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Book Review: Breath and Bone by K. V. Johansen
Johansen’s penchant for epic fantasy distilled instead into a twisty sword and sorcery tale
@Princejvstin@wandering.shop has our review for your Friday at the NOAF blog
#booksky #blueskybooks #bluebrewbooks
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/05/book-review-breath-and-bone-by-k-v.html
The Imaginary Singular Project: A Review of Trace Elements by Jo Walton and Ada Palmer
A view on SFF that gets a little too tangled in its own specific perspective explains @chloroform_tea@mastodon.social at the NOAF blog:
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/04/the-imaginary-singular-project-review.html
Today at the blog, Stewart Hotston has a review of THE REPUBLIC OF MEMORY by Mahmud El Sayed
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/05/review-republic-of-memory-by-mahmud-el.html
#bookstodon #books #sciencefiction @bookstodon@a.gup.pe
Book Review: Inquisitor: Rise of the Red Blade
Come for the lightsabers, stay for the intense analysis of alienation
Alex Wallace has our review at the Blog
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/05/book-review-inquisitor-rise-of-red-blade.html
Film Review: Slanted
A microcosm of race and gender that wanted to be far more daring than it is
Alex Wallace has the review at the NOAF blog:
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/05/review-slanted.html
Film Microreview: Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die
Will we be able to prevent the end of the world if we’re having so much fun with it?
@carturo222@ohai.social has our review at the NOAF blog
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/04/film-microreview-good-luck-have-fun.html
Book Review: A Fire Beneath the World, by Jas Treadwell
Demons and castles and the French Revolution. @ergative@wandering.shop reviews this sequel to The Infernal Riddle of Thomas Peach at the NOAF blog:
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/05/review-fire-beneath-world-by-jas.html
The Bride! is a movie about the power of movies, and about the trope of the instrumentalized woman, and about the injustice of being robbed of your voice and the exhilaration of seizing it back. @carturo222@ohai.social has our review at the NOAF blog:
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/03/film-review-bride.html
At the NOAF blog today, Gabrielle has an interview with Peadar Ó Guilín ( @TheCallYA@mastodon.ie ), whose novel, THE SWORD GARDEN is coming soon from @CherylMorgan@mastodon.social 's @WTPress@wandering.shop
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/04/interview-peadar-o-guilin.html
Book Review: China Mountain Zhang
A stone cold classic of future lives which holds up more than 30 years after it was written.
@DrEddieClark@mastodon.nz has our review at the NOAF blog
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/03/book-review-china-mountain-zhang.html
Film Festival (Short Film) View: IT'S HARD NOT TO BE ROMANTIC ABOUT TIME TRAVEL. Chris Garcia has the review at the NOAF blog:
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/04/festival-view-its-hard-not-to-be.html
Book Review: When There Are Wolves Again by E.J. Swift
"Swift, in decentring humanity has written something uniquely humane and hopeful." says Stewart Hotston at the blog:
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/04/book-review-when-there-are-wolves-again.html
#bluebookcrew #booksky #bookstodon #books @bookstodon@a.gup.pe
TV Review: The Miniature Wife
A small shift in perspective makes all the difference says @carturo222@ohai.social in his review at the NOAF blog:
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/04/tv-review-miniature-wife.html
Today at the NOAF blog, @mikechenwriter@mastodon.social 's THE PHOTONIC EFFECT gets a review from @Princejvstin@wandering.shop
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/04/review-photonic-effect-by-mike-chen.html
#books #bookstodon #review #sciencefiction @bookstodon@a.gup.pe
Graphic Novel Review: The Power Fantasy vol. 3 by Kieron Gillen, Caspar Wijngaard, Clayton Cowles and Rian Hughes
@chloroform_tea@mastodon.social has our review at the NOAF blog
#books #review #bookstodon @bookstodon@a.gup.pe
#graphicnovel #comics
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/04/graphic-novel-review-power-fantasy-vol.html
Review: And Side by Side They Wander by Molly Tanzer
@DrEddieClark@mastodon.nz has our review at the NOAF blog today:
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/06/review-and-side-by-side-they-wander-by.html
#books #review #sciencefiction #sf #bookstodon @bookstodon@a.gup.pe
Video Game Review: Hades II
A god-tier roguelike that gives its time generously
Stewart Hotston has a review of the Hugo Finalist videogame at the blog:
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/06/game-review-hades-ii-supergiant-games.html
On the blog, @Princejvstin@wandering.shop has a review of THE FINAL CHRONICLE OF YENEH by Jo Miles, forthcoming from Horned Lark Press
#books #sf #fantasy #review #bookstodon @bookstodon@a.gup.pe
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/05/book-review-final-chronicle-of-yeneh-by.html
The Recluce Reread: The Towers of the Sunset
Senior Editor @Joe@wandering.shop has his second long series reread (he's known for his October Daye reread). This re-read is focused on another prolific author, L.E. Modesitt
#books #fantasy #bookstodon @bookstodon@a.gup.pe
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/05/the-recluce-reread-towers-of-sunset.html
Anime Review: Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Season Two
Cozy magic vibes and big battles in an entertaining but short season of comfort storytelling says Ann Michelle Harris at the NOAF blog:
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/05/anime-review-frieren-beyond-journeys.html
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/03/project-hail-mary-pulls-off-disturbing.html
Today at the NOAF blog, @carturo222@ohai.social is up again this week, this time to write about Project: Hail Mary
Did you know that the video game Exit 8 has been turned into a movie? Ann MIchelle Harris has our review of the movie at the NOAF blog:
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/05/film-review-exit-8.html
Book Review: The Free People’s Village by Sim Kern
On freeing the human spirit from a late-stage-capitalist cell
Alex Wallace has the review today at the NOAF blog
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/05/review-free-peoples-village-by-sim-kern.html
Film Review: Hoppers
Totally not like Avatar. It’s both more and less than that
@carturo222@ohai.social has our review at the NOAF blog
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/03/film-review-hoppers.html
Film Review: Hokum
Irish folk horror and a haunted house full of actual scary moments. A spoiler-free review from Haley of @hugogirlpodcast@universeodon.com at the NOAF blog:
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/05/film-review-hokum.html
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@wandering.shop has the review at the NOAF blog
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/03/book-review-green-and-deadly-things-by.html
Book Review: Mortedant's Peril by R. J. Barker
Grimy murder mystery in gaslamp Minas Tirith
@DrEddieClark@mastodon.nz has our review at the NOAF blog
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/05/book-review-mortedants-peril-by-r-j.html
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@wandering.shop 's read through of the series
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/03/realm-of-elderlings-project-fitz-and.html
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/05/6-books-with-jordan-kurella.html
At the NOAF blog, Jordan Kurella tells @chloroform_tea@mastodon.social@mastodon.social about his Six Books
Film Review: The Sheep Detectives
A lovely whodunit baaat...
Well, at the NOAF blog, @carturo222@ohai.social bleats his indecision on the film.
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/05/film-review-sheep-detectives.html
Festival View: Matti Like
Our "Johnny on the spot", Chris Garcia , has our review at the Hugo Finalist (thank you all again for the nomination) NOAF blog:
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/04/festival-view-matti-like.html
At the NOAF blog, Dean Richard
takes aim at Civilization VII
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/03/on-civilization-vii.html
Book Microreview: The Blossoming of the Big Tree by Dilman Dila
A hopeful tale of a fight against hopeless odds
@carturo222@ohai.social has our review at the NOAF blog for your Tuesday
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/03/book-microreview-blossoming-of-big-tree.html
Video Game Review: Ghost of Yōtei by Sucker Punch Productions
Let the wind gently guide your hand to the purchase button says Joe DelFranco at the blog:
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/03/video-game-review-ghost-of-yotei-by.html
Today at the Blog, @Princejvstin@wandering.shop asks Alex Shvartsman [ @AlexShvartsman@backend.newsmast.org ] about his Six Books
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/03/six-books-with-alex-shvartsman.html
Today at the NOAF blog, Gabrielle Harbowy interviews Nine-Tenths author J.M. Frey
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/03/interview-jm-frey.html
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/03/book-review-misheard-world-by-aliya.html
The Misheard World feels, at every moment, intensely carefully crafted, and it is a delight to be left unsettled by it, all the way to the last says
@chloroform_tea@mastodon.social
at the NOAF blog:
Book Review: The Salt Oracle, by Lorraine Wilson
Beware ghosts looking for a home says Stewart Hotston at the NOAF blog:
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/03/book-review-salt-oracle-by-lorraine.html
Festival View: Anwar by Fawaz Al-Matrouk
Chris Garcia has a look at the NOAF blog
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/02/festival-view-anwar-by-fawaz-al-matrouk.html
TV Microreview: The Boroughs
Stellar cast, creepy monsters, but zero mysteries says @carturo222@ohai.social at the NOAF blog:
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/05/tv-microreview-boroughs.html
At the blog, Dean tackles Crimson Desert, bringing in a wider discussion of open world RPGs in the process. A meaty piece if you are interested in such fare:
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/06/this-is-kind-of-sort-of-mostly-review.html