Roderick Leeuwenhart
@leeuwenhart.bsky.social
🚀 Dutch SF author writing about NL / East Asia | Star Body, The Gentlemen XVII | Harland Award & Galaxy Award winner | he/him | Newtype | rep'd by SBK Literary Agency
Website: www.roderickleeuwenhart.nl
Website: www.roderickleeuwenhart.nl
Pinned
It took me a week to catch my breath and write this expansive report on Star Body winning the Galaxy Award (🏆) and Galaxycon 2025 itself!
Plus thoughts on the continuity from 2023 Chengdu Worldcon and what last week meant for Chinese SF fandom! 🐼🚀
www.roderickleeuwenhart.nl/star-body-wi...
Plus thoughts on the continuity from 2023 Chengdu Worldcon and what last week meant for Chinese SF fandom! 🐼🚀
www.roderickleeuwenhart.nl/star-body-wi...
My new favorite game trailer.
🪱🪱🪱Wirm is out right now!!!🪱🪱🪱
Please enjoy this new trailer voiced by my 2-year-old son, then go buy the game on Steam!
store.steampowered.com/app/1934870/...
Please enjoy this new trailer voiced by my 2-year-old son, then go buy the game on Steam!
store.steampowered.com/app/1934870/...
December 11, 2025 at 7:25 AM
My new favorite game trailer.
Tonight! We're screening Mamoru Oshii's Dark Souls-inspiring ANGEL'S EGG in arthouse cinema Mimik in Deventer!
a drawing of a girl with long white hair and a pink shirt
Alt: Scene in Angel's Egg of a small girl in pino dress with long wjite hair, crouched, water ripples reflecting on her
media.tenor.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Tonight! We're screening Mamoru Oshii's Dark Souls-inspiring ANGEL'S EGG in arthouse cinema Mimik in Deventer!
This is a very cool, free, short text adventure where you play as a cocksure venture capitalist who has pumped billions into AI. Go try on their alligator hide and see what drives you.
You Have Billions Invested In Generative AI by Woe Industries
Let's make this sh*t too big to fail.
woe-industries.itch.io
December 10, 2025 at 8:47 AM
This is a very cool, free, short text adventure where you play as a cocksure venture capitalist who has pumped billions into AI. Go try on their alligator hide and see what drives you.
Reposted by Roderick Leeuwenhart
C'mere, pookie. We need to talk about how now is a difficult time for lots of people in publishing. Not just bc--*waves arms*--but bc we're seeing Best of the Year lists and Award Eligibility posts, and bc the last book deals of the year are being announced while sub times are longer than ever. 1/
December 10, 2025 at 1:14 AM
C'mere, pookie. We need to talk about how now is a difficult time for lots of people in publishing. Not just bc--*waves arms*--but bc we're seeing Best of the Year lists and Award Eligibility posts, and bc the last book deals of the year are being announced while sub times are longer than ever. 1/
This is a powerful ride!
Thalassophile After Visiting Exoplanet TOI 733 b
by Colleen S. Harris @warmaiden.bsky.social
"orbiting
TOI 733 the way a human girl moves
after smoking two bowls, all syrup
and swirl of smoke."
Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
by Colleen S. Harris @warmaiden.bsky.social
"orbiting
TOI 733 the way a human girl moves
after smoking two bowls, all syrup
and swirl of smoke."
Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
December 5, 2025 at 11:14 AM
This is a powerful ride!
Reposted by Roderick Leeuwenhart
I have a guest post on the "Late Star Trek" substack answering the question you're all asking: why is Odo French?
latestartrek.substack.com/p/why-is-odo...
latestartrek.substack.com/p/why-is-odo...
Why Is Odo French?
Degaulle Space Nine
latestartrek.substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I have a guest post on the "Late Star Trek" substack answering the question you're all asking: why is Odo French?
latestartrek.substack.com/p/why-is-odo...
latestartrek.substack.com/p/why-is-odo...
Eurovision's dead.
December 4, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Eurovision's dead.
This edition of LOCUS features a report on the Future Creation Workshop held in Chongqing, China last October. Written by James Patrick Kelly, who was there as mentor to us mentors. Great memories 💛
Issue 779 Table of Contents, December 2025 locusmag.com/2025/12...
December 2, 2025 at 7:29 AM
This edition of LOCUS features a report on the Future Creation Workshop held in Chongqing, China last October. Written by James Patrick Kelly, who was there as mentor to us mentors. Great memories 💛
The Netherlands' first citizen council on climate presented their findings. Great to see that, in line with other representative citizen councils elsewhere, here too actual people want FAR more progressive and thorough policies than what politicians usually offer.
Dwing niet, informeer mensen eerlijk en maak duurzame keuzes betaalbaar, adviseert het eerste Nationaal Burgerberaad Klimaat
Democratie: 175 burgers, een afspiegeling van de samenleving, bogen zich een jaar lang over klimaatbeleid en adviseren het kabinet. Het was het eerste nationale burgerberaad over klimaat ooit. Wat zij...
www.nrc.nl
December 1, 2025 at 2:16 PM
The Netherlands' first citizen council on climate presented their findings. Great to see that, in line with other representative citizen councils elsewhere, here too actual people want FAR more progressive and thorough policies than what politicians usually offer.
I swear, this science fiction novella by the Strugatskys gives off the same nervous energy as Uncut Gems. Constant high pressure situations barely understood by poor Malianov, and the reader's not much wiser. Alternately laughing out loud and trying to calm my heart.
December 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I swear, this science fiction novella by the Strugatskys gives off the same nervous energy as Uncut Gems. Constant high pressure situations barely understood by poor Malianov, and the reader's not much wiser. Alternately laughing out loud and trying to calm my heart.
Reposted by Roderick Leeuwenhart
"When I wake next, I will be a midwife,
Because the Calypso is expecting.
The Calypso will soon be a mother.
She is ready, and expecting to birth
Skies, and rivers, and trees, and animals.
The Calypso will birth a whole new world."
@oliverklangmead.bsky.social
Because the Calypso is expecting.
The Calypso will soon be a mother.
She is ready, and expecting to birth
Skies, and rivers, and trees, and animals.
The Calypso will birth a whole new world."
@oliverklangmead.bsky.social
November 30, 2025 at 11:21 AM
"When I wake next, I will be a midwife,
Because the Calypso is expecting.
The Calypso will soon be a mother.
She is ready, and expecting to birth
Skies, and rivers, and trees, and animals.
The Calypso will birth a whole new world."
@oliverklangmead.bsky.social
Because the Calypso is expecting.
The Calypso will soon be a mother.
She is ready, and expecting to birth
Skies, and rivers, and trees, and animals.
The Calypso will birth a whole new world."
@oliverklangmead.bsky.social
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Honestly "Don't Engage, Just Block" has transformed my social media experience so profoundly that it's hard for me to describe. It's just so much better to be online now.
i also liked the fact that most of us who had come from the other site had the mentality of not giving "bad actors" the benefit of the doubt on here , and told all to block, not mute, an move on
November 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Honestly "Don't Engage, Just Block" has transformed my social media experience so profoundly that it's hard for me to describe. It's just so much better to be online now.
Reposted by Roderick Leeuwenhart
I'm ALIVE and MOVED and REJUVENATED so my energy will be focused on this
November 27, 2025 at 6:53 PM
I'm ALIVE and MOVED and REJUVENATED so my energy will be focused on this
Reposted by Roderick Leeuwenhart
Candlesnuff fungus, rising up like a ghostly apparition from the rainforest floor and waving its limbs.
A saprotrophic species, it helps break down deadwood. It's also bioluminescent, emitting a faint green light by night.
A saprotrophic species, it helps break down deadwood. It's also bioluminescent, emitting a faint green light by night.
November 27, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Candlesnuff fungus, rising up like a ghostly apparition from the rainforest floor and waving its limbs.
A saprotrophic species, it helps break down deadwood. It's also bioluminescent, emitting a faint green light by night.
A saprotrophic species, it helps break down deadwood. It's also bioluminescent, emitting a faint green light by night.
Reposted by Roderick Leeuwenhart
I have a near-future thriller coming out next June about an obstetrician who gets kidnapped by a cult!
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
November 27, 2025 at 3:45 AM
I have a near-future thriller coming out next June about an obstetrician who gets kidnapped by a cult!
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
I like the pope
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I like the pope
I firmly believe a big part of this weird art/business we are in is knowing how to place yourself in a situation where you are most likely to get lucky. You can't force luck, but you can definitely ensure you're maximally positioned to receive it.
Some close friends to be get a little frustrated in my tendency to priortise luck in my own career, as they know how I work. I try to explain that work just is buying a lottery ticket. It's necessary, but certainly not sufficient. I know many folks who've worked as hard but the dice have been cruel.
November 26, 2025 at 8:43 AM
I firmly believe a big part of this weird art/business we are in is knowing how to place yourself in a situation where you are most likely to get lucky. You can't force luck, but you can definitely ensure you're maximally positioned to receive it.
Reposted by Roderick Leeuwenhart
Coming next week! I'm grateful that I can finally share this very personal story of grief and swamps.
Transformed by a fungal infection that connects humans with nature, one woman feels closer to the world than ever, but further from the people she loves the most...
December 3rd. "All That Means or Mourns," by @r-emrys.bsky.social
Art by Jacqueline Tam
Edited by @englelaird.bsky.social
December 3rd. "All That Means or Mourns," by @r-emrys.bsky.social
Art by Jacqueline Tam
Edited by @englelaird.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Coming next week! I'm grateful that I can finally share this very personal story of grief and swamps.
Fifteen years from now (hopefully sooner), we'll react to gasoline cars spewing exhaust fumes in our neighborhoods the same way we think of smoking in trains: "Why did we ever allow such a revolting and unhealthy thing?!"
November 25, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Fifteen years from now (hopefully sooner), we'll react to gasoline cars spewing exhaust fumes in our neighborhoods the same way we think of smoking in trains: "Why did we ever allow such a revolting and unhealthy thing?!"
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
…
Shit, I might be dead already.
…
Shit, I might be dead already.
November 25, 2025 at 9:01 AM
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
…
Shit, I might be dead already.
…
Shit, I might be dead already.
I'm immune to anti-trans fearmongering because I saw the Rocky Horror Picture Show at an impressionable age and have wanted to be an unconventional conventionist since.
a group of people are dancing on a red carpet with the words let 's do the time warp again written on the bottom
Alt: The Rocky Horror Picture Show, showing a line of unconventional conventionists dancing
media.tenor.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:16 AM
I'm immune to anti-trans fearmongering because I saw the Rocky Horror Picture Show at an impressionable age and have wanted to be an unconventional conventionist since.
I spent two weeks racking my brain to find a way to make a short story work and today hit on a solution so glaringly obvious it had been staring me in the face all this time. Excuse me while I shoot myself into the sun.
November 22, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I spent two weeks racking my brain to find a way to make a short story work and today hit on a solution so glaringly obvious it had been staring me in the face all this time. Excuse me while I shoot myself into the sun.
Reposted by Roderick Leeuwenhart
While on tour promoting 'Wake Up Dead Man', Rian Johnson goes off on AI for “making everything worse in every single way.” bit.ly/47UBPfH
November 22, 2025 at 2:00 AM
While on tour promoting 'Wake Up Dead Man', Rian Johnson goes off on AI for “making everything worse in every single way.” bit.ly/47UBPfH
This is so lovely 🍄
Detailed Explanation on Instagram: "This is a mushroom playing in the wild in some woods in Tintwistle near Manchester. The attached sensors measure bio-electrical fluctuations in the mushroom. The fl...
UK scientists have pushed the boundaries of creativity and technology by equipping a mushroom with bionic arms to play a synth melody. This innovative project highlights the fascinating world of plant...
www.instagram.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:12 AM
This is so lovely 🍄
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I dunno, buddy, maybe if it didn't encourage young folks to kill themselves, or drink all the potable water, or pollute the Infoverse with fallacies, or add glue to recipes, or be that guy who lies rather than admits a mistake, or, and this is important, buddy, or IF WE WERE GIVEN A FUCKING CHOICE!
Microsoft Exec Asks: Why Aren't More People Impressed With AI?
Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft's head of AI, vents after the company receives backlash for saying 'Windows is evolving into an agentic OS.'
uk.pcmag.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:09 AM
I dunno, buddy, maybe if it didn't encourage young folks to kill themselves, or drink all the potable water, or pollute the Infoverse with fallacies, or add glue to recipes, or be that guy who lies rather than admits a mistake, or, and this is important, buddy, or IF WE WERE GIVEN A FUCKING CHOICE!