Reviewers on Reviewing: Spoilers

In 2025, ARB contributor Roseanna Pendlebury arranged a series of roundtables with SFF reviewers, originally intended for Nerds of a Feather. For some involved publishing reasons, this wound up being a better fit at ARB, and so, thanks to Roseanna & the roundtable participants, we are able to present these four discussions. Hopefully more to come in the future! These discussions have been lightly edited for clarity. * * * Roseanna Pendlebury: Today in our Reviewers on Reviewing project, we’ll be tackling spoilers: a source of much debate and a wide variety of opinions throughout SFF (and wider) fandom. Wading in on the topic will be Ann Michelle Harris and Paul Weimer from Nerds of a Feather, along with Jenny Hamilton—a genre critic, NYT contributor, and author of the Ships in the Night column for Reactor. They’ll be discussing whether having to talk around or flat out avoid spoilers curtails their ability to review media, whether that differs across different types of media, and what…