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Roderick Leeuwenhart @leeuwenhart.bsky.social · 28d

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...

Podium scene of your author holding a trophy and certificate during the Galaxy Award ceremony 2025 in Chengdu.

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Roderick Leeuwenhart @leeuwenhart.bsky.social · 22h

Yessss and the human can't wait either!!

Roderick Leeuwenhart @leeuwenhart.bsky.social · 22h

Thanks my dude! 🫰

Roderick Leeuwenhart @leeuwenhart.bsky.social · 1d

Currently still in Paris, tomorrow the dog will go bananas when I return home.

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Roderick Leeuwenhart @leeuwenhart.bsky.social · 1d

Bonus post! I mustn't neglect to mention the presence of force of nature James Patrick Kelly as "mentor of mentors"! He held a terrific lecture (mirrorshades and all) on the origins of cyberpunk, the genre he helped create back in the day, and we got a real kick out of that! 6/6

A selfie with Jim with sunglasses and a hoodie, with a cheering theater audience in the background

Roderick Leeuwenhart @leeuwenhart.bsky.social · 1d

It was exhausting, it was rewarding, and I'm grateful I got the opportunity to be part of this. Thanks to everyone who made it possible, notably the hard-working organizers (Shiyu!), and @francescoverso.bsky.social for his efforts in setting the whole thing up. 5/?

The campus UFO building with the words "I [heart] SF" on a pedestal in front in the grass

Roderick Leeuwenhart @leeuwenhart.bsky.social · 1d

I tried spending as much time as possible both with the other international writers, such as Leonardo Espinoza Benavides from Chile here, as well as our Chinese colleages. Trying to stuff as many hot pot lunches and dinner conversations in there as possible! 4/?

Leonardo Espinoza Benavides and Roderick Leeuwenhart posing all gangster-like on the illuminated stairs of the UFO building on campus

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Roderick Leeuwenhart @leeuwenhart.bsky.social · 1d

The workshop itself, organized by the Fishing Fortress SF College at the Chongqing College for Mobile Communication, took place on a huge, hilly, green campus. It was challenging and fun to work with the two dozen students for seven days straight; mornings, afternoons and evenings.

Writing group posing in front of a bar, on high barstools, with fake drinks

Students and teachers hard at work workshopping stories

Yours truly giving a lecture on science fiction definitions, definitely

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Roderick Leeuwenhart @leeuwenhart.bsky.social · 1d

The trip started with Maureen and Lucky taking @naomikritzer.bsky.social and me to a nearby town to drink tea, buy Pop Mart toys and embark on a truly magical (if also slightly vexing cable car) journey up a misty mountain. 2/?

A cool Chinese tea set with a magnet ball

China's wildly popular Pop Mart toys, Space Molly in this case

Despite the terror of being in a cable car, it made for some incredible views

Roderick Leeuwenhart @leeuwenhart.bsky.social · 1d

I'm back in Europe! It's been a wild six weeks in China, bookended by the Galaxy Awards in September and the Future Creation Workshop in October. Let's talk about that last one for a bit now! 1/?

SF authors and teachers in a room, posing

A large group of young students and teachers in front of a Future Creation Workshop banner

Author in front of a big video screen with a slide picturing a quote by Huge Gernsback

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently it needs to be said: The best (and possibly only) living conditions for humanity are on Earth.

Space wants to kill you all the fucking time. You can visit, but not for significant portions of your lifespan.

Seriously, look it up.

Fix, cherish, and live on Earth. Visit space.

a black and white photo of a man in a suit standing in front of a white background .

Alt: a black and white photo of a man in a suit standing in front of a white background . Prince slides across the scene, pitying you

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Roderick Leeuwenhart @leeuwenhart.bsky.social · 1d

Clues by Sam is a fun daily logic puzzle. It took my time with this one to do it without any hints or mistakes (hard, 18 minutes)
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Clues by Sam

A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who are criminals and who are innocent!

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Roderick Leeuwenhart @leeuwenhart.bsky.social · 1d

Het ís ook marketing van de partij zelf dussehhhhh ja :)

Roderick Leeuwenhart @leeuwenhart.bsky.social · 1d

groenlinkspvda.nl/tien-redenen... 🫰

Tien redenen om op GroenLinks-PvdA te stemmen | GroenLinks-PvdA

Waarom moet je op GroenLinks-PvdA stemmen? We leggen het je uit: tien redenen om op 29 oktober voor ons te kiezen.

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Roderick Leeuwenhart @leeuwenhart.bsky.social · 1d

Bon voyage! I just arrived in Paris from Chongqing, had a fine flight. Wish you the same.

Roderick Leeuwenhart @leeuwenhart.bsky.social · 2d

Yessss, I've been waiting for this!

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 2d

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'

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Image of the mechanical ladder outside the Louvre

Text below says WENN'S MAL WIEDER SCHNELL GEHEN MUSS (When you need to move fast)

Underneath is more German text which translates as "The Böcker Agilo transports your treasures weighing up to 400kg at 42m/min - quiet as a whisper."

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Roderick Leeuwenhart @leeuwenhart.bsky.social · 2d

Nooo what have they done to Harry? Tom seems in the right place though.

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Heidi 🍉 🌍🛸 @heidivdv.bsky.social · 2d

In NRC herleest Clarice Gargard de #Xenogenesis boeken van #OctaviaButler. Over wat ons mens maakt, hoe wij ons verhouden tot "de ander", extreem ongemakkelijk, met een snufje body horror. Briljant. Tip voor iedereen die niet van piewpiewpiew-sciencefiction houdt. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

‘Ik vond troost in verhalen die ook anders zijn’

Clarice Gargard: Journalist en schrijver Clarice Gargard (37) herlas de Xenogenesis-trilogie (1989) van Octavia Butler. Een vreemd en wonderbaarlijk verhaal dat je als lezer laat nadenken over wat het...

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/10/23/ik-vond-troost-in-verhalen-die-ook-anders-zijn-a4910251#/krant/2025/10/24/#304

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Roderick Leeuwenhart @leeuwenhart.bsky.social · 2d

Mijn stemadvies voor volgende week laat zich raden 👇 (en zoals altijd draag ik ook de Partij voor de Dieren een warm hart toe!)

GroenLinks-PvdA @groenlinks-pvda.bsky.social · 2d

Wat we willen, is eigenlijk heel normaal.
Betaalbare woningen, een groene toekomst en goede zorg voor ons allemaal. We willen gewoon vooruit.

En als de sociale meerderheid zich verenigt, krijgen we het voor elkaar.

Stem 29 oktober GroenLinks-PvdA.
Samen vooruit!

Roderick Leeuwenhart @leeuwenhart.bsky.social · 3d

De burgerstapel halveren! 🐺 (Verplichte opvolger: lees hier mijn SF-verhaal over de wolf in Nederland 👇)

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Ruthanna Emrys @r-emrys.bsky.social · 3d

Watch out for Russian disinformation campaigns in the upcoming Dutch election. We've seen this sort of thing in the US, and AI text generation has only gotten more prolific and better targeted since then. www.web-watch.org/news/kremlin...