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Roseanna Pendlebury

@chloroformtea.bsky.social

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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).

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Renay⁷ @renay.bsky.social · 19h

Intergalactic Mixtape is live! This week I and several readers built a rec list of our favorite reads of September. Plus: lots of great reviews, author interviews, and award news.

Intergalactic Mixtape #23

Hey! This week, the most mentioned book by far is a book that, as far as I can tell, doesn’t have a U.S. release date yet. That’s fine! I don’t suffer from...

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Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 21h

Yesssss

Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 21h

Somewhat late in the game decision, but I think I'm going to Novacon now. Who else do I know going?

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Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 21h

The whole final section is pretty powerful - I am easy to convince of the emotional scouring power of Big Weather.

Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 22h

I see the hope connection, and interested how KSR isn't spelling any of it out plainly though.

Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 22h

Not very eloquent response from me, but this was Big Oof.

Frank looked back in its direction and saw that a streetlight reflected off the black cobblestones of the Grassmarket in such a way that there were thousands of brief white squiggles underfoot, looking like names engraved on black granite, as if the whole surface of the earth were paved by a single memorial.

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Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 1d

A good meal was had, and ended with an unexpectedly enorme slab of cheese to go with my eccles cake.

Menu of St. John, specific to today. Minimally explained English restaurant food.

An eccles cake on a plate with a large triangle of Lancashire cheese. Large. In the background, a dark chocolate terrine with a generous lump of honeycomb.

Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 1d

But if we did it as a podcast I couldn't spend the whole discussion monching honey cakes (they were good honey cakes).

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Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 1d

I think "ambivalent" is as far as I'm ever gonna get with Bombadil, but it's still growth.

Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 1d

I am deeply distressed that you are not the first or even the second person to suggest this

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Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 1d

Episode 4 of our close reading of The Fellowship of the Rings is now done, which brings us to the end of Book 1. In this episode, a shift into epic, more walking, uses of light, a jingly jangly horse and Tolkien's aesthetics of evil.

A Close Reading of LotR – Episode 4 – Intrusion of the Epic

How I imagine Glorfindel’s horse looks (sorry Asfaloth) In this fourth section we cover another three chapters: X – Strider, XI – A Knife in the Dark and XII – Flight to the…

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Jenny Hamilton @readingtheend.bsky.social · 1d

good morning, Bunny! new from me at the
@nytimes.com, just in time for spooky season: a Dark Academia starter pack, feat. Sofia Samatar, Melina Marchetta, Mona Awad, and unexpectedly, Sarah Rees Brennan, for lo, I am Like This full time.

Dark Academia: A Starter Pack

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Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 2d

I’ll let you know if it coheres out of lemony haze, but I feel like there’s something in there about refusal to accept ambiguity/plurality.

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Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 2d

I dunno if this is the lemsip or the cold talking but I’m sure there’s some big, joined up point to be made about spoiler culture, the wiki-isation of fiction and people trying to claim canon where no canon should ever be seen (Greek mythology).

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Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 2d

The merry tinkling of the bells could be really ominous, and I love that for him.

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Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 2d

I'm going to write up my LOTR close reading notes from today tomorrow, because two blog posts in a day would be excessive, but I am very stuck on Glorfindel and his jingle jangle blinged up horse.

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Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 2d

Also by far the realest thing in this book is the idea that people will still be making Boaty McBoatface jokes in thirty years.

Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 2d

Octobanger more like

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Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 2d

I only finished it yesterday but When There Are Wolves Again by E. J. Swift was so good (and so singular), I couldn't help but write about it immediately.

When There Are Wolves Again – E. J. Swift

The new novel from the author of The Coral Bones1, When There Are Wolves Again follows two women in Britain from the present, stretching out across the years into the future of the late 21st centur…

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Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 3d

I do wonder if some of the issue is calling them “spoilers”. Not that I can think of a better term, but maybe people would be a little less wary of them if it was something a bit more neutral?

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Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 3d

There are definitely parts of this one that fit that brief as well, and tbh even some of the hopeful bits are profoundly sad.

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Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 3d

I’m feeling like I messed up by not reading that… may have to fix it on the strength of this one.

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Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 3d

Just finished When There Are Wolves Again by E. J. Swift and fuck me it’s good. It’s “I’m going to be lobbing this at everyone” good. It’s “I’m going to be really annoying about it for months” good. It’s “if this doesn’t make the Clarke shortlist I riot” good.

Just… fuccccckkkk.

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Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 3d

I think it’s the hopeful bits that are making me the saddest. Ugggghhhh this fucking book, it’s so good.

Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 3d

When There Are Wolves Again genuinely threatening to make me cry while reading it. Good grief (literally, I suppose).

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