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).
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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The recommended reading list is here, and I'm going to post links to reviews of the titles below, but you can vote for any eligible books (and you can also nominate these titles in other relevant categories, like Best SF Novel or Best First Novel, should you be so moved) locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...
2025 Recommended Reading List
Welcome to the Locus Recommended Reading List… We saw some fabulous books come out last year and are so pleased to let you know about them! Our recommendations are compiled annually by the Locus re…
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February 13, 2026 at 2:17 PM
The recommended reading list is here, and I'm going to post links to reviews of the titles below, but you can vote for any eligible books (and you can also nominate these titles in other relevant categories, like Best SF Novel or Best First Novel, should you be so moved) locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...
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Intergalactic Mixtape is live!
Intergalactic Mixtape #40
Hey! This week, award season continues, plus everyone is beginning to emerge from their holiday cocoons. Reviews of 2026 books are ramping up and I’m excited...
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February 13, 2026 at 12:45 PM
Intergalactic Mixtape is live!
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Book Review: Lessons in Magic and Disaster
A Russian nested doll of stories, characters and relationships, and yes, magic
@princejvstin.com has the review of Charlie Jane Anders' book at the NOAF blog:
www.nerds-feather.com/2026/02/book...
A Russian nested doll of stories, characters and relationships, and yes, magic
@princejvstin.com has the review of Charlie Jane Anders' book at the NOAF blog:
www.nerds-feather.com/2026/02/book...
Book Review: Lessons in Magic and Disaster
A Russian nested doll of stories, characters and relationships, and yes, magic Jamie is a grad student in Massachusetts, working as best sh...
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February 13, 2026 at 10:32 AM
Book Review: Lessons in Magic and Disaster
A Russian nested doll of stories, characters and relationships, and yes, magic
@princejvstin.com has the review of Charlie Jane Anders' book at the NOAF blog:
www.nerds-feather.com/2026/02/book...
A Russian nested doll of stories, characters and relationships, and yes, magic
@princejvstin.com has the review of Charlie Jane Anders' book at the NOAF blog:
www.nerds-feather.com/2026/02/book...
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I did a thing!!!
Festival View: Fireflies in the Dusk
@johnnyeponymous.bsky.social has our review at the NOAF blog:
www.nerds-feather.com/2026/02/fest...
@johnnyeponymous.bsky.social has our review at the NOAF blog:
www.nerds-feather.com/2026/02/fest...
Festival View: Fireflies in the Dusk
Comedy science fiction takes many forms. Thoughtful (if strange) scifi like Buckaroo Bonzai Across the 8th Dimension sits right there alon...
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February 12, 2026 at 2:42 PM
I did a thing!!!
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With Hugo nominations open, a reminder that if you enjoyed my novella, AUDITION FOR THE FOX from @tachyonpub.bsky.social, or anything else I wrote and published last year, I would be honored if you nominated it!
Full list can be found here <3
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Full list can be found here <3
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2025 Eligibility Post
Holy shit, I published a lot of stuff this year. Five short stories, one commissioned short story, an essay pamphlet, an article with Writer’s Digest,...
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February 12, 2026 at 7:16 PM
With Hugo nominations open, a reminder that if you enjoyed my novella, AUDITION FOR THE FOX from @tachyonpub.bsky.social, or anything else I wrote and published last year, I would be honored if you nominated it!
Full list can be found here <3
buttondown.com/mcahill90/ar...
Full list can be found here <3
buttondown.com/mcahill90/ar...
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this is my hugo eligibility post i guess as it’s my first thing eligible since about 2017 so it’s a novelty: i published this poem last year! and it’s eligible!
my copy of Ragged Band of Travellers: writing from the threshold of dungeons & dragons is here!
I have a poem in this one about that mysterious figure, a fantasy of long, long life twice over — an elfin vampire.
I have a poem in this one about that mysterious figure, a fantasy of long, long life twice over — an elfin vampire.
February 12, 2026 at 3:05 PM
this is my hugo eligibility post i guess as it’s my first thing eligible since about 2017 so it’s a novelty: i published this poem last year! and it’s eligible!
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The monthly liveshow I co-host with @kalanadi.bsky.social, @bookfinch.bsky.social, @thefancyhatlady.bsky.social, and @breereadsbooks.bsky.social, Stitch & Bitch, is eligible for Best Fancast this year www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
February 12, 2026 at 8:24 PM
The monthly liveshow I co-host with @kalanadi.bsky.social, @bookfinch.bsky.social, @thefancyhatlady.bsky.social, and @breereadsbooks.bsky.social, Stitch & Bitch, is eligible for Best Fancast this year www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
These are all excellent picks such as might enrich any Hugo ballot, but I would also add What A Fish Looks Like by Syr Hayati Beker from Stelliform, which was probably my favourite novella of 2025.
Many options to choose from!
Many options to choose from!
Hugo Noms have opened and I want to get in quick with this: there is a fabulous and vibrant contemporary SFF novella scene and the quality is *not* disproportionately located at tordotcom, which puts out brilliant work but does not have a monopoly on it.
5 titles for your consideration follow:
5 titles for your consideration follow:
February 12, 2026 at 8:18 PM
These are all excellent picks such as might enrich any Hugo ballot, but I would also add What A Fish Looks Like by Syr Hayati Beker from Stelliform, which was probably my favourite novella of 2025.
Many options to choose from!
Many options to choose from!
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Hugo nominations are open! Going to do a personal blog post or two with some ideas about a few categories, but in the meantime I would point you towards the @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org & @mealofthorns.bsky.social: very happy with the work editors & contributors shared in 2025.
ARB Awards Eligibility 2025
The Ancillary Review of Books turned five this year! We’ve had an excellent year, and are very pleased to continue publishing criticism with an emphasis on the speculative and the utopian, thanks t…
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February 12, 2026 at 2:10 PM
Hugo nominations are open! Going to do a personal blog post or two with some ideas about a few categories, but in the meantime I would point you towards the @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org & @mealofthorns.bsky.social: very happy with the work editors & contributors shared in 2025.
Ahhh the eternal dilemma. Do I pick things I think have a hope in hell, or the things I liked best and sod it.
Solution: agonise until the nomination deadline.
Solution: agonise until the nomination deadline.
Now that Hugo noms are open, the fun starts of cutting down my lists on my running spreadsheet to a single ballot's worth and/or finding the categories where I don't have a full ballot yet and seeing if I need to read some gaps in.
February 12, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Ahhh the eternal dilemma. Do I pick things I think have a hope in hell, or the things I liked best and sod it.
Solution: agonise until the nomination deadline.
Solution: agonise until the nomination deadline.
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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.