Roseanna Pendlebury
@chloroformtea.bsky.social
SFF enthusiast, hobby-collector, blogger, shouter-at-the-internet. Editor at Ignyte and Hugo winner Nerds of a Feather, along with reviews elsewhere. 2025 Hugo Fan Writer finalist. All links here: https://linktr.ee/roseanna.pendlebury (she/her).
*Mercia intensifies*
Where do the North and South of England begin?
Based on the answers of 46,000 English people about where they live, the southern border of “the North” is a line roughly from Shrewsbury to Grimsby, while the northern border of “the South” is a line roughly from the Severn to Great Yarmouth
Based on the answers of 46,000 English people about where they live, the southern border of “the North” is a line roughly from Shrewsbury to Grimsby, while the northern border of “the South” is a line roughly from the Severn to Great Yarmouth
February 18, 2026 at 11:45 AM
*Mercia intensifies*
Reposted by Roseanna Pendlebury
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 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 ...
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February 18, 2026 at 10:25 AM
2026 Nerds of a Feather Awards Recommended Reading, Part 2: Visual Work Categories www.nerds-feather.com/2026/02/2026...
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It's that time of year (I know, because it's the exact same date I posted it on last year and the year before) so - eligibility post.
Would be thrilled if you were to consider me for your fan writing, review and criticism awards nominating needs. I have a post with handy dandy links and everything.
Would be thrilled if you were to consider me for your fan writing, review and criticism awards nominating needs. I have a post with handy dandy links and everything.
Eligibility Post – 2025 Edition
‘Tis the season once again, back on the awards rollercoaster, and back offering up my work from 2025 for your nomination consideration. In 2025 I wrote 43 reviews and 25 review-adjacent objec…
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January 27, 2026 at 10:09 PM
It's that time of year (I know, because it's the exact same date I posted it on last year and the year before) so - eligibility post.
Would be thrilled if you were to consider me for your fan writing, review and criticism awards nominating needs. I have a post with handy dandy links and everything.
Would be thrilled if you were to consider me for your fan writing, review and criticism awards nominating needs. I have a post with handy dandy links and everything.
I am failing to do the task I'm supposed to be doing, so I'm having another stab at Hugo predictions and... I felt really really certain last year (and did pretty ok!), but that certainty is nowhere to be found this time around.
February 17, 2026 at 9:49 PM
I am failing to do the task I'm supposed to be doing, so I'm having another stab at Hugo predictions and... I felt really really certain last year (and did pretty ok!), but that certainty is nowhere to be found this time around.
Spending a bunch of this evening stuck in the formatting mines and I hate it here so much.
February 17, 2026 at 7:48 PM
Spending a bunch of this evening stuck in the formatting mines and I hate it here so much.
Reposted by Roseanna Pendlebury
Item Selection for the Iridescence Programme is NOW OPEN!
Deadline *midnight* (UTC) on 25th February 2026!
We are delighted to invite you to let us know the programme items you would love to take part in for Iridescence 2026.
Full info can be found on our webpage:
eastercon2026.org/programme
Deadline *midnight* (UTC) on 25th February 2026!
We are delighted to invite you to let us know the programme items you would love to take part in for Iridescence 2026.
Full info can be found on our webpage:
eastercon2026.org/programme
Programme at Iridescence | Iridescence
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February 17, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Item Selection for the Iridescence Programme is NOW OPEN!
Deadline *midnight* (UTC) on 25th February 2026!
We are delighted to invite you to let us know the programme items you would love to take part in for Iridescence 2026.
Full info can be found on our webpage:
eastercon2026.org/programme
Deadline *midnight* (UTC) on 25th February 2026!
We are delighted to invite you to let us know the programme items you would love to take part in for Iridescence 2026.
Full info can be found on our webpage:
eastercon2026.org/programme
Reposted by Roseanna Pendlebury
There's a new Briardene Book coming! The Recollections: Fragments from a Life in Writing by Christopher Priest will be out on 2 April. Read more, and pre-order, here: briardenebooks.uk/2026/02/17/t...
The Recollections by Christopher Priest: Pre-Orders and Events
Briardene’s next book, The Recollections: Fragments from a Life in Writing by Christopher Priest will be published on Thursday 2 April!
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February 17, 2026 at 9:44 AM
There's a new Briardene Book coming! The Recollections: Fragments from a Life in Writing by Christopher Priest will be out on 2 April. Read more, and pre-order, here: briardenebooks.uk/2026/02/17/t...
Reposted by Roseanna Pendlebury
2026 Nerds of a Feather Awards Recommended Reading, Part 1: Fiction Categories
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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...
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February 17, 2026 at 10:33 AM
2026 Nerds of a Feather Awards Recommended Reading, Part 1: Fiction Categories
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Reposted by Roseanna Pendlebury
Book Review: All That Is in the Earth, by Andrew Knighton
Sometimes you really shouldn't cross that line
@stewarthotston.com has our review at the blog
www.nerds-feather.com/2026/02/book...
Sometimes you really shouldn't cross that line
@stewarthotston.com has our review at the blog
www.nerds-feather.com/2026/02/book...
Book Review: All That Is in the Earth, by Andrew Knighton
Sometimes you really shouldn't cross that line Cover: Jay Johnstone All That Is in the Earth is the new novella from Andrew Knighton, a...
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February 17, 2026 at 10:32 AM
Book Review: All That Is in the Earth, by Andrew Knighton
Sometimes you really shouldn't cross that line
@stewarthotston.com has our review at the blog
www.nerds-feather.com/2026/02/book...
Sometimes you really shouldn't cross that line
@stewarthotston.com has our review at the blog
www.nerds-feather.com/2026/02/book...
Reposted by Roseanna Pendlebury
We’ve extended that deadline to the 25th.
We are sorry for the confusion it has caused.
We are sorry for the confusion it has caused.
February 16, 2026 at 11:03 PM
We’ve extended that deadline to the 25th.
We are sorry for the confusion it has caused.
We are sorry for the confusion it has caused.
Reposted by Roseanna Pendlebury
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).
(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...
www.nerds-feather.com
February 17, 2026 at 1:05 AM
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).
(see if you can pick out mine, heh).
Another book from the holiday that needed a more thorough look, here’s my review of On the Calculation of Volume II by Solvej Balle, (tr. Barbara J. Haveland).
As with vol. 1, Balle grounds the SFnal thoroughly in the human. The delight is that it manages to stay entirely fresh a second time round.
As with vol. 1, Balle grounds the SFnal thoroughly in the human. The delight is that it manages to stay entirely fresh a second time round.
On the Calculation of Volume II – Solvej Balle (tr. Barbara J. Haveland)
I didn’t review the first book of On the Calculation of Volume, and that was a mistake. It was exceptionally good, following an antiquarian bookseller called Tara Selter as she finds herself trappe…
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February 16, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Another book from the holiday that needed a more thorough look, here’s my review of On the Calculation of Volume II by Solvej Balle, (tr. Barbara J. Haveland).
As with vol. 1, Balle grounds the SFnal thoroughly in the human. The delight is that it manages to stay entirely fresh a second time round.
As with vol. 1, Balle grounds the SFnal thoroughly in the human. The delight is that it manages to stay entirely fresh a second time round.
Reposted by Roseanna Pendlebury
Film Review: Arco
Look up and make a wish
@carturo222.bsky.social has our review at the NOAF blog:
www.nerds-feather.com/2026/02/film...
Look up and make a wish
@carturo222.bsky.social has our review at the NOAF blog:
www.nerds-feather.com/2026/02/film...
Film Review: Arco
Look up and make a wish First we have the far future. People live on platforms above the clouds, where they practice subsistence farming. Wi...
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February 16, 2026 at 10:40 AM
Film Review: Arco
Look up and make a wish
@carturo222.bsky.social has our review at the NOAF blog:
www.nerds-feather.com/2026/02/film...
Look up and make a wish
@carturo222.bsky.social has our review at the NOAF blog:
www.nerds-feather.com/2026/02/film...
If you're listing someone in the format "surname, forename", if they're a junior or the third or whatever, does it go with the forename or the surname?
February 15, 2026 at 6:14 PM
If you're listing someone in the format "surname, forename", if they're a junior or the third or whatever, does it go with the forename or the surname?
Thoughts on the first section of our reread of The Two Towers is now up, where we talked about narrative structure, a hero's death, Aragorn's leadership, how Tolkien talks about peoples as a whole, and the problems inherent in his portrayal of the orcs amongst themselves.
A Close Reading of LotR – Episode 9 – People and Peoples
After a little yuletide gap of mulling things over (or loafing about eating cheese, delete as appropriate), Ed and I have come back to our The Lord of the Rings reread, picking up now with The Two …
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February 15, 2026 at 5:28 PM
Thoughts on the first section of our reread of The Two Towers is now up, where we talked about narrative structure, a hero's death, Aragorn's leadership, how Tolkien talks about peoples as a whole, and the problems inherent in his portrayal of the orcs amongst themselves.
Writing up the first Two Towers post from our discussion, and I do wonder if we might have been better off going chapter by chapter rather than dividing it into larger chunks. I'm still on the death of Boromir and I'm already at 1600 words.
February 15, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Writing up the first Two Towers post from our discussion, and I do wonder if we might have been better off going chapter by chapter rather than dividing it into larger chunks. I'm still on the death of Boromir and I'm already at 1600 words.
Reposted by Roseanna Pendlebury
And the close read of The Lord of the Rings I'm doing with @chloroformtea.bsky.social has started on The Two Towers.
As ever watch Roseanna's blog for her coherent written up thoughts on the reread. I'll be posting the notes I made when rereading in a thread here, primarily for my own amusement.
As ever watch Roseanna's blog for her coherent written up thoughts on the reread. I'll be posting the notes I made when rereading in a thread here, primarily for my own amusement.
February 15, 2026 at 2:10 PM
And the close read of The Lord of the Rings I'm doing with @chloroformtea.bsky.social has started on The Two Towers.
As ever watch Roseanna's blog for her coherent written up thoughts on the reread. I'll be posting the notes I made when rereading in a thread here, primarily for my own amusement.
As ever watch Roseanna's blog for her coherent written up thoughts on the reread. I'll be posting the notes I made when rereading in a thread here, primarily for my own amusement.
And on we go…
February 14, 2026 at 8:38 PM
And on we go…
Uh oh. Shit. Shit.
(This is also a rugby post)
(This is also a rugby post)
February 14, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Uh oh. Shit. Shit.
(This is also a rugby post)
(This is also a rugby post)
Forza intensifies. We love to see it.
(This is rugby posting)
(This is rugby posting)
February 14, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Forza intensifies. We love to see it.
(This is rugby posting)
(This is rugby posting)
A new review - Hav by Jan Morris.
I covered it in brief in my round up of books from while I was away, but there was more to it than a brief overview could encompass (shock twist, Booker judges knew what they were on about), and plenty more I suspect I'm not even spotting.
I covered it in brief in my round up of books from while I was away, but there was more to it than a brief overview could encompass (shock twist, Booker judges knew what they were on about), and plenty more I suspect I'm not even spotting.
Hav – Jan Morris
Did I write a whole ass essay on genre for Strange Horizons? Perhaps. But that hasn’t stopped me thinking about it. And only more so since I read Hav by Jan Morris, for which any decisions I make a…
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February 14, 2026 at 12:20 PM
A new review - Hav by Jan Morris.
I covered it in brief in my round up of books from while I was away, but there was more to it than a brief overview could encompass (shock twist, Booker judges knew what they were on about), and plenty more I suspect I'm not even spotting.
I covered it in brief in my round up of books from while I was away, but there was more to it than a brief overview could encompass (shock twist, Booker judges knew what they were on about), and plenty more I suspect I'm not even spotting.
Reposted by Roseanna Pendlebury
Our blog @nerdsofafeather.bsky.social is eligible for Best Fanzine, any of our posts during the year 2025 can be nominated as Best Related Work, and all our fine writers are eligible as Best Fan Writer.
Nominations are now open for the 2026 Hugo Awards!
Emails are going out to eligible nominators (those who became a member of LAcon V by January 31, 2026, or were a member of the Seattle Worldcon 2025) about how to set up their LAcon V virtual convention account.
Emails are going out to eligible nominators (those who became a member of LAcon V by January 31, 2026, or were a member of the Seattle Worldcon 2025) about how to set up their LAcon V virtual convention account.
February 14, 2026 at 4:15 AM
Our blog @nerdsofafeather.bsky.social is eligible for Best Fanzine, any of our posts during the year 2025 can be nominated as Best Related Work, and all our fine writers are eligible as Best Fan Writer.
This is why I don't read review things until I finish the previous review thing. My daft brain has me writing three separate reviews at the same time because I keep getting distracted into one of the others rather than settling into a single one.
February 14, 2026 at 2:07 AM
This is why I don't read review things until I finish the previous review thing. My daft brain has me writing three separate reviews at the same time because I keep getting distracted into one of the others rather than settling into a single one.
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Red Sword, Bora Chung, tr. Anton Hur: the first of two Bora Chung books and three Anton Hur translations, and "an outstandingly sustained exercise in breaking through from alienated claustrophobia into urgent resistance" locusmag.com/review/red-s...
Red Sword by Bora Chung: Review by Niall Harrison
Red Sword, Bora Chung (Honford Star 978-1-9158-2907-8, £14.99,189pp, tp) May 2025. Language being what it is, it is quite some accomplishment to write a novel that appears to mean only what it say…
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February 13, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Red Sword, Bora Chung, tr. Anton Hur: the first of two Bora Chung books and three Anton Hur translations, and "an outstandingly sustained exercise in breaking through from alienated claustrophobia into urgent resistance" locusmag.com/review/red-s...