREEN AND DEADLY THINGS.

Thank you to @nerdsofafeather.bsky.social for including me on a longlist of fan writers to consider nominating for awards, and thanks to several people who've said they plan to nominate me! Spurred on by this, I've finally written a Hugo Awards eligibility post about the reviews I wrote last year.

2026 Nerds of a Feather Awards Recommended Reading, Part 1: Fiction Categories The wheel turns, the turtle flies through space, and once more time brings our feet marching dutifully back to the foot of Mount Awards Seas...

#Booksky Big thank you shout out to @nerdsofafeather.bsky.social for including the Astreiant Series created by Melissa Scott @blueterraplane.bsky.social and Lisa A. Barnett in their recommendation list for the Best Series Hugo Award! www.nerds-feather.com/2026/02/2026...

Nerds of a Feather 2026 Awards Eligibility Awards season has once again begun. We began by looking at all the works we collectively have in our sights for nominations in our Recomme...

We also have our own eligibility and the eligibility for awards by our own contributors, here:

www.nerds-feather.com/2026/02/nerd...

2026 Nerds of a Feather Awards Recommended Reading, Part 1: Fiction Categories The wheel turns, the turtle flies through space, and once more time brings our feet marching dutifully back to the foot of Mount Awards Seas...

Looking for stuff to read and watch for Hugo nominations? Looking for creators to nominate? We at NOAF have you covered:
www.nerds-feather.com/2026/02/2026... (links in this one to more categories at the bottom)

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Book Review: Green and Deadly Things by Jenn Lyons A standalone fantasy novel by Jenn Lyons, set in a new fantasy verse of necromancy, knights and old secrets and powers. Mathaiik, as I like ...

Green and Deadly Things

A standalone fantasy novel by Jenn Lyons, set in a new fantasy verse of necromancy, knights and old secrets and powers.
@princejvstin.com has the review at the NOAF blog
www.nerds-feather.com/2026/03/book...

Book Review: The Salt Oracle, by Lorraine Wilson Beware ghosts looking for a home Cover art: Sam Gretton The Salt Oracle is the second of Wilson’s books set in a world where the internet...

Book Review: The Salt Oracle, by Lorraine Wilson
Beware ghosts looking for a home says @stewarthotston.com at the NOAF blog:
www.nerds-feather.com/2026/03/book...

Look! I wrote this!

Realm of the Elderlings Project: Fitz and the Fool, book 2: Fool's Quest Loose threads are tied off. Also, throuple. Cover illustration by Alejandro Colucci This installation – the penultimate in the entire saga! ...

Realm of the Elderlings Project: Fitz and the Fool, book 2: Fool's Quest
Loose threads are tied off. Also, throuple. Also, the penultimate book in @ergative-abs.bsky.social 's read through of the series
www.nerds-feather.com/2026/03/real...

Book Review: China Mountain Zhang A stone cold classic of future lives which holds up more than 30 years after it was written.   We are small, governments are large, we sur...

Decided to write about one of my favourite novels - and a 90s SF classic - for @nerdsofafeather.bsky.social this month.

China Mountain Zhang is a prescient, brilliantly drawn collage of a China-dominated future from the perspective of people living that future at ground level.

Book Review: China Mountain Zhang A stone cold classic of future lives which holds up more than 30 years after it was written.   We are small, governments are large, we sur...

Book Review: China Mountain Zhang
A stone cold classic of future lives which holds up more than 30 years after it was written.
@dreddieclark.bsky.social has our review at the NOAF blog

www.nerds-feather.com/2026/03/book...

Festival View: Anwar by Fawaz Al-Matrouk Life as a genre-nerd film programmer isn’t always easy, largely due to the number of genre-hating film programmers. One interaction I had, y...

Festival View: Anwar by Fawaz Al-Matrouk
@johnnny.bsky.social has a look at the NOAF blog
www.nerds-feather.com/2026/02/fest...

Film Review: In the Blink of an Eye 45,000 years of nothing much happening Watching Andrew Stanton’s new film In the Blink of an Eye , it’s inevitable to be reminded of Darren ...

Film Review: In the Blink of an Eye
45,000 years of nothing much happening
@carturo222.bsky.social endures the eons of this movie at the NOAF blog
www.nerds-feather.com/2026/03/film...

Congratulations @stewarthotston.com , who is now one of our contributors

Book Review: The Iron Garden Sutra by A. D. Sui A death-monk in space, musing on what it means to be alive, and to be conscious... with a little bit of murder just to get things going. If,...

Book Review: The Iron Garden Sutra by A. D. Sui
A death-monk in space, musing on what it means to be alive, and to be conscious... with a little bit of murder, too!
@chloroformtea.bsky.social has the review at the NOAF blog for your Friday reading pleasure:

www.nerds-feather.com/2026/02/book...

Book Review: The Subtle Art of Folding Space A story of two sisters and their tangled relationship, plus maintenance of the laws of the universe Ellie lives in Boston. She is on her wa...

Book Review: The Subtle Art of Folding Space
A story of two sisters and their tangled relationship, plus maintenance of the laws of the universe
A @princejvstin.com review at the blog:
www.nerds-feather.com/2026/02/book...

Film Review: Bugonia A bleak, biting exploration of human shortcomings that undercuts the dark comedy label Joining Sinners and Frankenstein on the speculative...

Film Review: Bugonia
A bleak, biting exploration of human shortcomings that undercuts the dark comedy label

Ann Michelle Harris ( @annmichelleharris.bsky.social ) has our review at the NOAF Blog:

www.nerds-feather.com/2026/02/film...

See the NoaF crowd's rec list for visual media.

The games are mostly (but not entirely) me. & one of my unexpected faves of last year - on that list - is Eternal Strands, which deserves way more attention.

Currently on sale on Steam for under 20 bucks NZ (70% off) for another 11 hours. Worth it.

6 Books with A.C Wise A.C. Wise is the author of the novels Wendy, Darling and Hooked , along with the recent short story collection The Ghost Sequences . Her wo...

Today I'm over at @nerdsofafeather.bsky.social doing one of my favorite things - talking about books!

www.nerds-feather.com/2026/02/six-...

Icymi, my interview on the blog with @acwise.bsky.social

Book Review: Ignore All Previous Instructions by Ada Hoffmann Queer space pirates fighting the mundane evils of AI Ignore All Previous Instructions by Ada Hoffman is a book about the power of stories ...

Book Review: Ignore All Previous Instructions by Ada Hoffmann
Queer space pirates fighting the mundane evils of AI
@klaxoncomms.com, one of our new contributors, has our review at the NOAF blog

www.nerds-feather.com/2026/02/book...

Six Books with A.C Wise A.C. Wise is the author of the novels Wendy, Darling and Hooked , along with the recent short story collection The Ghost Sequences . Her wo...

Today at the Blog, @princejvstin.com asks Ballad of the Bone Road author @acwise.bsky.social about her Six Books
www.nerds-feather.com/2026/02/six-...

Today at NOAF, we toot our own 2026 Award Eligibility, both as a periodical and our individual members of the Flock
www.nerds-feather.com/2026/02/nerd...

Nerds of a Feather 2026 Awards Eligibility Awards season has once again begun. We began by looking at all the works we collectively have in our sights for nominations in our Recomme...

Today at NOAF, we toot our own 2026 Award Eligibility, both as a periodical and our individual members of the Flock
www.nerds-feather.com/2026/02/nerd...

2026 Nerds of a Feather Awards Recommended Reading, Part 3: Individual Categories Welcome to our continuing presentation of the Nerds of a Feather 2026 Award Recommendation List! Today will look at the Individual Categorie...

2026 Nerds of a Feather Awards Recommended Reading, Part 3: Individual Categories
www.nerds-feather.com/2026/02/2026...

Another great review of All That Is in th Earth.

If you can judge a book by who takes the time to review it, then I'm doing really well.

2026 Nerds of a Feather Awards Recommended Reading, Part 2: Visual Work Categories Welcome to our continuing presentation of the Nerds of a Feather 2026 Award Recommendation List. Today will look at Graphic Story, Dramatic ...

2026 Nerds of a Feather Awards Recommended Reading, Part 2: Visual Work Categories www.nerds-feather.com/2026/02/2026...

2026 Nerds of a Feather Awards Recommended Reading, Part 1: Fiction Categories The wheel turns, the turtle flies through space, and once more time brings our feet marching dutifully back to the foot of Mount Awards Seas...

Want a set of recommended reading for 2025 award consideration (or, yknow, just catching up on great stuff) from our @nerdsofafeather.bsky.social crew? Part 1 of our annual recommendation series (covering fiction categories) is up now!

(see if you can pick out mine, heh).

2026 Nerds of a Feather Awards Recommended Reading, Part 1: Fiction Categories The wheel turns, the turtle flies through space, and once more time brings our feet marching dutifully back to the foot of Mount Awards Seas...

2026 Nerds of a Feather Awards Recommended Reading, Part 1: Fiction Categories

www.nerds-feather.com/2026/02/2026...