Awards season has once again begun. We began by looking at all the works we collectively have in our sights for nominations in our Recommended Reading Lists (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4), and so now we must turn our gaze inward, to the team that makes up Nerds of a Feather, Flock Together.
Collectively of course, we are eligible for the Best Fanzine category of the Hugos (and are still honoured by our previous win!), the Best Magazine category of the Locus, the Best Magazine or Periodical category in the British Fantasy Award and any other award that we may have missed that recognises magazine, fanzine or broad critic work. As winners of the 2023 Ignyte Critics Award, we are not eligible for that this year. We are, however, still absolutely buzzing about the win (and will continue to be for the forseeable future).
But we are a team of individuals, all of whom have put in the work throughout 2023 to make NoaF happen, and so we want to take a moment here to highlight the individual works each member (and we collectively, on their behalf) are proudest of, both here and in their various endeavours outside our fanzine. As part of NoaF, they are each eligible for the Fan Writer category of the Hugo Awards, and so if you are still looking for inspiration to fill up your ballot, feel free to peruse below what they all collectively have to offer, and possibly add them to your considerations.
Fanzine
Nerds of a Feather, Flock Together, edited by Adri Joy, Joe Sherry, Arturo Serrano, Paul Weimer, Roseanna Pendlebury, The G, and Vance Kotrla
Fan Writer
Here are some of the highlights from our active authors in 2023:
Adri Joy (Senior Editor)
Adri and Joe Read the Hugos: Novel
Adri and Joe Read the Hugos: Short Story
Nanoreviews: The Coral Bones, The Devil You Know
Review: The Faithless by C. L. Clark
Nanoreviews: Tsalmoth, The Entropy of Loss, High Times in the Low Parliament
Adri and Joe Talk About Books: 2023 Hugo Award Finalists
Microreview [book]: The Book of Gems by Fran Wilde
Nanoreviews: Unraveller, The Mimicking of Known Successes, Tread of Angels
Alex Wallace
Film Review: The Creator
Novella Review: 8:59:29 by Polly Schattel
Review: The Equalizer 3
Microreview: Mooncop by Tom Gauld
Microreview: Blue Beetle
Ann Michelle Harris
Star Wars Subjectivities: The Empire Strikes Back
Review: Out There Screaming
African Folktales Reimagined
Review: One Piece (Live Action)
Review: Suzume
Review: The Boy and the Heron
Arturo Serrano (Editor)
Review: Kalyna the Soothsayer by Elijah Kinch Spector
Review: The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
The Big Door Prize will make you reconsider your life choices
Mrs. Davis, or how googling is just like praying
Review: The Book of Rain by Thomas Wharton
Asteroid City lays bare the scaffolding of narration
So... let's talk about the 'Tok
In Pluto, the quest for humanlike AI reveals our worst side
Chris Garcia
Festival View - On the Matter of Time Travel in 2023
Festival View: The 1 Up Fever
Festival View: Fudgie Freddie
Festival View - Intense Science Fiction Short Films of 2023
Clara Cohen
Lindsay, Leckie, and LeGuin: A century of pronouns and gender in SFF
Microreview: The Infernal Riddle of Thomas Peach by Jas Treadwell
Microreview: Gods of the Wyrdwood by R. J. Barker
Dean E. S. Richard
Review: Leave the World Behind
SWS: Of Rebels & Rebellions
SWS: Hello There, General Kenobi
SWS: Boba Fett Deserved Better
Microreview: The Fall of the House of Usher
Elizabeth Fitzgerald
Review: Death by Silver by Melissa Scott and Amy Griswold
Rereading The Old Kingdom series by Garth Nix
Review: Valentine by Jodi McAlister
Microreview: Wolfpack by Rem Wigmore
Haley Zapal
Review: Napoleon
SWS: TIE Fighter video game (1994)
SWS: Ahsoka
Review: Barbenheimer
Review: Season 1 of The Power
Recap: Mandalorian Episode 24 - The Return
Joe DelFranco
Microreview[Videogame]: Marvel's Spiderman 2
Review[Videogame]: Star Wars Jedi Survivor
Game Review: The Outer Wilds
Review[Videogame]: Pokémon Violet
Review: The Last of Us (HBO)
Spider-man: Across the Spider-verse Review
Microreview[Videogame]: Overwatch 2
Microreview: Minesweeper by Kyle Orlando
Joe Sherry (Senior Editor)
The Wheel of Time reread: A Crown of Swords
Adri and Joe Read the Hugos - Novel
The October Daye reread: A Red Rose Chain
Adri and Joe Talk About Books 2023 Locus List
Microreview: Backpacking Through Bedlam by Seanan McGuire
October Daye reread: The Winter Long
Paul Weimer (Editor)
Microreview: Fortune's Favor by Jo Graham
SWS: The Force Awakens
Microreview: The Jinn-bot of Shantiport by Samit Basu
Review: Preset by Sarina Dahlan
Review: Babylon 5: The Road Home
Review: Master of Samar by Melissa Scott
Review: The Water Outlaws by S. L. Huang
Review: The Gods Awoke by Marie Vibbert
Phoebe Wagner
SWS: On Andor Translating Theory into Community Action
Microreview: Sordidez by E. G. Condé
Roseanna Pendlebury (Editor)
Review: Menewood by Nicola Griffith
Our Retellings are Dull: the Problem of the Modern Mythical Reimagining
Review: Mammoths at the Gates by Nghi Vo
Trans Rights Readathon Reading List
Review: Inanna by Emily H. Wilson
The G (Founder)
SWS: The Mandalorian
SWS: A New Hope
What's In An Adaptation: A Sapkowski Fanatic Watches Netflix's The Witcher
Stranger than Fiction: River Kings by Cat Jarmon
Vance Kotrla (Founder)
The Writer's Guild of America is On Strike
and also
Best Related Work
The Star Wars Subjectivities Project, including such posts as:
Why We Love Star Wars
Why We Don't Love Star Wars
SWS Roundtable: Let's Talk Disney Star Wars!
Run by The G
And contributed to by:
Vance, Haley, Arturo, Ann, Paul, Dean, Phoebe, Joe D, Alex, and Roseanna
