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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

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Roderick Leeuwenhart@leeuwenhart.bsky.social · 2d ago

With AI datacenters gobbling up every bit of RAM in the last two years (and graphics cards, which is even worse than when crypto miners did it ten years ago), my advice is to cherish the gaming hardware you currently have and just DON'T upgrade unless it's actually dead.

Aftermath@aftermath.site · 3d ago

$1200-1800 for a console is such commercial suicide I can't even muster a "get the fuck outta here" about the news aftermath.site/xbox-helix-nex...

Roderick Leeuwenhart@leeuwenhart.bsky.social · 4d ago

I feel scams like these, and the broader poisoning of the internet with marketing slop, is pushing everything back to the way it used to work: in-person networking and professional relations that you need to work (and travel) to maintain.

Oisín McGann@oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 4d ago

If you’re an author who’s been receiving verbose AI scam emails on a daily basis, and you’re wondering how gullible and ego-driven people think you are, this article helps to explain them. Sadly, they are successful enough to have been built into a big business. www.thedial.world/articles/new...

Roderick Leeuwenhart@leeuwenhart.bsky.social · 5d ago

Voor iedereen die nog op zoek is naar Suske en Wiske: Geen Isekai, Geen Probleem!, hij ligt nu (in beperkte oplage) bij de Bruna! Grijp je kans, misschien wel de laatste om nog een exemplaar van dit crowdfundsucces van 126 pagina's te bemachtigen.

Cover for the Suske en Wiske manga album "Geen Isekai, Geen Probleem!"
Roderick Leeuwenhart@leeuwenhart.bsky.social · 2w ago

I was delighted to be GoH at HSFcon 2026 this weekend. I spent the entirety of it running around doing panels, giving a lecture, hosting an auction and negotiating a heavy philosophical tête-à-tête with con mascotte "M. Hein", pictured.

Hinse Mutter Reports on Four Dutch Conventions

By Hinse Mutter: The weekend of the 10th and 11th of October was filled with options for the Dutch-speaking SFF fan. Some of the events saw an overlap of attendees, with a few authors, vendors and …

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Roderick Leeuwenhart@leeuwenhart.bsky.social · 2w ago

Last year I attended a panel with Kim Bo-Young at Galaxycon 2025 in Chengdu. Last week I saw this new translation of her work in a bookstore and immediately picked it up. A Plagued Sea is a striking reimagining of the Cthulhu mythos through a Korean lens. Very well-written, I enjoyed it enormously!

The cover of a novel, A Plagued Sea by Kim Bo-Young, featuring a painted seaside town, with piles of dead fish in the foreground, staring at you from the dark.
Roderick Leeuwenhart@leeuwenhart.bsky.social · 3w ago

My goodness there are so many insanely good video games out there. I've been playing, in short succession, Hades II, Disco Elysium, The Procession to Calvary, Endless Legend II, Carrion and the first Danganronpa. I love video games.

Chaucer Doth Tweet@levostregc.bsky.social · 3w ago

And thou mayest aske thyself, 'How do Ich werke thys?' And thou mayest aske thyself, 'Wher ys that large destrier?' And thou mayest telle thyself, 'Thys nys not my beautiful castle!' And thou mayest telle thyself, 'Thys nys not my swift goshawk!'

Roderick Leeuwenhart@leeuwenhart.bsky.social · 4w ago

How dangerous could it possibly be to cross science fiction universes? Playing Endless Legend II and this wandering hero pops up: a Horatio clone called "Radchaai". They must be fans of Ann Leckie, over there at Amplitude 🫶

Screenshot of the game Endless Legend II: a character description bar with a portrait on the left of a space-looking humanoid with elongated head and ridges, next to that a host of numbers and, crucially, the person's name: Radchaai Aerternus.
Roderick Leeuwenhart@leeuwenhart.bsky.social · last mo.

Bigger than Madonna: fun interview with Dutch phenomenon André Rieu, in which he cuts loose against shady impresarios and record bosses, and explains how three crying men can make all the difference in going viral (in Dutch) www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

André Rieu is Nederlands grootste muziekfenomeen: 500 platina platen, en met 11,5 miljoen verkochte kaartjes ergens tussen Beyoncé en Madonna

André Rieu: Na weer een serie uitverkochte Vrijthofconcerten deze zomer in Maastricht, toert André Rieu de komende maanden met zijn Johann Strauss Orkest – het grootste privé-orkest ter wereld – door ...

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Todd Vaziri@tvaziri.com · last mo.

Watching "Citizen Kane" (1941) the way it was meant to be seen — an 80's era NTSC telecine stretched to the wrong aspect ratio played on an airplane seat back monitor.

A frame from citizen Kane seen on an airplane The sledLeonardo DiCaprio pointing
Roderick Leeuwenhart@leeuwenhart.bsky.social · last mo.

Naast sciencefictionromans schrijf ik ook korte en zelfs ultrakorte verhalen ('flash fiction', verhalen onder de 1000 woorden). Een aantal daarvan wordt dit jaar gepubliceerd in het online magazine Ruwe Versie, de substack van mijn literair agentschap SBK!

Roderick Leeuwenhart - Een edelstenenschat in de Zweedse bossen

Luan struikelde over een steen toen ze het zag, verborgen achter een rimpel in het landschap. Greep naar de smartphone die uit haar broekzak glipte, tijgerde naar voren.

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