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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Intergalactic Mixtape is live. :)
Intergalactic Mixtape #28
Hey! It was a pretty quiet week as the year winds down, but I’ve slowly started making both my 2026 reading list and my 2019 reading list, which is part of...
buttondown.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Intergalactic Mixtape is live. :)
No greater joy than being finally free of a terrible book.
(So terrible in fact that I think I’m not going to review it, because I doubt I could be interesting or constructive. Which is… not my usual approach.)
(So terrible in fact that I think I’m not going to review it, because I doubt I could be interesting or constructive. Which is… not my usual approach.)
November 14, 2025 at 6:55 PM
No greater joy than being finally free of a terrible book.
(So terrible in fact that I think I’m not going to review it, because I doubt I could be interesting or constructive. Which is… not my usual approach.)
(So terrible in fact that I think I’m not going to review it, because I doubt I could be interesting or constructive. Which is… not my usual approach.)
February is a long way off, but my friend and I just booked our annual reading holiday and I am already excited.
November 14, 2025 at 6:04 PM
February is a long way off, but my friend and I just booked our annual reading holiday and I am already excited.
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Subtweeting the obvious book: it's a real capital-C Choice to write a hell/afterlife book full of academic digressions but with no apparent interest in theological implications?
Maybe it comes up more seriously in the last 150 pages but the library book is due today and I'm losing the will to live
Maybe it comes up more seriously in the last 150 pages but the library book is due today and I'm losing the will to live
November 14, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Subtweeting the obvious book: it's a real capital-C Choice to write a hell/afterlife book full of academic digressions but with no apparent interest in theological implications?
Maybe it comes up more seriously in the last 150 pages but the library book is due today and I'm losing the will to live
Maybe it comes up more seriously in the last 150 pages but the library book is due today and I'm losing the will to live
Extremely specific sudden paranoia. What if Ice by Jacek Dukaj makes the Clarke shortlist? Suddenly reading-and-discussing timeline becomes somewhat... tight. Even leaving aside how quickly whoever I end up doing the discussion post with can read it.
My stupid brain: solution is read now?
Me: ...
My stupid brain: solution is read now?
Me: ...
November 14, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Extremely specific sudden paranoia. What if Ice by Jacek Dukaj makes the Clarke shortlist? Suddenly reading-and-discussing timeline becomes somewhat... tight. Even leaving aside how quickly whoever I end up doing the discussion post with can read it.
My stupid brain: solution is read now?
Me: ...
My stupid brain: solution is read now?
Me: ...
Oh no Hidden Books has me. Send help (in the form of me being better at this game).
November 13, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Oh no Hidden Books has me. Send help (in the form of me being better at this game).
It’s Liberty Christmas Day! It 100% does not feel like a full year since last time, but I am excited for another round of baffling tat.
November 13, 2025 at 10:28 AM
It’s Liberty Christmas Day! It 100% does not feel like a full year since last time, but I am excited for another round of baffling tat.
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Take some advice from @cadwellturnbull.bsky.social: You should read Mary Doria Russell's The Sparrow. Then you should read Children of God.
Mary Doria Russell’s Children of God Is a Perfect Sequel - Reactor
Cadwell Turnbull on the triumph and tragedy of Mary Doria Russell's first contact novel.
reactormag.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Take some advice from @cadwellturnbull.bsky.social: You should read Mary Doria Russell's The Sparrow. Then you should read Children of God.
Listening to the most recent critical friends where they talk about optimism in SFF, and they touch on the belief that literature can affect the world.
November 12, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Listening to the most recent critical friends where they talk about optimism in SFF, and they touch on the belief that literature can affect the world.
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Snap! Criticism time: @danhartland.bsky.social is back, this time reading Tochi Onyebuchi's HARMATTAN SEASON (@torbooks.bsky.social) with Joy Sanchez-Taylor's DISPELLING FANTASIES (@ohiostatepress.bsky.social)
Snap! Criticism: Sanchez-Taylor and Onyebuchi
Dan Hartland What should you read if you want to understand what you’re reading? Gang, this column would of course advise that you read criticism. But there are other, and less eccentric, answers. …
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org
November 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Snap! Criticism time: @danhartland.bsky.social is back, this time reading Tochi Onyebuchi's HARMATTAN SEASON (@torbooks.bsky.social) with Joy Sanchez-Taylor's DISPELLING FANTASIES (@ohiostatepress.bsky.social)
Episode 6 of our close reading of Lord of the Rings! This one has a very restrained dearth of verse chat, but a return to a lot of the themes of previous sections, as we head down into the dwarf-dolven* halls of Khazad-dûm.
*this is just extremely funny to me
*this is just extremely funny to me
A Close Reading of LotR – Episode 5 – The Limits of Foresight
Episode six of our close reading takes us through chapters III – The Ring Goes South, IV – A Journey in the Dark and V – The Bridge of Khazad-dûm. In contrast to the last section,…
readerofelse.wordpress.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Episode 6 of our close reading of Lord of the Rings! This one has a very restrained dearth of verse chat, but a return to a lot of the themes of previous sections, as we head down into the dwarf-dolven* halls of Khazad-dûm.
*this is just extremely funny to me
*this is just extremely funny to me
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TV Review: The Witcher Season 4
A big casting change and a return to linear storytelling redefines the tone in season 4
@annmichelleharris.bsky.social has our review at the NOAF blog:
www.nerds-feather.com/2025/11/tv-r...
A big casting change and a return to linear storytelling redefines the tone in season 4
@annmichelleharris.bsky.social has our review at the NOAF blog:
www.nerds-feather.com/2025/11/tv-r...
TV Review: The Witcher Season 4
A big casting change and a return to linear storytelling redefines the tone in season 4 Netflix’s popular fantasy adventure series, The Wi...
www.nerds-feather.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:44 AM
TV Review: The Witcher Season 4
A big casting change and a return to linear storytelling redefines the tone in season 4
@annmichelleharris.bsky.social has our review at the NOAF blog:
www.nerds-feather.com/2025/11/tv-r...
A big casting change and a return to linear storytelling redefines the tone in season 4
@annmichelleharris.bsky.social has our review at the NOAF blog:
www.nerds-feather.com/2025/11/tv-r...
Ok it may be Haldir when watching the films, but I think this read through has confirmed that in the books, Glorfindel is my boi.
November 12, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Ok it may be Haldir when watching the films, but I think this read through has confirmed that in the books, Glorfindel is my boi.
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And we get to one of the major sections of the book as we head South and through Moria.
November 11, 2025 at 10:18 PM
And we get to one of the major sections of the book as we head South and through Moria.
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three days left to nominate material for the Otherwise Award! hit us with your best shot 🙏
Reminder:
Please submit recommendations by Nov. 14th for the Otherwise Award jury to consider! Nominate works of speculative fiction - #sciencefiction, #fantasy, and more - that expand or explore our notions of gender:
otherwiseaward.org/award/2025-o...
Please submit recommendations by Nov. 14th for the Otherwise Award jury to consider! Nominate works of speculative fiction - #sciencefiction, #fantasy, and more - that expand or explore our notions of gender:
otherwiseaward.org/award/2025-o...
2025 Otherwise Award Recommendations « Otherwise Award
Recommend works here for the Otherwise Award jurors to consider!
otherwiseaward.org
November 11, 2025 at 4:13 PM
three days left to nominate material for the Otherwise Award! hit us with your best shot 🙏
I have among my many half-baked drafts the bones of an essay about the scourge of wiki-isation and like... extensive focus on canon etc. on fiction and god damn if I had already finished writing it, I could have been so on topic today.
November 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I have among my many half-baked drafts the bones of an essay about the scourge of wiki-isation and like... extensive focus on canon etc. on fiction and god damn if I had already finished writing it, I could have been so on topic today.
Ahhh Goodreads Choice Awards season. Time to feel massively humbled about my knowledge of contemporary literature.
November 11, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Ahhh Goodreads Choice Awards season. Time to feel massively humbled about my knowledge of contemporary literature.
Extremely niche gripe - I would love it if one of the standard ancient city builder games (Rome edition) would be not a COWARD and go full polychromy. Give me garish and tasteless Rome please and thank.
November 10, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Extremely niche gripe - I would love it if one of the standard ancient city builder games (Rome edition) would be not a COWARD and go full polychromy. Give me garish and tasteless Rome please and thank.
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Time as a Rubik’s Cube: @rachelcordasco.bsky.social reviews the third volume of Solvej Balle's ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME (tr. Sophia Hersi Smith & Jennifer Russell), out soon from @ndbooks.bsky.social!
Time as a Rubik’s Cube: Review of Solvej Balle’s On the Calculation of Volume (Book III)
Rachel Cordasco Under Review:On the Calculation of Volume, Book III. Solvej Balle, translated by Sophia Hersi Smith & Jennifer Russell. New Directions, November 2025. Anglophone readers might b…
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org
November 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Time as a Rubik’s Cube: @rachelcordasco.bsky.social reviews the third volume of Solvej Balle's ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME (tr. Sophia Hersi Smith & Jennifer Russell), out soon from @ndbooks.bsky.social!
Reading the next section of LotR for our continued chats, and just really enjoying what a sassy little bitch Gandalf is.
November 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Reading the next section of LotR for our continued chats, and just really enjoying what a sassy little bitch Gandalf is.
Bookmark of When There Are Wolves Again by E. J. Swift: complete.
November 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Bookmark of When There Are Wolves Again by E. J. Swift: complete.
The book is still not very good, and alas Stockport station is insufficiently delightful to counteract it. And won’t sell me hot beverage. Might give up and switch to Clute or cross-stitch on the train.
The book is, alas, not very good, but a sofa at novacon with a glass of wine and a good dinner behind me is far from the worst place to be reading it.
November 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The book is still not very good, and alas Stockport station is insufficiently delightful to counteract it. And won’t sell me hot beverage. Might give up and switch to Clute or cross-stitch on the train.
Now on the train home, and can conclude I had a lovely time at novacon. Good panels, a nice hotel, lovely town and excellent chats with a variety of excellent people.
November 9, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Now on the train home, and can conclude I had a lovely time at novacon. Good panels, a nice hotel, lovely town and excellent chats with a variety of excellent people.
Convention has been good for making progress on the bookmark.
November 9, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Convention has been good for making progress on the bookmark.