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Roseanna Pendlebury
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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).
Just found out the orchestral performance of the Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 soundtrack is coming to London and this has made my fucking day.

It is only with great restraint that the office isn't getting full "COOOOOULLEEEEEUURSS EMBRASÉEEEESSSSS" from me.
November 26, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Contributor Profile: Christine D. Baker (
@klaxoncomms.com )
Meet one of the new members of the Flock:
www.nerds-feather.com/2025/11/cont...
Contributor Profile: Christine D. Baker
NAME : Christine D. Baker SECRET UNDISCLOSED LOCATION : Vancouver, B.C. (Oops, I disclosed my location. Feel free to say hi if you’re local...
www.nerds-feather.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Film Review: Wicked: For Good
Pragmatism versus idealism in the emotional conclusion of the hit musical
@annmichelleharris.bsky.social
has our review at the Blog
www.nerds-feather.com/2025/11/film...
Film Review: Wicked: For Good
Pragmatism versus idealism in the emotional conclusion of the hit musical Those who have seen the long-running stage musical Wicked already...
www.nerds-feather.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Penultimate chat about Fellowship of the Ring done. Writing it up aside, there's just three more chapters before we reach the end of this close read, and honestly it's been fucking great. Extremely recommend as an experience.
November 25, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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We now got the penultimate section of the Fellowship as we come to the second of the two islands of Elvendom in the book.
November 25, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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“SEA NOW is not a novel without hope, but it is a novel in which hope is tempered.” @niallharrison reviews new work from Eva Meijer
Sea Now by Eva Meijer: Review by Niall Harrison
Sea Now, Eva Meijer (Two Lines 978-1-94964-185-1, $18.00, 180pp, tp) October 2025. One of the few Northern European countries not visited in Yoko Tawada’s trilogy is the Netherlands, so it was brie…
locusmag.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Book Review: Alien: Cult, by Gavin G Smith
The Alien: Earth series we should have got.
One of our new flock members, @stewarthotston.com , has our review at the blog:
www.nerds-feather.com/2025/11/book...
Book Review: Alien: Cult, by Gavin G Smith
The Alien: Earth series we should have got.  cover artist: Marco Turini and Julia Lloyd We've been spoilt with new Alien content in the la...
www.nerds-feather.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:35 AM
I said this and then read two extremely sad chapters of LotR because I’m a fool
Ok whatever I'm planning to read next, it's not going to be clifi and it's absolutely not going to make me cry. Two of those in two months is quite enough thank you.
November 24, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Reading Lothlórien/The Mirror of Galadriel and hoo boy do he love him some elves. Like, I knew this, but still.
November 24, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Apparently I’m incapable of reading LOTR without a cup of tea on hand. It just feels wrong somehow.
November 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Film Review: Keeper
A slow-burning, dizzying, and surreal descent into folk horror madness
@cestlahaley.bsky.social of @hugogirlpodcast.bsky.social has the review at the blog
www.nerds-feather.com/2025/11/film...
Film Review: Keeper
A slow-burning, dizzying, and surreal descent into folk horror madness I'm continuing a trend this year where I go into movies absolutely bl...
www.nerds-feather.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Torn between "eheeheheh listen now yesss" and "maybe I could speed read the book again first..."
November 24, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Ok whatever I'm planning to read next, it's not going to be clifi and it's absolutely not going to make me cry. Two of those in two months is quite enough thank you.
November 23, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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And I look at ten books and one anti-book choice that made me the reader I am these days www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/11...
Ten Books A Reading Journey — Runalong The Shelves
Helloooo! This has been on my to do list for quite a few weeks. Earlier this year reviewer Roseanna Pendlebury did a blog on the ten fantasy books that took them on their reading journey. I wondered ...
www.runalongtheshelves.net
November 22, 2025 at 9:11 AM
In delightful new experiences - cleaning up after a cat who vomited while running at full speed across the living room.
November 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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It's got history, it's got vampires, it's got...sort of a baffling absence of theory on either topic! Scholar, editor, & comrade @guynes.bsky.social is on to talk about Elizabeth Kostova's THE HISTORIAN.
A Meal of Thorns 37 – THE HISTORIAN with Sean Guynes
Vampire scholar, science fiction studies editor, and ARB co-founder Sean Guynes joins to discuss Kostova’s 2005 historical vampire thriller. We both have fairly negative opinions of the book, but i…
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org
November 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Just sat here, on a Friday afternoon, definitely working hard and not staring sadly into space thinking about the Iliad. That would be a totally normal thing to be doing.
November 21, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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6 Books with @stewarthotston.com
Today at the blog, @princejvstin.com asks Stew, who also is joining the NOAF team, about his six books, focused on his new novel Project Hanuman, from @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social

www.nerds-feather.com/2025/11/six-...
6 Books with Stew Hotston
With a Celtic-Indian mother and a father of North African/Roma descent, Stewart Hotston is a somewhat confused second-generation immigrant l...
www.nerds-feather.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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New Contributors
We are excited to announce that Nerds of a Feather is growing. Today we welcome five new writers to the flock. You’ll be seeing much more from them in the coming weeks and months, \here is a quick introduction to who they are:
www.nerds-feather.com/2025/11/new-...
New Contributors
We are excited to announce that Nerds of a Feather is growing. Today we welcome five new writers to the flock. You’ll be seeing much more fr...
www.nerds-feather.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Intergalactic Mixtape is live! I read some fab essays this week. Bring on ~reflection season~
Intergalactic Mixtape #29
Hey! There’s lots of article recs this week, some film trailers I’m excited about, plus the usual collection of recent reviews. Also, CRITICAL NEWS: one of...
buttondown.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Omfg
November 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Film Review: In Your Dreams
@carturo222.bsky.social tells you whether or not to sleep on this one or to wake up for it at the NOAF blog
www.nerds-feather.com/2025/11/film...
Film Review: In Your Dreams
Maybe sleep on this one It’s tricky to make a story about dreams feel like it has actual stakes. In Paprika , the danger is that the outland...
www.nerds-feather.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:43 AM